Sponsoring a child’s
schooling not only gives the poorest & most vulnerable children an
education, but also a good meal each day, health screening, and the chance to
escape the poverty trap.
The community selects which
families or children are most in need of sponsorship. IHA-UDP then pays the school fees, provides a
uniform, school materials, a free medical service, and 1 good meal a day; more
importantly, children are provided with a chance of life without poverty.
1,100 of the most vulnerable
children are currently sponsored across the whole programme, and Cred
specifically contributes funds to ensure that the most marginalised have access
to school: street-children, HIV orphans, special needs & disabled children,
and those from destitute families.
Children are supported
throughout their school lives: from high school they will either go on to a
vocational skills programme or prepare for university. The first two Cred-sponsored children
graduated from university in 2006!
If you donate to this
sponsorship scheme, you won’t be able to enter into correspondence with
individual children. On principle, we
feel that this can cause more problems than it solves. We believe that children should have the
right to an education without being beholden to foreign donors.
However, we will keep you up to date with how your investment is going:
an investment into the scheme, an investment into some Ethiopian schools, and
an investment into individual lives. We
also actively encourage links between UK and Ethiopian schools, i.e. a school
to school or class to class liaison.
