70 years of experience has taught us that the best way to change a child’s life is to transform their world. With the support of child sponsors, we help communities to improve their children’s lives, partnering with each community for up to 15 years to equip them to sustain changes. Together, we tackle the root causes of poverty and injustice that rob children of their lives and futures.
Because of our community-focused solutions, for every child you help, four more children benefit too. Instead of giving direct cash benefits to one child, we combine your monthly donations with other sponsors to make the biggest impact on the worst problems kids in a community face. You’ll help your sponsored child and many more children growing up alongside them, now and in the future.
Child sponsorship connects you with one, real child and their community. Each child has just one sponsor. You’ll hear from your sponsored child within the first months of sponsorship, and get regular reports about their progress. You can even exchange letters and cards if you would like to, and every child who receives a letter from their sponsor will write the reply themselves.
Worldwide, approximately 80% of the total funds we receive go to field programmes and advocacy work to directly support families and communities – we guarantee it. The rest is used for fundraising and administration so we can keep the work going!
Child sponsorship empowers and amplifies the voices of children as agents of change within their communities. Through child sponsorship, kids learn how to speak up for themselves and their rights. Kids don’t just benefit from the change child sponsorship brings – they lead it.