With an average household income of $247.00 a month in her community, families like Ambar Sofia's barely earn enough to cover daily necessities. Your sponsorship helps fill the gaps of poverty, making a significant impact on her health, education and future.
It takes just one person to create lasting, positive change in Ambar Sofia’s life. Your monthly gift of $39 is invested in the lives of some of the most vulnerable youth in the world.
12 million girls
(under 18) get married every year*
Our education, life-skills and empowerment programs give girls alternate paths to independence.
nearly 1 in 3
report physical or sexual abuse - women 15 and older*
Our extensive Child Safety Protocols help keep all children safe, and staff and volunteers are trained to recognize and stop abuse and exploitation.
Almost 1 in 6
young women give birth before age 18.*
Adolescent health education and services provide the knowledge and resources teens need to make informed decisions and to stay healthy.
500+ million
female adults
are illiterate.*
Nearly two-thirds of illiterate adults are women. Interventions like tutoring assistance, access to libraries, computer labs and more, help ensure girls learn to read, write and stay in school.
Gender disparities in health, education, economic opportunity and political representation remain frustratingly persistent. In alignment with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal #5, our holistic programs promote gender equality and strive to empower all women and girls.
Through our programs, Children International works to achieve these goals:
Child sponsorship connects two people — a sponsor with a generous heart and a child living in poverty. From toddlerhood to young adulthood, our child and youth development program equips kids with crucial life and job skills to break the cycle of poverty. For good.
At Children International, we believe every child deserves the chance to thrive. And with support from caring individuals and philanthropic organizations, young people around the world are unlocking their potential. Together, we empower children and youth to build confidence, shape their futures and drive lasting change in their families and neighborhoods.
1. Access to physical and emotional health services
2. Educational assistance from early childhood to graduation, including tutoring, school fees and much more.
3. Empowerment programs like leadership training, music, arts and sports, employment preparation, and more, helping children and youth forge successful futures.
4. The tools, opportunities and services that enable vulnerable children to fundamentally change their lives and create their own path out of poverty.
5. The cultivation of a personal connection with someone who cares.
Your support as a sponsor provides a girl or young woman who is living in poverty the mentorship, skills, education and confidence she needs to achieve her goals. Through our community-based initiatives and programming, girls can rewrite their stories, empower their families and give back to the whole community.
Children International is proud to support children, families and communities in Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines and Zambia.
80% of Children International’s total operating expenses fund programs for children and youth. So, the majority of your donation dollars go toward exactly what you intended — supporting children in poverty.
Child sponsorship is a voluntary, ongoing contribution you can cancel at anytime — you’re in charge of how long you sponsor (and how many kids you sponsor).
You can make changes to your monthly giving anytime. Please contact our Care Team to adjust, delay, or cancel. And because of our on-going commitment to our children from the time of sponsorship through graduation, your child will continue to receive benefits from the program, and we will work to find them another sponsor as soon as possible.
Children International is a global child and youth development organization connecting people in the fight to end poverty for good. Headquartered in Kansas City, we work in 10 countries, serving 218,000+ children to create lasting change in their lives, enabling them to reach their full potential and forge a better future for themselves.
We believe ending poverty starts with children, so we focus on programs and opportunities for children and youth for the first two decades of their lives. We strengthen entire communities through the work of our trained volunteers and local, professional staff, providing health and education access and assistance, empowerment and career readiness programs, and by cultivating partnerships that help children and families break the cycle of generational poverty.
If you recently attended a concert and received a child packet, you were provided with a code that you can use to begin sponsoring that child. Please click here to go to children.org/start and enter your code.
