Friends
for life
for life
Sponsorships
The personal sponsorships arranged by Children’s Care Emmaus
(CHF 50.00 per child and month) make it possible for destitute girls and boys in the developing countries to go to school and to learn a trade. Diet, training and education serve to promote the children’s all-round development enabling them to cope with later life on their own.
Be a sponsor, become a friend
Children are the defenceless victims of hardship. Many cannot go to school because they have to help their parents at work. Many do not have a home and are forced to live rough in the slums. They survive by begging. From there it’s but a short step into crime. Personal sponsorships are an effective way of snatching these children away from their misery. They attend school and learn a trade.
In rural areas we help to build schools and homes so that the local children can receive an education. Street kids and orphans are given versatile support in homes. They are empowered to earn one day their own living. This means that sponsorships have an impact well into their future.
The personal exchange of letters by the girls and boys with their godparents remains always voluntarily and empowers their self-esteem. The children’s letters – often richly illustrated – reflect a loving, poetic and confident attitude. They are testimonies of affection that overcome ditches and break down borders.
Deeply touched and overjoyed
In 2020 we realized a short movie about the 24 years old godmother Viola S. from Berne and her 6 years old goddaughter Divyasri K. from the Indian village Kanji. The touching clip can be opened under the menu display «Movies».
When Divyasri was three years old a truck came off the road, drove into the parental hut and killed mother and father. The child survived and has lived with her grandparents ever since. The Relief Organization «St. Antony’s Foundlings» in Kanji took care of her and integrated her in their sponsorship program. Thanks to this support she receives all she needs: A warm meal every day, schooling and later an education.
Together with her mother and a brother and sister Viola S. has taken on a sponsorship for Divyasri. She studies music and movement at the Academy of arts in Biel, in her free time she goes hiking, skiing and plays the cello. She says: «I was deeply impressed by the fate of this girl, and I’m so happy to help it with my sponsorship so that it may go to school like 900 other children in Kanji and can later learn a trade.»
