DAY 21
You’ve Provided a Child Living in Poverty in the US with Food, Clothing, and an Education
Together with Children Incorporated
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What is your positive impact today?
Today, you’ve provided a child living in poverty in the US with food, clothing, and an education for one day. Thanks to your symbolic sponsorship, one child receives basic and education-related necessities such as food, clothing, healthcare, school supplies, and tuition payments for today. This vital support considers the needs of each sponsored child on an individual basis and allows children living in poverty to develop to their full potential—physically, emotionally, and socially. The child you supported today is based in the US, which includes inner cities and rural areas as well as the Navajo Nation.
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Why is your impact important?
Children living in poverty are at risk of not receiving an education because they suffer from hunger, lack access to healthcare, or don’t have proper clothes—all of which are preventable. According to UNICEF, child poverty is when a child is living within a household in which the family’s economic resources are below the threshold of what is required to meet their basic needs such as food, clothing, housing, and hygiene items. And today, about 385 million children around the world live in poverty.
Poverty has detrimental effects on children that can last a lifetime. 11.6 million children in the US today are living in low-income households. In 2022, 16.3% of children under the age of 18 was living in poverty and 17.3% of households with children were food insecure. Children living in poverty have a higher rate of absenteeism or leave school altogether because they are more likely to have to work or care for family members. And students who come from low-income families are 7 times more likely to drop out of school than those from families with higher incomes.
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How are we achieving your impact together?
Our impactful partner for today is Children Incorporated. Through their partnerships with 225 affiliated sites in the US and around the world, they provide basic needs to children in need so that they can attend school, receive an education, and have the opportunity to succeed. More concretely, sponsoring a child in the US provides them with basic necessities, such as food, clothing, school supplies, and hygiene items. And thanks to their network of volunteer coordinators, they are able to offer individual care to each child in their program to ensure that each child is receiving what they need at all times.
More About Children Incorporated
Children Incorporated was founded in 1964 and they are on a mission to provide life-changing resources to children around the world. Since their founding sixty years ago, they have helped more than 300,000 children in 20 countries, together with 225 affiliated sites worldwide.
Poverty is not just a lack of money, it is not having the capability to realize one’s full potential as a human being.
– Amartya Sen; Indian economist, philosopher, and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics
