We Sponsor Children
Every child deserves to have a life surrounded by love, provided with nutritious food, guided into knowledge by competent and caring teachers, and kept healthy and safe by loving parents. Every child should have that. Sadly, not every child does.
Trafficking of Children
Rescued--Neha
Rescued--Babloo
Sold--Their Two Year Old Sister
Neha is a ten year-old girl and Babloo is her five-year-old brother. They were rescued at the last second from what would have been a horrible fate. Neha says that one day her mother took all three children somewhere and met a man they did not know. The man gave their mother some money and took the two year-old girl with him. They never saw her again and she has not been found. A few days later the mother took Neha and Babloo to meet another man with the intent to sell them also. But this time a child welfare organization learned about what was happening and intervened just as the transaction was about to take place. The children were taken to the Balavikasitha Orphanage. India has an estimated 1.2 million girls who were either kidnapped or sold by their families and are now enslaved in brothels. Read more...
Abandoned Girls
In India, where World's Children supports 45 orphanages, sons are preferred to daughters and when a poor family has a second or third daughter the infant is often left at the gates of the nearest orphanage. The orphanages we support are filled with girls who were abandoned by their families because of gender selection. Some of our girls have been rescued from sex trafficking as well.
Orphans with HIV/AIDS
We have seen that the scourge of HIV/AIDS has orphaned many children and often these parentless children are themselves HIV positive. One of these children is pictured to the left with the AIDS orphanage administrator. Orphans with HIV/AIDS are treated like "medical untouchables" by society. They need the love and help of a sponsor.
Climate Change Orphans
Climate change has devastated agriculture in parts of the world. Unable to pay their mounting debts, thousands of despondent farmers have committed suicide, leaving behind widows with many children and no means of support. Sometimes a husband and wife form a suicide pact, leaving their children with nothing. We find these struggling families and offer to take care of their children.