Just before we travelled to Ethiopia in November to work with the kids and staff at our Children's HopeChest CarePoint - Kind Hearts and Trees of Glory - we got exciting news that about 80 new children had just enrolled!!! About 40 at Kind Hearts and 40 at Trees of Glory!!!
ALL of the new children have been matched with a sponsor family except for 1 little girl at Kind Hearts and 11 children at Trees of Glory. We also have a travel team that will be visiting both CarePoints in March and they have volunteered to deliver a care-package to each child from their sponsor family during that trip!!!
It would be wonderful if ALL of the kids got a package from their sponsor family - and we only have 12 children that have not been matched with a family.
Sponsorship is $34 per month, and provides nutritious food, clean water, clothing, medical care, education and Christian discipleship for one child. You can write letters to your child throughout the year - and I travel to Ethiopia each November with a team of volunteers to work with the kids. Throughout the year, we occassionally have volunteers teams who are willing to deliver packages.
If you have been thinking about sponsoring a child, please contact me at
kjwistrom@yahoo.com to be matched with one of these precious kids!!!
Two years ago, we started working with 68 destitute and malnourished children at Kind Hearts, and today we are serving nearly 300 kids between Kind Hearts and Trees of Glory CarePoints.
There is no question that sponsorship has changed these kids' lives - not only are they getting the food, clean water and medical care they need to grow up healthy and strong, they are getting an education that they normally would not have the opportunity for (orphans and children from destitute families cannot afford an education and so the vicious cycle of poverty continues). And perhaps most importantly - they have HOPE for their future as they see the love of their sponsor family and the love of their heavenly Father in action.