has also been a large part of this program, as well as other community forums. Topics of discussion include; HIV/AIDS, Malaria, nutrition and growth, diarrhea, hygiene, coughs and chest infections, injury prevention, safe motherhood, among
many others.
After the evaluation of the program and recognizing its successes, funding has been made available for two other rural communities and is in its beginning stages.
Brighter Futures Children’s Sponsorship is a vibrant and effective program that helps impoverished, vulnerable children and youth in the developing world. We are currently involved in 31 countries, through many different types of programs.
Visually, physically and multi-handicapped young people are given care through education, therapy and life-skills training. African albino children, who are at great risk of human trafficking, are also given a safe place to study and live.
Children who are orphans or come from families who cannot take care of their children, nutritionally and educationally, are assisted through a number of children’s homes. The sponsorship also helps girls who do not have a chance to go to school in Asia and Africa where custom dictates that boys take priority.
The goal of many preschool programs is to enable impoverished children to have a good start early in life through increased
nutrition and education. The parents, often single mothers, are very grateful for our programs because it means that their children will have a safe place to be while they try to earn a bit of money for rent and food. As a result of our after-school homework clubs, children do much better in school.
Your sponsorship is bringing hope for a brighter future.
You make a real difference!
The Salvation Army National Recycling Operations (NRO) coordinates and supervises over 100 Salvation Army Thrift Stores across Canada. Each March they have a special national campaign “Give a Little, Get A lot,” which specifically raises money to help impoverished and vulnerable children in the developing world through our Brighter
As I think of how busy World Missions has been in the past few months, it’s hard to believe that summer 2016 is already in the rear-view mirror. For many in North America, September signals a time of ‘new beginnings,’ as students commence a new school year and church and community programs start up again. It also reminds us that crisp fall evenings and colourful foliage will soon be upon us.
The World Missions team likes new beginnings and, in this edition of Global Link, we celebrate the Brighter Futures Children’s Sponsorship program, which is at work in 31 countries around the world helping children and youth reach their full potential. We marvel at the education and healthcare initiatives taking place in Brazil and Kenya including the great story of Sandra Christina and her family from Vila dos Pescadores, Brazil.
We value partnerships and are thankful to the National Recycling Operations for their extraordinary financial support, which continues to provide new beginnings for children through the Brighter Futures program.
We appreciate your interest in World Missions and for your personal support of our ministry. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions or suggestions for the ministry of World Missions. I can be reached at:
Brenda_Murray@can.salvationarmy.org.
Thanks for your prayerful and practical support and, remember, take time to celebrate a new beginning this fall.
Major Brenda Murray World Missions Director
In western cultures women have the right to vote, work and gain an education. But in many developing countries, women struggle to receive access to adequate health care, vaccines and equal opportunities.
Empowering women—either through grants, programs, or cash transfers from non-government organizations—changes the way that families make decisions. If they are given financial assistance for their female children to receive an education, they will send them to school. If training is provided to women, they will participate in livelihood programs that help them gain financial stability.
The Salvation Army is working in developing countries to empower women through providing education, vocational training, livelihood development and giving them and their children a safe place to go when they are unable to return home due to violence, or if they are involved in the sex trade.
The Salvation Army’s international development policy on gender equity holds the belief that men and women, girls and boys should not be discriminated against because of their gender. All people are created in the image of God and deserve the same opportunities.
Salvation Army community development programs promote gender equity, value the similarities and the differences between men and women, boys and girls, while appreciating and enriching the varying roles all people play to create and sustain a more just world.
Addressing United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #5
