Why Your Help is Needed:

So many children in the world today suffer from what the United Nations terms as "silent tsunami"; namely, AIDS, p overty, disaster, forced child prostitution, child labor, and slavery. They have no hope, and futures that are all too shor t and bleak. According to UNICEFs most recent report on the State of the World's Children, its the least developed countries of the world that are "richest in children". It is the children in these countries who often miss out on primary and secondary education, with barely thirty percent of boys making it to secondary school, and girls even less. In the developing world, so many children are subjected to deprivations such as lack of clean drinking water, immunizations, medical care, and adequate nutrition. In the least developed countries of the world, almost 30% of children between the ages of 5 and 14 are involved in child labor activities.

Through a school we sponsor in Hyderabad, India, Reaching Hearts for Kids is saving children from forced labor. According to the International Labor Organization over five million children are involved in the worst kinds of child labor; over a million are involved in illicit activities such as drug trafficking, hundreds of thousands are involved in armed conflict and almost two million are  involved in child prostitution and pornography. These numbers should not exist. We can help stop all of this, one child at a time with your help.