Sponsoring -
changing lives

Yes!

We suggest you travel with us and meet the families, or we can help you choose.  Just contact us and we will be more than happy to discuss the best options for you.

Yes!

Just contact us and we will be more than happy to discuss the best options for you.

Use the donate button here, enter your friend’s name or the name of the student in the comments section. 100% of your donation will go where you directed it.

We’ll confirm directed donation via email.

No.

We’ll be happy to search for a child for you. We test them, have them medically evaluated and provide as much background about the family as possible.

It is really special, when you do pick your own kid.

No.

We require an interview process. Sponsorship is a multi-year investment, starting at whatever age you choose your child. (Child must be at least 4th grade and have a proven need and work ethic).

We’re happy to have you support the program or a specific child. All donations help.

Sponsoring a child is special. We need to make sure everyone fully understands the commitment.

We don’t have any markup. What the schooling and the boarding costs are what we ask you to sponsor.

Current school fees for an Internally Accredited (Cambridge Curriculum), English Medium Primary School are running around $2000-$3500 USD/year, depending on grade.  Boarding if required, is additional.

Yes! 100%

We are an all volunteer organization.

All program overhead is covered by a separate means.

No.

Our program runs on trust.

We have had sponsors that have experienced a life altering event. In all cases we have managed to find another sponsor. These are very rare events.

Please understand, it’s not easy to find a sponsor. Sometimes there’s no help for it. That’s why we screen and talk to all sponsors carefully.

eMail, WhatsApp, Zoom, Skype, visit. Your call.

If your child doesn’t speak English yet, one of other kids will translate for you.

Communicate as much or as little as you want. Most of our sponsors love talking and working with the kids.

Climb for a Child is a very special family.

It’s a relationship. Climb for a Child is a family. By sponsoring, you become a part of it. We’ll try to accommodate anything you’d like.

We will absolutely send out important updates a few times a year. Most sponsors communicate via eMail and WhatsApp regularly. We encourage communication and mentor ship.

All kids get sick. We try to get the kids to doctors and clinics that westerners use.

We personally review all treatments and medicines, using these occasions as learning moments.

The cost for medicine in Eastern Africa is a fraction of the cost here. We keep an emergency fund on hand for just such occasions.

So far, the costs have been trivial and we haven’t had to seek any additional funding.

We talk to you about it. It’s your sponsored child and your choice.

We highly recommend that if we can’t turn them around, we cut them loose.

It has happened. We told our sponsors when we started that personally, it would be a terrible day for us, you and the child. It would be a good day for the program and all the other kids. This is not a hand out program. We are strictly hand up, earn your way. It’s the only true way to success and not entitlement.

So far, all sponsors have chosen another child. All of whom are currently successful.

We will do our best, but we can’t properly support learning disabled. We just don’t have the proper resources.

We can put you in touch with someone that might be able to help. We’ll be happy to help with that child through that option, should you choose to do so.  We would tell you what they charge and that would be the sponsorship cost. Any management by us is free.