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Please visit our site http://www.ChildrensWishListFoundation.org
All children are our future. They all deserve our love. Join us to feed, teach, protect, and nurture children in America and around the world.In keeping families together, we have avoided the placement of children into foster situations. In keeping families together, we have provided a safe, loving, nurturing environment that has already existed. Parents become more happy when they are self sufficient and are able to earn the income they need to raise the standard of living for their family.
Childrens Wish list Foundation doesn't claim to be the biggest wish granting organization, just to be the best. The services and personal attention that we provide our families are unsurpassed and our Wish Families praise us daily for our professionalism, attention to each detail of their child's wish, and the extra mile we always go for our families. We know, however, that all of these efforts would be impossible without the support of individuals and corporations that choose to contribute to CWLF. We make it easy for our donors to give in many ways.
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• There are 143,000,000 orphans in the world
• There are an additional 20,000,000 displaced children in the world
• The combined count of these categories makes the orphan population the 7th largest nation on the planet slightly larger than the population of Russia
• In Eastern Europe, less than 50% of the orphan population will live to see their 20th birthdays
• In Eastern Europe, of the orphans that survive their 20th birthdays, 50% will end up in organized crime, drugs, or prostitution
• In Africa, homeless children are armed and used for war
• In Africa, there is a concerted effort to extend childrens lives beyond 5 years of age
• In the US, 25,000 children will leave the foster care system without families
• 25% of these foster children become homeless,
• 56% of these emancipated foster care children enter the unemployment ranks
• 27% of the male children who leave the foster care system end up in jail
• 30% of the female children who leave the foster care system experience early parenthood
• 30,000 children in foster care are simply dropped from state care because they have run away




• In the US, most young adults ages 18 24 still live at home with their parents, while approximately 25,000 children are annually released at age 18 from the foster care system without families to support them

Each Day in America for All Children

2 mothers die in childbirth.
4 children are killed by abuse or neglect.
5 children or teens commit suicide.
8 children or teens are killed by firearms.
33 children or teens die from accidents.
78 babies die before their first birthdays.
201 children are arrested for a violent crime.
404 children are arrested for a drug crime.
928 babies are born at low birthweight.
1,154 babies are born to teen mothers.
1,240 public school students are corporally punished.*
2,224 babies are born without health insurance.
2,367 high school students drop out.*
2,479 children are confirmed as abused or neglected.
2,583 babies are born into poverty.
4,184 babies are born to unmarried mothers.
4,520 children are arrested.
18,493 public school students are suspended.
* Based on calculations per school day (180 days of seven hours each).
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  • I am very interested in learning and acquiring a deeper and the fundamilities of your program.I am very interested in knowing how much would and do your agency or rather I shall say will and can make a difference for a FAMILY of these affected impoivershily, we are aware of the statistics but the underlying issue to make a change and INITIATE an effort is taking the first step,

  • Let us help more people together. Come check out doingmypartTV. Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks!

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