If You Care About Child Adoption You Will Also Care About Child Sponsorship
Our hearts are always touched by appeals on behalf of the world's poorest children
. There are millions of children in the developing world, struggling to survive without enough food, clean water, medical aid, or even proper shelter. Many children don't make it. Shockingly, 21,000 children die every day because of the effects of poverty.The fact is that while most of us here in the West have an abundance of food and material goods, hundreds of millions of fellow humans live, and die, in desperate poverty. We'd like to help. But how can anything we do make a difference? Dealing with global inequalities is beyond our abilities. We have to trust our politicians to do what is needed. But on an individual basis, surely there's something we can do?
Perhaps you are considering that you might help and adopt a child in need. In spite of legal and financial difficulties, those who want to adopt a child from overseas often succeed. Even so, there are major challenges with the long-range option to adopt. The adopted child must leave his or her native country and culture to move many thousands of miles to a new family. The parents who adopt must make a lifelong commitment to the child. When a people adopt a child they must take on responsibility for his or her needs for the rest of the child's life.
For those with the determination to battle through the red tape, adopt a child programs can be a rewarding experience. But the option to adopt a child overseas is not always feasible and it is never easy. There is a much easier way than adoption to help transform the life of a poverty-stricken child. It costs very little but can achieve almost miraculous joy and hope.
Through choosing to sponsor a child, a compassionate person gives a desperate child in the developing world the chance to grow healthy and strong. To sponsor a child, a person simply pays a modest, fixed sum every month through a respected child sponsorship organization. But because of this financial support, their chosen child to sponsor will receive the following, among other benefits:
*Be properly fed.
*Have access to clean, safe water.
*Receive health checkups, vaccines and medicines as necessary.
*Have safe and reliable shelter.
*Receive an education, giving hope for the future.
An important part of the choice to sponsor a child is the unique relationship between sponsor and child. Once the link has been made, the relationship grows with letters and photographs, and there is often the opportunity to visit the child in his or her home country.
It is very rewarding for the child sponsor to know that contributions really do change a child's life forever. It is also wonderful for the boy or girl to know that someone so far away cares enough to aid that transformation.
If the sponsor is involved through a Christian organization to sponsor a child, there is a very important spiritual dimension to the relationship. Teaching about Jesus and about God's Word is a vital element of a Christian child sponsorship program. The sponsor and his or her church will pray for the needy and vulnerable child, showing the child how God's love crosses oceans and touches every heart.
The choice to sponsor a child in need is not such an immense decision as the one to adopt a child would be. But the benefits are just as important and just as life-changing. The child blessed by a sponsor can stay in his or her own country and community, but with the knowledge that the child can now thrive with regular food, clean water, medical amenities, shelter and education. Each child who has a sponsor also knows that someone really cares. Not only that, but they can begin to build a loving relationship with that special person, the child sponsor. So yes, we can all do something on an individual basis. We can reach out and change a life. So don't just leave it up to the politicians. You can make a difference and sponsor a child, instead of to adopt a child.
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