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We would like to introduce you to Daniel; he was contacted by JUCONI team because his siblings work in the streets: Javier (9) Abel (14) and Pablo (8). They clean the windscreens in the afternoons eight hours every day. Daniel 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. Daniel is part of the family that is made up of nine children. There is a child, Alexander, he is almost two years old and has a problem with his heart and has difficulty breathing and he is most of the time at the hospital, he recently had a bronchopneumonia diagnose. His mother takes care of him all the time. His father has a problem with his legs this is a consequence of cocaine base consumption since he was young. His family struggled to be able to pay the modest costs associated with school so he has not yet been registered. With your sponsorship we will work to turn Daniel’s life around and that of his family so that he can be guaranteed to begin 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 Daniel 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 Daniel brings into the family through his street work without the family 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 Daniel 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 Daniel 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 Daniel you are very welcome to do so through Love A Child Foundation.
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