[keepnthafaith]

Hi all

I am thinking about sponsoring a child, trying to teach the kids there are people who are very less fortunate than them and that you should help these people. The older 2 are only 5 & 3 so i thought sponsoring a child around their age may make them understand a little more.

I was just wondering if anyone has done this before? I've heard stories about the money not actually going to the children/families, does anyone know if this is actually true?

[Apageintime]

how about something like Kiva.org?
It's micro loans where you choose to sponsor a project, who them pay the loan back, and you can re-invest the money in something else?

[keepnthafaith]

have never heard of it! i will check it out! thank you.

[FrogIsAFrogIsAFr...]

We sponsor a little boy, and have corresponded for several years. I *guess* the support gets to E and his family, but it's not the amount we give. I think it goes towards the community.

We also use Kiva; let the kids select the business snd away you go, with as little as $20. Just browsing the website is learning experience.

This post has been edited by FrogIsAFrogIsAFrog: 03/10/2012, 02:29 PM

[katpaws]

You could sponsor an Australian child - the Smith Family has a program.

You can even sponsor an Australian adult in higher education.

[Sassy Girl]

Like Katpaws I was also going to suggest sponsoring an Australian child.

[keepnthafaith]

i didnt even know you could sponsor an Australian child!!! going to look into both kiva and an australian child.

Thanks!

[sandgropergirl]

The Smith Family great. The system means all your donations go to the child. Corporate sponsors pay for the admin

[katpaws]

Another idea is the Oxfam gift for disadvantaged villages ie sheep etc. As you can get different things, it may engage the children more.

We do a World Vision child, but we are aware of the costs involved with admin and advertising etc. We asked World Vision to stop sending us advertising material etc because it was waste of money (in our opinion). However, we are ok with the sponsorship.

[giggleandhoot]

We are going to do this...we'll put one under our 'work' will do one child and 'us' another. We're going to sponsor a watoto baby and watoto child. You can google watoto if you like. We had 2 of the watoto kids stay at our house and fell in love with them and the whole watoto group and concept.