Sponsor a Child in Africa
There are proven ways to fight poverty and many of the challenges that come with it because of the years of research and service done by many organizations. One of those methods is through the sponsorship of children. When you sponsor a child in Africa to go to school , it is a partnership between the donor, the family and the service organization. Children International reports these staggering statistics about children in Africa: [1] 40% of Africa’s population are children under 15 years old. One in every four malnourished children live in sub-Saharan Africa. Upwards of 30 million children under 5 contract vaccine-preventable diseases in Africa each year. 500,000 of those will die from those illnesses. The African continent is expected to more than double by 2050, straining all resources with the weight of poverty being loaded up even more on the shoulders of children. “Across the world, about 1 billion children are multidimensionally poor, meaning they lack necessities as basic as n...