ANYONE SPONSOR A CHILD ABROAD?

[merlin]

Would really like to do this, but don't know which is the best and most reputable agency to go through.

Has anyone experience of this?

we sponsor a girl in an orphanage in Sri Lanka through Arobanum they seem great, a small organisation with very targeted funds.

thanks for that cd - will check them out.

We have been sponsoring through Action Aid for the last seven years.

You are assigned a child and regularly receive updates and photos and your money goes towards village projects. Since sponsoring our 'daughter' we have seen her grow at an alarming rate although she is very, very thin. She has remained healthy because she has always had nourishment and has benefited from vacination. The biggest change, she says, since her village being sponsored is that she no longer has to walk miles for water.

Child sponsorship is a wonderful way to make a real difference.

ActionAid

I sponsor a child in India through world vision.

We sponsor a boy in Brazil through Plan International UK.

My children love that we can send him letters and little gifts, and he sends letters back.

They also give very good local progress information too.

Yes, we sponsor through Plan International.

Very efficient, good communication etc.

In past I used plan international and a child in India I think about £150 a year. She sent drawings and a teacher helped her mum write to us as kid was too little to write.

I'm so glad that you started this thread merlin! we've been thinking about sponsoring a child but had no clue which was best to go through.

We sponsor a boy in Zambia through World Vision.

Plan International - very good.
DH used to sponsor thro' Action Aid (but child died ) and he would recommend them too.

Plan internatinal
Seems to work well.
Kids write to each other

We sponsor a boy through World Vision, and a little girl through Good Rock Foundation.

That's interesting KathyMCMLXXII. The first little boy we sponsored was only just 4, and in an area with dreadful infant mortality rates (lots of HIV and AIDS). We got a letter to say that the family "had moved away", which struck me as extremely unlikely in the circumstances, and I presumed it was a euphemism for the child dying, and we had another child allocated to us instead.

We sponsor a boy in Etheopia through World Vision. We get up dates on how he is doing and photos. We are allowed to send him small presents too if we want to and letters. I think its a good thing to do. The kids love it too. He is now 15. We have sponsored him since he was 3 We have watched him grow and feel very proud of him.

We sponsor a child through world vision, and had sponsored one little boy for years, sent letters, photos etc and then world vision pulled out of that whole village and allocated us another child. Poos DH was really upset, and he had managed to form quite a bond with this boy over the 8 years or so we had been sponsoring him, and was contemplating going out to visit him. We do still sponsor a child, but Dh is noticeably more distant about the whole relationship.

My family sponser a girl in The Gambia .
Instead of having flowers at my sisters funeral we asked people to donate money for her and her family ,in memory of my sister.We raised so much money that not only will Kaddy be sponsered for a long long time but we had enough left over to buy equipment and all the furniture for the reception class in the new village school.The reception class is called Victoria class in her memory and the children say prayers for her.We get regular emails and letters/photos and even get her school report and a lady we know goes over to Gambia each year to see all the sponsered kids.

Through Plan International. Non-religious.

hmmm, i sponsor a child thru islaaaaamic aid, but havent recieved any updates on her.

We recently started to sponsor through Plan International - a girl dd1's age in Zambia and a girl dd2's age in Bangladesh. DDs love getting pictures etc and sending letters.

dh and I sponsor a little girl in Bangladesh and a little boy in South America both through World Vision