The Privilege of Learning

For many children around the world, education is just for rich kids. In Africa “rich” may mean a family who can afford to pay $100 for a year’s tuition at a high school. Quite a contrast to North America.

This summer we have the opportunity to help needy school-age children in several countries experience the privilege of learning during the coming year. Many of these children are quite bright. But they are not rich by any standards. In fact, they would be destitute if they could not live in one or another of our MTC children’s homes. For many, their parents have abandoned them through death or by choice.

Of course, learning is not free. At one location, classrooms need proper electrical wiring—a critical safety issue for the children. Another home and learning center needs new chairs, tables, and playground equipment. Others need school supplies and teaching materials each year.

Although children and their families cannot pay for those necessities, they don’t need to be left behind. We can come alongside them to help provide the privilege of learning. Would you be a “surrogate parent” and support their very practical educational needs? Your gift will encourage and enable abandoned, orphaned, or HIV/AIDS children who need uniforms, books, and other school supplies. Will you be part of the team whose gifts bless children by giving them the privilege of learning?

“If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday” (Isaiah 58:10-11a).

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