This type of sponsorship is designed to ensure the maximum possible gets to the community, as administration costs are minimized, and to offer sponsors the flexibility to give as they feel able and wish to.
Sponsoring Puerto Camacho involves giving a monthly amount of your choosing to help make transformation in Puerto Camacho a reality. Sponsors are not committed to a specific length of time and can stop sponsorship at any point.
The cost to provide the minimum interventions that will make an impact in Puerto Camacho, as described in The Project is £25,000 a year. Any funds over this amount will enable us to make a greater impact through extending our interventions beyond the minimum. Therefore every amount given is valued and will contribute to overcoming poverty for good.
The following are examples of what your monthly support could provide to help you decide your sponsorship amount:
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£15 supports one child in our programme; unlocking potential for a brighter future
- £25 a month funds funding for five local leaders
- £50 enables us to work with ten families; identifying and overcoming causes of poverty through home visits
- £200 a month provides the salary of an FH staff member in Puerto Camacho
There are two ways of sponsoring; as an individual or part of a group. As a group, eg. a group of colleagues or church group, you can join together to collectively sponsor Puerto Camacho. Group members set individual standing orders to FH for the amount they would like to contribute to the group sponsorship to avoid one member having to collect and send monies.
Whether sponsoring as an individual or part of a group, each sponsor will receive regular updates to see how the community is developing, and where and how their support is making a difference. However, groups name an advocate to be the main contact for the group.
This project is only made possible by the generosity of donors who choose to walk with us financially.
All financial contributions made at any point during the programme go towards securing the long term future of Puerto Camacho. The FH project is only made possible by the generosity of donors who chose to walk with us in this way. There are two ways in which people can give to the project; a monthly amount of your choosing (community sponsorship) or a one off donation, meaning you are able give as you are able or would like, knowing that it will all make an impact in this community.
The cost to provide the minimum interventions that will make an impact in Puerto Camacho, as described in
The Project is £25,000 a year. However, any funds over this amount will enable us to make a greater impact through extending our interventions in areas such as developing microenterprises for income generation, expanding the church premises to have more room to facilitate more children in the programme, funding more children and families to be part of the programme, providing a programme for other age groups etc. Expanding to other neighbourhoods around Puerto Camacho will require the same amount again. We guarantee that every amount given will help overcome poverty for good.
Community Sponsorship
There are two ways of sponsoring; as an individual or part of a group:
Individual sponsorship-
Tangibly impact lives by giving a monthly amount of your choosing
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You receive regular updates to see how the community is developing, and see where and how
your support is making a difference
- You are not committed to a specific length of time and can stop sponsorship at any time
Group sponsorship
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As a group, eg. a group of colleagues or church group, you can join together to collectively
sponsor Puerto Camacho
- Group members set individual standing orders to FH for the amount they would like to contribute
to the group sponsorship
- Groups name an advocate to be the main contact, however each member receives the regular
updates to see how their support is making an impact
This type of sponsorship is designed to ensure the maximum possible gets to the community because as little as possible is needed for administration.
Examples of what your monthly support could provide:
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£15 supports one child in our programme; unlocking potential for a brighter future
- £25 a month funds funding for five local leaders
- £50 enables us to work with ten families; identifying and overcoming causes of poverty through home visits
- £200 a month provides the salary of an FH staff member in Puerto Camacho
To sponsor the community please click here
Please click here to download and print a version of our brochure and return the enclosed standing order form to the following address:
47 Burgess Wood Road South
Beaconsfield
Bucks
HP9 1EL
Alternatively please fill in your details below and we will send you the relevant sponsorship forms.
Thank you for choosing to partner with us to support Puerto Camacho! We will
send you a welcome pack and the relevant standing order forms to set up your
sponsorship forms shortly.
Thank you!
Click here to return to the support now page
Supporters are not committed to any time length and can stop sponsorship support
at any time. Contributions made at any point during the programme all go towards
securing the long term future of this community. Although we ask that individual
sponsors consider a minimum of £20 a month, and groups £50, no amount is too
small. There is also no limit to the monthly sponsorship amount, enabling
sponsors to give as they are able to and as they choose. Every penny given will
go towards bettering the Puerto Camacho community and supporting them out of
poverty. This type of sponsorship is designed to ensure the maximum possible
gets to the community and as little as possible is needed for administration.
The following are examples of what your support could provide:
- Approximately £7 a month supports us to work with one child
- Approximately £20 a month enables us to train seven local leaders
- Approximately £30 a month enables us to work with one family
- Approximately £185 provides the salary of an FH staff member in Puerto
Camacho for a month
There isn’t a set price tag for the development of a community. In a poverty
situation, there are multiple areas of need. The resources to meet these needs
are limited. The minimum required per year to enable the project to run is
£25,000, however with increased funding we will be better able to meet these
needs. This is why FH Bolivia’s actions are focused on what is called the
“irreducible minimum”:
- Needs which are a priority from a wholistic viewpoint (the needs that most
restrict the development of the children)
- Actions that with a smaller investment can create an important and
perceptible impact
- Actions where the individual child and their environment (family, community,
government) are impacted at the same time
The “irreducible minimum” is principally funded by sponsorship funds and
“irreducible minimum” actions are a part of what is needed to achieve the
complete development of a community and its children (all of their needs).
Sponsorship funds can potentially be multiplied by up to 5 times the
original amount through the leveraging of external sources, such as local
government funding. This means that for a sponsor giving, for example, £20 a
month, FH Bolivia could potentially leverage an extra £100 a month for the
project. All of the funds received would directly benefit Puerto Camacho and
work together to achieve the complete development of the community.
Pray
Prayer is the foundation of this project and seeing really change in the lives of those we serve. Addressing poverty and how to bring about change is no easy task. The issues within the realm of poverty are as complicated and diverse as people themselves. Therefore there isn’t a ‘one size fits all’ solution.
As we walk with the community towards change, obstacles and issues to be resolved will inevitably arise. Apart from needing the financial support to be able to work with the community towards a better future, we also need wisdom, sensitivity, patience and humility to implement a programme which addresses the unique needs of the community, and to appropriately deal with their specific needs as they arise.
This wouldn’t be possible without the God’s guidance through continued prayer. We want to be used in His plans for the people of Puerto Camacho; working on God ideas rather than good ideas. The difference being real lasting change in those we seek to serve, rather than well intentioned but futile efforts.
Please pray for the community of Puerto Camacho, and that we may be instruments of change attuned to God’s guiding. The ‘updates and contact’ section of the website provides the latest information from the community.
Visit
If, as an individual or group, you are interested in coming to see and serve the
community, we would love to hear from you. Please refer to the ‘contact us’
section.
