trip he wrote about in one of his columns, while pointing out the benefits of child sponsorship programs. The effectiveness of the program was studied by RMIT University through an analysis "Changing Lives: An Analysis of Child Sponsorship Data". It looked at more than 12 million surveys from 2.7 million sponsored children over several years, finding that more children attend school in sponsored communities than in non-sponsored communities, that school attendance rises every year the program works in a community and most children have greater access to improved water and sanitation. In popular culture The organization was featured in the 2002 film About Schmidt and Girl Rising in 2013. The organization is also featured in the book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, published in 2009. References Children's charities based in the United States Charities based in Rhode Island International charities