Sponsor a child - on-going projects Albania In the Albanian town of Elbasan, 250 children between 6 and 14 years need sponsoring to ensure they receive enough food and get a decent education. Cefa has a Day Education Centre in Elbasan which provides needy children with a basic education, food and heathcare. Angola 120 orphan children and adolescents, aged 6 to 14, need to be taken in at the Huambo residence where they will be fed, looked after and given a basic education. The Don Calabria Mission in the city of Huambo in Angola has set itself the goal of taking in all war orphans of the area in order to provide them with a family environment, an essential point of reference in their young lives and especially, give them back their dignity. Argentina In Buenos Aires, 400 children and teenagers between 3 and 14 years old need one hot meal a day, health care, and school materials. The “Obra Padre Mario Pantaleo”, named after its Italian founder who died ten years ago, is a large facility engaged in education, vocational training, and support for poor families, with particular attention to a group of minors who use the service as a base. Brazil 250 children, aged 7 to 14, need your help to grow up with dignity and receive a decent education. The Don Calabria Mission at Jacundà in the state of Parà in northern Brazil is an outreach centre set up to rescue children from being exploited as child labour, and offer them food, healthcare and schooling. Ecuador 200 children and teenagers between 3 and 17 years old need shelter, health care, food, and schooling. In Ecuador's capital city, Quito, sister Maria Augusta Arellano heads the CENIT reception centre, which provides permanent hospitality and schooling to approximately 500 children, without any economic support from government institutions. Ecuador At Quito and Portoviejo, 100 children from 0 to 6 years attend an aid for being able living decorously. The program started from Avsi and the Vicaria di Educazione di Portoviejo, through the support at a distance, aimed to offer to the children the conditions for a dignitosa increase through games, story books, notebooks and uniform for the school, straight scholastic and medicines. Ethiopia At Adwa, 200 children aged 3 to 16 need help to be able to attend school, receive proper food and basic healthcare. Since 1993, Sister Laura Girotto and 5 other nuns have run a series of education and training activities. They are currently the only ones providing assistance to this population that has been decimated by hunger and disease. Guatemala 150 little girls from indigenous families need help to be able to attend school. In the Quichè district near the border with Mexico, CEFA is doing its utmost to ensure that young girls go to school. Traditionally, they have stayed within the family doing domestic chores and looking after younger siblings. North Vietnam In the village of Ninh Binh very many children, age comprised between the little months and the 16 years, have need of an education of base, a balanced feeding and a sanitary attendance. The salesiane nuns operate in Vietnam from 1961. The village of Ninh Binh is found in a particularly poor area and local the economic condition is of subsistence. The nuns try to help all the children pertaining to wrap poor of the population. Philippines At Rizal, 400 children from the 2 to the 6 years, in order to offer a every day warm meal, a decorous clothing, instruction and didactic material, sanitary attendance. The Opera Don Calabria has created multifunctional nails head that they offer is the religious attendance that the every day alimentary support (3 meal to the day), with scholastic support of base, and moreover a medical center. Somalia To Merka, 120 minors have need of aid in order to prevent the closing of the Center Nutrizionale Polifunzionale that accommodates them every day To Merka, the Cefa has restructured an old fatiscente building transforming it in a Nutrizionale Center polifunzionale, that it gives alimentary attendance, scholastic, formative and recreational to 120 children from the 9 to the 16 years, but it risks to close for serious difficulties financial ins Tanzania 150 children are hoping for help to prevent closure of the three nursery schools they attend in the village of Ikondo and receive one hot meal a day. CEFA wants to consolidate the three nursery schools located at Ikondo in order to improve the general health of the 150 local children living there. Sponsoring a child will mean that he or she will be able to enjoy the healthy environment of the school and receive at least one hot meal a day. Tanzania 100 children are hoping for help to built one nursery school, they attend in the village of Uheni and receive one hot meal a day. CEFA wants to built the nursery school located at Uheni in order to improve the general health of the 100 local children living there. Sponsoring a child will mean that he or she will be able to enjoy the healthy environment of the school and receive at least one hot meal a day. Uruguay 200 children between 3 and 12 years old need one hot meal per day, adequate clothing, school materials, and health care. In Montevideo, the Opera Don Calabria aids and supports families who have no government assistance but need everything in order to survive and to raise their children with dignity.