Children living with disabilities can thrive
Life can be tough. For children living in the places where it’s hardest to be a child, it’s tougher again. And for children living with a disability in those places – well, tough is often just the beginning. Here’s what we’re doing about it.
Child sponsorship can empower children and their communities to break free from poverty, for good. Together, we help the world’s most vulnerable children.
Vulnerabilities can look different in different places, but around the world, some things remain the same:
- being a child means you're more vulnerable to adults' damaging choices and actions,
- having a low income makes you vulnerable to exploitation as well as housing and health problems,
- living with a disability increases vulnerability to exploitation, poverty and - in some communities - reduces your chances of gaining any sort of education or livelihood.
Children who live with disabilities, in the communities we partner with, are facing all of the above.
Around the world one billion people live with a disability, and 80 % of them are in developing countries.
We are committed to including people with disabilities in all we do, not only to meet their needs but to be part of the solution to poverty – because real, lasting change needs all of us working together.
We currently serve nearly 15,000 disabled children in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East & Eastern Europe. Our goal is to triple that number in the next three years.