Child Sponsorship Agencies for Needy Children

CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S FUND, 2821 Emerywood Parkway, Richmond, VA 23294, 1.800.776.6767, website: www.christianchildrensfund.org, E-mail: questions@ccfusa.org. A child sponsorship agency that will list your child as needy and get someone to provide financial assistance. Provides long term, sustainable assistance to impoverished children around the world.

MISSION OF HOPE, PO Box 22312, Knoxville, TN 37933, 865.694.4673, website: www.missionofhope.org. Takes Christmas to 12,000 children in the mountains of Appalachia. Gives clothes, shoes, coats, toys and food to needy children.

SAVE THE CHILDREN, Charles Maccormack, President, 54 Wilton Road, Westport, CT 06881, 1.800.728.3843, website: www.savethechildren.org. Helps to bring positive, lasting change to children here at home in the USA and around the world. Helps needy children live a better life. Helps them live safely, healthy and fulfilling lives. Provides communities with a hand-up, not a hand out.

THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY, 105 East 22nd. Street, New York, NY 10010, 212.949.4800, website: www.childrensaidsociety.org. Founded in 1853, it is one of the nation's oldest and largest non-sectarian charities, serving over 120,000 of New York's neediest children and their families with a network of services that include community schools, neighborhood centers, camps, adoption and foster care services, teen pregnancy prevention, education, health and recreation.

THE FRESH AIR FUND, Jenny Morgenthau, Executive Director, 633 Third Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10017, 1.800.367.0003 or 212.897.8898, website: www.freshair.org, Email: freshair@freshair.org. Helps disadvantaged children by giving them free country vacations. Will offer more that 10,000 needy boys and girls the chance to escape the city's "mean streets." Children can spend two weeks at one of their five camps in upstate New York or with host families in rural and suburban areas across thirteen states from Virginia to Maine and Canada. The Fund's year-round camping program serves 1,000 disadvantaged teen-agers each year.