WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPONSOR A CHILD?

If you decide to sign up, here's what you can expect. You get to choose what age, sex and part of the world you'd like your child to be from. You pay $24 a month. (which goes a whole lot further in third world countries). Childreach/Plan is a wonderful organization and the staff bends over backwards to give you lots of information about your child and what you can expect your donations to accomplish ... which is a whole lot!

Then there is the personal part where you write letters to you child and send little presents. Now, realize it often takes 3 or 4 months for mail to reach your child. Mail is SLOW and sometimes the last leg of the journey is on some dirt road by donkey or foot.

Surprise! One fine day your first letter arrives from your sponsored child and, if you're like me, you'll rip open the envelope with fervor, delight in this connection with a real little person from so far away and so different from ourselves. Sometimes, the child will draw you a picture (a treasure!)

There is no doubt that the little presents, photos, cards and letters that you send are precious to the child and their family, often being displayed in some place of honor in their humble abode.

So, imagine how heart-warming it can be to sponsor a youngster through Childreach and to witness the progress of 'your child.'

Some sponsors even travel far and wide to actually visit 'their kid' in South America, Africa or wherever. Their deeply felt and often amazing experiences are written up in the Childreach Newsletters which comes out every few months and on Childreach's excellent web site.

ABOUT SCHMIDT

Please treat yourself, if you haven't already, to the movie, ABOUT SCHMIDT, with Jack Nickolson. An actual child, Abdalla, from Childreach, pivotal to the whole movie, had a profound effect on the film's production crew, so much so, that they got together to create a lifetime Endowed Sponsorship for Abdalla. In the movie, this child is called Ndugu.

When I first saw this movie I almost fell off my seat in delighted surprise at the realization of the huge part that Childreach played in this story ... not to mention my life!

REMEMBER, YOU CAN CHANGE A CHILD'S LIFE,
MAYBE EVEN YOUR OWN.

To Contact Childreach

Web Site
http://www.childreach.org/

Email
donorrelations@childreach.org

Phone
Donor Relations Executives
1-800-556-7918

Write
Childreach
155 Plan Way
Warwick, Rhode Island, 02886

Please click on the images to see an enlargement.
Drawing, "La Yunza," by Jeysy with a little help from her mom.	Drawing of Bird by Tahireen, age 4.

NELSON MANDELA as quoted in Childreach Newsletter, July, 2003

"Today there are more than 13 million AIDS orphans in the world. Through its child-centered approach, Plan is making a real difference to many of these orphans. They are providing them with food and paying for education. They are also helping communities rebuild so that children do have a future. Plan is supporting the children. I wholeheartedly support Plan's work. I encourage you too."