A child dies every three seconds due to poverty.
Why is it that the murder of one child makes headlines but the death of a child every three seconds is just a statistic? These 10 million children that die each year are a heinous crime against humanity since their deaths can be prevented. This article will explore the poverty cycle and the exciting news about how we can break the cycle to end poverty one child at a time.
Poverty kills 10 million children each year.
Imagine if all of the children under age 5 were killed in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom this year. This is the same number of children killed in the poorer countries of the world each year due to poverty. Sadly, most of these deaths could be prevented if the children had access to a few basic necessities such as clean drinking water, meals, vaccinations, and a safe place to live. Picture yourself with no water, no food, no education, living in the streets, and maybe working in a sweat shop if you survive long enough. what does your future look like? What chance do you have for a better life? What are the odds that your children will have a better life?
The vicious cycle begins at birth.
The poverty cycle begins at birth if you're lucky, since 10,000 newborns die each day due to complications that could be prevented. The cruel cycle worms it's way throughout the child's life, removing any traces of dignity and replacing it with the message "You're worthless." As the child grows up with no education and no chances for getting ahead the poverty cycle repeats itself. More children are born and the cycle repeats again and again affecting the community and the world. But it doesn't have to be that way.
You can break the poverty cycle.
We have an opportunity to make a difference for children by breaking the cycle. More than one billion people (one in five) live on less than one dollar US each day. We can make a difference working together to end world poverty, and we can do it within our generation if we work together. There are many excellent organizations where you can get involved, either by contributing your money or volunteering your time, knowing that even a tiny gift will make a huge difference to a person who is hanging in the balance between life and death. The cycle will be broken as we help children to see that their life is worthwhile, give them hope for a future, and pull them out of the grips of the poverty mindset. And we can do it one child at the time.
You can change a child's life forever. Together we can change the world.
It's really quite simple. You can sponsor a child for $32 dollars US each month, about the cost of a cup of coffee each day. By sponsoring a child you are giving another human being a chance live life with dignity, to drink clean water, eat nourishing meals, get an education, and ultimately give back to the community. We can break this cycle in one person's life, and another, and another, and that is how you can make a difference. There are many organizations where you can get involved like Compassion International [http://www.showcompassionnow.com], a Christian organization committed to breaking the cycle through individual child sponsorship. Choose an organization that you can support and get involved so we can work together to end poverty one child at a time.