Articles tagged #CHILDSPONSORSHIP
Articles tagged
#CHILDSPONSORSHIP

29 Years and Counting

We first were introduced to Food for the Hungry (FH) in 1989 by a friend, Brian Robertson. He had just finished university and was heading off to Thailand to put his degree to use on a water development project with FH. The more we learned about FH the more we liked what they were doing. When we heard about the Child Sponsorship program we prayed about it and discussed it with our children; we thought it to be a good fit.

Read More

Kids at Play

From pat-a-cake under a beautiful mango tree to a rousing game of volleyball, the way kids in Ethiopia play is not all that different from what you might expect on a Canadian playground.

Read More

Overcoming Discrimination in Burundi

Meet Ananie. She’s a sweet 16 year old living in Burundi. Ananie is a hard worker who is doing quite well in school; she expects to graduate high school in two years. Her mom proudly boasts about Ananie’s strong character and position as a role model in their community. If you met her today, you’d probably never guess her back story.

Read More

Sustainability in Rwanda Taking Care of Your Own

When Dusengimana Odette wandered into Ntwali with her sisters, the community saw the magnitude of the crisis right away. Since Odette’s mother passed away, she and her siblings had struggled together as a child-headed household. One sister moved away to Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, in search of work, and the burden of caring for her remaining sisters fell squarely on Odette’s young shoulders. She tried hard to find food and shelter to sustain them, but they never had enough.

Read More