Sponsorship
Millions of children around the world are trapped in the cycle of poverty, without hope and future.
The Salvation Army Child Sponsorship Program helps children in developing countries achieve their potential.
Register as a sponsor today! (NSW, QLD, ACT)
If you wish to sponsor a child but live outside NSW, QLD or ACT then please click here.
If you are an existing sponsor and your sponsorship is handled by the Melbourne office then please click here.
Why sponsor through the Salvos?
Our program is small and runs on very simple lines. We handle all sponsorships within Salvation Army-operated children’s homes, institutions, schools and day care centres.
Your full donation is distributed through The Salvation Army in the recipient country, with only 10% retained to partially offset administration costs such as postage, bank fees and staffing.
How your support makes a difference
Your support helps The Salvation Army provide children in developing countries with:
- Education, including vocational and tertiary
- Teaching equipment
- Food
- Clothing
- Basic medical care
- Spiritual support
How Salvation Army Child Sponsorship began
Salvation Army Child Sponsorship began in 1978, when Salvationists John and Mary Burn were asked by a Salvation Army missionary to find sponsorship for four Pakistani boys.
They advertised the needs of those first four boys in their Corps (church) newsletter, and by the end of the first day all the children had been sponsored.
Word spread and the missionaries wrote with more and more children, while John and Mary found more and more 'parents'. Over 3,000 children are now sponsored through the program, which is administered by the Child Sponsorship Department at The Salvation Army Territorial Headquarters in Sydney. The Salvation Army Australia Southern Territory (VIC, TAS, SA, WA, NT) also runs a Child Sponsorship Program.
The Child Sponsorship Department
The Salvation Army
PO Box A435
SYDNEY SOUTH NSW 1235
Ph: (02) 9266 9880, (02) 9266 9525 or 9266 9521
Fax: (02) 9266 9652
E-mail: child.sponsorship@aue.salvationarmy.org
