Toybox - let the Street Children live!
A special message from Adrian & Bridget Plass
Have you ever wished you could travel to Latin America and meet the street children yourself? We had the 
opportunity to do this when we visited Bolivia and Peru earlier this year with Toybox and met children like Shirley. Shirley is ten years old and until quite recently she and her little brother Grover lived on the streets of Cochabamba. Her family had no money and no prospects and had all ended up homeless, hungry and hopeless.
That is until some extraordinary local Christians offered them refuge in their project, Esperanza Viva – “Hope Lives”. 
Now Shirley is the lively radiant child she was intended to be, gaining in confidence that she has a worth and a future.
But the project receives no formal funding and often struggles to provide even the essentials. So this is where we come in. By sponsoring Shirley and Grover we can lift the financial burden from these committed but also very poor local people; and because the giving is on a regular basis over a period of time, we can ensure that these children have a stable future.
Bring One Home
You may not be able to visit the children yourself but did you know that you can, in a sense, ‘bring one home’ by becoming a child sponsor. It’s a great way of connecting in a more personal way with the work of Toybox. And you will be meeting a very real need as Toybox relies on its child sponsors to bring security, new life, hope and love to thousands of children like Shirley and Grover. If you are one of those people who has been meaning to become a child sponsor for a while, now is the time!
Doors are opening for Toybox to help more children and they need 500 new sponsors this year. So 
why not take this opportunity to develop an individual sponsorship link? It can make a world of difference to your sponsored child and their community. Your child sponsorship enables us to work with our local partner, Viva Latin America, to provide new hope, choices, education, opportunities, food, clothing, shelter and most of all, love! It means street children can receive all the things we sometimes take for granted for our own children.
Please click here to become a child sponsor today.
Thank you for standing with us. Together we are making the dreams of street children like Shirley and Grover come true.
