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Why Sponsor a Child?

Understanding the long-term impact of sponsorship on a child’s education, health, and future opportunities

Child sponsorship has a direct impact on the children that are supported. Children have an overall improvement in their confidence, resilience, and well-being. Child sponsorship also can break the cycle of poverty, creating lasting change for individuals and their communities. How sponsorship empowers communities by creating sustainable change When you choose to sponsor a child, you transform not only their life, but the lives of everyone in their community. That’s because the most effective way […]

How Sponsorship Funds Are Managed

Breaking down how your donations are changing lives

Children Incorporated consistently provides more than 85% percent of all donations directly to the child or children you are supporting. Even with administrative and management costs fluctuating year after year, we often donate as much as 88% of all donations to our programs. Your sponsored child directly receives your sponsorship donation every month — our efforts to support families, healthcare, and community initiatives are made through contributions to our Special Funds and Special Projects. Your […]

What to Expect as a Sponsor

A quick guide to the sponsorship experience

WHAT IS SPONSORSHIP, AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? The sponsorship relationship enables a donor to support a child by means of monthly contributions and, if the donor so desires, through the exchange of correspondence. A sponsor’s friendship and encouragement are priceless to a child in such circumstances. Indeed, many children value the relationships they establish with their sponsors as much as they value the financial help they receive. Our current monthly sponsorship rate is $35, […]

How Sponsorship Works

A step-by-step explanation of the sponsorship process

Our sponsorship program is managed by our staff in our office and our 300 volunteer coordinators at our affiliated sites in 20 countries around the world. Our volunteer coordinators work closely with our sponsored children to ensure their particular needs are met and relay those needs to our sponsors. Sometimes our sponsors chose a child based on age or location, or they chose a child who has been waiting the longest for a sponsor. The […]

Guide to Sponsoring A Child

How you can make a difference

Child sponsorship is one of the most effective ways to help a child living in poverty and it also has many rewards for the sponsor. We want to offer a comprehensive guide on why sponsoring a child has such a lasting effect on impoverished children and how you can get involved in changing a child’s life. Introduction to Child Sponsorship Child sponsorship involves pairing a supporting donor with a child in need. The donor (who […]

December 2024 Impact Report

Thank you for supporting children in need this past month

As the holiday season often means sharing what we are grateful for, we would like to share letters of gratitude from our volunteer coordinators as part of our monthly Impact Report. Thank you, our loyal supporters, for everything you have done this holiday season and throughout 2024 to help children in need. Becky’s Letter My school district is one where almost 70% of students are classified in the category of economically disadvantaged. So, from a […]