Find out all about your sponsored child

As soon as you decide to sponsor, we’ll send you a picture of a child and some details about their life, and about the projects in their community that your sponsorship money will support. You'll get a new photo every two years, so you'll be able to watch your child grow up.

Detailed updates show exactly how your donation is being spent

Our staff in the child’s community produce regular newsletters as well, so that you can really understand how your donations are working to change lives. It will include detailed figures on where your money is going, and case studies of individuals whose lives you have help to change.

Two handwritten messages a year from your sponsored child

It’s an exciting moment when a handwritten message from your sponsored child arrives on your doormat – all the way from a remote community thousands of miles across the globe. These messages, which you will get twice a year, will help you really get to know your sponsored child.

Taking Action

ActionAid works in some of the most remote places in the world. Taking Action is packed with great stories and thrilling photography, showing how you and ActionAid are working together to end poverty.