Tragedies happen every day in several parts of the world. Countries like these are plagued by wars, military corruption, diseases, unemployment and high crime rates. Those born there usually have their childhood is stolen away from them. They are forced to work in brutal conditions, they can’t afford a good education and most of them are illiterate. Malnutrition is a common thing and it is the one that drives people to do anything to survive. That’s why child sponsorship foundations were created. They were intended to help make life better for those who are less fortunate. Child sponsorship organizations make an appeal to other people to donate a monthly amount of money to support different children. Some people criticize these child sponsorship organizations because they think the money doesn’t really go to the children, but to the government for totally different projects. For some, this might be true, but what about the others that do help? Shouldn’t they be given a chance?

Education is a basic need nowadays because, without knowledge, pathways in life are blocked. After food and shelter, this is the primary objective of a child sponsorship program. This kind of program is intended to help children by giving them access to education and opening a lot of doors in their lives. These child sponsorship programs don’t have to force children to learn, but only to give them the resources, free access to libraries, studying materials and to computers. Education is a privilege and most poor persons would give anything for a chance to learn. In developed countries education is probably the main thing that draws the line between being rich and poor. This is why child sponsorship organizations are trying to meet the educational needs of children. A good education means a better chance to make it in life or possibly a ticket out of poverty.

As the status in some countries is unbelievable, the people there have asked for support from those richer than them. Poverty that has reached high rates and the violence that has made life insecure push people to ask for assistance from those more powerful than them. Let’s take Brazil for example. The population is 184.1 million people out of which only 87% of them have access to drinking water and only 86.4% are literate. The education rate is therefore very low meaning that approximately 24 million people don’t know how to read or write. This is where the child sponsorship organizations come in. They supply the children and their families with food, drinking water and a way to get educated. Another huge problem is illness. Because of the lack of medicine or of money to buy them, any mild disease can kill them. In Brazil over 600 thousand people have AIDS and 15 thousand others have died of this disease. This is a matter in which the child sponsorship organizations can’t do too much.

Today child sponsorship is available for anyone who wants to do some good. All they need to do is go to the nearest sponsorship organization and be a part of a child sponsorship program. One has a variety of options: donating a monthly amount, donating only one time or choosing a child to constantly support financially. A child sponsorship program isn’t a one way benefit. The donor has the biggest reward of all: the satisfaction to have been able to do some good. If a person chooses a child to support, then he can meet that child if he wants to (with the help of the child sponsorship program). There is also the feeling that no financial remuneration can offer: gratitude. Because the Internet is an open door facing the world, child sponsorship can be done just by sitting in front of the computer.