Sponsorship costs £20 per month
Supporting vulnerable families
A child will be supported with scholastics, a uniform and a lunch enabling them to attend school while their caregiver will join one of our Community Development Groups, where they will learn conservation farming and business skills.Â
Already a sponsor?
If you are already a sponsor you can visit the Family Sponsor Portal for more information and guidance
100% of your donation goes towards supporting a child and their family to become self-sufficient.
your One to one relationship
Providing a ‘complete package’ means that over time families no longer rely on hand-outs but can support themselves.
At the end of the three-year period, families are self-sufficient; farmers have at least doubled crop yield and will be earning enough to feed their children, pay for medicine, send their children to school, and plan for a brighter future.Â
Just three years of sponsorship means full tummies, educated children, happy families and stronger communities – forever.Â
How does Sponsorship make a difference?
Unlock a brighter future
Family Sponsorship helps children, families and communities in poverty unlock a brighter future. The impact of your support is far-reaching.
School attendance
In Uganda, it is free to attend school. However, families need money to pay for uniform, stationery, textbooks, school lunch and other resources.
If a family can’t afford any of these things, children will be forced to drop out.Your support will ensure that a child never misses school because their parents can’t afford it.
Sickness
All children get sick. However, in Uganda, children get sick more than most. Your sponsorship enables families to earn money to pay for medicine and clinic bills.
By providing access to clean water, training in health and hygiene, and training in HIV/AIDS prevention, illness and disease are dramatically reduced.Childhood
According to UNICEF, 34% of Ugandan girls are married before they are 18. Many children live in fear of early marriage and abuse. Through sponsorship, your child’s carers will be supported, domestic violence reduces, and family harmony improves.
What’s more, families are incentivised to keep their daughters in school for longer, rather than having to keep them at home to work or marrying them off.
How it works
As soon as you sign up to sponsor a family you will receive a welcome pack which includes a photo and profile. The pack explains exactly how sponsorship works and you can write to your sponsored child immediately if you’d like to.
When you sponsor a family, you get the chance to build up a friendship with them and become like extended family.
You will receive:
- A photo of your sponsored child and their caregiver
- A profile of your sponsored child
- A handwritten letter from your sponsored child at least twice a year
- The opportunity to give a financial gift at Christmas – any received will be pooled to ensure every child receives a gift
- Once a year you will be sent a recent photo so you can see how your sponsored child is growing and developing with your support
Your one-to-one relationship with your sponsored family in Uganda means you will see first-hand how your donation makes a difference. If you’d like to, you can even fly out to Uganda and visit them.
For less than 70p a day you’ll help to transform the life of a family in Uganda, and the lives of people around them. The ripple effects of your kindness will be felt for many years to come.
OUR PROMISE TO YOU: Sponsoring a family through our local staff means we know what problems your sponsored family faces and what help they need. We aim to achieve as much as possible with every penny you give us.
Frequently asked questions
Contact usHow does sponsorship work?
As a child sponsor, you’ll have a unique connection with a child and their family. But to ensure that your donation is spent as effectively as possible, child sponsorship funds are split between helping your sponsored child go to school, and the caregiver gaining skills to improve their income. We will train the caregiver in a number of stills including conservation farming, business, health and hygiene to name but a few. We also aim to leave a community with clean water, and a mentoring programme for school children.
How does Gift Aid benefit Amigos?
Gift Aid is a great government scheme that allows charities to reclaim tax on donations made by UK taxpayers, which means your donations will be worth 25% more to Amigos at no extra cost to you. If you Gift Aid your donations we can claim back from the government 25p for every £1 you donate, boosting the value of the donation by a quarter.
How much does sponsorship cost?
Sponsorship costs a minimum of £20 a month. 91% of this money is spent directly in Uganda. The remaining 9% is spend on UK costs i.e postage, printing, IT and office supplies. Your ‘giftaid’ is used to help with running costs.
Do children ever leave the sponsorship programme early?
This can happen, but it’s rare. Sometimes, for example, a caregiver dies, leaving another family member to look after the child. This means the child may move to a different district that Amigos doesn’t operate in, but we will still do our best to support the child as much as possible. Our hope is that a child/family is sponsored for the duration of the programme (around three years), but rest assured we will contact you as soon as we receive news of a change in circumstances.