Current statistics indicate that nearly half the world's population lives in Poverty
Defined as less than two us dollars a day and that one in six people live in extreme poverty less than a 1.25$
But poverty is not actually just about a lack of money
it's about a lack of
Opportunities a lack of choices a lack of access to all sorts of things that many of us consider essential to life
Poverty is about a lack of hope
poverty doesn't have just one facet and so we cannot fight poverty with just a single solution and
Understanding this is at the core of Compassion's holistic child development program
Picture all the different aspects of your life your family your work your home your faith
Your community as spokes on a wheel, and then think about what might happen if one of those spokes were broken or missing
It's no different for children living in poverty if they had to develop and thrive
The spokes that make up their lives need to be strong and uniform it's what drives compassion holistic approach
focusing on the spiritual
economic social and physical needs of every child in our program
Children like Junior a boy who has broken all the stereotypes?
Happy me. Can may concern I have for my son
His school his friends are going to be because I'm worried that in the future
He might have friends who are not going to hear the same spiritual values that we have and that might cause him to stray
has been working in my life because now [that] I'm a german I can see the
Society to friends and classmates of mine who chose a different path
The project has been a blessing
Thanks to the presence of the prices in this neighborhood my son has been busy learning computer science and things about the church and God
which is really good and
There are other young people like Lia a young woman intent on rewriting her future
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There are men and women like [Lilian] who have learned what it is to be truly loved
My mother died when I was three months old and my [father] was kidnapped when I was five months old I
Didn't value. God so much because he had taken my parents he had taken my joy as a child regardless of the fuck guitar
I knew him. I hated him
When I was nine compassion was my turning point. I was just [told] smile
We are going to take a photo of you. I didn't know what it meant to smile I smile
They told me there is someone in the world who [loves] you so [much] [I]?
Used to get letters. She would tell me I love you so so much, and you're an inspiration to me
She helped me to hope for more the blessing that you give me is blessing many more. Thank you for [what] you did and
Amazing stories like Eric's a boy whose journey has been transformational
When I'm mostly receiving from the project is physical therapy for eric. They are the ones that help him to start walking and talking I
Feel happy because sometimes I'm ashamed when I go out with [him] that children is sir as if he were something weird
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Mean hombre is my name is Nancy [Ceballos] I've been working here for about nine years
[when] I first came here, I thought he wouldn't live longer than 80 years
He couldn't walk or understand by himself and now he walks I even runs
not only the people from church and the project not him, but everyone in the neighborhood [I]
Tell people with a special needs child
don't give up because God has given a very special child these children are the [most] wonderful thing
I'm very proud of my son and who he is
there is no question [that] poverty is a complex matter and so solving it is complex [to]
complex, but not impossible
We can end poverty we are ending poverty one story at a time
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