Why sponsor with Plan?
In addition to helping provide your sponsored child with basic needs like education, clean water and protection, you can also exchange letters to learn about their life. You’ll form an incredible friendship and discover your impact. But that’s just the beginning. With Plan, you also have the unique opportunity to:
- Send birthday gifts and cards to your child.
- Give special holiday presents called Little Treasures.
- Subscribe your child to Plan's educational kids' magazine, Sunny Days.
- Visit your sponsored child, with individual travel assistance from us.
Each gift offering is safely hand-delivered by us, and given to your child with personalized cards from you. It’s likely that the child you sponsor will have never seen anything like these gifts, and they’re available year-round to make the bond between you and your sponsored child even stronger.
PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA
Plan International USA (Plan) is a girls’ rights organization. Powered by supporters, we partner with adolescent girls and children around the world to overcome oppression and gender inequality, providing the support and resources that are unique to their needs and the needs of their communities, ensuring they achieve their full potential with dignity, opportunity and safety. Learn more about our Privacy Policy.
ADD YOUR NAME TO JOIN THE FIGHT FOR GIRLS' RIGHTS.
Girls’ lives are being devastated by COVID-19
Vulnerable children need your sponsorship
Sponsorship works
Today, more than 52,000 children are sponsored through Plan International USA, but many more are waiting for a compassionate person like you.
When you sponsor a child, you have the opportunity to develop a life-long connection with a girl or boy who needs you, while helping to improve the support network surrounding them. As a sponsor, you can support programs, innovation and infrastructure required to deliver our programs to girls and children worldwide, in areas such as protection, education, health, sanitation, disaster relief and economic empowerment. Community led, self-sustaining projects in your sponsored child’s community and country create sustainable change and address the root causes of poverty.
This is what can happen when you sponsor a girl with Plan.
Girls’ lives are being devastated by COVID-19
Vulnerable children need your sponsorship
Fate often had to go to school barefoot. Shoes were a luxury that her family couldn’t always afford.
She thought she knew the way her life would unfold as a girl living in a low-income community in Cameroon. But one day, a new chapter in her story opened its pages.
A woman from the U.S. decided to become her sponsor.
“After that, everything changed,” Fate says.
Once Fate was sponsored, her school fees, textbooks, uniforms — and shoes — were taken care of.
“Access to education is hard for girls in villages in Cameroon,” Fate says. “Parents decide to keep a girl child at home because there’s an idea that the female will get married, but the male child will carry the family’s legacy. I didn’t have to worry about this because of my sponsor.”
Fate went on to graduate secondary school and attend university. Today, she’s working on the frontlines as a nurse during COVID-19.
And today, she sponsors a child with Plan.
“When it comes to having compassion, I think I would’ve been different without sponsorship. My sponsor inspired me to care for people I’ve never met. I felt loved by her. I felt hopeful — every child should get to feel the same.”
Plan International USA: Who we are
Plan International USA is a girls’ rights organization.
For over 80 years, Plan has been part of a global network striving for a just world that advances children's rights and equality for girls.
We believe that girls' rights are human rights. Her dreams are hers to discover. Her potential is hers to uncover. Her future is hers to realize. And her life is hers to live.
But when she faces violence and oppression, her path is blocked. Together, with partners like you, we tear down the barriers, both systemic and circumstantial, that are ahead of her.
Powered by our supporters, we partner with adolescent girls and children in 55,000 communities around the world to overcome oppression and gender inequality. We provide support and resources unique to their needs, ensuring they achieve their full potential with dignity, opportunity and safety.
When a girl has choices about her own future, all of us prosper too. Together, we must clear the way for Her next step.
Her next step toward safety.
Her next step toward happiness.
Her Next Step toward the life she wants.
Learn more about why Plan fights for girls' rights with stories on our blog:
Fate often had to go to school barefoot. Shoes were a luxury that her family couldn’t always afford.
She thought she knew the way her life would unfold as a girl living in a low-income community in Cameroon. But one day, a new chapter in her story opened its pages.
A woman from the U.S. decided to become her sponsor.
“After that, everything changed,” Fate says.
Once Fate was sponsored, her school fees, textbooks, uniforms — and shoes — were taken care of.
“Access to education is hard for girls in villages in Cameroon,”
Fate says. “Parents decide to keep a girl child at home because there’s an idea that the female will get married, but the male child will carry the family’s legacy. I didn’t have to worry about this because of my sponsor.”
Fate went on to graduate secondary school and attend university. Today, she’s working on the frontlines as a nurse during COVID-19.
And today, she sponsors a child with Plan.
Fate as a young girl in her rural village in Cameroon.