sponsor a child

[climber07]

Is this meant to be ironic? When I click on the link, it says "Coming Soon...".

That's pretty funny, if intentional.

[MrNiceHk]

My husband and I have been sponsoring UNICEF Philippines' Pledge for Dream program since December last year. According to their website, we should've received a Pledge Kit, updates and information about the cause we've beeen funding and a designated staff member to answer our queries among other things. However, to this date all we receive is a monthly receipt of our donation via e-mail. I sent many unanswered emails and my attempt to call them had been fruitless too. I have a trip to Manila planned on November and I intend to pay UNICEF a visit about this, but until then I'm contemplating terminating the autopay donation until I spoke with someone who can answer queries satisfactorily. Does anyone has any similar experience and if so, what did you do?

I sponsor a child through Children International, they have been great, sent all the information on the child I sponsored immediately and regular updates since then, updates on her living conditions, education and family etc, even a framed photograph. Highly recommend anybody reading this think about make a huge difference in some child's life today ....www.children.org

[PDLM]

Is this meant to be ironic? When I click on the link, it says "Coming Soon...".

Looking further the whole website has recently had a complete rebuild, and what they write on masturbation now (http://w1.motherschoice.org/pages/in...x_masturbation ) is far more balanced than the old stuff, which was positively Victorian in its attitude.

[PDLM]

In fact on further reading the whole completely rebuilt Mother's Choice website now seems to portray a group that is far more "reasonable" and "mainstream" as far as I am concerned. Not knowing anyone involved with it I don't know whether there was simply a disconnect between the website and the reality previously, or whether the people with same old attitudes have got a "marketing" arm which makes them appear more acceptable to the broader population (I hope this isn't the case).

Clearly Mother's Choice is still an anti-abortion organisation but if, as I hope, the new website more accurately reflects the reality than the old one then it does seem to be a worthy organisation doing a lot of good work without being way out on an extreme in its attitudes (although personally I take a somewhat different view on abortion so I wouldn't feel able to support it).