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Show I ; 1 I'ored" ByMoab Familv needy youngster in Arizona has recently been sponsored" by Mrs. Norma j Lindbloom, Moub. Jessie Bia, from an impoverished impover-ished Navajo family, is now King tssisted by Mrs. Lind-Hoom Lind-Hoom through World Chang-(rs Chang-(rs International, an organiza-jon organiza-jon which has been helping jrtdy children in 16 countries d,, 6 years. World Changers pr(Sident, W. T. Jeffers. said yrs. Lindbloom is "reaching 0ut further than she can fejch" by helping Jessie. "This little girl has known nothing but hardship and neglect. Mrs. Lindbloom is jo easing Jessie's sorrow ud is showing the way to a better life through our out- . ,na,n8 child sponsorship Program." Jeffers said. "I'm Proud to have her as part o or World Changers'fam- Although the children enrol-led enrol-led m World Changers' sponsorship program dp not make their homes with their sponsors, they do receive food clothing, medical assistance and other needed items on a regular basis through World Changers. Financial assistance assis-tance goes directly to the child through a responsible area supervisor, who watches over and guides the young ones under his care. Founded in I960 in Tulsa, World Changers has distribu-jdnearly distribu-jdnearly S7 minion in a widp range of assistance areas to needy children all around the world. Current American Indian Ind-ian projects are located in Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Mex-ico, South and North Dakota, Wyoming and Michigan. International In-ternational offices are functioning func-tioning in Mexico, Korea, Peru, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Chile and the Philippines. Individuals sponsoring on a monthly basis help World Changers provide food, clothing, cloth-ing, shoes, medical assistance, youth camp activity and motivational "discovery clinics" clin-ics" for disadvantaged children. child-ren. More than 100 supervisors supervi-sors in 350 project areas throughout the world supervise super-vise and guide the children enrolled in the World Changers Chang-ers program. These supervisors-doctors, ministers, teachers, teach-ers, laymen-provide the basis for a meaningful assistance program and provide a more direct, personal contact between be-tween the sponsor and his child through the distribution of gifts, letters, packages and clothing items sent by the sponsor. Organization president, W. T. Jeffers, who founded World Changers in the basement of his home more than 15 years ago, believes that by improving improv-ing the world of one child at a time, the entire world will become a better place to live. "If a child is given the necessary assistance and a lot of love, he will believe that he can succeed. And if he believes in himself, then he will succeed," explained Jeffers, Jeff-ers, advocating his organization's organiza-tion's self-help, positive attitude atti-tude approach. |