Humanitarian Aid: How Sponsorship Works

Our sponsorship programs offer the unique opportunity to directly change the life of a child by providing for his or her educational, nutritional and medical needs. The chart below shows how your sponsorship makes a difference in each of the programs:

Length of Sponsorship

We encourage an ongoing commitment to the Child Sponsorship Program in order for positive, sustainable change to occur in the life of the child, the family, and the community. While sponsorships last a minimum of one year, it is up to the sponsor to determine how long to continue sponsoring a child.

Payment Methods

Sponsorship payments can be made annually or semi-annually for children in Ethiopia and Guatemala, and annually for sponsored children in the Philippines and India. Payments may be made using a credit card by visiting our sponsorship signup page or by sending a check via the mail.

Other/ Additional Monetary Gifts

While we recognize the desire of many of our sponsors to send funds in addition to the sponsorship fees, the agency is unable to accept and distribute additional monetary gifts to individual families. If you would like to provide further assistance to our sponsored children and the communities in which they live, please inquire about our community development projects within these regions.

If you are unable to make the yearly commitment to sponsor a child at present, but would still like to help, we invite you to make a general donation to our Child Sponsorship Program which will help fulfill the needs of children still waiting to be matched with a sponsor, among other projects in this program. To make this contribution, please visit our online donation page and type "General Sponsorship Donation" in the comments section.

For more information on child sponsorship, contact Julie Wilder at 781.419.0357 or jwilder@whfc.org.

Top