We sponsored a child - via World Vision

After procrastinating for so long, we finally signed up as sponsor with World Vision last month. I am always touched by the suffering these children is going through. No proper food, clothing, love and education. Some are left to fend fro themselves.

We received the our sponsored child's details via mail few days ago. He is 11 year old Jiang Wen Meng from Liping, China.

Having lived in China for 3 years, and travelled extensively there, I have not heard of this place. Must be a very very small town.

According to the introduction sent to us, Liping is a mountainous area located in the south-eastern part of Guizhou province in southern China. The area is home to 520,000 people over 3,000 villages (erm...for China standard, this is a very small town). Most of the villagers are migrant workers or farmers.

There are high drop-out rate from school, due to severe shortage of teachers and teaching facilities. 60% of the income is sent home by migrant workers who work in the city. Because the villagers have received very little education, they are only able to secure low-paying manual jobs. Most children in the village grow up without parental supervision because their parents have left for the city.

Here is a picture of our sponsored child

Husband was saying that Guizhou is not far and we can give him a visit in future. But I doubt the journey will be easy. Yeah, we can just take a plane there. But I think the journey from the airport to Liping will be very very adventurous. Well, just see how thins go.


I shall make hubby write Wen Meng a letter in chinese. Nope, my chinese is not good enough to write a letter, even to a 11 year old :P

Come join me to help these kids. Only RM50 a month, which is RM1.67 a day. What can you do with RM1.70 nowadays? A cup of drink?

But for these kids RM1.70 a day can change their life. They will be able to get clean water, better education, food, etc

For more information, please call 03-7880 6414 or log on to www.worldvision.com.my