Byline: Lisa Anderson; 1998-03-15; The Chicago Tribune;
Tags: exposing fraud, Miracle merchants
Article Links". . .The Tribune found that the notion of individual child sponsorship exists primarily as a marketing myth. Costly, time-consuming and hampered by the logistical difficulties posed by some of the poorest and most remote places on Earth, child sponsorship succeeds far better as a fundraising engine than it does as a vehicle for providing benefits to the children whose faces sustain it.Child sponsorship agencies vigorously defend their approach, maintaining that their donors clearly understand that money does not go to benefit individual children, but to the broader community in which the children live. . ."
Description:Lisa Anderson reveals that child sponsorship is a fraud.
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