It takes a cynical heart indeed to claim that charity doesn’t make a difference to the lives of millions of disadvantaged people. But many people do worry that their donation, no matter how big or small, doesn’t make a difference and so they hold off from giving.
While a couple of quid dropped into a collection bucket might feel like a drop in the ocean, when it comes to child sponsorship your generous monthly donation changes lives in ways you can’t imagine. Don’t think that’s true? These child sponsorship stories should convince you otherwise.
Education Is The Narrative Of Child Sponsorship Stories
The common denominator among all child sponsorship stories is the importance of education, and how being sponsored opens up children to not only access to education but also an understanding of the importance of education.
Zhang Jifei believes that without being sponsored his life would be very different. Now aged 22 and working for the huge technology firm Shenzhen Skyworth Group, Zhang lives a life vastly different to his deprived childhood.
Being sponsored meant that Zhang had school supplies and educational materials that helped him to achieve his dreams. His sponsor showed him the importance of school and supported his efforts. With their help he attended university, and in his own words, “It changed my life.”
In his spare time Zhang volunteers to work with sponsored children, helping to give back the benefits he received.
Realising Dreams
Education, health care, clean water. These are the everyday necessities that child sponsorship helps give to so many disadvantaged children around the world. But what individual child sponsorship stories show is that being sponsored helps people to achieve their dreams.
Ashok lives in Nepal, and grew up as a shy child from a very poor household. But being sponsored opened up a new world of opportunities to him. As his sponsors sent him letters he began to develop a special bond with them, feeling that they cared for him which encouraged him to achieve.
Sponsorship funded many programmes in his village, including a community newsletter initiative which sparked his love of journalism. Thanks to the continued support of his sponsors he eventually qualified as a journalist and now works as a radio broadcaster.
In Vietnam Trang grew up in a family of struggling farmers, but thanks to child sponsorship she could afford a bike and travel the 5km distance to school every day. She was eventually able to attend medical school, and now works in the medical centre in her home town.
Like so many people in child sponsorship stories, she has chosen to give back to her community. “I hope other children will receive the same opportunities,” she explains.
Be A Part Of Child Sponsorship Stories
Thousands of schools and medical centres built and hundreds of villages given fresh water grab people’s attention, but it’s the human dimension of child sponsorship stories that brings home its transformational power. Your support gives people a life they could only have dreamed of.
Sign up for child sponsorship today and change a life forever.
