Does anyone sponser/eduacate a child overseas? how?

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I want to pay for education for a girl in India so she can access a better life but not sure which organisations are better than oters or any to stay well clear off? does anyone know?,thanks

I also have reservations about World Vision. I had a meeting with one of their representatives once and he had a map on his office wall of world religions. it looked a bit to me like a target map.

I personally don;t need feedback and I do sometimes feel uncomforatble with the idea of "sponsoring" but I think it's a bit simplistic to dismiss it out of hand. I started it when dd1 was born and it's just coming into its own - she's 6 now and made the boy we sponsor a lovely Christmas card and wrote a really nice letter about Christmas in the UK. Maybe I'm naive but I think personal links - especially between children - can play an incredibly important role in shaping the future world. I think bringing up our children to know about life in the developing world and about how our life is intimately connected is a really important thing to do. and sponsoring a child is a pretty good way of doing it.

I sponsor a little girl in Armenia on my dd's (4) behalf, through World Vision. We have received quite a lot of letters from her in a short space of time which is lovely. However, I had no idea that W.V. had such religious ties and so that's news to me. It's not something I can really agree with as I am anti organised religion for all the terrible world problems that are attributed to it. Will have to have a think about things.

I didn't know that WorldVision had any religious connections either, but Lillypad, if you have a problem with organized religions causing the world problems, then surely this would be a good way to try and redress the balance.

I'm not with you?

We sponsor a girl in a Sri Lankan orphanage through Arobanam , a local charity.

Well, I'm guessing that by financially supporting a project your money has been helping this little girl. That qualifies as a good thing, methinks
So, it's a religious organization doing a good thing instead of causing a problem.

Do you mean by Christian organisations reaching out to and helping people of other religions, regardless of their beliefs, or trying to convert? Like I said, I had no idea W.V. were a religious organisation but I wouldn't like to think they were using my sponsorship money to encourage/force Christian conversion. Can I re-iterate I DONT know what they do, so I'm only speaking hypothetically.

At a base level, we send the money to hopefully enrich the life of the child with no religious strings attached as far as we're concerned. Do you see what I mean?

Sorry, I think our post got crossed. But I think we're on the same wavelength so it's all good!

yep, absolutely - as far as we're concerned, our faith is the motivating factor in why we do it, but it has no bearing on who we help, and it certainly wouldn't be that we would only help people with the express purpose of 'converting them'

I think it's fair to assume that for evangelical organisations, helping with physical or educational needs and conversion to Christianity go hand in hand. No evangelical organisation ever does just the social justice approach to helping people without any encouragement to converting to Christianity.