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Mar 26
2009
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This is a deviation from the normal stuff I write about but I am genuinely passionate about this and was inspired by a blog post by Steve Ollis. I made a comment there but thought I would expand on that a bit more here.
My wife and I sponsor a couple of kids through an aid organisation called International Needs, we beleive its the least we can do each month to help those less fortunate than us. In fact I would go further and challenge anyone in Australia that earns a wage to sponsor a child through any of the wonderful organisations that offer this form of aid. From first hand account I can assure you that it works, I have found that those that criticise by saying that "too much goes to administration" etc rarely sponsor anything or financially support via other means such as kiva.org or similar. They just use this as another excuse for not giving at all, but I digress.
I repeat my challenge, every person earning a wage in Australia should be sponsoring a child, embarrassingly most people who do sponsor don't even notice the money missing at the end of the month it is so little comparative to all the other financial commitments we have in the first world.