The time to act is now. Shockingly, children all over the world are denied fundamental human rights every day, living without access to clean water, education, food, health care and gender equality.
You can help change this and create a meaningful one-to-one connection by sponsoring a child. When you sponsor with Plan International Canada, you help children access education, proper nutrition, health care and clean water, helping the whole community thrive, enabling children to take back their rights and stand in their power.
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Sponsor a child and help transform their community
Water & Sanitation
Access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene are critical for children's survival, development, and well-being. Some girls walk up to 48km daily to fetch clean water.
Your sponsorship will help improve community access to safe drinking water and sanitary facilities.
Education
Even though education is a fundamental right, over 263 million children cannot attend school.
You can help ensure that more children – especially girls – have improved access to quality education by sponsoring a child.
Food Security
Global hunger rates are increasing at an unprecedented rate and millions of people are struggling to meet their most basic daily needs like feeding their families. Children, especially girls, are the first to go hungry impacting all aspects of their wellbeing.
When you sponsor a child, you will help communities build income sources and assets, assisting families to become more resilient and better able to cope in times of economic difficulty.
Child Protection
Though a fundamental breach of their human rights, violence against children is unfortunately widespread in communities around the world.
By sponsoring a child, you will help support targeted community programs addressing specific protection issues, like child marriage.
70%
of people experiencing food insecurity are girls and women.
18%
Only 18 percent of school children in low-income countries receive free or subsidized school meals.
783 million
As many as 783 million people are unsure of where their next meal is coming from.
Start of something special
When you sponsor a child, you’ll receive an information package about them and the community they live in plus photos of them and their family. You’ll also receive an introductory letter from your sponsored child, annual updates about them, their community and country so you can see first-hand how your donations are making an impact.
The power of your sponsorship
When you sponsor a child, you fund life-changing projects in your sponsored child’s community – projects that help children access their basic human rights.
Adequate nutrition
Malnutrition can stunt children's development and pull their focus away from education. With your support, Plan International Canada will teach sustainable farming techniques, support school meal programs, and provide food rations and vouchers in emergencies.
Water and sanitation
Girls often carry the burden of water collection which can mean travelling long distances every day, missing school and being exposed to risky situations along the way. Help girls, families and entire communities gain access to safe, clean water and proper sanitation.
Health care
Each year, around 9 million children die needlessly before they reach their fifth birthday from preventable and treatable illnesses. Together with our sponsors, Plan International Canada works to improve health care for mothers and children, so children have the healthiest start in life.
Education
When you sponsor a child, you help build new schools and work with communities to promote the importance of sending and keeping girls in school.
Family income
Child sponsors help support vocational skills training for youth. This strengthens girls’ economic independence, helping them gain employment and giving them greater decision-making power over their lives.
Child protection
We work to ensure that all children, especially girls, are registered at birth. Without birth registration, children can’t prove their legal age or claim protection under any legislation specifying a minimum age for marriage. Birth certificates also enable children to gain access to critical services and resources.
Help change a child's life.
Three reasons why you should sponsor a child.
Sponsorship benefits the sponsored child
“I was a very poor child in Colombia, but my Canadian sponsor showed me the world through her letters. Now I am 50, with an MBA and have traveled to 15 countries. Thank you Plan and my sponsor Miss Louise Miller.”
- Carlos Aparicio, MBA, Plan International Colombia Board Member and former sponsored child
Child sponsorship benefits the whole community
“I went to visit my sponsored child, Ruby in Ghana, Africa. The money from sponsors funds so many amazing projects that benefit both sponsored children and the children in their community. It makes more of a difference than you can even imagine.”
- Kaitlyn Strickland, Plan International Canada child sponsor
Sponsorship benefits YOU!
“When I visited my sponsored child, Sidonie it was rewarding to see the significant difference I've made in her life and in the community, especially in such a remote place!"
- Eileen Fernandes-Smith, Plan International Canada child sponsor
Still have questions? We can help!
How much does it cost to sponsor a child with Plan International Canada?
You can become a force for change in the lives of children and their communities for just over a dollar a day. That’s $42 per month.
How does Child Sponsorship work?
When a child is sponsored, it’s the beginning of an amazing journey that creates lasting change spanning generations. We call this the Plan Effect. Children and their communities lead the way by telling us about the positive changes they most want to see. Then we work together to make those transformations happen. This includes things like:
- Improving health centres
- Launching school meal programs
- Building clean water systems
- Helping families grow their savings so they can buy what they need most
Through sponsorship, we build deep connections in a child’s community. Those roots then become the foundation for even more positive change: Our existing relationships in communities can attract bigger opportunities, including large-scale education and health projects, funded by partners like the Government of Canada, that can reach thousands more children!
Do sponsorship contributions go directly to one child?
Your Child Sponsorship contributions help fund community improvements – so every child benefits. Our 85+ years of experience have taught us that the best way to create better opportunities for children is through improvements that benefit their entire community.
We work directly with children, families and communities to understand the positive changes they most want to see. Then we work together to make those changes happen. These might include:
- Improving health centres
- Launching school meal programs
- Building clean water systems