Food for the Hungry/UK
Registered Charity 328273

Child Sponsorship

Introduction

Today's children are tomorrow's parents and leaders. Sponsoring a child gives you the opportunity to be truly involved in the development of a community. Child Sponsorship through FHI’s Child Development Programme (CDP) is child-focussed community development.

The goal of CDP is that

• The children become the family, church and leaders that God intends for their generation
• The children develop and begin serving their families and one another
• The churches, leaders and families are better equipped to meet the development needs of their children

Through the Vision of a Community, the community and its people will be progressing towards their God-Given potential, by:

• Being equipped to progress beyond meeting their basic needs, and
• Having a growing group of Christians:
  • Loving God and one another
  • Manifesting the fruit of the Spirit
  • Reaching out to serve others

Read more about this exciting vision, and how it can be applied to help transform communities by clicking here

In practice, this is achieved by

• Having workers in the community who minister like Jesus to the children and their families
• Involving children (and adults) in small groups where they learn and grow
• Workers sharing Christ and the Biblical worldview that will truly transform lives
• Equipping churches to reach out, leaders to solve problems and family members to care for each other
• Supported by praying, knowledgeable sponsors

Child sponsorship provides a stability of income over several years to the community, which makes real community development a possibility. Child sponsorship helps to break the cycle of poverty, despair and hopelessness by nurturing the child within a developing community. The child's basic physical needs are assured, including nutrition, education, medical care and clothing, together with the opportunity to know God. But the emphasis is always on the wholistic development of the community - so that they grow in their capacity to nurture their children. Community development ensures that the children grow up in a community with safe drinking water, reliable food production and income generation schemes for future employment and security. Priority is given to community ownership of such schemes.

Sponsoring children can make a real, long-term difference - one person at a time.

Between 1996 and 2002, Food for the Hungry UK supported the FHI/Uganda Child Development Programme in Katale village, near Kampala, Uganda. FHI involvement in this community over the 7 years has led to a completely new outlook for its people. Indeed, we feel that FHI's Vision of a Community has been achieved here. Read a full report here

Sponsorship is also helping Makhai in Uganda to advance towards their God-given potential. We feel that we now have a good core of sponsors and the community is making great progress. We are therefore no longer seeking new sponsors for this community, because new sponsors will probably not have a very long period of sponsorship before we bring the work to a close there and let the community continue its development on its own.

However, new UK sponsors are invited for children in Gikomero, Rwanda, where the needs are truly very great. Sponsorship of a child costs just £16 per month. Download a flyer from here

Contact me for a form, or download one from here.

Sponsoring a child through FHI is bringing blessing to the sponsor, as well as the child. Just as we pray for our own children, sponsors are encouraged to pray for their sponsored child, and God will always work through this.