Sponsorships
The personal sponsorships of Emmaus Children's Relief (CHF 50 per child per month) enable destitute girls and boys in developing countries to go to school and learn a trade. Nutrition, education and training are aimed at the comprehensive development of the children. This enables them to master their future lives independently.
Sponsorships are friendships
The natives of the Gowli tribe in Dandeli (India) lived in indescribable misery.
Children are the defenseless victims of misery. Many cannot go to school because they have to help their parents with their work. Many have no home and live on the streets of the slums. They eke out a living by begging. From there it is a small step to crime. Personal sponsorships are an effective way of pulling the children out of their misery. They attend school and learn a trade.
In rural areas, we help to build schools and homes so that the children there can also be educated. Street children and orphans receive a wide range of support in homes. They are prepared to be able to support themselves one day. In this way, sponsorships continue to have an impact into the future.
Thanks to sponsorships, many of the children attended the local school in Dandeli a year later.
The personal correspondence between the girls and boys and their godparents, which always remains voluntary, strengthens their self-esteem. The often richly illustrated children's letters to their godparents are affectionate, poetic and confident. They are testimonies of affection that bridge gaps and break down boundaries.
Deeply touched and overjoyed
In 2020, we made a short film about 24-year-old godmother Viola S. in Bern and her 6-year-old goddaughter Divyasri K. in the Indian village of Kanji. You can find the touching clip under the menu item "Films".
Divyasri K. in Kanji (India) with the photo of her godmother.
When Divyasri was three months old, a truck left the road, drove into her parents' hut and killed her mother and father. The girl survived and has lived with her grandparents ever since. The charity "St. Antony's Foundlings" in Kanji included Divyasri in its sponsorship program. Thanks to this support, she receives everything she needs: A hot meal every day, schooling and later an education.
Together with her mother and two siblings, Viola S. has taken on the sponsorship of Divyasri. She studies music and movement at the Biel School of Art and in her free time she goes hiking, skiing and plays the cello. She says: "I was deeply touched by the fate of this girl. I am overjoyed to be able to help her with a sponsorship so that she can go to school like 900 other children in Kanji and learn a trade later on."
Viola S. in Bern with the photo of her goddaughter.
