World Vision Helps the Children in Need!
By Jael Espinoza and Taylor Woods
Have you ever longed to help children that suffer from poverty, starvation, and diseases? With World Vision, there is a way you can help! By sponsoring a child through this organization, you provide food, shelter, and clothing for these needy children. Sponsoring a child is very simple, but how do you do this you ask? You can sponsor a child through any of these two ways: you first need to go to www.donate.worldvision.org.
There, you can read World Vision's story and learn more about sponsoring a child. For each child, you can read and look at the characteristics and what they like to do, so you have an idea of what they are like. Also, you can see what children are in need of a kind sponsor, like you.
Or, you can talk to a World Vision ambassador. They are trained to inform you in what World Vision does and how you can help these children go through life. They will assign a child to you, on the spot. They'll give you a packet that will contain the name of your child and the village they currently live in. On the packet will be an address to send the packet back to if you are serious about sponsoring a child.Once on the website, you can also see what to do when your ready to take action and sponsor a child. When you sponsor a child you get to see their progress. You'll receive up-to-date pictures of them and news on their school, home, and daily lives. Most progress reports include advancements made in their villages as well as reports on what your child has been provided with.
Many people were more than happy to sponsor a child and help them in any way they can, however some people were still curious as to what they'd have to pay.
"Just a little over a dollar a day." says a World Vision sponsor. That's all it takes to make a difference in a child's life. Many think that it's too much for a charity, but if you think about it's not that much- and completely worth it. You lay warm in bed at night, while children in Africa struggle to keep warm while lying on the dirt floors of their makeshift homes. You pig out on whatever food you want, and get it whenever you need it, while children in Africa die everyday from starvation and malnutrition. These children sleep through the night with tattered clothing, while you fill your Christmas list with clothes from expensive stores. We aren't trying to insult the ways of America, but our ideas of suffering and need, need to change. Suffering no longer means being grounded or not being able to go out with friends. But to need food and shelter, that's what suffering is. Let's change our Christmas list this year, and make a friendly donation to the World Vision Organization. You could save a life.