The impacts of natural disasters, pandemics, crashing economies and other crises are disproportionately harder on the poor and more vulnerable segments of society. The coronavirus pandemic put a halt to 25 years of steady poverty reduction. An additional 75 million to 95 million people are estimated to have fallen into extreme poverty between 2019 and 2022.* When you become a sponsor, you help provide:
*Source: United Nations, 2022
Learn how your support drives our programming under normal circumstances. Over the past 80 years, we’ve fine-tuned a high-impact, evidence-based approach that empowers children and youth to break free from poverty for good.
While all of our children urgently need the support of sponsorship, those with a "most at risk" flag are facing the least stable living circumstances. The criteria to determine those children at higher risk are related to basic necessities, and include availability of electricity, clean water, sanitary conditions, sleeping accommodations and presence of parents.
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