500 children in Gaza, Sudan & 13 more countries are waiting for a guardian — earn 12 months of sadaqah jariyah today.
Sponsor a child500 children are waiting for a guardian — earn 12 months of Sadaqah Jariyah today.
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52,531 orphans sponsored globally
More than 29,570 sponsored orphans in Gaza
35 years of caring for orphaned children
Orphan protection officers in 15 countries
681 orphans still sponsored at university
Child welfare policy, child protection training, and background checks
One-to-one sponsorship
Sponsored children attend school
Two reports annually
Every day, around 5,700 children lose a parent. In a single moment, their world changes entirely. Instead of thinking about school or play, they must now worry about food, medicine, and a safe place to sleep. Without urgent support, many are forced to leave school altogether and are left vulnerable to malnutrition, exploitation, and abuse.
The devastation in Gaza has made this crisis even more acute. More than 56,000 children have been newly orphaned since October 2023, and 41% of families in Gaza are now caring for a child that isn’t their own. Human Appeal has already stood alongside more than 29,570 sponsored orphans in Gaza.
Right now, 24,571 children registered with Human Appeal are waiting for a sponsor. Your donation can restore a child’s routine, keep them in school, and surround them with the care and protection every child deserves. With 35 years of experience and teams on the ground across 15 countries, Human Appeal ensures your mercy reaches those who need it most.
100 million children are orphans worldwide
5,700 children become orphans every day
61 million primary-school-age children are out of school
Since 1991, supporting orphans and children has played an integral part in Human Appeal’s mission to alleviate poverty around the world. We believe that every child deserves a positive start in life and the hope for a bright future.
To our knowledge, Human Appeal is one of the only charities to offer a true one-to-one orphan sponsorship programme, where your donation continuously goes to the same orphan. This allows for the life of that same child to be transformed long-term by you; the change isn’t short-lived, but lets them truly rise above their circumstances, gain the opportunities they deserve, and build a better life for themselves and their families.
Warm their hearts and comfort their minds
Ensure they receive nourishing meals
Provide safe and secure housing
Guarantee and protect their learning
Support the whole family
Ensure they receive health and medical care
Your sponsorship doesn't disappear into a fund. It follows a clear, accountable journey from the moment you give to the moment a child benefits.
For nine years, Halima watched her children grow up in harsh conditions, unable to improve their situation no matter how hard she tried. Displaced and without support, the family lived in a leaking tent with little protection from the cold and rain.
“Life was very difficult. Even finding water each day was a struggle. I had to carry gallons of water back to the tent just so my family could meet their basic needs.”
When a sponsor came forward for Halima’s children, life slowly began to change. The monthly support helped ease the pressure of daily costs, giving Halima more room to plan ahead and move her children to safer housing.
When the family moved into their new home, the difference was immediate. They no longer arrived at school muddy and exhausted from the harsh conditions surrounding the tent. From a home much closer to school, they could travel more safely and easily, and finally had a quiet, dry place to study and feel safe.
“I never imagined, after nine years of suffering in a tent, that I would be living in a comfortable house,” says Halima.
With access to clean water, stable housing, and education, Halima’s children are no longer defined by the hardships they once endured. They are growing, learning, and beginning to look ahead with hope.
“…the person who looks after an orphan and provides for him, will be in Paradise…”
Hadith, Sahih al-Bukhari
Child Welfare & Orphans
Give £40 and provide urgent relief to a child newly orphaned in Gaza — food, shelter, and trauma support for a child who has lost everything. Sponsor a child today.
Child Welfare & Orphans
Give £920 and transform the life of a street child in Pakistan with food, healthcare, education, and a safe place at our Aminah drop-in centre. Sponsor a child today
Child Welfare & Orphans
Abandoned and at risk, every single day. 350,000 children live on Dhaka’s streets, exposed to abuse and exploitation. Help them build a brighter future through our drop-in centre. Sponsor a child today.
Your sponsorship is a mercy to a child, helping them to break the cycle of poverty, and give them the opportunity that all children deserve – a chance to be healthy, protected, and educated. Importantly, sponsorship also ensures they get to stay in school, so that they don’t have to work to support themselves and their families.
Entrust your sponsorship to our 33 years of experience in caring for orphaned children. Be a mercy to an orphaned child, and each month you support a child, you’ll receive blessings too. £40/$60 per month helps to cover the cost of:
• food
• shelter
• clothes,
• healthcare, and
• school supplies.
You can also give your sponsorship in a one-off annual payment of £480/$720 per year.
Funds received via the 1-2-1 Sponsorship programme are given to the orphan child’s primary carer, whether this is the child’s mother or a family guardian. The mother or guardian has discretion to spend the funds on the child’s wellbeing, education, shelter or living arrangements. The spending of each household varies from one family to the next.
Yes, if the child you sponsor is old enough and able, then the child you sponsor will most definitely be attending school as per our 1-2-1 Sponsorship programme criteria.
Due to our safeguarding measures and policy, we do not allow donors to contact the orphan child. We provide you with updates on the child’s development and growth twice per year, so you can know the impact your funds are making on the child’s life. However, we do not allow direct contact for the child’s betterment.
The donor will receive two reports each year on the progress of the child's development and updated photos. We do not have the function to allow donors to write to the children at this moment in time. We do not encourage donor visits to the orphans either due to safeguarding issues. While we understand that donors want to meet the children or speak to them often, this requires safeguarding measures to be in place that will allow us to ensure the child and their mother/guardian is always protected.
We currently issue mid-year and annual reports; these include updated pictures of the child, as well as information on their current wellbeing and performance in school.
By sponsoring a child you are providing monetary assistance to ensure they have access to a quality education and a better quality of life. However, this is not like adopting a child as you have limited or no access to the child directly. They are aware of your sponsorship and will be receiving the donations; in turn you will receive two reports a year on the child’s progress.
An orphan child is a child without a father or both parents.
You can sponsor an orphan child by visiting our website and setting up a direct debit or making an annual donation. You can also call us and our donor care team will assist you in sponsoring a child.
Yes, you can sponsor as many as you like.
We do not sponsor orphans in the UK but in developing countries across the globe instead.
Yes, however you must specify this when making the donation so we can ensure that we can apply this.
Yes, we have Human Appeal Offices throughout the world that you can sponsor via. Our HQ is in the UK and you can sponsor directly from our website.
We apply a strict programme criteria for orphan sponsorship programmes, all child must meet our minimum requirements for the orphan sponsorship programme so that we can ensure we are reaching orphans most in need.
The primary benefit is the child receiving a quality education, and that by providing monetary support the funds are spent on improving their quality of life.
Our programme stipulates that the child must be in education, while the mother or guardian of the child has discretion to spend the funds to as they deem necessary to support their local needs.
You can send additional monies to the child by either setting up a second fund for the child or via one off donations. Due to the design of our programme, we advise you send monetary gifts so that the guardian or mother of the child can buy gifts for the orphan according to their local needs.
One sponsorship. One child. A lifetime of impact. The Prophet ﷺ held two fingers together to show how close the one who cares for an orphan will be to him in Paradise — this month, be that person for a child with no one else. Help us reach 500 children still waiting.
Sponsor a child todayHuman Appeal is committed to providing aid in the country or programme that you select. In the event we complete the programme, exceed the required funds, or are denied access to a particular country for reasons beyond our control, Human Appeal reserves the right to reallocate your donation to another programme where it is needed most.
