Will you help me spend my life for a worthy cause?

Masters Commission Brazil (www.children-mcbrasil.org) is a leadership training program based that specializes in creating experiential learning opportunities for young people like me to develop personal disciplines while learning how to serve in a wide range of community services that include at-risk youth, women selling their bodies, and street children. Currently I participating with MCBrasil's travel team visiting cities across the USA to help bring awareness to pastors and leaders, for recruiting students and finding new sponsors. In January 2011, I will be going to Belo Horizonte, Brazil where I will engage an extended international training session working within local churches and street children. After six-months I will be returning the MCBrasil's USA based campus in Lafayette, LA where I will continue my hands-on learning and training.

How You can Help!
For the next thirty-six months, I need to raise $425 in a monthly support, and there is no way I can afford this by my self. I would be so thankful if you would sponsor me. Not only would you be helping me, but you would be helping the lives of many. And most importantly your prayers...
Thank You

Slums of Brazil

Brazil is a beautiful country, with sunny beaches, clear waters, lush rainforests, incredible culture and many other attributes that make it a lovely travel destination. Unfortunately there is also a down side, a dark side of Brazil you’re bound to experience if you ever go. Despite the accelerated economic growth of recent years, poverty is still a serious issue here and people will do just about anything when their survival instincts kick-in.
You could end up with a switchblade pressing hard on your throat and be forced to surrender your wallet and valuables in order to keep your life. Kidnappings aren’t unusual in large cities like Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paolo; you just get pulled into a car and taken to the closest ATM in order to pay your own ransom. If you can’t do that, well, you better hope your family can or you’re in serious trouble.


Drug cartels have a firm grip over the slums of many of Brazil’s large cities and the police simply don’t have the power to bring them to their knees, so you might be unlucky enough to find yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time and become a victim of their crossfire.

   
                          

Street Children

The smiles on their faces only hide their dispair and gives them hope of a better future awaiting them.

Street children is a term used to refer to children who live on the streets of a city. They are basically deprived of family care and protection. Most children on the streets are between the ages of about 5 and 17 years old, and their population between different cities is varied.
Street children live in abandoned buildings, cardboard boxes, parks or on the street itself. A great deal has been written defining street children, but the primary difficulty is that there are no precise categories, but rather a continuum, ranging from children who spend some time in the streets and sleep in a house with ill-prepared adults, to those who live entirely in the streets and have no adult supervision or care.
A widely accepted set of definitions, commonly attributed to UNICEF, divides street children into two main categories:
1.Children on the street are those engaged in some kind of economic activity ranging from begging to vending. Most go home at the end of the day and contribute their earnings to their family. They may be attending school and retain a sense of belonging to a family. Because of the economic fragility of the family, these children may eventually opt for a permanent life on the streets.
2.Children of the street actually live on the street (or outside of a normal family environment). Family ties may exist but are tenuous and are maintained only casually or occasionally.[1]
Street children exist in many major cities, especially in developing countries, and may be subject to abuse, neglect, exploitation, or even, in extreme cases, murder by "cleanup squads" hired by local businesses or police.[2]
In Latin America, a common cause is abandonment by poor families unable to feed all their children. In Africa, an increasingly common cause is AIDS.