Sponsoring a child is the most powerful way you can fight poverty. You can sponsor a child with OGF today from as little as £10 per month. It’s easy to do, just fill in our on-line application form and let us know how you want to pay. Alternatively you can download a form and pop it in the post to us.

A child is waiting for someone and this someone is you.

Sponsoring a child through Open Gate Foundation helps to ensure that we can meet the learning and care needs of that child. Whilst this varies for children in different projects we aim to ensure that they can progress with their education, are well looked after in a safe, healthy environment and enjoy at least one nutritious meal each day.

Open Gate Foundation integrates child sponsorship funds into our work at partner projects. We look at the project as a ‘big picture’ so your sponsorship may support more than one child, or part of the needs of a child.  We find this to be the most effective way of ensuring maximum benefit to the individual children who are sponsored. This also ensures that individual children are not dropped from the project if sponsorship ceases or is interrupted

Child Sponsorship Levels

Open Gate Foundation  Kenya is adding new Children every month to our Child Sponsorship Program, and to support that growth we need more Sponsors LIKE YOU.

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Grade School Students – $25.00 a month or $300.00 a year

Will help a grade school student go through school not having to worry about not having food, water, or school supplies

High School Students – $30.00 a month or $360.00 a year

Will help a high school student go through high school with a greater chance at college, and a better career

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School fees are paid directly to the school account for each child. School uniforms, school supplies, and food are either picked up at the Open Gate Foundation Kenya office or delivered personally.  This program continues to help hundreds of children out of the cycle of poverty and despair. The child sponsor program disbursements are managed through the  Meru Kenya office.

How Does Child Sponsorship Work?

1) The person who desires to sponsor a child (or children) fills out an application form either on the website or on paper and sends it to Open Gate Foundation Kenya.
2) The Open Gate Foundation Team will connect the Sponsor with a child in need based on the application, and the Sponsor will receive a  picture and instructions in the mail.
3) Once the Foundation Kenya Team receives the first payment, the processing begins, which includes…

– visiting the child, notifying them of their sponsorship, and verifying their needs

– visiting the child’s home and assessing needs (are the care-givers willing to encourage the child to do their homework,  make sure the child is clean, safe, and reports daily to school)

– visiting the child’s school and assessing their progress (options for the child to attend a better school are looked at – in   some cases, a boarding school may be a better option)

– The entire process may take up to three months, but the child’s needs are being met as this takes place

– Photographs and letters are taken each year, and videos will be loaded on the website for the Sponsor to see  the child’s progress. Sponsors are also encouraged to write letters.
– Most Sponsors commit to support their child through high school. Some Sponsors have even wanted to help with college expenses as well after seeing the child grow up and do well.

–  Sponsors will receive a renewal letter each year with mailing labels for support payments, as well as their giving statement for   the year for tax purposes.

NOTE: In the event that a sponsor is no longer able to sponsor their child, Open Gate Foundation Kenya needs to be notified as soon as possible. The Foundation Team works hard to find a new sponsor for the child quickly.

 

If you have a heart to help the poorest and most vulnerable in Kenya, then we invite you to learn more about our work and join us as we offer life, opportunity and hope to the children in need.