child sponsorship through World Vision.

20,000 children die EVERY DAY from hunger, disease or poverty. All of these children are under the age of 5. In India, 80% of the population lives on less than $2 a day. In Mexico, 16,000 children are involved in prostitution while 300,000 Bangladeshi children are exploited in Brothels. No one should have to suffer or be forgotten like this.

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The reality that we live in a broken world can be overwhelming. During a sermon recently at Jacobs Well, Isaac Anderson encouraged us to find our “to do.” Understand that God knows you care about multiple social injustices plaguing this world but focus on the problem God has placed on your heart and know that he has someone else taking care of separate issues. My “to do” at this time is child sponsorship through World Vision. I firmly believe that where there is darkness, light and hope can and will prevail.

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization that works with almost 100 million people in almost 100 countries providing community based change in the lives of those in poverty. Since the 1990’s, World Vision has cut the number of child deaths in half, from 40,000 to 20,000 a day.

  

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A child’s life improves when their community improves. World Vision involves those in the community to provide lasting change by gaining them access to clean water, building schools and providing loans to small business owners that are then repaid into a revolving fund to help the next entrepreneur. In this way, the communities become self-sustaining and thrive long after World Vision is gone.

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World Vision and people like you sponsor over 4 million children providing them and their families with a hand up, not a hand out. For $35 a month, a sponsored child gains access to clean water, health care, school supplies and fees, vocational training and AIDS prevention education.

86 cents of every dollar given to World Vision goes directly to the children, family and community they serve.

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We began to sponsor Omara E. in the summer of 2010. It was a humbling and eye opening experience to scroll through name after name, face after face of children and families who need help simply because they were born into an impoverished community and I was not. I realized then that just because I couldn’t sponsor them all, didn’t mean I couldn’t sponsor ONE. As a child sponsor, I am able to communicate with Omara and her family through pictures and letters. World Vision also sends me an annual update on the impact my sponsorship is having in her community.

I believe in and trust World Vision. I love that their core characteristics reflect Christ personality. Sponsoring a child has been a life changing experience. It has opened my eyes to the immense needs in the world and made me realize how much I have been given. I hope and pray that through my small contribution, Christ may change this little girl’s life and forever change her community and generations to come.

If you are interested in sponsoring a child through World Vision for $35 a month, please visit myshare.worldvision.org/brittneybray or email me at brittneybray30@gmail.com 

want other ways to help? visit here and here. 

wonder how this whole thing got started? read this.