Would you sponsor a child?

I have thought about that a lot in past years. However, I can never bring myself to trust these agencies who claim that the one child (and their family and even village) will be where the money is going.. It is too bad the world is in such a state that when it comes to money, we cannot trust anyone. Just so many scams everywhere that it is impossible to trust anyone. I could no bear to think money I want to help a child with is not even getting there, but going into some greedy fool's pocket.

If I could afford to I would love to sponsor several, it breaks my heart to see the way some people are forced to live.

We sponsored a child for about six years and it was a great experience. The organization we sponsored her through only asked for a minimun of $10.00 a month so that was the main reason we were able to do it. She was from Bolivia and was the same age as our youngest son.It was a great feeling knowing that we were able to help out with her education and physical neccessaties and it was always nice to get letters from her letting us know what was happening in her life.

I could afford to sponsor one, but most families have a hard time paying bills and etc.. Let alone worry about another child.

I did sponser a child. I was 15 yesrs old (so this was over 10 years ago). She was a little girl from Romania. At first it was wonderful. She would draw me pictures and I would get them in the mail. Also included would be the details of what my money was doing for her. After awhile she stopped writing me. I enquired with the charity organization to make sure that everything was okay with her. At first I didn't get any response. Finally after bugging them so much they responded that they had lost contact with this girl but my money was going to support other needy children. I stopped my payments and pulled away from that organization. This sounds harsh BUT, I was concerned about this child but the company didn't care. They just somehow lost this little 8 year old girl and didn't care. Now that I am older and am again in a position where I could give to another child, I have searched and most organizations are religious. Don't get me wrong religion is NOT wrong. I am not a religious person but to those who are I have no issue with you. I think it is great that you have bel;efs, however, I cannot condone nor finanicially support an organization that uses money to go to a poor country on "missions" I believe that we should believe what we want. I feel that these religious organizations are going into these places with money and making the native peoples believe that specific charities beliefs. I think that is wrong. If you are a religious organization and you want to help absolutely, by all means build wells and schools but not churches. Also looking around my country I see all of these children in my own area that are poor or suffering. I would rather spend my money to help my own people first. That may sound bad but it is the truth of how I feel.

I would only sponsor an american child at this time. I think our poor children are being abandoned by us giving to other nations. Can we focus on America 1st?

My husband sponsor a little boy in Chile. We picked that child in particular because he has the same middle name as my husband. An arbitrary reason I know, but we had to make a decision somehow!

I used to sponsor a Native American child when I was single and working. There is also a school that I sent money to. I didn't have much in the way of bills so that I could afford to help out. I chose our natives because I wanted to help closer to home. The res that I was sending money to, most of the homes had no running water or electricity. We should be proud of the natives and not turn our backs on them. People in other countries need help as well, but I prefer to helping those in our own country. I am no longer working so I am not able to help out the school any longer.

We sponser a child from India through World Vision. I started doing this a few years before I got married and we've kept it up. The little boy is the same age as my nephew and even though I will probably never get to meet him I am glad that I can support him and see that he gets an education. I feel that we have so much here in Canada that I can scrape up $35 a month for someone else's baby.

i dont sponsor a kid some where else i try to get mine taken care of. i do good to do that here lately. when we did have the money to do that though i didnt go through the normal places to do it cause you dont know where that money goes. i found a family right down the street that needed help and helped them. i worked at an appartment complex that was tax credit in other words you could only live there if you were poor. i spent all year calling business and stuff getting donations of food and toys clothes etc so that familys could have a holiday. or if a family just moved in and had no food , furniture etc i could get them help with that. sponsor a family down the street is my policy. yes what they show on tv is sad but what is sad is they pay millions for the tv commicals to show you that insted of giving it to help those people

Unfortunately i cant bring myself to do it, i know it would benefit needy people/children etc but i would much rather know that my daughter has everything she needs before i worry about trying to support someone else's kids. I know it might sound a little harsh & it's not the kids fault that they're in that situation but a lot of countries have no contraception which means they are always having children whether or not they can afford them. I would consider it once i am older & don't have the financial demands that i do now but then i think i would only support the kids in my own country - start closer to home i think. I have a friend in the US who has about 7 sponsor kids - she's with some organisation that instead of sending money, asked you to send a monthly care package or something like that - i do like that idea much better since you aren't sending money anywhere, you just help to cover some of the essentials & i have offered to contribute some dolls, toys, colouring in stuff, clothes etc - at least i know the items i have bought are going to where they're supposed to!

I've always wanted to sponsor a child. It's been a goal of mine for a long time but it's just that I don't have the funds to do it right now. I don't really care where my sponsor child will be coming from, all I want to is to be able to help this poor kid with medicine, education, food, clothing, and shelter. Although you should watch out and research the types of organization that you join because I know for a fact that there are scams involving this type of programs. But once I do get a higher paying job and pay off some of my bills, I definitely would like to sponsor one.

I have been a proud sponsor for 3 years now. It gives me great satisfaction because I think of the possibilities that can occur in this child's life one day. His name is German and he lives in Ecuador. He will be turning 9 years old this month. Each time I receive a photo and see how he is growing and glowing with good health it warms my heart. He writes to me every now and then. My only regret is that I cannot do more.

yes i sponsor some child,basically poor and talented child .

Me and my husband has sponsored a child.He live in africa.We did not care from where country he is as long as we can help.It's really nice if you can help somebody even if it's only a little.We only give $24 a month but that's a big help for them.

I think those companies for the most part do a good job. Some of them use too much money on administrative things, but overall, they really try to help people out. I've never done it though, because I just don't have the extra money. No, it's not a lot, but my family is barely making it as it is, and every little bit helps. There's also too many poor people around here who could benefit from my help too. If I have the money, I don't mind helping people, that's just not my preference at this point. Kudos to those who do though. :)

Ive always wanted to do that, but I'm scared that the money I send will not be going to them. I heard of people who scam people out of there money. They don't give one penny to the child.

My son and I sponsor a child in Ethiopia. We have for about 4 years now. The boy is close to my son age, just about a year older. I get updates on him often. I get letters from the mom and drawing by him. You do have to be careful who you sponsor through. Pray for God to show you who is legit and who is not. Most of these sponsoring programs keep about 95% of the donations and give the child about 5%. So do research on these programs and pray before doing anything. I trust Feed the Children, Children's International, and several that these ministers on tv sponsor, such as Rod Parsley, Joyce Meyer, M Hickey, and a few other that I can't think of their names but see their faces.

This will be short, and before any conclusions are jumped to, I feel every child needs love and compassion. If the opportunity arises where I can sponsor a child in my own country, then I might think about it more seriously. America has its own share of starving homeless kids, so I would like to help fix problems closer to home. Food, shelter, health care and education are things that our kids are lacking as well, but Americans seem to be more concerned with outsourcing our money to help other countries. I think that's admirable, but in reality, our own kids are being pushed aside so America looks better.

No, I have never sponsored a child...But I would love to. I wouldn't care where they were from. I just love being able to help others, especially children. I haven't done it because I never seemed to have the money to.