sponsor

Child sponsorship programs offer organisations like Vision Africa the potential for regular funding which contributes to the education or welfare of children. It sounds like such an obvious statement but doesn’t quite express the vital work that these contributions make to projects and to children and their families.

At Vision Africa, we have sponsorship programs for a variety of different projects. Those of you who read our recent update “Baby Talk” might recall that in our abandoned baby unit we have a “sponsor a cot” program.

In November 2007, the opening ceremony was held for the St. Andrews Baby Unit in the grounds of Kandara Children’s Home in a rural part of Central Province, Kenya. As a volunteer at the home at that time, I was asked to write a poem for some of the children to recite at the event. I can’t remember all of it but it started....

“Abandoned at birth, left in despair...no-one to love them, no-one to care”