Feed The Children...

Many of those people have no access to birth control and don't know how to limit their births naturally. Their governments keep the food we send and starve them for their own political gain. It breaks my heart to see those children. I'm keeping my charitable giving confined to America this year. I've increased my giving to the Christian Appalachian Project and the veteran's organizations. There are children and adults in Appalachia that are starving and some children haven't seen a doctor in their whole lives, being born at home and never going anyplace. I would give to the children of other countries but it only swells the coffers of the warlords and dictators. Until this changes, it's like throwing the money down the toilet.

I have sponsored children, and I'm happy to say that my son had carried on that tradition. Most of the people in these underprivileged areas have little or no access to medical care. How do you propose they stop having children? Even poor people feel love, fall in love and marry. I can't imagine the angish of being a mother and knowing that your child will probably not live...but hoping. ALways hoping. What really makes me angry is that the governments of these countries could do more if they weren't so busy fighting each other.

A difficult question. I don't think we do people any favours by constantly sending money and food aid to them. It may sound heartless but I don't feel that these people are encouraged to take responsibility if they are constantly getting support from others. I listened to a radio programme a few weeks ago and there was a man from one of the poor African countries, he said the aid was going to the wrong places. He was campaigning for materials for women to use to make things so they could become independent. He gave instances of times when the women had received this type of aid and had set up small market stalls and created a better life for their families. That sort of aid seems far more useful.

Unfortunately, our lives are alot different than ours. I am sure they have no idea how different. If you look at the way they are living, they are doing just that. I do not sponsor those children. There are many here, that need my help and my money is best staying at home.

They have all these kids for they dont have birth control pill Or they don tknow how to gauge the time right for not having kids. thats what I think. And our Prez thinks that we should give our tax money to these third world people for climate control hmmmmmmmmm . Think they need money to be fixed

They don't all have access to birth control. And some of them don't even realize birth control is an option.

I am with you, i have also wondered the same thing...No i would not keep having babies that i knew i could not feed...I hate to see those terrible commercials, and watch those pityfull babies...I have also wondered why those big name actors don't go buy them some food....instead of watching them be hungry...Of course i do not know what the conditions are in those counteries, maybe they do not have proper birth control..Maybe we should send birth control items ..LOL

Who feeds the children? Christian Children's fund? What do most or many Christian Churches teach about birth control? Answer those questions and you have the answer. We've never had enough money in my family, so I got "fixed." Didn't tell my Mother because she was raised "hyperactive" Catholic. Someone accidentally mentioned it in earshot of my Mother. She yelled and screamed at me like there was no tomorrow. I have never had enough money to raise a child, nor have my brothers. None of us have had children. We consider that the responsible thing to do. I dated a guy who had one child and then got fixed. Why? One was all he could afford. I consider that responsible. Most people that are Christian, that I know of and follow their churches, think he is a terrible sinner and should repent and get the reversed. I thought he was wonderful. I worked in a correctional facility where this guy was in for not paying child support. He said to me, "I have 5 kids by three different women, how am I supposed to pay child support?" I told him, "Why don't you get that thing down there fixed?" He said, "You sound like my Mother." To which I said, "She's right!!" Getting back to the other countries, if they can't afford food, they probably can't afford to get fixed either. If they don't have food, they probably don't have medical. When the Feed the Children people get in there, they may give them health insurance, but I doubt it will include birth control.

have you ever been in these countries? where do the women go for healthcare birth control? they dont- some cultures the women cant deny the males sexually and babies are born into this world sad but true the countries govt's are so corrupt and many poor needing alot of aid. many dont see it also. sad but true fact- plus some women are ravaged by war raped and abused- they cant fight back or die they love their children and suffer along withthe kids its heart breaking i agree!many arent educated and cant escape the poverty the filth- you can see the hopelessness in their eyes vicious cycle indeed- if we didnt feed the children who would?

Well for one thing, these people don't know anything, they don't know what birth control is, that's why aids is so rampant in those countries. My mother in law is a missionary in Africa, and we hear about it all the time, especially when she comes home to visit. She said they don't know anything about taking precautions, so they don't know how to use protection, because nobody's ever told them, so they just keep having babies. I think in addition to providing them food, I think someone should go and teach them about using protection, and all that stuff, so that maybe Aids won't be so bad there. My mother in law said that Aids is really bad there, grandfathers, grandmothers, both parents all die from it, and thats why there are so many children left by themselves, its really sad. I myself wouldn't have a child if I knew I couldn't feed it or care for it, but I don't think that's the point here, its just that these people have no knowledge of things. I'm sure if they knew, they wouldn't continue bringing babies in this world, knowing it would be hard to feed and take care of it. I've often thought about sponsoring a child, I just haven't done it yet.

I think it is ridiculous that anyone anywhere keeps on having children that they can't feed & look after or want. There are people right here that keep on having them to get more money. If the goverment would cut off all the freebies they's quit because they don't want them for any other reason. no, i would not sponsor a child , u wouldn't know wheter your help was going to the child or not.

I've thought the same thing myself. It seems that they are now asking us to feed the grandchildren of the children they asked us to feed 40 years ago! I can understand needing help if some natural disaster struck which destroyed their food supply but these seem to be children from the same areas they've been asking us to help feed all these decades. I've had my cynical thoughts at times, though. I've thought, sure, I'll help feed a child IF the mother is sterilized so she can no longer bring children into a world where she can't feed them. You are so very correct in your thinking that these parents should have the smarts to realize that they're bringing children into the world that they cannot support. Why isn't someone starting a campaign to bring the parents of these children information about birth control? I know what it's like to want a child but is very wrong to have a child just for the sake of having a child when you cannot support it. I also think, what about the starving children right here in our own country? With the economy on the brink of collapsing and thousands of people losing their jobs, there are many families right here who cannot afford food for their own mouths, not to mention those of their children. I'd rather help feed someone who, through absolutely no fault of their own, is now unable to properly feed their children.

The US sends millions of dollars worth of food, which often ends up in the hands of the Government, it may or may not ever get to the hungry. I am very careful about giving money to any organization. I had a lesson many years ago, I gave time, effort and money to United Way, I even worked on their board and I felt it was a good charity with many safeguards in place, the money seemed to go toward bonafide places doing good deeds. And then came the scandal, I don't remember exactly who or what happened but much of the money disappeared into some one's pocket. This taught me that no matter how careful you are or how many rules you have guarding the money sooner or later someone is going to take it for purposes it was not intended. So I only give to small charities that are local. Many of the problems with to many children is a cultural thing, to change the culture a Government must be in place that forces people to change. Such as what has happpened in China.

I refuse to sponser anything that does not benifit the poor in my own country. I work under the theory of take care of home first. And no I wouldnot become pregnant if I could not take care of the child, and if I did become pregnant and knew I couldnot properly care for my child then I would find someone that could. I think that it might be better for the men in those countries to have a visectomy. They are reversable and cheaper than the equivalant for a woman. I also think that education in these places would be a good investment, teach them to build sturdy homes, and farm (they obviously are not very good at it or they would not need so much help). Instead we feed them and all they learn is to ask for the things they need instead of how to get them on their own. The thing that bothers me most about these comercials is that they film these children but you know that they do not pay the child for the right to use them in the commercial.

I know what you mean, and it is understandable for us to think like that. Their life is so different to us. They may not have birth control readily available. The thing about these organizations they are treating the symptom not the root of the problem. Why can't these organizations educate these people on birth control or offer them assistance to obtain the birth control.

I think some of this is lack of education. I think if we are going to help we should try to help educate the people to do the right things, and sometimes it comes from abuse from men who does not respect women. Some countries women are just not above belongings. The men do what they want to them. I have send money when I could send money, and if I have it I will again. Have a great New Year.

Feed the Children helps children and families in this country rather than the other countries that so many other charities work with. They usually don't have you sponsor one particular child, but rather deliver food and such to poor communities (typically the hills in the southeast) where poverty and education is at it's worst. I do give to that charity. Some years ago I tried sponsoring a child in a third world country through Christian Children's charity. But I started getting the feeling that all they really cared about was the money I contributed. The first thing they did was to send a picture of a child and a letter asking that sponsors not try to contact the child directly, not to send money or gifts to that child, and to just accept the letter this child was forced to write (through an interpreter in the field) that came a couple of times a year. But they were right there in my mailbox with a bill for sponsorship every month. I think most of the money goes to administrative costs and very little actually gets to the children being sponsored. I eventually dropped out of that one in favor of Feed the Children and St. Judes Children's Hospital.

We sponsor a little girl from Uganda and we have seen her life greatly improved over the years but I presume that it is ignorance that is keeping these people living in these conditions. Surely it is great that we are sponsoring them and helping out with donations but what they really need is education and birth control should be on top of the list. You must have the heard the old saying, “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day, teach him how to fish and feed him for a lifetime” there is truth in that...

I have always wondered the same thing,as a small child seeing all those starving kids on the tv.It never seems to stop happening how these races survive I will never know.I think ignorance and lack of education ,also contreception has a lot to do with it.And of course the old humbug religion how can a religious leader keep doing this to these people.Telling them contreception is wrong, they have never been hungry have they.The lord will provide is the biggest load of hogwash I have ever heard.If he keeps letting them down like this.The people at the top of the food chain know nothing of the real suffering that goes on.I will get off my soap box now.There was a woman on here once who did not want anymore kids as she could not afford to feed them properly and was worried about going on the pill.My response was how on earth will your local priest find out if you don't tell him ,he is not in the bedroom with your husband and you.

I honestly think that the reason that these people continue to have children is because their society is so different from our own. We have access to birth control and proper medical care. We have systems that are available to us that will help us to make sure that our children have food to eat and in the third world countries they don't have these kind of things available. Mostly, I feel sorry for these people because they don't know any better in their lives.