Blogging for baby Christian

Baby Christian is three months old, born to WSU director Ate Joana, who is struggling to feed her two children without any support from a husband or boyfriend. Joanna is a cybersex worker who is wishing to leave that life behind. But with no education and no money even for food she is stuck in a difficult situation. She lives on the dirt floor of a shack in a Manila squatters village with her two children who have chronic health problems. The difficulties become compound with the lack of proper nutrition, wet conditions, rats, mold, added to all the fevers and diseases that her children get exposed to. The difficulties of a single mom raising kids in such poverty is unimaginable for those of us who living in the US. For the last two years I have been visiting the Philippines and know this squatters village that Joanna lives at. It's basically a swamp where people have built shacks out of scrap materials. The tropical storms typically tear off the roofs and flood their dwellings and you can imagine the mosquitoes that swarm the marshes that surround the village.

The cliche "when you're down, you're down" is confirmed here in this Manila ghetto. But still as you can see the picture above that this beautiful young women and her beautiful baby has a great deal of happiness and hope that their situation will improve. World Sisters United is working with Ate Joana and trying to help her finish her education and to purchase for her a small farm. So far we have purchased four small farms and built 12 sari sari stores to help other single mothers like Ate Joana. We are seeking people who would be interested in sponsoring her by contributing only five dollars a month. Joana's monthly needs are around us$250 a month. So it doesn't take that many people to supply her needed budget. And what will Ate Joana do while she is being supported by you and forty-nine other kind souls? She will finish her school so she can get a job.

Getting a job in the Philippines is not easy. Firstly, the employees require background checks and health reports that cost about 80 dollars. Secondly, they require a high school diploma for entry level retail jobs and college degrees for any decent paying job with good advancement possibilities. So we will be trying to assist Ate Joana get somewhere in her life against all odds. Most young women in her situation end up as bar girls prostituting to sex-tourists from the US, Europe, Japan and China. Ate Joana deserves better. Please help her out. Helping her out is helping baby Christian out. Every child we help out with their nutrition will help lift us all up. Proper nutrition at that critical infant stage insures proper brain development. Thus, helping out this baby with early nutrition will possibly give us that next great genius who creates that next great invention that helps us solve one piece of our sustainability problems.

Please send five dollars to help baby Christian!

This donate link above will take you to paypal where you can pay with your paypal account or use a credit card. Your gift will go directly to our WSU paypal account where it will then go to the recipient via XOOM, Western Union or by direct handoff. These services (including Paypal) charge a fee but there is no other operations fees that takes away from your gift. Our paypal account is managed by our Philippines treasurer Kaye Malibiran. Please note : World Sisters United is not yet a legal 501C3 non-profit - so your gifts are not tax deductable. The good news is that we are close to having the articles of incorporation and IRS forms ready to process. We should be a legal registered non-profit by the end of 2008