What if, instead of choosing a child to sponsor, a child reached out for your photo and chose you? That's the beauty of Chosen, our unique invitation to Child Sponsorship. It puts the power to choose into a child's hands. Sign up now to be chosen as a sponsor and empower a child to take hold of their future.
You'll step into a life-changing connection with your sponsored child and their community. You'll empower a child to make lasting change in their own life – and even in yours. It all starts with a first choice. Who will choose you?
Sign up by 19th November, to be chosen as a sponsor by a child in Uganda or choose a child to sponsor now.
Children don’t choose to be married off, to get sick, to go hungry, to go to work, or to live in fear. Poverty steals their choices. It robs them of the chance to grow up healthy, to be educated, to achieve their dreams. But you can change that today.
You can put the power to choose back into a child's hands. It starts with a life-changing first choice. The power to choose you. A choice that can lead to clean water, healthcare and vaccines, nutritious food, education, and a safer and brighter future.
When you sign up to be chosen, we send your photo to a community where vulnerable kids are waiting for sponsors. There, a child like Collins will have the chance to choose you as their sponsor. Watch the amazing moment when Joel found out that Collins chose him as his sponsor.
Sign up by 19th November, to be chosen as a sponsor by a child in Uganda or choose a child to sponsor now.
Joyonta (8), Bangladesh
When you sign-up to be chosen, you'll step into a life-changing connection with your sponsored child and their community. You'll empower a child to make lasting change in their own life – and even in yours.
"I've been blessed to live here in Aotearoa," says Leanna Cooper from Life FM's Afternoon Show. "When this opportunity came up, I was like, I have to do it. This gives the child the opportunity to choose a different future for themselves."
At 8-years-old Joyonta was empowered to make a choice that changed his life forever. He chose Leanna from a display at a choosing party in his village in Bangladesh. As a sponsored child, Joyonta will benefit from the long-term development programs that are lifting his whole community out of poverty.
You can make a difference for a child like Joyonta.
Sign up by 19th November, to be chosen as a sponsor by a child in Uganda or choose a child to sponsor now.
Child Sponsorship empowers children, their families and their communities to help break the cycle of poverty. Your donation of $54 a month will help bring essentials like clean water, nutrition, education, healthcare and hope to a vulnerable child. It will help strengthen their entire community, caring for every child along the way and enabling the community to become resilient and self-sufficient.
Child sponsorship helps break the cycle of poverty by transforming communities.
Our decades of experience have proven that the most effective way to help a child is to strengthen their entire community, caring for every child along the way. In fact, because of our community-focused solutions, for every child you sponsor, 4 more benefit, too! Your sponsorship will help enable a community to lead their own development and become resilient and self-sufficient.
Your sponsorship keeps children safe. Children that are sponsored are regularly monitored, which protects them from dangerous situations and exploitation like child marriage and child labour. Sponsored children also are more likely to go to school and receive regular healthcare check-ups.
You can choose which child's life you will change forever through sponsorship. Your sponsorship helps pursue the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being of vulnerable children.
As a child sponsor, you walk alongside a child and their community, empowering the world's most vulnerable through long-term development programs.
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