It's time to rise up and do something to rescue children!

My heart aches when I hear about all the millions of precious children around the world that are starving to death... when I hear about them drinking contaminated, disease-filled water that steals their lives. Every child that is sponsored will be rescued from starvation, dehydration and life threatening diseases. Most of all, they will be poured into by people that love the Lord and love them.

Here are some statistics from www.compassion.com:

• More than 9 million children under age 5 die every year, and malnutrition accounts for more than one-third of these deaths.
• More than 140 million or 25 percent of all children in developing countries are underweight and at risk from the long-term effects of malnourishment.
• More than 6 million children die from malnutrition each year.
• Worldwide, 161 million preschool children suffer from chronic malnutrition.
• In developing countries, one in every six infants is not immunized against tuberculosis.
• Malaria kills approximately 1 million children per year, many of them under age 5 and most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Only 55 percent of the world's infants are fully immunized against hepatitis B.
• There are 1.8 million diarrheal-related deaths per year among young children.
• Children under age 5 account for less than 10 percent of the world's population, but suffer from 40 percent of the diseases attributed to environmental factors.
• Acute respiratory infections annually kill an estimated 2 millionchildren under the age of 5.
• Approximately 1.8 million children die each year as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation. This is around 5,000 deaths a day.
• Worldwide, approximately 425 million children under 18 do not have safe water

Please join me in this effort to abolish poverty in childrens' lives around the world! Thank you