CB Education Blog

Tragedies happen every day in several parts of the world. Countries like these are plagued by wars, military corruption, diseases, unemployment and high crime rates. Those born there usually have their childhood is stolen away from them. They are forced to work in brutal conditions, they can’t afford a good education and most of them are illiterate. Malnutrition is a common thing and it is the one that drives people to do anything to survive. That’s why child sponsorship foundations were created. They were intended to help make life better for those who are less fortunate. Child sponsorship organizations make an appeal to other people to donate a monthly amount of money to support different children. Some people criticize these child sponsorship organizations because they think the money doesn’t really go to the children, but to the government for totally different projects. For some, this might be true, but what about the others that do help? Shouldn’t they be given a chance?

The first step in making life better for these children is making sure that they lead a healthy life. That’s why the main concern of any child sponsorship organization is to offer them a decent place to live in and to ensure that they don’t suffer from hunger. The goal is to help them lead a normal life. That’s why the children that live in former war zones or in polluted environments are taken away through a child sponsorship program. Their families are instructed how to take care of the children’s nutritional problems and financial support is the one that makes the biggest difference. If the children suffer from malnutrition, child sponsorship programs can fix this.

Education is a basic need nowadays because, without knowledge, pathways in life are blocked. After food and shelter, this is the primary objective of a child sponsorship program. This kind of program is intended to help children by giving them access to education and opening a lot of doors in their lives. These child sponsorship programs don’t have to force children to learn, but only to give them the resources, free access to libraries, studying materials and to computers. Education is a privilege and most poor persons would give anything for a chance to learn. In developed countries education is probably the main thing that draws the line between being rich and poor. This is why child sponsorship organizations are trying to meet the educational needs of children. A good education means a better chance to make it in life or possibly a ticket out of poverty.

As the status in some countries is unbelievable, the people there have asked for support from those richer than them. Poverty that has reached high rates and the violence that has made life insecure push people to ask for assistance from those more powerful than them. Let’s take Brazil for example. The population is 184.1 million people out of which only 87% of them have access to drinking water and only 86.4% are literate. The education rate is therefore very low meaning that approximately 24 million people don’t know how to read or write. This is where the child sponsorship organizations come in. They supply the children and their families with food, drinking water and a way to get educated. Another huge problem is illness. Because of the lack of medicine or of money to buy them, any mild disease can kill them. In Brazil over 600 thousand people have AIDS and 15 thousand others have died of this disease. This is a matter in which the child sponsorship organizations can’t do too much.

Today child sponsorship is available for anyone who wants to do some good. All they need to do is go to the nearest sponsorship organization and be a part of a child sponsorship program. One has a variety of options: donating a monthly amount, donating only one time or choosing a child to constantly support financially. A child sponsorship program isn’t a one way benefit. The donor has the biggest reward of all: the satisfaction to have been able to do some good. If a person chooses a child to support, then he can meet that child if he wants to (with the help of the child sponsorship program). There is also the feeling that no financial remuneration can offer: gratitude. Because the Internet is an open door facing the world, child sponsorship can be done just by sitting in front of the computer. By simply accessing one of the child sponsorship organizations’ homepage, a person can become the owner of a bank account and choose the child sponsorship program that he wants.

Today’s world is considered to be a civilized one, but how can it be so to the full extent of the term while there are still places where every day life is a torment, where people can’t read or write and where epidemics always threaten them? Sponsorship organizations were created specifically for this. Child sponsorship is a proof that society can be civilized if common people decide to give a helping hand. Children are the future, but if the present models them in the wrong way, what will the future be like? Will there be a future and, and if so, will it be illiterate? That’s where a child sponsorship organization fits in. It tries to make the third world countries develop and reach the level of first world countries. A child sponsorship program doesn’t take care of the children disregarding the family. It considers the best way a child can grow having a loving family and a healthy community. This way, people in less fortunate parts of the world are taken care of. Help makes the world better by starting from the bottom up and persuading until the problem is solved.

Tragedies happen every day in several parts of the world. Countries like these are plagued by wars, military corruption, diseases, unemployment and high crime rates. Those born there usually have their childhood is stolen away from them. They are forced to work in brutal conditions, they can’t afford a good education and most of them are illiterate. Malnutrition is a common thing and it is the one that drives people to do anything to survive. That’s why child sponsorship foundations were created. They were intended to help make life better for those who are less fortunate. Child sponsorship organizations make an appeal to other people to donate a monthly amount of money to support different children. Some people criticize these child sponsorship organizations because they think the money doesn’t really go to the children, but to the government for totally different projects. For some, this might be true, but what about the others that do help? Shouldn’t they be given a chance?

The first step in making life better for these children is making sure that they lead a healthy life. That’s why the main concern of any child sponsorship organization is to offer them a decent place to live in and to ensure that they don’t suffer from hunger. The goal is to help them lead a normal life. That’s why the children that live in former war zones or in polluted environments are taken away through a child sponsorship program. Their families are instructed how to take care of the children’s nutritional problems and financial support is the one that makes the biggest difference. If the children suffer from malnutrition, child sponsorship programs can fix this.

Education is a basic need nowadays because, without knowledge, pathways in life are blocked. After food and shelter, this is the primary objective of a child sponsorship program. This kind of program is intended to help children by giving them access to education and opening a lot of doors in their lives. These child sponsorship programs don’t have to force children to learn, but only to give them the resources, free access to libraries, studying materials and to computers. Education is a privilege and most poor persons would give anything for a chance to learn. In developed countries education is probably the main thing that draws the line between being rich and poor. This is why child sponsorship organizations are trying to meet the educational needs of children. A good education means a better chance to make it in life or possibly a ticket out of poverty.

As the status in some countries is unbelievable, the people there have asked for support from those richer than them. Poverty that has reached high rates and the violence that has made life insecure push people to ask for assistance from those more powerful than them. Let’s take Brazil for example. The population is 184.1 million people out of which only 87% of them have access to drinking water and only 86.4% are literate. The education rate is therefore very low meaning that approximately 24 million people don’t know how to read or write. This is where the child sponsorship organizations come in. They supply the children and their families with food, drinking water and a way to get educated. Another huge problem is illness. Because of the lack of medicine or of money to buy them, any mild disease can kill them. In Brazil over 600 thousand people have AIDS and 15 thousand others have died of this disease. This is a matter in which the child sponsorship organizations can’t do too much.

Today child sponsorship is available for anyone who wants to do some good. All they need to do is go to the nearest sponsorship organization and be a part of a child sponsorship program. One has a variety of options: donating a monthly amount, donating only one time or choosing a child to constantly support financially. A child sponsorship program isn’t a one way benefit. The donor has the biggest reward of all: the satisfaction to have been able to do some good. If a person chooses a child to support, then he can meet that child if he wants to (with the help of the child sponsorship program). There is also the feeling that no financial remuneration can offer: gratitude. Because the Internet is an open door facing the world, child sponsorship can be done just by sitting in front of the computer. By simply accessing one of the child sponsorship organizations’ homepage, a person can become the owner of a bank account and choose the child sponsorship program that he wants.

Today’s world is considered to be a civilized one, but how can it be so to the full extent of the term while there are still places where every day life is a torment, where people can’t read or write and where epidemics always threaten them? Sponsorship organizations were created specifically for this. Child sponsorship is a proof that society can be civilized if common people decide to give a helping hand. Children are the future, but if the present models them in the wrong way, what will the future be like? Will there be a future and, and if so, will it be illiterate? That’s where a child sponsorship organization fits in. It tries to make the third world countries develop and reach the level of first world countries. A child sponsorship program doesn’t take care of the children disregarding the family. It considers the best way a child can grow having a loving family and a healthy community. This way, people in less fortunate parts of the world are taken care of. Help makes the world better by starting from the bottom up and persuading until the problem is solved.

Child sponsorship enables a common person in an evolved country to aid a child from a poorly developed part of the world until he can become independent. This aid consists in money, clothes, moral support and anything that can make a difference. This practice is usually conducted through a child sponsorship organization which deals with money transfers and contacts between sponsors and children. Though they are sometimes blamed for creating cultural gaps between children of the 3rd world, the child sponsorship organizations are the ones that strive to give a helping hand when everyone else has turned their backs to the fate of the unfortunate.

Child sponsorship focuses on needy children who lack even minimal food, water and shelter and who live a tough life without anyone caring for them or providing them with an education. Some of the most affected countries are Paraguay, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia and Brazil and each presents a different challenge for child sponsorship organizations.

1. Brazil is one special case as this is a country of extremes. Rich neighborhoods coexist near slums and shack towns. Children are often used for labor here and education is almost non-existent.

2. Colombia is a country torn by wars where child sponsorship is hard to find. Children there are often trained to become soldiers or bombers and the only education they get is meant to teach them how to use a weapon.

3. Honduras is divided into very rich and extremely poor. Child sponsorship organizations have a hard time getting over the corruption and poverty. Housing is minimal and education is the same. Only 24 % of the population is able to read, therefore this country needs immediate child sponsorship.

4. Guatemala is the place where almost all the children are unhappy. The rate of infant death is high and education is poor. Child sponsorship could really do some good here by help at least some of the 60% of children that live in rural areas. They are the ones that are put to work in the fields early in their life.

5. Peru is a country where most of the children are not well educated. A child sponsorship program would really help in a country where most of the population is very poor and in need of desperate help.

6. However beautiful Paraguay is, 60% of its population suffers of poverty. The children are the ones with the biggest problems. Reports show that 1 third of them never finish school because they can’t speak the national language. Child sponsorship can help these children reintegrate into society by teaching them and offering financial support.

This short presentation of child sponsorship organization findings is intended to remind of the ordeals innocent children have to go through in several well known parts of today’s world. As one can easily see, child sponsorship is necessary and it is sometimes a hard job requiring infiltration into very dangerous areas of the world. NGOs, as child sponsorship organizations are also called, have no profit out of the activity they lead. This is why frauds appear all of the time. There are some false child sponsorship organizations that actually take the money for their personal interests instead of delivering it to the children. However true this may be, there are still some people that want to do good to poor souls in need. They deserve to be given the chance to save someone if they can and if they are willing to. One should not generalize and say all child sponsorships are fakes because of some exceptions.

Contacting a child sponsorship organization is quite simple. One can use communication by mail, fax or through the Internet. Some companies allow persons to send payment VIA e-mail or by using online payment. There are two ways to sponsor a child. Periodical payment is one of them and it is the most benefic for a child. The person who uses child sponsorship can have a direct connection with the child if he chooses to. Small gifts and letters can let the child know that someone is thinking of him and offering support in his time of need. If such a way would be too painful or if the person can not afford a monthly donation, he can still do some good by using the one time payment. A child in a photo line-up can be the beneficiary of good intentions. While some say that helping only with money is crude and unethical, it is the only effective way of helping these children. If choosing a child from many is a painful task, it is obvious child sponsorship programs can’t help all children and someone has to decide. Perhaps in time, with the help of many generous persons, child sponsorship programs will be able to help most of them. However, this idea is quite ideal and, unfortunately there are not many interested in doing so.

Child sponsorship is one of the most rewarding charity actions for both donors and beneficiaries. It is not gratitude that makes the best payment a person can receive from a child, but knowing he has made a positive change in the world and his actions will reflect in many more in turn. Good gives birth to better.