You too Can Help African Children

Nicoloas  Boileau once said, “ With poverty everything becomes frightful”. Children in Africa have to deal with this fear everyday. Monie, is an African girl, who lived through the war of 1994 in Uganda. Prior to Monie losing both her parents in the horrible genocide, she herself was thrown for dead into a pit of bodies. She remained there until nightfall. She crawled up through the dead bodies and made her way to Kigali. For weeks, Monie was alone, cooking and cleaning for herself. Monie is one of the millions of people in Africa who find themselves in these situations on a daily basis. African people need our help for their future to be bright.

       Helping innocent people should be a part of the mandate of governments  in wealthy countries such as Canada and the US. The Canadian government should spend more time and money helping innocent African’s rather than Afghany people who do not want the help and their mindset is only to destroy whatever gets in their way. Helping in Afghanistan is serving no purpose. However helping the innocent people in Africa with rebuilding communities, in my opinion will serve more purpose. Even average Canadians can find a way to help the people in Africa. Standing up to the government to help to donating to a local charity are ways average Canadians can help African’s. Myself and 8 others are trying to make a difference in the education sector in Africa by raising money for school supplies to send to the children of Africa. “ Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” according to Nelson Mandela, former South African President. By helping with the children’s ability to succeed in education, I think this will help them take charge of their home country in the future, and reduce the poverty. Along with starting a committee, organization or donating to a local charity, sponsoring a child is another simple way to help out.

          

         Sponsoring an African child is an amazing feeling and experience. World Vision is a Christian relief development  and organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. Sponsoring a child with World Vision can be done online or over the phone. Sponsoring  only costs $35 per month. However, the help is significant. With your money World Vision partners with local staff and families to develop long-term solutions and strengthens the community in which your sponsored child lives. Areas in which your support will help your sponsored child are education, skills training, improved nutrition, agricultural assistance, health care and safe water. These are a few simple steps you can take to change a child’s life.

        Mother Teresa once said,  “If you can not feed a hundred  people, then feed just one”. This is what every Canadian can try to do, Help at least one African person. 184 million people in Africa, which is 33% of Africa’s population  suffer from malnutrition. This rate does not show any signs of slowing down. Malnutrition and starvation has caused the majority of deaths in African children and their parents.  Malnutrition is not the only cause of death in Africa. African children are drinking dirty water everyday. This water causes malaria which can eventually lead to death.  These innocent African people need our help.

      If we do not soon step up and help, Africa will continue to suffer from poverty, starvation and lack of education. That is why each and everyone of us needs to help African’s by providing  them with food, clean drinking water and a chance at succeeding in education. So sponsor a child, donate to a charity. JUST  HELP OUT!