Does International Child Sponsorship Work?

[ArkRescue]

"Apr. 22, 2013 — Child sponsorship is a leading form of direct aid from households in wealthy countries to children in developing countries, with approximately 3.39 billion dollars spent to sponsor 9.14 million children internationally. A new study published in the Journal of Political Economy shows international child sponsorship to result in markedly higher rates of schooling completion and substantially improved adult employment outcomes."

Does international child sponsorship work? New research says yes

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

"Apr. 22, 2013 — Child sponsorship is a leading form of direct aid from households in wealthy countries to children in developing countries, with approximately 3.39 billion dollars spent to sponsor 9.14 million children internationally. A new study published in the Journal of Political Economy shows international child sponsorship to result in markedly higher rates of schooling completion and substantially improved adult employment outcomes."

Does international child sponsorship work? New research says yes

My math stinks; but almost $33K to each of those 9.14 million children doesn't seem like a whole lot; and who or what says that all that money actually gets to each child?

 

[bcp]

My math stinks; but almost $33K to each of those 9.14 million children doesn't seem like a whole lot; and who or what says that all that money actually gets to each child?

33 to a child in a developing country is a good deal of money.
take for example Kenya, with an average PCI of $1020.00 per year 33k would be 32 years of average income,, in one year?

About Kenya

Annual per capita income in Kenya is $1,020 (GDP per capita, ppp US$). It is $35,750 in the United States.

 

[vraiblonde]

developing countries

This phrase irritates me. They have been "developing" since I was a child 40-some years ago. Do they intend to actually develop any time in the future? Or is "developing countries" just a euphemism for "third world #### holes that we should drop a bomb on and put them out of their misery"?

Anyway, the answer is no, international child sponsorship does not work because they spend most of that money getting dip####s like Sally Struthers to make commercials for them. Might as well drop food packets or condoms, which didn't work either.

I'm in a mood tonight. What else shall we talk about?

 

[SamSpade]

Seen it work first-hand, provided it moves through an organization that knows what they're doing. Case in point, when we were in Ethiopia, we learned of direct donations to orphanages where people had donated things like crates full of shoes, since kids usually don't have any, or they grab a pair from a pile of broken shoes that usually don't fit. The orphanage sold them, claiming the kids didn't need them.

But we did see the effect of how one good agency can see to it that a particular child gets the help they need without interference, because they know the country and they're usually staffed by hard-working people from the same country.

 

[GURPS]

Anyway, the answer is no, international child sponsorship does not work because they spend most of that money getting dip####s like Sally Struthers to make commercials for them.

I'm in a mood tonight. What else shall we talk about?

I would say it all depends on the Organization .....

My Mother has sponsored several children in the last 25 yrs through Christian Organizations .... [not liberal feel good groups]

.... Organizations that DO NOT Hire Sally to speak for them

 

[Ken King]

My math stinks; but almost $33K to each of those 9.14 million children doesn't seem like a whole lot; and who or what says that all that money actually gets to each child?

You're right. Your math really sucks. $3,390,000,000/9,140,000 = $370.89.

 

[SamSpade]

You're right. Your math really sucks. $3,390,000,000/9,140,000 = $370.89.

In Ethiopia, that's better than a year's salary for the average citizen.

 

[Pete]

This phrase irritates me. They have been "developing" since I was a child 40-some years ago. Do they intend to actually develop any time in the future? Or is "developing countries" just a euphemism for "third world #### holes that we should drop a bomb on and put them out of their misery"?

Anyway, the answer is no, international child sponsorship does not work because they spend most of that money getting dip####s like Sally Struthers to make commercials for them. Might as well drop food packets or condoms, which didn't work either.

I'm in a mood tonight. What else shall we talk about?

 

[Monello]

Is it more humane to feed children that can't feed themselves so they can grow up to be adults that have a half dozen kids they can't feed or just let nature take it's course and prove that the 'survival of the fittest' isn't just a saying?

Years ago they had a concert to raise money to feed Africa. I guess the concert will have to be an annual event.

Between 2010 and 2012, more than a quarter of a million people died in the famine in Somalia

Somalia famine killed close to 260,000 people, report says - CNN.com

 

[vraiblonde]

Don't you laugh at me when I'm in a snit.

I mean, I'm not in a snit now but I was then. So you're like post-laughing at my former snit which is just as bad.