Denise Robertson the agony aunt from ITV’s This Morning has done a series of reports from Uganda and I managed to catch the last one having come across it on my sky+. Denise had sponsored a child with World Vision and she’d returned to see how her sponsored child had progressed since she first started sponsoring her in 2004. Seeing the two young boys, who like many African children, have been orphaned by AIDS really brought it home to me, that if we donate a little bit of money each month, it can make a huge difference in developing countries.
In the UK we’ve always got something to complain about whether it’s the state of our schools, health service or MPs expenses claims. When you compare it to an African family’s daily struggle for food and water, and witnessing whole communities being ripped apart by AIDS, you suddenly get a wake-up call. It’s good to see that charities like World Vision are doing such a great job helping communities break out of these vicious circles of poverty.
Help World Vision by sponsoring a child
The World Vision Sponsor a Child programme is a great way to give a needy child a real chance of escaping poverty. As part of a long-term program, your continued support enables World Vision to use your donations to build sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there.
You can provide a child with a better future for just 60p a day – giving them a real chance of escaping poverty.
You get to see and feel the difference your support makes directly, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.