Sponsor A Child
Every day children around the world are born into poverty. The communities they are born into are often neglected, with little aid or few resources to end the cycle of poverty. You can directly support a child in the neglected communities we serve, to provide them with basic needs and the opportunity to overcome poverty.
As we get closer to opening the doors to our school in Awasi, we will add profiles of children who need sponsored. As a Child Sponsor, you will see firsthand the impact you make in the world. You will be able to communicate with your child, hear their stories, and walk alongside them as they grow. Each child profile is unique – but your support will provide them with some of the following basic needs: food, clean water, education, health care, and/or safety & security.
Child Sponsorship not only helps the child, but the entire community. Your support helps create jobs, gives the adults in the community a sense of purpose, responsibility and pride. Helping the youth grow strengthens the entire community.
Please consider sponsoring a future child now. This allows us to plan the number of students we are able to accept when we open our doors. You will be sent your child profile once he/she is enrolled. The tentative date to open our school is January 2024. Our original date to open the school has been altered due to the impact of COVID. We are hopeful that as Kenya and the US adapt to the current pandemic, we will be able to meet our January 2024 goal! Help us make this possible!
What does my sponsored child get?
- Access to basic needs such as food, clean water, education and health care
- Encouragement – many of our sponsored children are orphaned. Your commitment gives them a sense of security, love, and self worth as they grow
- Safety & security with trained staff members to oversee each child’s needs, especially monitor for signs of neglect, abuse, hunger, and medical issues
- The opportunity to be a positive change in their community
What do I get as a Sponsor?
- Letters, cards, and videos from your sponsored child
- Annual progress report about your child and their community
- Life changing opportunity to visit your sponsored child
- Lasting relationship that continues after your sponsorship ends
Top Sponsorship FAQs
Does my $50 go directly to my child's family?
Your sponsorship is connected to one specific child within our programs. Sponsorship funds are pooled together to cover all the needs of the sponsored children in your child’s community, to ensure your sponsored child will benefit as we work on sustainable, long-term community development and improvement.
How long is my sponsorship commitment?
Sponsoring a child is an ongoing commitment to help your specific child and their community. Sponsorships that are focused on education will last typically for 8 years as the child completes primary school. You will have the opportunity to continue sponsoring your child as they continue on to secondary school and college, or sponsor another child as they join our program. Many sponsors form a tight relationship with their sponsored children, and form life-long relationships.
What if I need to cancel my sponsorship?
We understand life can be unpredictable and you may have to make changes to your sponsorship commitment. Your child relies on you for your monthly support so we ask that you contact us directly prior to cancelling your sponsorship so we can ensure your child will be taken care of if you are unable to continue.
For questions or changes to your Child Sponsorship please email childsponsor@lincworldwide.org
Am I the only sponsor for this child?
You are connected to your specific child. We allocate all sponsorship donations to benefit your child’s community to ensure he or she is receiving the best opportunities to not only survive, but thrive. If you are unable to commit to the entire annual sponsorship, another individual, such as your family and friends, can join you to cover the other half of your child’s sponsorship fees.
Can I communicate with my sponsored child?
Absolutely! We love to bring letters, cards and small gifts from our sponsors to their children when our LINC Team travels to their community. Each community’s Program Director serves as a channel for our sponsors and children to communicate to each other.
The Impact of Child Sponsorship
Meet Marylyne Onyango – our dear friend at Linc Worldwide and key project coordinator of our Awasi School Project. We met Marylyne through our Kenyan liaison, Dr. Bonyo with Bonyo’s Kenya Mission in 2015. She’s incredibly hard working, poised, and driven. Marylyne’s professionalism and kindness are immediately noticeable upon meeting her. Hearing her story shows the profound impact child sponsorship has, not only on one child’s life, but the lives of thousands. The ripple effect is phenomenal.
“My name is Marylyne Aluoch Onyango. I am 28 years old and a graduate of Maseno University class of 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science. I can proudly say that I am who I am today because of Benson Bonyo’s Kenya Mission (BKM).
I lost my dad and mum when I was still young and was left in the hands of my mum’s sister; Seraphine Odongo, who took me and the rest of my siblings as hers and did her best to educate all of us. On reaching form 3 (grade 12), economic times became harder and paying for my high school boarding school fee was becoming harder and harder. I stayed home for the better part of the first semester of form 3 and a part of me was afraid that I may have to drop out of school. I could not continue with my classes at Ahero Girls High School until my term 1 fees were cleared.
It is around this time that Bonyo’s Kenya Mission came to my rescue. The administrator, Mr. Phillip K’ Osambo found me and enrolled me into the program. It is from then that I never lacked school fees and rejoined school in term 2. BKM provided for my fees and visited me in school from time to time to check on my well being at school. The visitations brought a warm loving feeling, with every visit I felt I had a second family.
On completion of high school, I was happy to be among the shortlisted to join Maseno University, a public university in Kisumu West Constituency, to pursue a bachelors degree in Actuarial Science. It’s just amazing that BKM continues their support until I cleared my 4 years in school. I am forever grateful to BKM and Dr. Bonyo for the support.
I dedicated my school breaks and volunteered as a translator at the medical clinic during BKM’s volunteer trips in July and December. I also worked with George Otieno and other staff in managing the child sponsorship program, running the hospital and other activities such as orphan day celebrations, etc.
Today, I am happy that I am working at the hospital in Masara village; Kisumu, Kenya full time. As I witness most of the kids who were stuck like me get a chance to attend school to completion.”
Marylyne is currently the hospital administrator at Mama Pilista Memorial Medical Centre, which was started by Bonyo’s Kenya Mission. She helps run their child sponsorship program, is in the process of obtaining certified Public accountant-Kenya (CPA-K), and oversees our Awasi School Project. Her child sponsorship provided her with the necessary support and education to overcome her cycle of poverty, impact the lives of the thousands of patients seen at the medical center, and make it possible for our Awasi School Project to succeed. Our goal is to give our future student’s the same opportunity to reach their full potential, and in turn, strengthen their community, just like Marylyne. Your decision to sponsor a child will begin the ripple effect which will impact thousands of lives for years to come.