Child Sponsorship

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Sponsor a child like Rita now…

7-year-old Rita’s eyes are clouded with cataracts. She is much-loved by her family, especially her twin sister Rachel.

Rita lives in rural Uganda with her parents, Denis and Sarah, who work as peasant farmers. Their daily struggles to provide food and make ends meet mean there’s little left for medical expenses. Rita’s grandmother was the first to notice her eyes were different from her twin sister Rachel’s. Over time, Rita’s vision worsened, and by age six, she was diagnosed with bilateral cataracts. Despite seeking help at a hospital and later an eye health camp, her family simply couldn’t afford further treatment.

Rita’s condition affects her ability to interact with other children and keeps her from fully participating in school. Though her twin sister Rachel guides her, Rita is falling behind in her studies. She dreams of playing with the other children, but her blinding cataracts make it impossible.

Her father, Denis, expressed their struggles: “I did not know where or when to go because I had no money for food, transportation, and medical fees.”.

But there is hope for Rita.

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

Through your regular gifts, everything can change. Rita will be able to receive sight-saving cataract surgery and glasses if needed. Her parents could never afford to do this, but your generosity make impossible dreams come true. Rita 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 Rita.

Become a cbm Child Sponsor today and help more vulnerable children, like Rita, 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 improve their lives 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?

Your sponsorship covers the cost of surgery and rehabilitation for one child. You are investing in sight-saving, leg-straightening, life-changing work. You help families and communities lift themselves out of poverty, by providing job training, business coaching and small loans.

You can take great joy in the wonderful things you can do for children like Rita.

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.