How do we use your donations?
Sponsoring a child also means joining a community of hundreds of sponsors around the world.
Through sponsorship, you can give a child and their community a better futurefor less than $15 per month ($6 per month after tax deduction*).
*66% of your donation is tax deductible, up to a limit of 20% of your net taxable income.
Your sponsorship donation helps fund projects that benefit the entire community in which your sponsored child lives. Thanks to the financial contributions of more than 500 Hirondelle de l'Avenir sponsors, development programs are being carried out in Benin.
These projects take into account the child's overall environment: their health, education, protection, housing, and economic security.
Your donations fund development programs
Our approach is to bring about lasting change in the families where we work on behalf of children: that is why your donations are not given directly to a single child but to programs run in their entire community, because in order to offer them real prospects for the future, it is their environment that needs to be improved in a structural way. Each year, sponsors receive a report on the actions carried out in the community of their sponsored child(ren).
These development programs cover three priority areas of action:
Education & Training
We provide children and young people with access to quality education and training.
Health
We meet children's basic needs: food, clean water, healthcare, and a healthy environment.
Financial Transparency
Since our inception, we have maintained a relationship of trust and financial transparency with all our sponsors. Thanks to our rigorous financial management, nearly 90% of donations are used directly to support our development activities in the field, benefiting more than 600 children in Benin.
