When you give to help unsponsored children, you help supplement the lack of resources when children in Asia don't have the sponsors they need to stay in a Child Sponsorship Program centre.
At GFA's Child Sponsorship Program centres, 70,000 children across Asia are receiving free education, food and medical care—and ultimately discovering a new way of life!
But many children in the program do not currently have a sponsor, while millions of other impoverished children have never even set foot in a school and are going to bed hungry.
How can these children receive the care they need?
Donations toward Unsponsored Children help children by:
- Funding the education and care for children who have no sponsor.
- Enabling Child Sponsorship Program staff members to immediately enroll extremely needy children while we search for a permanent sponsor.
Your gift for unsponsored children helps supplement the lack of resources when students don't have the sponsors they need. It provides for their meals, their school supplies, their medical checkups and many of their other needs.
Our dream is to one day rescue 500,000 children! And with God's grace and provision through partners like you, we can help those kids one life at a time.
How Is GFA's Child Sponsorship Program Helping?
Children are the future of every community. But in many areas of Asia, poverty, addictions, social injustice, discrimination and lack of education are devastating children's futures.
GFA's Child Sponsorship Program centres are changing that by:
- Providing quality education.
- Meeting physical needs, such as food and medical care.
- Fostering good morals and character development.
- Displaying genuine, christlike love.
- Preventing and creating awareness of social ills.
By coming alongside unsponsored children who are enrolled in the Child Sponsorship Program, you can make it possible to keep the doors to a hopeful future open for those who are otherwise overwhelmed with poverty, hunger, lack of education and hopeless futures.
Dr. K.P. Yohannan, founder of GFA, shares:
"It seems like in every place a Child Sponsorship Program centre opens, hundreds of parents beg the staff to enroll their children into the program. Unfortunately, staff can only take a limited number of children because of lack of space and sponsorships.
"I remember seeing heart-breaking pictures of little children standing at the gate of a Child Sponsorship Program centre and longingly watching the students inside. They, too, wished to be there. And indeed, each of them is so precious and has the potential to change their world for the better—if only they were given the opportunity.
"Often the most difficult decision for the staff is to admit one child from a family and make the other families wait until we find sponsors for those children. However, sometimes the poverty and tragic circumstances in a family are so dire and life threatening that we need to enroll their children immediately, even if they have no sponsors."
