Imagine living in a dump. Smelling the smoke and the rotting garbage. Spending your days searching through the waste of the city for food or anything you can sell for food. Now imagine living there as a child. Imagine the desperation and abandonment you'd feel if your parents, who were so lost and deeply hurt, considered selling you into prostitution a viable option.
This is the reality for many who live in La Chureca, a village inside the Managua, Nicaragua city dump.
Many of the children who live here are at-risk, without hope for a future. Few are allowed the luxury of school and fewer still the luxury of a childhood. Some turn to drugs or suicide for relief.
Villa Esperanza, "Village of Hope", is a place where young girls from La Chureca have found refuge. Here they are first given their own bed with clean sheets, and clothes and food. School suddenly becomes an option and with it hope for a better future. In short, they are given a NEW LIFE!
Villa Esperanza goes further, by offering life-skills and social skills training, psychological evaluation and counseling, and medical care. Here the children receive personal care in a family environment. And they are taught about a loving Savior and are encouraged to love others as He would. The children of Villa Esperanza are given the tools they need to reach their full, God-given potential.
All this is possible through child sponsors like YOU. Sponsors like YOU help pay for her food, education, shelter, health care, psychological care, and spiritual guidance. You are offering her a better life…a life that shouts of HOPE!
