Child Sponsorship Scheme

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25th April 1997

ITS ABOUT GIVING CHILDREN HOPE FOR THE FUTURE

The Help A Poor Child Sponsorship Scheme was launched in 1997 and children are currently being sponsored in Goa, Madras and Calcutta. The HAPC Centres provide strongly recommended Child Assessment details of those that are desperately in need of sponsorship.

Child Sponsors have brought permanent improvement into the lives of sponsored children and to most people in this country it is an affordable amount of 33 pence per day or £2.31 per week or £10 a month. This provides shelter, food, clean water, basic medical care, education, training and clothing.

Monthly Direct Debits are credited to the Child Sponsorship Account and this money is transferred to the various Centres at regular intervals.

Sponsors are in direct correspondence with the child and thereby receive a progress report directly from the child as well as in addition an annual report from the Centre. Existing Child Sponsors have been overcome with emotion at letters of gratitude received and are aware of the effects of the sponsorship agreement they have entered into.

Sponsoring does not commit one to any fixed period. Obviously from anadministrative point of view ideally a commitment for a year and over would be preferred but should circumstances change at any time for the sponsor, they have the option to withdraw, whereupon another sponsor would be found.

We in London hold a large database of children in urgent need of sponsorship. Each and every case depicts extreme poverty which means more than having no money. Real poverty means having no choices and no chance to a decent life. It may mean having no medicines, doctors or hospitals when you become ill. For these children poverty is a daily reality.

ALL CHILDREN DESERVE A CHANCE TO MAKE THE BEST OF THEMSELVES AND THEIR LIVES. PLEASE SPONSOR A CHILD – a little help gives a lot of hope.

Norma Menezes-Rahim – Marketing Co-ordinator