When you donate or sponsor a child through Children International, you invest in a brighter future for children facing poverty. Together, we help provide the opportunities and essential resources children, families and communities need to move toward lasting change.
Your tax-deductible monthly gift or sponsorship ensures that a child receives the benefits and support of our child and youth development program, helping him or her to dramatically change their life. As a nonprofit organization, we make this possible by maximizing our efficiency and keeping administrative costs low — so that 82 percent of our total expenses directly support effective programs that empower children and families to reshape their own futures.
So many disadvantaged children across the globe are impeded from escaping poverty and reaching their potential, simply due to a lack of opportunities and inadequate access to basic services like healthcare. Your charitable donation helps provide the resources, guidance and encouragement a child needs to learn, stay healthy and confidently prepare for the future.
Through our holistic programming, your support means sponsored children receive the educational and health and wellness help they need. They also gain socio-emotional skill-building in safe, community-based spaces with mentors and peers.
As they become older, youth can hone important life skills, explore possible career paths, develop job competencies and take those learnings into their local job market, and beyond.
Our child and youth development programming focuses on these key areas, which are critical in assisting young people on their path out of poverty:
Providing teens with scholarships for college, job training and career guidance.
Did you know? One thing that makes Children International different is the fact that we encourage our sponsors to visit their sponsored children. We typically facilitate hundreds of sponsor visits every year!
Our sponsors are currently helping transform the lives of 218,000+ children in 10 countries.
Operating community centers and safe spaces in the 10 countries we serve, providing impoverished children and youth with a secure, positive place to learn and grow
Ensuring children have access to quality medical and emotional wellness services
Helping thousands of kids overcome obstacles to continuing their education each school year.
Granting thousands of scholarships annually every year so qualified youth can further their education
Ensuring graduated youth have the skills and resources they need to seek and find gainful employment in the formal job sector.
