You’re helping a vulnerable child in extreme poverty access vital welfare support and education. Education gives children the skills they need to break out of poverty, forever.
Global Care works in some of the poorest nations in the world, sponsoring some of the most vulnerable children, living in extreme poverty. Despite their desperate circumstances, sponsorship gives these children a bright future. Sponsorship pays for essential healthcare. It provides meals to enable growth and development. It provides uniform for school and the equipment to learn.
But most important of all, sponsorship provides education.
Children born into poverty who can access education are proven to break the poverty cycle and become successful independent adults.1
Their education can help their whole family escape the poverty trap, often for generations to come.
Through your sponsorship gift, your child receives education, clothing and essential materials. Our local children’s worker provides committed welfare and medical support, both at school and in the home.
Accountability is important to us. For every £1 of donated money we spend in the course of a typical year:
93p – Charitable activities – costs of running our projects to support vulnerable children and their communities.
4p – Fundraising – raising funds and building awareness.
3p – Governance – fulfilling our legal requirements as a charity.
These figures reflect the way we spend sponsorship donations. You can see figures related to expenditure for the whole charity on The Engine Room page.
When your child completes their education, we’ll send you a final photo and report reflecting on their achievements and the difference your sponsorship has made. We’ll also include details of another child from the same project who is waiting for a sponsor, so that you can change the life of another child if you wish.
However, the children on our sponsorship programmes are from vulnerable circumstances, which means life is often volatile for them. Our partners work very hard to support children and keep them in school, but sometimes a child will leave sponsorship before completing their education.
If this happens, we will pass on as much detail as we can about what led to them leaving the sponsorship programme. We’ll also offer you another opportunity to sponsor another child at the project who is waiting for a sponsor.
Incredibly, every year a child spends in education increases their earning potential by upwards of 10%Citation. Even in circumstances where a child leaves education early, the years of sponsorship they have received have a significant impact on their future.
*Arlene's story could easily have ended so differently, with the poverty cycle grinding on for another generation. Thank God for child sponsorship, which offers committed support until the vulnerable child is a strong adult.
*Micha’s father already had ten children by his first wife, when Micha and her brother were born to his second wife. Massive tension between the two women meant the family home in the slums of Kolkata, India, was a place of quarrels and strife.
The odds were stacked against *Reina, who was born with sickle cell anaemia in a desperately poor family in northern Uganda, and then experienced the trauma of being displaced by rebel insurgents at the age of seven.
