The kids were excited to participate again this year in the Compassion International motorcycle Ride Against Poverty. Last year they set out to buy a goat for a family in need through Compassion and ended up raising enough for SEVEN! This year they set their sites on Compassion's malaria project, Bite Back., and ended up raising $500 for nets (that's 50 nets!!) In the process, they learned how malaria is transmitted and how it can be treated AND prevented and yet still claims the life of a child every 30 seconds! It's an absolute joy to see them empowered to fight the injustices of poverty even at their young ages.
While the riders were out, a group of Compassion Child Advocates met for a retreat in the same location, and we got to listen in on their meetings. A former Compassion child from Kenya spoke about his experience in and now out of the program and how his sponsorship "released" him from poverty. He explained that he himself now sponsors 5 children! His story was so inspiring that we decided it was high time our family welcomed our own Compassion child....and so we did, a sweet, 8-year-old little girl from Ethiopia!
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