Would you like to know how to spread the message of hope to a child living in poverty this Christmas season?

 The following children are available for sponsorship through Compassion International.  They each live in deep poverty, in communities that lack many of the basic things which are readily available to our own children.

 

 

• One in six children 5 to 14 years old — about 16 percent of all children in this age group — is involved in child labor in developing countries.

• In the least developed countries, 30 percent of all children are engaged in child labor.

• Worldwide, 126 million children work in hazardous conditions, often enduring beatings, humiliation and sexual violence by their employers.

• An estimated 1.2 million children — both boys and girls — are trafficked each year into exploitative work in agriculture, mining, factories, armed conflict or commercial sex work.

• The highest proportion of child laborers is in sub-Saharan Africa, where 26 percent of children (49 million) are involved in work.

  In a world where more than a billion children live on less than U.S.$2 per day, connecting one child with one sponsor is the most strategic way to end child poverty.

  Through monthly gifts, prayer and letter writing, sponsors invest in the lives of children living in extreme poverty. This relationship communicates, “You are an important little person!”

  Children attend church-based child development centers where they receive life-changing opportunities that would otherwise be out of their reach. All Compassion-sponsored children have the opportunity to develop their God-given potential and be released from the poverty that has trapped their families for generations.

  Contact me at byquietwaters at gmail dot com for more information, or to sponsor one of these children.