What is child sponsorship?

Child sponsorship is a unique kind of program that connects children in need with compassionate people like you! Becoming a sponsor means giving children the chance to grow up healthy, educated and safe – forever changing their life and future. You just might find that it changes you, too.
When you become a sponsor, Higher Vida does not give your donation directly to your sponsored child, rather we combine your monthly contribution with the support of other sponsors to help aid projects in your sponsored child’s community – creating a “ripple effect” of positive change throughout the entire sponsorship community.

Individual child sponsorship

gives you the opportunity to develop a one-on-one relationship with your sponsored child, while your monthly support benefits all the children in your child’s community as well. Individual child sponsors have the opportunity to communicate with their sponsored child via email or postal mail.

Lifeline Sponsorship

is a program where your contributed monthly support is directed to a sponsorship community and you receive updates on one of the children who is benefiting. Lifeline sponsorship differs from individual child sponsorship in that more than one sponsor may be assigned to the same child and you do not correspond directly with that child. Because this sponsorship type reduces operational costs, more of your monthly contribution can be used to support sponsorship programs. This is a great option if you’re interested in learning how an individual child benefits from your sponsorship, but you aren’t able to or interested in corresponding with a child.

Program sponsorship

drives your contribution of monthly support to our programs in a specific sponsorship country. Program sponsors receive updates and success stories on our overall results in the country, but have no individual child communication or updates. This is a great option if you’re interested in supporting sponsorship programs, but you aren’t interested in receiving individual child updates or writing to a child.