When you sponsor a child with ActionAid Association, you not only help the child in need but also transform the lives of children in the community where the sponsored child lives, by ensuring they get access to quality education, nutrition through government led health schemes as well as their protection. Your sponsorship also helps poor and vulnerable communities to build a more enabling context for their children to be protected and cared for.
Working with grassroots-based organisations, we strive towards making vulnerable communities aware of constitutional values and their rights including the rights of children. Your sponsorship empowers our efforts to save the children in poor communities from crimes like child trafficking, child labour and child marriage. Essentially, you help children become better citizens for a better tomorrow.
Sponsorship is a way to maximise the support you give for undertaking initiatives that are locally-led in the child’s community for children to secure their future and also create sustainable change. We know that helping families and communities access Government welfare programmes and schemes and become self-sufficient is the best way to secure children’s futures.
The sponsored child keeps you informed about the progress made in their lives and that of the community. To effectively leverage the sponsored child’s efforts as an ambassador of the community in which he or she lives, we link each child to up to three donors.
Regular giving (or direct debit) helps us to plan for long-term projects. There is an urgent need for regular giving as the people we work with, need help every day. Your regular donation allows us to implement impactful programmes which will bring about a substantial change in their lives.
Join us on a journey and see how your support transforms the lives of children and communities. You can donate either on a yearly basis or on a monthly basis.
For yearly basis, you donate ₹ 9,000 per child per year. For monthly option, you donate ₹750 per child per month through Credit Card Standing Instructions (CCSI) or Automated Clearing House (ACH), whichever mode of payment is preferred although we strongly recommend CCSI to ensure uninterrupted support for your sponsored child. We recommend a minimum of 3-year-long support in the best interest of the child. ActionAid Association is a 12A registered organisation which means 50% of your donations are exempted from tax under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961
We provide several options for you to donate. Apart from Credit Card and ACH, you also have the option to pay through Cheque, Debit Cards, Net Banking or Mobile Payments. If you are looking at sponsoring through cheque or ACH, please download our sponsorship form, fill it up and post it to us.
A sponsored child presenting her art at a summer camp
Children having their mid-day meal
Children supporting each with other with school work and education
Education help children realise their true potential
Nandini's art skills improved thanks to the support she received from the Child Sponsorship programme
Navya is doing well in her studies
School means friends, fun and learning
Sunita in her class with her classmates
The rights to lead a happy and fulfilling childhood
To our sponsors, for your love and support
After joining hands with ActionAid, I am feeling [good] as a human being, contributing [to] something for someone who needs our help. it's given me real happiness.
- Siripuram Arun
ActionAid Donor
Every time I provide a donation to ActionAid, I know that I am making an impact in our community.
- P Prajwal Gowda
ActionAid Donor
Recently I visited the community and met the child also. It was an unforgettable experience and I was overwhelmed with the community's hospitality. It was a great pleasure meeting the child's family.
- Surya Raja
ActionAid Donor
My mom allowed me to stay at home, believing that a girl needs no education. Thanks to ActionAid, [now] I am in class 6 and am happy to see myself in school again.
- Devi
Beneficiary
For the first time, every student in my school got all the books well before the annual examination. Thank you, ActionAid!
- Priyanshu
Beneficiary
There is a need to transform our society altogether. We will not allow the dowry in our society. Neither girls nor boys are objects to be sold or purchased.
- Ravita
Beneficiary
When you sponsor a child with ActionAid, you not only help the child in need but also transform the lives of children in the community where the sponsored child lives, by ensuring they get access to quality education, proper nutrition, healthcare and protection. Your sponsorship also helps poor and vulnerable communities to build a more enabling context for their children to be protected and cared for.
Working with grassroots-based organisations, we strive towards making vulnerable communities aware of constitutional values and their rights including the rights of children. Your sponsorship empowers our efforts to save the children in poor communities from crimes like child trafficking, child labour and child marriage. Essentially, you help children become better citizens for a better tomorrow.
Sponsorship is a way to maximise the support you give for undertaking initiatives that are locally-led in the child’s community for children to secure their future and also create sustainable change. We know that helping families and communities access Government welfare programmes and schemes and become self-sufficient is the best way to secure children’s futures.
The sponsored child keeps you informed about the progress made in their lives and that of the community. To effectively leverage the sponsored child’s efforts as an ambassador of the community in which he or she lives, we link each child to up to three donors.
Regular giving (or direct debit) helps us to plan for long-term projects. There is an urgent need for regular giving as the people we work with, need help every day. Your regular donation allows us to implement impactful programmes which will bring about a substantial change in their lives.
For yearly basis, you donate ₹ 9,000 per child per year. For monthly option, you donate ₹750 per child per month through Credit Card Standing Instructions (CCSI) or Automated Clearing House (ACH), whichever mode of payment is preferred although we strongly recommend CCSI to ensure uninterrupted support for your sponsored child. We recommend a minimum of 3-year-long support in the best interest of the child. ActionAid Association is a 12A registered organisation which means 50% of your donations are exempted from tax under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961
We provide several options for you to donate. Apart from Credit Card and ACH, you also have the option to pay through Cheque, Debit Cards, Net Banking. If you are looking at sponsoring through cheque or ACH, please download our sponsorship form, fill it up and post it to us.
with details of the child you are linked to.
An annual update from the community that the child belongs to.
a bi-annual message from the child to you.
an email update of various initiatives of ActionAid Association.
an annual visit to the project under which the child is supported.
**Only available to those who have chosen the sponsorship model
ActionAid Association has been working with poor and marginalised people in India since 1972. We work in 25 states and 2 Union Territories, reaching out to over 6 million people every year, most of whom belong to the most marginalised and excluded groups in India.
We partner with local NGOs, community based organizations and people's movements to collectively address poverty, inequality and injustice.
Our focus is on the rights of India’s most marginalised communities: Dalit and indigenous people, rural and urban poor, women, children and minorities. These groups face an acute lack of access to and control over resources, services, and institutions and our efforts are to equip them with knowledge about their rights and develop capacities in them to demand their constitutional rights.
We pay special attention to those in vulnerable situations, such as people living with chronic hunger; people with disabilities; migrant and bonded workers; children who are out of school; city-dwellers without a home; and people whose land or livelihood is under threat. We also work with women, men, girls and boys who have been trafficked, displaced, or hit by natural and human-made disasters.
ActionAid Association supports a wide range of long term and short term initiatives, which aim to improve the lives and living conditions of marginalised communities such as Dalit and indigenous people, rural and urban poor, women, children and minorities. In the process, we work closely with several grassroots organisations and community based organisations, who lead the work on the ground. 80% of the donations we receive are used for the implementation of these initiatives on the ground. 13% of donations we raise are spent to strengthen the support systems at various levels that help us in executing these initiatives. 7% of the funds we raise are used for activities that help us to mobilise resources that can guarantee long term support to such initiatives.
Sponsorship is a way to maximise the support you give for undertaking initiatives that are locally-led in the child’s community for children to secure their future and also create sustainable change. We know that helping families and communities access Government welfare programmes and schemes and become self-sufficient is the best way to secure children’s futures.
Your contribution not only helps your sponsored child, but also the entire community in which s/he lives. As the result of your support the children and their communities will gain access to their rights, including the right to dignity, right to food, right to shelter, right to education etc
A minimum of Rs. 750 per child, per month. This means you will be contributing Rs. 9000/- per year, or Rs. 27000/- for three years, which makes a huge difference. You can also be a multi-sponsor, by sponsoring more than one child.
We encourage you to sponsor a child for at least 3 years. You will be happy to know that many of our sponsors have shared our journey since 1972, when child sponsorship started in India.
Yes, of course your sponsored child will be happy to hear from you.
The ActionAid Association team will always be willing to help arrange a visit for you, although we are unable to help with the travel costs.
Yes, of course. However, in order to ensure that we do not discriminate between a sponsored child and a non-sponsored child, you are encouraged to give gifts of money. You can also send gifts in kind like colouring materials, sports equipment, etc. which can be used by many children.
Only Indian nationals are eligible for tax exemption as this benefit is valid only in India. Contributions to ActionAid Association are exempted from Tax under section 80G of Income Tax Act 1961, which means a tax exemption of 50% of your contribution.
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ActionAid Association was registered in India under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 with its registered office at New Delhi and registration number S-56828 on the 5th of October 2006.
