Sponsor An Ecuadorian Child - Cristian Ricardo Zambrano Tubay

We would like to introduce you to Cristian; he was contacted by JUCONI team while he was working in the streets selling “bolos” water ice cream. He prepared them at home and then goes to sell them on the streets with his brother. He remains in the streets 15 hours during the week.   
His family struggled to be able to pay the modest costs associated with school so he had to help support his family. Now Cristian is working and studying at the same time and for that reason he has a lot of absences from school. 
He lives with his family in the northwest of the Guayaquil city. His house is made of bamboo and lacks basic services such as water, sewage system, making the conditions not only uncomfortable but also a health risk.
With your sponsorship we will work to turn Cristian’s life around and that of his family so that he can be guaranteed to finish his education and thereby have the chance for a life away from the streets. We will provide intensive family, school and community based services to Cristian  and his family and your sponsorship provides the key piece to the jigsaw by  covering the financial costs of his education:  the cost of the uniforms, books and other school materials as well as the regular sums which students are required to contribute to the schools which themselves often don’t have the resources they need. 
In addition your sponsorship will provide a cushion to the family’s economic  situation through providing a monthly food basket consisting of low cost but highly nutrious foods. The benefits of this basket are various.To begin with they mean we can reduce and then stop the income which Cristian  brings into the family through his street work without the famiy being unable to feed itself at all.  These food baskets also provide an opportunity to impact upon the nutrition of the whole family and to re-educate them as to how to eat healthily at low cost.The family are taught how to cook with the soya, quinoa, grains and other high nutrition level food stuffs in the food basket so that by the time they are independent of our and your help they can feed themselves at low cost whilst maintaining adequate nutrition.Your sponorship also means we can support Cristian and the family with medical treatments or medicines which are not free and this can mean relatively low cost medicines which are literally life saving for some illnesses. We will also use any money left over from your sponorship to contribute for Cristian to be able to attend community groups, educational outings etc. so that he can become more fully a part of his own community rather than the “street community” which he is currently a part of.   
All children who are sponsored know that they are being supported by someone and if you would like to send a message to Cristian  you are very welcome to do so through Love A Child Foundation.

We have details of boys and girls who desperately need sponsorship, so please don´t hesitate to ask for details. In return for your sponsorship you will receive a photograph of your child, a profile and regular updates on the child´s progress.

The Love a Child Foundation is a non-profit making organisation helping to provide boarding facilities and schooling for poor and needy children, most are orphans or semi-orphans. They receive a full education and accommodation in an environment which preserves their cultural heritage. The Charity has a board of trustees and publishes an annual report and accounts in the spring of each year.