Child Sponsorship

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Sponsor a child like Faith now…

6-year-old Faith lives in rural Uganda with her parents, Esther and Samuel, who work as subsistence farmers. Her eyes are blinded by cloudy cataracts, but the daily struggle to earn enough for food leaves little for medical expenses.

When Faith was younger, she accidentally stepped too close to a small fire her mother had lit to burn rubbish. Her dress caught alight, yet Faith couldn’t see the danger. Blinded by cataracts, Faith didn’t scream or run away. She stood quietly at the edge of the field. She hadn’t noticed that her dress had caught fire until her mother rushed over to save her.

“I was in shock … I cried,” said Esther. “It could have ended so badly. I only looked away for a moment. And Faith couldn’t see the danger as she was blind!”

Faith’s parents noticed the tell-tale white spots in her eyes, and as her sight worsened, daily life became harder.

Once a bright and active child who loved singing and playing with friends, she can now no longer attend school. Her teachers have told her to return only once her sight is restored.

“Mama, I want to go to school,” she often pleads. But her parents simply cannot afford the surgery she needs, costing more than they could earn in a year.

But there is hope for Faith.

Thanks to generous people like you, her parents don’t need to worry so much about Faith’s future.

Through regular gifts, everything can change. Faith will be able to receive sight-saving cataract surgery and glasses if needed. Her parents could never afford to do this, but generosity from people like you makes impossible dreams come true. Faith will be able to catch up to the other children at school. And because of you, she will have a much brighter future.

This one child represents the many children you can help when you become a cbm child Sponsor. You will enjoy seeing the impact your generosity can have on the lives of children like Faith.

Become a cbm Child Sponsor today and help more vulnerable children, like Faith, with disabilities in the world’s poorest places.

How it works

As a cbm Child Sponsor, your gifts are working in the poorest countries, where up to 80% of children with a disability will die without help before their 5th birthday.

Our cbm Child Sponsorship works in three ways:

1. Finding: Children with a disability are often hidden away in shame. Your generosity helps to find them and bring them hope.

2. Life-changing Support: Children with disabilities often need urgent medical care or intensive rehabilitation. Your generosity helps provide much needed treatments to transform their lives.

3. Continuing Care: Once a child’s impairment is treated, we can’t send them back home alone. Your generosity helps break down the traditional fear of disability, so children are welcomed back into their families, schools and communities.

What is unique about cbm’s Child Sponsorship?

It focuses on children with a disability. You are helping children who can’t see or walk or hear. Children that are often hidden away out of shame and superstition. Schools often turn away children with disabilities. Families slide further into poverty, because caring for children with disabilities leaves less time and energy to make a living.

Thanks to cbm Child Sponsors these children, rejected because of their disability, are welcomed into school and their community. You regular gifts can help transform the lives of children with disabilities, forever.

One featured child each year represents all the children being helped in the programme. We will take you on a journey with a representative child. This sponsorship is less complex and less expensive to administer; therefore more of your money is invested in improving children’s lives.

What does your sponsorship cover?

You will be helping children with many types of disabilities, in the deepest poverty on Earth. Blind eyes, seeing. Weak ankles and bent legs, made strong and straight. Missing limbs, replaced with prosthetics. Cleft palate, restored.

Please will you prayerfully consider becoming a cbm Child Sponsor today. You can take great joy in the wonderful things you can do for children like Faith.

Your generosity as a cbm Child Sponsor reflects God’s love by helping children with disabilities receive the vital support they need to live their lives and achieve their full potential. Thank you for caring.