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Grace* was dangerously ill from an HIV-related illness and had to admit herself to hospital. She placed her baby daughter Hannah, who is not HIV positive, into the care of a neighbour. When the neighbour was unable to look after her any longer, Hannah was taken to iThemba Lethu. iThemba Lethu is a communal home-based care facility in Durban, South Africa, for children orphaned or abandoned due to HIV/AIDS and poverty. When Hannah arrived she was extremely dehydrated from having had diarrhoea for two weeks. She was fed donated breast milk and quickly recovered her strength. ... read more

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Right now, a poor child in a developing country needs someone to reach out and say: "I care." You can be that "someone". As an International Needs child sponsor, you supply a nominal monthly gift that provides nourishing food, clothing, shelter if needed, education and Christian teaching. Your gift initiates a transforming friendship ... With benefits for both your sponsored child and you.

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Sponsors receive personal inspiration through: an up-to-date profile and photograph the opportunity to correspond the privilege of praying for your child knowing that your caring contribution makes a significant difference in the life of a child; his or her family and the community.

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Sponsorship Changes Lives

Sulemanu was a very young boy when his father passed away. In a small village in Ghana, his mother struggled to provide for Sulemanu and his three older brothers and sisters. They were all of school age and had no food, clothing or medical care. To survive they relied on the generosity of their neighbours.

Their neighbour’s charity, though, could only help so much. At one point, Sulemanu’s mother nearly gave his fourteen year old sister away to be married, as a desperate attempt to lift her family out of poverty.

 Thankfully, International Needs intervened and his sister was not married. Sulemanu and his sisters became sponsored through International Needs and started attending the Amrahia Community School.

 The school gave Sulemanu one precious hot meal a day. Sometimes this was his only meal, as his mother could not always afford to provide another. The health programs run by the school were the only source of health care for him and his siblings. Clothes sent as gifts from sponsors were sometimes his only source of clothing.

 After completing primary school, sponsorship continued throughout his secondary school education. He will be sitting exams soon to gain entrance to University. Sulemanu said to local staff, “If it were not for the sponsorship of I.N. Network, I would not have found Christ and made it to this point in life.”

“I could have died from starvation or been an armed robber, a drug addict or anything that would have been unacceptable to God and society. If I.N. Network continues to help, the Lord willing, I will study to be an Accountant.”

Through Sulemanu’s journey from being a young boy, who never knew where his next meal was going to come from, to a healthy young man expecting to go to University, it is obvious how sponsorship has changed his life. It not only helped him, but his entire family. It lifted the burden of extreme poverty from his mother’s shoulders, and his two older sisters also finished their secondary education. Sponsorship does make a difference.

Sulemanu, aged 4, being presented with clothes by a worker from IN Network.
Looking on are his mother and three siblings.

Sulemanu, now 19, with his mother and two sisters.

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