Do you ever think about the children who don’t yet have a sponsor? Or those who once did, but their sponsor cancelled and they’re waiting for a new one.

Compassion won’t wait to find a sponsor for a child before registering them with the project and giving them access to all the benefits. A possible consequence of this is that children often have to wait a while until they get a sponsor. It’s really hard for children to understand why they don’t have one. They may think they are not worthy or cute enough and that makes them sad. It’s particularly challenging for the children when they see their friends receiving letters, birthday cards and financial gifts from their sponsors. The Compassion project staff will do everything they can to care for the children and reassure them they are valued and loved.

One of those unsponsored children is Linda, from Uganda. She will be eight years old in October and was first registered into the Compassion assisted programme on 14 December 2010. There are five children in the family and her mother finds work labouring as and when she can. Linda’s father is no longer alive. She attends the church based project in Chemwania, a hillside village of mud huts where she lives. Linda loves attending the project which enables her to go to school, but, has never been sponsored so doesn’t receive letters of encouragement like the other children in the project.  But she has hope and she and the project staff pray every day that Jesus will answer her prayer and soon provide a very special person who will choose her.

(Please note: projects receive partial funding for unsponsored children provided through donations received into the Compassion Unsponsored Children Fund).

If you would like to reach out to Linda please contact me and we can unite her with a loving sponsor.

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Author: Ginny Sharman

I'm married to Barry and we have two grown-up sons. I work for Compassion in the UK office. I am privileged to have been part of Compassion for 11 years and coming here in 2001 was at the very beginning of my journey with Jesus. I am passionate for Jesus, His Church, for children and for Compassion’s global ministry – It Works. I feel so blessed to be able to encourage and support sponsors and their children through my work. I am humbled to be given the possibility of making a difference in the lives of the children my family sponsor. They have certainly made a difference to my life.

Tags: child poverty, child sponsorship, compassion, unsponsored children