Child Sponsorship is a program where a sponsor supports a child in his/her education including fees, stationery and other academic requirements. Sponsorship is an incredibly powerful way to help one poor child become healthy, well-educated, and empowered. Sponsorship is an absolute act of good Karma, where you generate opportunity for a deprived child, chance for an abandoned child to rise for a better furture. Together, we make a permanent difference in the life of a child, one at a time.

Why Sponsorship?

As an underdeveloped country, there are many children and families living in rural areas of Nepal for whom it is a struggle even to make the ends meet. Education for such people is an asset which is almost unattainable due to poverty and unavailability of resources. We, as a foundatioin work toward better society in all social aspects, and education of children is one of the core. KFN believes education to children is a single solution for poverty, inequality, unawareness and isolation from the world. This program, that we named “Sponsor a Child Project”, is unique in its function considering the fact it is one of its kinds, and is based on complete transparency and noble functioning.

Your sponsorship will directly enable children to take advantage of alternative opportunities and break the cycle of oppression. Sponsoring a child from Nepal is a rewarding and heart-full experience. The sponsorship gives each child the chance to get the maximum level of school education that is available in Nepal. This gives them a better grounding in English and the main subjects required for college and further education. It is a real chance to make their future brighter.

When you sponsor a child you’ll get information on personal stories, photos and more via mail. We promote personal contact between sponsor and child, and then your child will send you a letters.

You can send email, photos, gifts or packages, and even visit time to time.

You can sponsor a child based on their need or your ability and willingness to pay. In nutshell, we have catergorized sponsorship depending upon the financial resposibility taken by the sponsor.

You can sponsor a child to educate in government/community school. Annual school sponsorship pays for tuition, uniforms, food (at school) and school supplies for a child to attend Nepali medium school where a child is originally living. The children receiving such sponsorship comes from a very indigent family who have financial constraint even for daily food supplies or to attend other basic needs at family. Sometimes, these students are deprived of attending school because of inability to pay fees or manage school uniforms or stationeries. The cost per child is €30 per month.

You can sponsor a child to educate in private English Medium Boarding schools which academically considered to be qualified and meet the education quality.

Inside this sponsorship too, you can choose

1. To pay for only school fees, stationeries or school supplies OR
2. You can sponsorship the hostel fee too which includes the fooding and lodging of a child to attend boarding school including the school fees, stationeries or school supplies.

Annual boarding school sponsorships pay for a safe living environment with private school tuition, extracurricular activities (music, theater, karate, yoga), uniforms, school supplies, food, and medical care for one child. If a family lives nearby a boarding school and have capability to feed children, sponsorship type I is suitable. However, some of our children cannot live at home due to extreme poverty, loss of family members, and/or lack of a healthy home situation. In such case, the Sponsorship type II is suitable and preferred to make good mental health and quality education. The cost per child is € 70 per month.

After choosing the child you want to sponsor, you’ll receive a sponsorship thank you package. The package introduces you to the boy or girl you’ve chosen, tells you more about them, and shows how your gift will make a huge difference in their life.

Our child sponsors develop a strong, reciprocal relationship with their sponsored children half a world away. Many of our child sponsors travel with us to Nepal to meet their child after having corresponded, understanding their particular child’s needs and challenges.
As the year goes on, you’ll get:

• Updates twice a year on how your child is doing
• Handmade Christmas cards from your child, with gift requests
• Video updates once a year sent to your email
• The chance to write letters with your child*

What happens to the money?
The below distribution of money is an estimated average cost for a child's yearly expenses. There is possibility for changes in cost for each child depending upon the needs and other circumstances of a child.

1. Clothing (13%) | Every child gets new school clothes once a year
2. School supplies (15%) | Bag, stationery, pad or exercise book, school books
3. School fees (13%) | As required, these do not occur at every school
4. Diet (30%) | Healthy nutrition, snacks for the sometimes very long way to school
5. Development (12%) | Strengthen the environment and the village community, develop sustainable solutions
6. Coaching & PM * (12%) | Strengthen the environment, develop sustainable solutions, manage projects
7. Buffer (5%) | React to emergencies, compensate for fluctuations in exchange rates
* PM = project management, includes the payment of our project partner on site for coordination, communication, support and coaching of the foster parents as well as development of the village communities