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How You Can Help “OneChild”

OneChild is a global community dedicated to supporting children in poverty through holistic care and advocacy. With Child Champions worldwide, the organization provides essential resources like education and nutrition. Despite challenges during the pandemic, they remain committed to children’s needs, urging supporters to sponsor a child and make a meaningful impact.

Updated August 14, 2026

OneChild

OneChild is a global community of Child Champions giving of ourselves so children in poverty can thrive. We are sponsors, teachers, pastors, cooks, businesspeople, artists, social workers and many others around the world.

Mission: As a global community of Child Champions, to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive.

OneChild is more than an international nonprofit bringing immediate relief to children in poverty. Our Child Champions bring holistic care to children.

Supporters help provide everything from school supplies to nutritional and spiritual care so that children flourish in every area of their lives to grow into the individuals God created them to be.

My husband with children in Vietnam, not affiliated with OneChild

How I Support OneChild

My husband and I have had the privilege of supporting these Child Champions and the children they serve.

But we do it without even leaving our house. Through monthly financial support we have helped children in India, Mexico, Honduras, and Ethiopia go to school, get medical care, and receive regular meals through an international organization named OneChild.

Like many similar organizations, OneChild, saw a decrease in donations during the pandemic in 2020. But the children’s needs have not decreased and neither has the organization’s commitment to taking care of them. OneChild released emergency funds to help provide food and other necessities to the children in our program and their families during the global pandemic. 

 How You Can Help OneChild

For a monthly commitment of $44 U.S. you can help a needy child. If you’ve ever wondered what you can do to make a difference in a hurting world, you can start making a lasting difference in the life of a child and family.

OneChild doesn’t stop with receiving your donation. You learn your sponsored child’s name and home country. They are even introducing video correspondence through the Bridgely platform.

If you sponsor a child elsewhere, or support other charitable causes, please continue. But if you aren’t, or can take on something else, I recommend OneChild without reservation. Check out their website and see if OneChild is a fit for you and your family. Sponsoring a child is an effective way to teach your own children about generosity.

Become a Sponsor HERE.

 

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Dishing Out Love

The mistake we should never make is to be generous with judgment and stingy with love. The people around us are starving for love and we need to unlock our pantry and see to it that everybody gets a belly full.

My husband Raymond and I have had the honor and pleasure of knowing Bob Peragallo and his wife for several years. He is the Board Chairman for Vets With a Mission  (VWAM) , a faith based humanitarian organization;  we have served with them on mission trips to VietNam.

Like my husband, Bob is a veteran of the American war in Vietnam. After his military service, he pastored a church. Here he shares his thoughts on pastoring, leading a service organization, and serving people in need. Words worth sharing

two veterans in Vietnam
Raymond Oglesby, Bob Peragallo and local officials at Trabong Vietnam

“Often people come to me searching for something deeper than a 500 character religious platitude, something stronger than a scripture icon or soundbyte. Like them, I need something I can touch, see and feel. What we need is love because only love can satisfy us.

When this need happens for me, I never want to have to walk away empty handed or when it is my turn to be the giver of this love, God help me to never give them a substitute.

We all believe in love, but often we love the idea of love, when it needs to be our job description. God declares Himself to be “Love” and He is, but it doesn’t always run in the family. Far too often, our lives become a poor substitute for the Jesus that the world is looking to see. If I lose my focus, I may give a poor substitute for this kind of love.

As someone who has received this love from my heavenly Father, I should always err on the side of loving people.

We might give our religious form, our knowledge of God or worst yet, my version of what is right (oh, how I love to be right). We can dish out our political views, judgments and contempt, even silence. We all understand and can relate to this from personal experience…and we know how much it sucks.

The mistake we should never make is to be generous with judgment and stingy with love. The people around us are starving for love and we need to unlock our pantry and see to it that everybody gets a belly full.

That doesn’t mean you always tell them what they want to hear and that they are not accountable. Whenever I find myself in this tension with people, or if you do, always do your best to fill that gap with compassion, kindness and decency. When you need love nothing else will work. My job is to love others, not see to it that others love me. “

my husband snapped this photo of me with Bob; he went with us to visit the site of Raymond's firebase during the war
my husband snapped this photo of me with Bob; he went with us to visit the site of Raymond’s firebase during the war
along the way we visited the memorial at Son My, better know to Americans as My Lai, site of the infamous massacre
along the way we visited the memorial at Son My, better known to Americans as My Lai, site of the infamous massacre

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"And now these three remain:faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
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