Update on Jakison, A LangaList-Sponsored Kid
About a year ago, we added Jakison to the group of kids sponsored on an ongoing basis by LangaList Plus! subscribers.
Jakison is a young Brazilian boy who lives with his parents, Agostinho and Maria, and with four brothers and two sisters, in a rural community located in the Jecjuitinhonha valley, northeastern Minas Gerais, which is a poor and arid region. Their simple home, which is self-built, has adobe walls, dirt floors and a clay-tiled roof. It has rudimentary sanitary facilities (cesspit). Water is carried from a spring. Lighting comes from primitive kerosene lamps. Agostinho works long hours as a farm laborer but can hardly make ends meet. The per-capita family income is less than US$ 50.00, or half of the minimum monthly wage in the country....
You can read the full intro, and see our first photo of Jakison, here: http://www.freetune.com/kids/jakison/meet_jakison.htm
Because the news trickles in erratically from the remote places where most of the sponsored kids live, I decided to do one annual report on each child, presenting all the year's material in one batch.
Here's the latest, including a drawing by Jakison. (I'd say he's of the minimalist school of art. <g>)
Private Plus! Edition Site:
http://langalist.com/Plus/kids/jakison/jakison_update.asp
Public (Standard Edition)
Site:
http://www.freetune.com/kids/jakison/jakison_update.htm
And here's what's this is all about: Those of us with computers
and Internet access are vastly better off than most of the world's population.
Because of this, I decided that a portion of the LangaList Plus! subscription
fees would be donated to registered/legitimate charities helping the
underprivileged around the world. The contribution does not increase the cost of
a Plus! subscription in any way; the donation is taken "off the top" of any
profits. (This is described in the pages at
http://langa.com/plus.htm )
Jakison is the 13th child sponsored on an ongoing basis--- week in, week out---
by the collective generosity of LangaList subscribers. LangaList Plus!
subscribers also have collectively contributed to emergency relief efforts for
earthquakes, tsunami, and hurricanes; and more. (To see all the donations so
far, click to
http://langa.com/plus2.htm#kids )
As the year goes on, and as more readers sign up for Plus! subscriptions, I hope
we'll be able to sponsor more children and assist other charities around the
world.
Graham Greene once said, "There is always a moment in childhood when the door
opens and lets the future in...." If you're already a LangaList Plus subscriber,
thank you! You can feel good about giving back a little to those less fortunate,
and opening "a door to the future" for a child in otherwise-desperate
circumstances.
If you're not yet a Plus! subscriber check it out: With a Plus! subscription,
you can not only help yourself make the most of your hardware, software and time
online--- but you also can help those less fortunate (like Jakison) make the
most of their very lives. Thanks for your help!
http://langa.com/plus.htm
or: give a gift subscription:
http://langa.com/plus_gift.htm
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