sponsor

a new story

HELP EKISA SERVE THE MOST VULNERABLE

Are you looking to make a long-term impact that you can feel good about? Have you considered sponsoring a child at an organization, but felt concerned about the ethics behind it all?

You've come to the right place.

Rewriting Sponsorship is about making a high-quality, long-term impact on children with disabilities and changing the way we support them.

​Your impact is diverse. A monthly gift to either the Transitional Care or Community Care Program will give children access to life-changing services like medical care, assistive devices, therapy, and specialized Christian education. Your donation combines with gifts from all of our sponsors to fund our programs and impact every child and family we work with! 

​Your impact is ethical. There's no one-to-one connection between sponsor and child. That means there's no chance of unhealthy attachments, jealousy between children, or negative interactions. Instead, a sponsor is assigned three focus children to pray for and receive updates on, as well as quarterly newsletters about various children in the program, in order to see how your support of that program impacts a variety of children within their unique circumstances. 

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It is so important that we are trying to move away from a one-to-one connection and more for the impact.

-EMILY, EKISA SPONSOR

COMMUNITY
SPONSORSHIP

SPONSORSHIP OPTION 1

starting at $35 a month families recieve…

counseling

medical
assistance

education

physical
Therapy

the
Gospel

It is our greatest desire to see children with disabilities celebrated in families. When you sponsor our Community Care Program, you're helping keep families together! 

Your support provides holistic services to the children we serve and their families. These services help alleviate some of the stress and
extra challenges that come with raising a child
with disabilities and empowers parents to love
and care for their child despite a pervasive stigma surrounding disability.

transitional home
SPONSORSHIp

SPONSORSHIP OPTION 2

starting at $35 a month families recieve…

love

a
balanced
Diet

education

therapy &
assistive
Devices

24/7
Care

medical
Care

a
SOcial
Worker

We are “home” to 14 vulnerable children with disabilities. Your support provides these children with a loving, temporary home until we are able to find them a forever family.

 Each child receives individualized care and holistic services to help them thrive. Our social work team works diligently on family permanency for each child. Placing children with disabilities in families is hard work, but our team has proven it is possible by helping over 20 children get back home or be placed into new families. 

why “rewriting” sponsorship?

"...Our sponsorship program is now less focused on one-to-one connection, and more focused on fostering one-to-many impact."

 

At Ekisa, we're always seeking to follow best practices, which is why our sponsorship program is now less focused on one-to-one connection, and more focused on fostering one-to-many impact. Many child sponsorship programs facilitate unhealthy attachments between supporters and vulnerable children and perpetuate a mindset of paternalism and saviorism. Reflecting on this, we realized our sponsorship program could do even more to prevent this. At the same time, we believe it's important to hear the individual stories of children to see what long-term progress looks like. To that end, every sponsor is given updates on three focus children/families. Why three children? Because all of the children in the program you sponsor benefit from your monthly gift and we are excited to get to share with you how your support of that program impacts a variety of children within their unique circumstances. Together, we can rewrite the way sponsorship is done — seeking the absolute best interests of the children we serve.

sponsorship faqs

  • No, sponsorship gifts go directly to the overall program that your focus children are enrolled in. For example, if they are in our Community Care Program, your donation will go towards the monthly cost of ensuring each child in the program has access to necessary medical care, prescriptions, therapy, and other support services. This ensures that every child receives equitable support

  • Working with children who live with a variety of disabilities means communication looks a bit different and many of the children that Ekisa works with use communication methods that do not include reading or writing. For this reason, we truly believe the best way you can connect with your three focus children is by praying for them regularly. Each child’s profile card comes with specific prayer requests and ways to pray for them and milestones they are trying to reach.

  • While receiving a gift is a wonderful thing, we know it can be difficult for children when someone else receives a gift and they do not. We therefore ask that you please refrain from sending any gifts. Children/families in both programs receive gifts during the year.

  • If you need to stop your monthly support of our sponsorship program, the children you receive information and updates on will still benefit from the program they are enrolled in. Donations from monthly sponsors support the entire program rather than a specific child.