We know you care about helping children in need. And through the Children International® Sponsorship Program, you can! Sponsorship is a great way to experience the joys of helping a needy child, and make a lasting difference in his or her life.
Although you're under no obligation, we hope you'll consider sponsorship an ongoing commitment and continue to provide long-term support for your child. It’s the best way to make the sponsorship program affordable and efficient. More importantly, it can make a lasting difference and help ease the pain of poverty.
WHY BECOME A SPONSOR?
It gives you a chance to share a unique relationship with a child. As a sponsor, through regular contributions, you'll help provide important benefits to a special child living in poverty. Our goal is to help children become self-reliant, productive citizens of their communities. |
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ONE-TO-ONE RELATIONSHIP
While we do help hundreds of thousands of children and their families, our programs are set up to work one on one. This way you know your child will have only one sponsor – you! Your name will be shared with your child, which contributes to creating a lasting bond between you and your sponsored child.
WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES
Contributions are used on programs that focus on individual needs. This way it's possible to provide essential benefits to individual boys and girls.
Each month, sponsorship funds are combined to support our activities to help sponsored children. The amount we send to each of our field agencies is based on the funds received from sponsors, approved budgets, and the total number of sponsored children in each agency.
We have established stringent accounting and financial reporting procedures to ensure that the funds and products that we send to our field projects are properly used. Learn more…
Click here to view our current Annual Report.
WRITE A CHILD
Exchanging letters with your sponsored child can help build a wonderful relationship that will be rewarding to you both. You may even include pictures of yourself so your child will really get to know you. Because most sponsored children do not read English, a staff member in our field office will translate your letter. Both your original letter and the translation are given to your child.
The fastest, easiest way is to write to your child online. If you are a current sponsor, simply login and write to your child today.
You may also enclose a letter and picture with your regular sponsorship contribution, or send it separately. But be sure to include your full name, your child's full name, and your child's ID number (located in the upper right-hand corner of his or her family record) on the letter and picture to help us forward them to your child’s field office. |
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Please send letters to your child in care of our office:
Children International
P.O. Box 219055
Kansas City, MO 64121
You may also include additional paper products like bookmarks, postcards or stickers. Sorry, but we are unable to forward other materials like plastic toys, jewelry, wood products or metal objects.
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VISIT A CHILD
Your child would be delighted to have you visit. And you can see for yourself how much your sponsorship is helping him or her. When planned in advance, visiting your sponsored child can be an amazing experience. In fact, sponsors who have visited their children rave about how meaningful and rewarding those visits are.
Just contact our Kansas City office as soon as possible when you know your travel dates. Our staff will gladly help arrange a visit with your sponsored child. We’ll also provide you with valuable information, procedures to follow during your visit, and other helpful material to make the most of your visit.
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Sponsor Matt Cross (left) visited his sponsored child, Maria Katrina (right). |
To protect both you and the children and their families, unannounced visits are prohibited. To arrange a visit, call our toll-free number at 1-800-888-3089, or email us at children@children.org. You may also write to us at:
Children International
2000 East Red Bridge Road
Kansas City, Missouri 64131
We hope you understand that some restrictions on your visit are necessary – including visiting hours with your sponsored child and your responsibility for your own expenses. These will help you have a better visit and help us use our funds to directly benefit the children. As always, please call us with any questions.
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