Thursday, September 09, 2010

Compassion International

Change the world - One child at a time..

Now more than ever there is a greater amount of helpless children around the globe. You can change a life by sponsoring a child for only $38 a month. When you sponsor a child, you are linked with one particular child who will know your name, write to you, and treasure the thought that you care. He or she will pray for you often and write to you.

When you sponsor a child, you'll receive your child's photo, personal story and a child sponsorship packet by mail in approximately 15 days.

When children find out they've been sponsored, the joy they feel is indescribable. Just knowing that someone across the globe cares means more than you can imagine. Sponsoring a child will profoundly change the future for your child — and will change your own life as well.

Sponsoring children in need is breaking the cycle of poverty

Your tax-deductible contribution of just $38 a month connects your child with a loving, church-based child sponsorship program that provides:

  • Food and clean water
  • Medical care
  • Educational opportunities
  • Important life-skills training
  • Most important of all, your sponsored child will hear about Jesus Christ and be encouraged to develop a lifelong relationship with God.

Learn more about how to give a child hope for the future and for all eternity - Sponsor a Child Today.

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Who is Compassion International?

Compassion International exists as a Christian child advocacy that releases children from spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty and enables them to become responsible, fulfilled Christian adults.

Founded by the Rev. Everett Swanson in 1952, Compassion began providing Korean War orphans with food, shelter, education and health care, as well as Christian training. Today, Compassion helps more than 1 million children in 25 countries.

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Global Poverty Facts:

  • One person in seven battles hunger every day.
  • More than 9 million children under age 5 die every year, and malnutrition accounts for more than one-third of these deaths. Most of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
  • More than 1 billion (one in five) people live on less than U.S.$1 a day.
  • Every day, 1,600 women and more than 10,000 newborns globally die due to complications that could have been prevented.
  • Approximately 143 million children in the developing world (one in 13) are orphans. 
  • More than 10 million children under age 5 die each year. Two-thirds of these deaths — more than 6 million deaths every year — are preventable.
  • Roughly 12 percent of the world's population, or 884 million people, do not have access to safe water. 
  • About 2.5 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation — roughly two-fifths of the world's population.
  • An estimated 130 million of the world's 15- to 24- year-olds cannot read or write.
  • There are 781 million illiterate adults worldwide, and 64 percent of them are women.
  • More than 6,800 new HIV infections occur daily worldwide, and more than 5,700 people die of AIDS. 
  • Approximately 5.5 million young people, ages 15 to 24, are living with HIV.
  • Malaria kills approximately 1 million children per year, many of them under age 5 and most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Approximately 37 percent of deaths among children under 5 — 9.7 million worldwide in 2006 — occur in the first month of life.
  • About 2.5 billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation — roughly two-fifths of the world's population.
  • About 1 million children each year are diagnosed with intestinal worms causing malnutrition due to the lack of sanitation. Many cases go undiagnosed since mothers may think this normal and not seek medical attention.
  • More than 3 million children under age 5 die each year from diseases because of environment-related causes and conditions.
  • An estimated 20 million children worldwide have been forced to flee their homes because of conflict and human rights violations.
  • Nearly 30 percent of women worldwide give birth before age 18. Some 200 million women who wish to space or limit their childbearing lack access to contraception.
  • An estimated 300 million children worldwide are subjected to violence, exploitation and abuse, including the worst forms of child labor in communities, schools and institutions.
  • 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.
  • Every second 4.3 people are born worldwide; while every second 1.8 deaths occur. The world population has a net gain of 2.5 people every second.
  • More than 92 percent of Americans participate at some level of charitable giving.
  • Low-income working families are the most generous group in America, giving away about 4.5 percent of their income on average, compared with about 2.5 percent among the middle class, and 3 percent among high-income families.