Read this letter from the mother of a sponsored girl in Senegal and hear for yourself the difference that sponsorship is making.

After two hours of hiking to a village in the middle of the jungle, we are swarmed by excited children ready to play soccer for hours in the sweltering heat. After soccer, songs and a bible lesson we’re all exhausted and ready to eat lunch before beginning the long journey back home.

Simple things like shoes that we can buy so easily don’t come so easily for everyone. We don’t realize that millions of people go without them every day.

Sponsorship is a huge part of our mission at GO, and we believe it is vital to the growth and education of children in need. Sarah Canfield and her husband Josh have been sponsoring 3 kids at the John Huffman school in Senegal, Africa for almost three years now.

I love taking teams to Mexico because Jesus tells us to “Go and make disciples”. He doesn’t tell us to ‘go and do good things and leave’ but “go and make disciples”.

Jesus opened my eyes while I was in Mazatlán, and made me see three main things about Himself: He is bigger than we ever imagined, He is more loving than we can ever hope, and He is faithful beyond what our brains can even comprehend

Today we’d love to introduce you to a woman who is very important to us and the mission of GO in Senegal. Yvette is our in-country staff member, responsible for running our child sponsorship program.

In Senegal as in most of the developing countries of Africa, when a child is born deaf, there is little or no hope for them to ever have a real life, let alone an education or a chance to contribute positively to society.