How to be a Child Sponsor
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Select the child
you want to sponsor -
Click to go to Child Sponsorship
Selection Page
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Download the
Child Sponsorship Form below
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Payment by
GIRO - Download
the GIRO form below, complete form and mail to
us together with Child
Sponsorship Form
- Payment by Cheque
- Together with Child Sponsorship Form,
cheques should be made to The Operation Hope
Foundation Ltd and mailed to Blk 55, #06-10/11 Ayer
Rajah Crescent, Singapore 139949. Please write
your name and address behind the cheque.
HTN Child
Sponsorship Form |
HVPV Child
Sponsorship Form |
Interbank GIRO form |
How the Child Sponsorship program
works
All sponsors will
be given details of the child whom they are sponsoring
with updates every six months. If agreeable, the names
of the other sponsor will be made known so that all
the sponsors can know each other. The
child will be told who their sponsors are and will
be encouraged to write to them. Sponsors are
also encouraged to write to their sponsored child.
Receipt will be issued
whenever the donations are received, so sponsors should
inform us of any change in address. Your contribution
will roughly cover the direct cost of food, shelter
and education of the child as well as the fixed overheads
of the orphanage.
Understanding the different
child sponsorship programs
Child Sponsorship
means different things to different charities. Many
charities do not operate orphanages but have child
sponsorship programs. The donations collected from
the child sponsorship are used for a project which
benefits the community and from which the child will
have an indirect benefit. For example, the donations
may be used to construct a well or a school for the
community. These kinds of sponsorship are very different
from our kind of sponsorship where the child has a
direct benefit and is staying in the orphanage where
everything - food, shelter, education and healthcare
are provided. We thus have fixed monthly operating
costs unlike a community based program where the cost
is a one time affair such as construction of a well
or school.
For community-based
child sponsorship programs, the cost per child actually
depends on the project. For example, the cost of the
school is divided by the number of child sponsorship
received. Also for subsequent years, a different project
with a different cost will be implemented. There is
a greater flexibility in managing the cost whereas
for OHF, the cost actually increases year by year
due to increased needs of the child and salary increments
for the staff. In OHF, your donation goes primarily
for the care and support of the child as shown in
the estimated budget.
Our Child Admission Procedure
OHF's has a strict
Child Admission Procedure that requires the expatriate
manager to personally interview the orphans
before admission. We have several selection criteria,
of which one of them is that the relatives who looked
after the orphans must be poor; the assessment made
from looking at the condition and size of the house.
We also asked questions such as how the income of
the guardian is derived and if they are farmers, whether
they own their own land and the size of the land.
The child must be
six years old or above and does not
suffer from any long term illnesses such as Aids.
Under certain circumstances, such as the child accepted
together with older siblings, we may lower the age
criteria. |
