With Alice for Children, the donation to support a child and their community is one Euro per day, or 30 Euros a month. You can choose to donate annually, semi-annually, quarterly, or monthly.

Your donation will be used for your child’s:

• • School expenses
  • Medical care
  • Warm meal at school

We ensure that the children and teenagers in our orphanage, Baby Care, and secondary schools receive three meals that are nutritionally balanced. It is important to note that the child sponsorship donation covers only a portion of the total support provided to each beneficiary. The remaining portion is covered by our association, thanks to voluntary donations, fundraisers, special events and initiatives carried out during the year. We also rely on the generous contributions of sponsors that support our cause.

Excluding special circumstances, we prefer to send the child’s picture and history only after confirmation to proceed with the long-distance adoption. Reasons include:

• • Priority and needs: Children are assigned in order of priority with respect to their needs and any urgent situations they may be facing.
  • Unconditional selection: Regardless of their ages, gender, and physical appearance, we believe in equal consideration for all children.
  • Privacy and commitment: Respecting the privacy of the child and their family is of utmost importance to us. We prefer to assign a child when there is a genuine commitment from the donor, demonstrated by the receipt of their donation. 

Of course, yes.

Every long-distance parent will be able to create a direct line with his/her child, with whom you will be able to:

• Exchange text messages, drawings, pictures;
• After 4-5 months from the beginning of the support, you will be able to plan Skype calls with your kid, to see him/her and have a talk, in the presence of a member of our staff.

Thanks to our staff and their work, both in Italy and in Kenya, you will be able to establish a constant and long-lasting relationship with the child you are supporting.

The following information is in regard to Italian donors:

Like every other supportive donation, the child sponsorship is deductible in your individual income tax return. We will send you the recap of your donations that you can show to your accountant or CAF (government office for tax assistance and information).

For non-Italian sponsors, it is advisable to consult with tax professionals who are familiar with the relevant tax laws and regulations in both jurisdictions, including your home country. Research and explore the tax breaks and benefits that may be available for supporters of NGOs in your country.

Your sponsorship supports the child for the whole duration of primary school and, ideally, for the duration of professional schooling too.

• The child does not need support anymore when:
  • He/she completes primary school
  • Unforeseen circumstances if he/she is forced to leave our project before the end of primary school.
    
    
• You will always be asked, at the end of the child’s education, if you want to continue being a long-distance parent. If you choose to do so, you will begin to support another child and continue making a difference in their life. 

The children who are sponsored and beneficiaries of our projects all come from the slums of Nairobi. If the child has a family or relatives, they live in the slums and attend our schools in Dandora or Korogocho. If the child is an orphan or was cut off from their family, they live inside our orphanage in the suburbs of Nairobi. 

In our project, Alice for Kilimanjaro, we support around 50 children of which we guarantee food, education, and healthcare. Particular care is given to girls, who are at the top of our priorities. 

We understand that when a direct and personal relationship is established with the child, it is a pleasure to send gifts. However, from personal experience, we can confirm that sending gifts to sponsored children can be extremely harmful and counterproductive. It can create inequalities within the classrooms and orphanages, and there is a risk of making the child a target of jealousy if not outright theft. You can, if you wish, provide gifts for the entire class or orphanage, or for the children who are celebrating their birthdays that month. If you would like to do so, please contact us to know how to proceed: [email protected]

Those who choose to adopt a foreign child through international adoption become the legal parents of the child, who has the opportunity to live with their new family. On the contrary, the purpose of child sponsorship is to support the child within their community and to help them reintegrate themselves into their own family. Children who are supported at a distance cannot be brought to your home country, since long-distance parents do not legally become parents of the kids. The children’s legal guardians are still their parents, their extended family, or our association – in the event that the child has been given to the care of our orphanage.