In just a few weeks you will receive your sponsorship welcome packet containing more information about your child as well as a framed photo!
Your support is essential in helping this child grow up to be like Jesus by caring for their entire being and ensuring they are developing intellectually, physically, spiritually, and socially.
By sponsoring a child through Christian Relief Fund, you provide a child with food, clean water, clothing, medical care, schooling, and Bible teaching.
CRF program directors responsible for paying the required school fees, purchasing uniforms and school supplies, and assisting the child when medical care is needed. Your sponsored child will be provided two nourishing meals a day, either through their school or a CRF youth center. Families and caregivers of sponsored children may also be provided resources like bags of corn, flour, sugar, beans, rice and oil.
We only use 5% of our total funding on administration and only 3% on fundraising, so 92+% of your donation will directly benefit your sponsored child.
You can find more information about our financial accountability here.
If sponsored children were unable to attend school prior to being sponsored, they may be older than 18 years of age when finishing their last year of school.
Once a sponsored child graduates from high school, sponsors have the opportunity to sponsor another child.
Some students score well in their secondary final exams and are able to attend college or university. This would be a 2 to 4 year program, and would cost more.
Sponsors are under NO obligation to continue the sponsorship at this point, or to increase their donation to support a child post high school.
If you can no longer continue your child sponsorship or need to make changes to your account, please reach out to us at 800-858-4038.
We will immediately begin looking for a new sponsor, and CRF will provide for the child’s support in the interim.
Some of our programs are Christian orphanages and/or schools. In those situations the children are taught through lessons and example how to follow Jesus, how to read the Bible as their ultimate guide, and how to live lives that honor God.
Some children attend a before or after school program where they are taught the Bible.
Children are also encouraged to attend church with family members or schoolmates on Sundays.
When a sponsored child leaves the program for any reason, CRF will mail the sponsor a letter explaining the situation, along with information and a photo of another needy child.
Sponsors have the option of sponsoring the new child, selecting a different child, or canceling their sponsorship.
If we do not have a mission trip visiting your child’s location, you can contact us and we will do our best to help facilitate your visit.
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You are welcome to write your sponsored child anytime. Written communication is a tremendous encouragement to children in our programs. They often treasure your letters and photos for years to come.
You can write your sponsored child online through your CRF account.
If your child is too young to write, a CRF staff member will talk to your sponsored child and help them write a letter or draw a picture for you!
You can see all of the letters you have received from your sponsored child in your account under My Letters.
CRF has faithful volunteers who help us mail letters from sponsors each month. Typically, we send letters from the United States to your child’s country one-to-two times per month. Because it takes time for the letters to process through our volunteer system, around one month to mail internationally, and some time for our field workers to distribute the mail they receive, we encourage you to send letters approximately three months in advance of when you want the child to receive them.
We are working to encourage children to smile for their photos, so you should see more smiles from sponsored children in the future.
For example, in East Africa, a child will call all respected adult women “mama,” and may even address you as his or her parent!
The best way to provide a gift for your sponsored child is by simply making a donation. You can give a monetary gift to your sponsored child through your CRF account.
Learn more about giving gifts to your sponsored child.
If you prefer to give over the phone or by mail, call 800-858-4038 or mail a check or cash to:
Christian Relief Fund
PO Box 19670
Amarillo, TX 79114
Whether you give online, over the phone, or through the mail, please remember to include your sponsored child’s name and ID number.
Learn more about giving gifts to your sponsored child.
Please send only one or two flat items with no declarable value that can easily fit in a 6” x 9” (or smaller) greeting card envelope. A few ideas are photos, bookmarks, a few stickers or coloring book pages. Please do not send cash in your letter envelope.
If you would like to send an additional monetary gift to your child, you can do so through your CRF account or send it to the CRF office and include your child’s complete name and ID number. We will make sure your gift gets to your child.
Because each child's situation is different we typically request the help of a local program director in your child's area to determine what gifts would be most appropriate for your child
The program director will then discuss with the child and/or the child’s family about what type of gift is needed based on the donation amount. Maybe your child’s greatest need is for new shoes, extra staple goods for the family’s table, a pair of chickens, or a Bible.
Once a gift is chosen, the program director or another field worker will purchase their gift and report back to our team in the US.
Finally, your child will write you a letter thanking you for the gift! If you do not receive a letter within six months of sending your gift donation, please contact us. We will contact our country office for more information.
Give us a call at 800-858-4038 or email your question to info@christianrelieffund.org