Sponsor a Child
at AFE
provides a path out of the garbage dump
for one child in Honduras
Rescuing children from the garbage dump is a complicated task. Providing simply education is not enough. AFE gives children nutritious meals so that a rumbling stomach does not distract from their studies. Every day children receive vitamins, medicine and basic health care that their parents cannot provide. Transportation is paid for if children live too far to walk to school; afterschool activities to fill time they might otherwise use to work in the dump; financial help when their families fall into crisis, and pastors and mentors to pursue children more fervently than local gangs.
When you pledge to sponsor a child for $30 a month, your donation provides for the holistic development of one child at AFE. The amazing thing about giving $1 a day so that a child will not have to work in garbage is that the sacrifice is worth it, AFE´s program actually works! AFE’s first recruits from the trash dump are now in the tenth grade. The entire class makes good grades, is involved in their church, and is driven to succeed and make a difference in their world. Privately, each individual credits his or her success to a relationship with Christ, whom they met at AFE. Will you pray about supporting a child at AFE for one year?
To begin a sponsorship relationship, please mail your check to Washington Cathedral (or your local partner organization):
Attn: AFE Sponsorship.
12300 Woodinville-Redmond Rd. NE
Redmond, WA
98052.
By the end of August we hope to make giving online available, through AFE’s website.Keep checking back!
In return for your sponsorship donation, you will receive:
an emailed picture, description, and pray requests for your child,
quarterly newsletters updating you as to AFE’s progress,
at the end of the year (December) a personal “thank you” gift from your child in the mail
Thank you for considering becoming part of this great work, and thinking of the children of the garbage dump as your own.
37"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'
40"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' (Mathew 25:37-40, NIV)