Why Sponsor a Child For 25 Cents
By Thando Mavimbela

A sponsorship as little as 25 cents a day can make a world of a difference to children in third world countries. Take the next few minutes and read about the plight of the African child. You don’t have to donate but just read - after all, knowledge is power! It is important to know what is happening around you and in other parts of the world.

Childhood is a unique gift that any individual has the natural right to claim. But for many children this natural right is more of a myth than a reality. Because of their poor economic situations, which are a result of factors including poverty, HIV/AIDS and climate change, many children in third world nations such as Swaziland, Ghana, Indonesia, India and Senegal are not in school.

Furthermore, life-threatening diseases including diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria and measles have put many children in impoverished countries at risk. Globally, pneumonia and diarrhea cause 36 percent of child deaths among children under age 5, while malnutrition contributes to 53 percent.

The youth and children in third world countries who are not in school are instead busy looking after their siblings with whom they are orphaned together, working in factories where they are exploited as child labourers, working on the streets enticing unscrupulous men and women to plunder their innocence through prostitution so they can at least have a meal, or in luckier cases, they are in orphanages and orphan care-points where civil society and governments are trying to salvage some of their innocence by providing much-needed food, education and care for them.

Dire, as it is, this situation calls for immediate intervention, requiring everyone to use whatever available resources they have to save the future; the children of our nations. The above-stated facts are reason enough for one to contribute towards helping these children. The children can be helped as a collective - through sponsoring an orphanage or care-point, or they can be helped as individuals by sponsoring one orphan in an orphanage or village with a minimum donation of 25 cents per day.

Sponsorship helps provide necessities such as access to quality education, primary health care, nutrition, immunization, recreation and creativity inputs for the children. Sponsorship as little as 25 cents a day gives the child not only the necessary physical input needed for survival, but also the emotional input which is extended as care by the people that help the children to access the physical things such as healthcare. Sponsorship can also be used to help underprivileged children in formal education by paying for their fees, helping them to access a better education and better recreation facilities as well as provide improved health facilities for their use in the schools. These are other reasons why everyone should sponsor a child.

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