Remembering Forgotten Children

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In our daughter's city you can find this sign

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Right in the front window of this building.

Forgotten Children Worldwide.

They are doing an amazing work.

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I can vouch for them

Because our daughter Keri Baker

Spends hours volunteering with them.

You can find her name in their staff list.

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One of their ministries is to collect

Donated clothes,

Items "cast aside" by those of us

Who really have no clue what it means

To go without.

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These cast offs are sorted

Boxed

And made ready to be shipped overseas

Where hunger, want, and need 

Are a daily way of life.

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Items not suitable for shipping are regifted

Whenever possible.

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Pallet after pallet full of boxes

Are shipped to areas of real need.

All of this is done by volunteers

And through the donations of 

Average

Wealthy (in the world's eyes)

North Americans.

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780 million people in this world

Don't have access to clean drinking water.

Forgotten Children Worldwide 

Is doing something about it.

They are paying for well drilling.

Each October they sponsor a 5 km walk/run

To raise money for clean drinking water

Around the world.

Participants in these walks can choose

To carry 5 gallon water jugs like these

To experience what

Millions around the world have to

Do each day just to get water

For drinking and washing.

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This is an actual water jug

From Uganda

Where people carry water

For miles and miles every day.

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But that's not all Forgotten Children does.

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Forgotten Children offers child sponsorships.

For just $25 a month you and your family

Can "adopt" a child in 

Africa or India.

Every penny of your money will go

To feed that child and send

Him or Her to school

Every penny.

That is because our daughter Keri,

And many other like her,

Are volunteering their time

Here in the United States

So that every penny you give

Can go to meet actual needs.

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Forgotten Children also 

Works to provide microloans

To help families in third world countries

Begin self-sustaining businesses.

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Forgotten Children also provides

The means for you to donate

Live chickens or goats or other

Livestock to feed and support

Third World families.

I don't even know all the things

That Forgotten Children is 

Doing to help a hurting world,

I only know my heart was

Touched and moved by what I saw

Of their operation.

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Everywhere reminders of children.

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Hungry children who lie down each night

With bellies rumbling for food.

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Children whose "home" 

Is a corrugated iron shack

With a packed dirt floor.

Children whose beds

Are mats, towels, or less.

This I know

For I have seen it in person.

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You too can remember these forgotten children.

You too can sponsor a child.

You too can help give clean drinking water

Or livestock.

Simply click here to see what you can do.

Then click over to Unknown Mami's

To see what's happening in OTHER cities.

Joining Unknown Mami
For Sundays in my City.

Today my city is Bluffton, Indiana

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