how can you help: child of the month
Sunita, age 12 and her sisters from India
Sunita is in the 8th grade and excels in both English and Marathi, the local language. She and her younger sisters live in the poverty-stricken Nimbodi village in South India. Their parents earn a meager wage as farm laborers, but are forced to work long hours away from home.
Sunita is responsible for running the household. She also takes care of her sisters, making sure they are ready for school each day.
This amount of responsibility is heavy enough without the added burden of leprosy. Unfortunately, Sunita was recently diagnosed as an MB case of leprosy -- the worst kind.
Thankfully, the disease was diagnosed early before it could do permanent physical damage. What's more, thanks to the support of ALM firends like you, Sunita and her sisters now receive scholarships for school. You are providing these beautiful young girls with a real way to rise above the poverty and despair of this disease.
Please continue to pray that we can find and cure kids like Sunita in time. Pray that we can continue to provide them with the life-changing gift of education. Thank you.
