Introduction to Child Sponsorship

Understanding sponsoring a child and why it is impactful

Child sponsorship involves pairing a supporting donor with a child in need. The donor (who we refer to as the sponsor) donates monthly to support their sponsored children with basic needs such as food, clothing, hygiene items, and educational assistance such as tuition or school supplies. Child sponsorship is one of the most effective ways to help end child poverty. For $35 a month, you not only meet the child’s most immediate basic needs but […]

Watching Kids Grow Up in Guadalajara

Two years later, our Director of Development returns to the La Luz Home

After visiting the second of three of our affiliated sites in Mexico, it was time for Ron Carter, Yefiny Mena, and myself to travel from San Miguel de Allende to Guadalajara, where we would be meeting with our volunteer coordinator at the La Luz Home. Remembering the visit before When I was at La Luz two years ago with our Director of International Programs, Luis Bourdet, a few of the children at the home stood […]

Supporting Young Girls’ Independence

At Casa Santa Julia in San Miguel de Allende, children are taught skills for the future

After a wonderful visit to Casa Santa Ines in Mexico City, I couldn’t wait for our President and CEO, Ron Carter, to visit our next affiliated site, Santa Julia, which is a four-hour bus ride away in San Miguel de Allende. Ron, our International Programs Specialist Yefiny, and I arrived in San Miguel in the late afternoon. We planned to meet with Lily, who works in the administrative offices of Santa Julia, the day after. […]

Benefiting Now While Thinking About the Future

In Sri Lanka, children with sponsors are able to consider higher education

The Touch a Life Center is administered from home for girls in Colombo. The Ceylon Association supports the home, but Children Incorporated sponsorship provides additional support to other needs for the augmentation of nutritional intake of the girls and providing them with school supplies and clothes, which are provided with limitations from the Association. We still have children from the neighborhood who are also enrolled in the Children Incorporated program, and they come to the […]

Increasing Aid to Those that Need It the Most

The Chrishanti Center has grown over the years in order to help more families in the community

We departed India to reach Sri Lanka, a country with beautiful beaches, forests, national reserves with many exotic animals, numerous resources and a large production of tea and minerals, but with a tremendous history of trouble in military and politics. In Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon), Children Incorporated currently has three support programs: Chrishanti Lama Sevana Center, Touch a Life Home Center, and Wijewardane Home. The Chrishanti Center is located in the Kirulapone area […]

Giving Mothers Peace of Mind in Mexico

Casa Santa Ines helps girls with only one parent receive an education

When I was told that I would accompany the President and CEO of Children Incorporated, Ron Carter, on his first visit to Mexico with our organization, I was beyond excited. It would be my third time seeing our affiliated sites in this magnificent country, but I knew that seeing it with Ron would be a whole new experience and one that I looked forward to immensely. In preparation for our trip, Ron and I spoke […]