Your sponsorship means the child can focus on learning, knowing their education is safeguarded by your generosity. Your sponsorship means that the family does not have to choose between medication and food, or which child to send to school. It means the child will develop good study and work habits that will last them a lifetime. It means that the family can think past their empty stomachs to working to improve their future.
It means that a girl does not have to fear being sold in to a marriage to an older man where her only future is that of cooking and cleaning and looking after other women's children.
Child marriages in Ghana are not a function of culture but of poverty and lack of education. Many of the parents who give their girls in marriage are often in dire financial straits. Sponsoring a girl's education helps lift the family out of these heartrending situations, empowers the girl by teaching her her rights, and provides her with marketable life skills.
Sponsored children do better in school because they are free to turn their energies towards learning. They are also extremely grateful to their sponsors and feel a deep responsibility not to let them down, so they work very hard at their schooling.
Sponsoring one child today means helping a whole community to a brighter, self-reliant future.