Individual child sponsorship

Sponsor a child in Uganda for $45 a month

For $45 a month, you become the reason a specific child in Kampala stays in school. Your sponsorship covers termly fees, a school lunch every day, a uniform, and the exercise books and pencils that Ugandan public schools often can’t supply. You’ll receive the child’s name, a photo, and a short profile, plus a written update from their class teacher each term.

Start with Child Sponsor — $45/month
Suggested tier

Child Sponsor

Pays full termly fees, uniform, meals and learning materials for one named child, from nursery through to Primary 7.

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How it works

From your first gift to your first school report

  1. Choose a tier and pledge. Pick a monthly amount on the donate page and your preferred payment method.
  2. Meet who you support. We email you the child, class or project your gift funds, with a photo and background.
  3. Pay with your reference. Bank transfer, Mobile Money or card, quoting your reference code.
  4. Follow their progress. Written reports and letters arrive at the end of every school term.
Common questions

Before you sponsor

Yes. Within two weeks of your first payment you receive your sponsored child’s name, age, class and a photo, along with a short letter about their family.

Sponsorship covers school fees, lunch, uniform and learning materials for one child for the full school year, split across three terms.

By international bank transfer, MTN or Airtel Mobile Money, or by card using a payment link we email to you. Your pledge gets a reference code so we can match the payment to your sponsored child.

Yes, at any time. Sponsorship runs month to month; email us and we will adjust or stop it.

Yes. Sponsors are welcome at the school in Kampala; email ahead so we can plan around the timetable and introduce you.

Only a monthly gift. You don’t need to live in Uganda or join any organisation, and sponsorship runs month to month, so you can stop at any time.

Every photo on this site was taken at the school. You can call or WhatsApp the staff before you give, visit us in Kampala, and every payment carries a reference code so we can show you what it paid for. Ask us for the school’s registration documents and we will send them.

The usual criticism is that sponsorship singles out one child while others go without. At Edna, sponsorship pays one pupil’s fees and materials, but lunches, teachers and classrooms are shared by every pupil, so the whole class benefits. If you would rather support everyone equally, give to the general school fund instead.

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