CNCF CHILD SPONSORSHIP

CNCF’s Child Sponsorship Programme provides financial assistance in the form of monthly sponsorship amounts given to families experiencing significant disadvantages. The financial support covers the cost of a child’s education ensuring they remain in school and other costs including food, medicine and living expenses for the child and/or their family.

Every child on the programme is also provided with CNCF Psychological support, life skills training and benefits from additional opportunities through other CNCF programmes. Child sponsorship does not just provide a child living in poverty with the opportunities to thrive, it helps them to break the generational cycle of poverty for themselves, their family and future generations.

Since 1989, the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation has been dedicated to serving the physical, medical, educational, and emotional needs of vulnerable children. CNCF is one of the longest serving, most established and well-respected foreign NGOs in both of the countries it operates. With over 34 years of grassroots experience, since inception CNCF has directly assisted over 900,000 children living in poverty and benefited the lives of well over one million people altogether.

The success of CNCF’s humanitarian work is evidenced by the children, many now young people and adults, who have gone from extreme vulnerability to being able to reach their full potential and lead positive lives they have been empowered to choose for themselves. Click here to learn more about us.

Children who are accepted onto the program are:

• Between the ages of 6 and 16 years old (children over 16 will be considered if they are
  continuing with further/higher education or are still in extreme financial difficulty)
• Must be enrolled in school (or want to be enrolled in school)
• Must demonstrate a positive attitude towards learning
• From families who struggle to afford basic living necessities and their child’s education

It’s easy! You can sign up to become a CNCF child sponsor online at www.cncf.org/sponsor-a-child or by contacting a member of the team at childsponsorship@cncf.org. Whether you sponsor a child in Mongolia or Vietnam, our dedicated team will ensure any of your questions are answered.

We are extremely grateful to each and every one of our sponsors, especially during times of further challenges for the vulnerable children and families we serve, most of whom rely on already meager incomes. Child Sponsorship not only ensures children remain in education, despite the brutal financial impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it also supports the child’s family through the crisis.

Our team works closely to support all beneficiaries on the Child Sponsorship Programme through regular contact and a CNCF Emergency 24 hotline. Depending on the individual circumstance of the child’s family, additional financial, educational, or nutritional support continues to be provided through CNCF’s Emergency Relief Fund. For more information on CNCF’s COVID-19 Emergency Relief support, view the report here.

With decades of serving children and families in need, new and repeat sponsors tell us how much they value the experience of watching their sponsored child grow up, seeing how this makes a real and lasting impact on their child’s life. Should their own financial circumstances allow, CNCF encourages every sponsor to commit to their child until the end of their child’s individual educational cycle, this ensures the greatest impact on the child’s future and unique bond with you.

We understand your circumstances may change and that’s why you could decide to cancel your sponsorship. In this case, CNCF will work to secure a new sponsor for your child to ensure they may remain on the program. Please contact the team at childsponsorship@cncf.org if you wish to discuss your options or cancel your sponsorship.

We provide many flexible payment options to help you start your sponsorship journey. Should you wish to pay via bank transfer, please email us at childsponsorship@cncf.org with your Name and Residing Country so our team can assist you with next steps.

Sponsors are very welcome to write to their sponsored child! Letters provide sponsors an opportunity to hear how their support is helping their sponsored child. Letters also inspire the children, give them the opportunity to express themselves, and improve their literacy and communication skills. Above all, communication in this form allows both the sponsors and their sponsored child to strengthen their life-long bond.

Sponsors can forward their letters directly to CNCF Vietnam or CNCF Mongolia. The letters will be translated by our team and passed on to the children on the next sponsorship disbursement day. Vice versa, letters from the children will also be translated and sent directly to sponsors.

At CNCF, we strictly follow CNCF’s Child Protection Policy to ensure our children’s safety and well-being at all times. Therefore, we kindly ask you please do not post any information online that could be used to identify and locate your sponsored child such as their name, location, or community name.

However, we do encourage you to share your sponsorship experience with your family, friends, colleagues, and networks on social media. By spreading the word about your experience sponsoring a child through CNCF, you help us to find new sponsors for children living in dire circumstances and waiting to be matched with someone like you.

Our local CNCF team work closely with the children and their families in case they have urgent and specific needs. Only after a careful assessment and necessary follow-ups would we contact a sponsor to see if they would like to provide additional support to the families should they need. CNCF will ensure that the use of the extra funds are spent in accordance with the stated purpose such as treatment for an illness/injury, health insurance or extra educational classes. Confirmation of gifts and their delivery will be sent to the sponsor along with updates on how the extra funds have benefited the child/family.

We welcome the opportunity for our sponsors to learn what life in Vietnam and Mongolia is like and to meet with their sponsored child in person! Sponsors are required to inform CNCF of their intention to visit their child with a minimum of four-week notice, this gives us enough time to make the necessary arrangements. Visits can be conducted either at the CNCF Office or if the sponsor would like to visit their sponsored child at the family home, we can also arrange this, we just ask the sponsor to support CNCF with any traveling costs that might be incurred.