Sponsor a Child.

Im looking into Sponsoring a child. This is through a christian organisation that runs Schools and christian centres all round the world.

I send £21 per month which goes directly to the centre or school where this child is and pays for a meal, Clothes, books and helps to keep the child in education till they reech 17 years old.

Now I was looking up about this and I read that many of these children where in the care of parents (which is great) but the average wage in the area they lived was around £20 per month.

Now that means for a father to send one child to school could mean everything he earns go directly to pay for schooling leaving him nothing to feed his family with. If he has 2 or even 3 children then there is no way for parents to afford schooling for their children.

This is something we take for granted. School is free to everyone here and as we take our children to school every day sometimes not even thinking that in parts of the world children dont get the chance to learn as we do.

As part of this Sponsorship you get the opportunities to also send money directly to the child's family to help with everyday needs and to make life easier. You can write to the children and send pictures, and they write and send pictures back.

Now I know that Charity's always ask for money to send abroad to help people living in poverty and I know we cant help everyone. we also never see where our money is sent.

With this scheme 100% of our money goes directly to where we send it and the £21 is used by the school or centre to pay for the needs of that child we sponsor. The money we send to help the child's family also gets given to them and the charity will help them to spend it wisely.

So I'm gonna start sponsoring a child and try and help a family out. Then I thought I could go a little further and ask people to donate a pound per month to sponsor a child through this blog. I would put the money together and send it in the same way. I will write (or someone else can if they want) and I will publish the letter we receive on this blog (on a new page).

I know I get about 50 - 100 different hits here per week so I'm sure we could raise £21 per month together to change a family's life.

You may ever want to sponsor a child for yourself if so go to www.compassionuk.org and all the information is there.

contact me if your interested either on facebook or twitter and I will organise the rest and keep everyone updated with what happens.

if you don't want to do this but would like to help in a smaller way then maybe give me a small donation to send to the family of the child I decide to Sponsor.