10,000+ children in Gaza, Sudan & 13 more countries are waiting for a guardian — earn 12 months of sadaqah jariyah today.
Sponsor a child10,000+ children are waiting for a guardian — earn 12 months of Sadaqah Jariyah today.
Sponsor a child
25,000 orphans sponsored in Gaza since October 2023
52,531 orphans sponsored globally — including 639 now in university
24,043,235 items of aid delivered in Gaza since 2023
10,415 registered and awaiting sponsorship
Reem was a little Palestinian girl with pigtails who never made it to her fourth birthday. She was killed in an airstrike just days before the birthday she shared with her grandfather, Khaled. When Khaled held his granddaughter for the last time, that single embrace moved millions of hearts across the world. Every child is the soul of someone's soul. Since October 2023, over 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza — including, on average, one child every single day since the ceasefire. At least 56,000 children have been orphaned or left with no adult to care for them. As families attempt to recover and rebuild, these children carry an unbearable additional burden: no parent to feed them, comfort them, or tell them they are safe.
Your Gaza orphan sponsorship gives one of 10,000 children on our waiting list a lifeline — a secure monthly stipend, nourishing meals, clean water, shelter, education, and the regular wellbeing support every child needs to survive and grow. While other charities have scaled back, we have stepped up — sponsoring nearly 24,000 more orphans in Gaza than before the war began.
Sponsor a childWe have been on the ground in Gaza and across Palestine for three decades. When the crisis deepened, we did not step back — we stepped forward. Here is exactly how your sponsorship reaches a child in need.
Step 1 — We Identify and Verify
Our welfare teams in Gaza identify orphaned children and verify their circumstances, ensuring every sponsorship goes to a child who truly needs it.
Step 2 — We Match You to a Child
When you sponsor an orphan in Gaza, you take one child directly off our waiting list. There are currently over 10,000 children waiting.
Step 3 — We Distribute Monthly Support
Your monthly sponsorship is distributed by our field teams and trusted local partners across Gaza, covering food, clean water, shelter, clothing and essential care — every single month.
Step 4 — We Keep You Connected
You receive biannual orphan reports so you know exactly how the child you sponsor is doing. Our orphan welfare officers carry out regular wellbeing checks throughout the year.
Logistics assurance: Aid is delivered directly by our field teams and verified local partners on the ground in Gaza and across Palestine.
"I and the one who looks after an orphan and provides for him, will be in Paradise like these two."
Hadith, Bukhari
Emergencies
Almost all our projects are sourced locally in Gaza. Your support provides mobile clinics, mobile schools, clean water, food parcels, fresh vegetables, and hot meals. Families in Gaza urgently need your help.
Food Security
Help our five community kitchens continue providing 30,000 hot meals daily. Supporting local suppliers and the community workforce, every meal you donate is matched, giving two meals for the price of one.
Food Security
Provide a family in Gaza with a food parcel that will give them the essentials to eat for a month. A show of mercy that will be met by our partners, providing another food parcel for the price of one.
Health and Medical
Over 6,000 people in Gaza need prosthetic limbs. Your support provides fitted prosthetics, full consultations, guidance, and psychological support—helping injured individuals regain independence in just one hour.
Health and Medical
We operate 8 clinics across Gaza, serving children, pregnant women, and those suffering from illness. With 96 clinics completely shut down, your support ensures we can continue providing critical healthcare and medicine.
Water and Sanitation
Water is life — and in Gaza, life is slipping away. With pipes destroyed and wells buried, families are surviving on puddles. Your donation can deliver clean water through our water trucking and desalination plant, which pumps 52,000 litres every hour, restore wells, and save lives. Give to the charity the Prophet ﷺ called the best.
Winter
Donate a Winter Barakah Kit - 3 Acts of Kindness 1 Donation. Winter has arrived in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. We have created a Winter Barakah Kit that allows you to give twice the mercy to those helpless in facing the cold, hunger, illness and even death this winter. Join the ummah in our effort to safeguard thousands of precious lives this winter. Together we can ensure nobody is left out in the cold.
Education
Education is a lifeline — and in Gaza, that lifeline has been torn away. After nearly two years without consistent schooling, children have lost safety and stability. Through Human Appeal’s Mobile Schools Programme, 8 mobile schools are open six days a week, providing 600 children with lessons in Arabic, English, Maths, and Science from 21 teachers. Alongside learning materials, children also receive psychosocial support to help them heal. Protect their future — and restore hope.
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.
Human 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.
