As Webmaster and Senior Web Designer, Andrew Conn works closely with the Child Sponsorship team at World Concern. Andrew sees great value in the program and encourages anyone to join him and get involved. Andrew also serves as Principal and Creative Director at web design firm Goodworks Media, a company based in Seattle, Wash., that specializes in helping organizations market themselves online. Due to Andrew, you can follow World Concern's child sponsorship work via Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Facebook, Myspace, FriendFeed, and Scribd.
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World Concern is a nonprofit Christian humanitarian organization that has been serving some of the world's poorest people for over 50 years. As part of CRISTA Ministries, we are rated a Four Star Charity, the highest possible rating by Charity Navigator (see the rating). World Concern helps sponsor children, educate people, fight hunger and poverty, set up microfinance to help the poor, perform vocational and business training, provide health and medical services, dig wells and provide clean drinking water, and give disaster response and relief when needed.
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Did you know that over 143 million children in developing countries are underweight due to malnourishment - a.k.a. not getting enough food? And, here’s another one for you: 2.2 million children under the age of 5 years old die of Diarrhoea because they drank some bad water. That’s absolutely crazy!
We, at the Child Sponsorship portion of World Concern, wanted to put some of this gut-wrenching data on a map for people to see and experience in a different way than just reading a boring statistics website. So we …
A staggering 9.2 million children died last year worldwide before their 5th birthday. See the chart.
Interested in sponsoring a child, but still have some questions about how it all works? Read this.
Some mothers choose what their children will eat, & others which children will eat and which will die.
Why did we launch a blog? What are we trying to accomplish? See our reasoning behind this blog.
Interested in sponsoring a child, but want answers to your questions first? Take a look here.
Read stories about others who have sponsored a child and the effect they’ve had on lives.
“Things are going to get worse, there will be more chaos because each side has their own militia which can be reconstituted and lead to more chaos,” Patrick Mutahi, an analyst at the Africa Policy Institute.
VIDEO: Mother in Haiti - “I am living with six children who have no father. I am the one that is doing whatever it takes to feed the kids. So it’s hard to help them. I had to give away four of them and keep only two with me. I have lots of neighbors around the neighborhood that are struggling with the same conditions we are to survive. Here I have a baby to breast feed, but I can’t because I have nothing to eat.”
This is an update to a previous article this sponsor a child blog about the Cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe. Now, the WHO (World Health Organization) estimates there are 14,000 infected with Cholera in Zimbabwe and 60,000 are at risk of getting infected. Read more…
Right now in Zimbabwe there is a Cholera outbreak and children are especially at risk. The last major outbreak in the United States happened in 1911. You read that right - 1911… almost 100 years ago. Take a peek at this article to watch a video, get more scientific info on Cholera, and to learn how you can help children in Zimbabwe.
Africa is a messed-up place for a child to live - anyone with a head on their shoulders can get a feel for that. Crazy diseases are rampant (ones that the countries like the US killed off a long time ago), children starve to death, children can’t get enough water, there are lots of wild animals and, well, you get the picture. Sponsoring a child in Africa can dramatically help a kid’s situation. Learn more…
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