Become a Godfather/Godmother
Explanations :
1. The godfather / godmother:
Any child from primary and secondary school in Belgium can become a sponsor.
Parental agreement is essential.
Each child can sponsor another child of +/- age, from an African country.
The non-profit organisation will have targeted African children whose parents are unable to cover the costs of schooling.
We will have to organize sensitization sessions in schools in Belgium, to collect a maximum of sponsors.
To each godfather, his godson!
This system of solidarity will grow like an enormous spider web and will form a large family within the non-profit organisation.
The godfather and his godchild will be able to have a direct contact via the current means of communication (emails, whatsApp, skype), the contacts will be supervised by the organisation to avoid slippages.
2. The schoolbag :
The main role of the sponsor will be to establish, at the beginning of the school year, a binder for his godson.
The school material should not be especially new, we rather encourage the godparents to collect unused material in their school or at home.
- How many pencils and erasers received at a birthday party have been hanging around for years in your room or playroom ?
- How many unused or barely used notebooks that end up in the attic or cellar ?
- Pencil sharpeners ?
- Colori pencils ?
- And the schoolbag ?
The idea is to start by recovering a schoolbag and fill it with recovered material and so make the happiness of your godson.
A toy, a reading book, a comic book, etc. should be included in the schoolbag.
On the other hand, it will be forbidden for the godfather to send money to his godchild.
Any financial transaction between the godfather and his godson is absolutely forbidden.
3. The trip to the godson’s country
The non profit organisation organizes trips so that the godfather, accompanied by parent (s) can meet his godchild in his living environment (his family, his school, his village, etc.)
SUPPORT OF SCHOOL FEES
As already explained above, sponsored children are children whose parents are in financial difficulty. So it’s clear that the binder will not solve the whole problem.
In addition, we want the financial aspect to be managed by the non profit organisation, because even if some parents in Belgium agree to their child becoming a sponsor, they do not necessarily want to contribute financially.
In addition, we would like all sponsored children to be treated more or less equitably because if some parents who have the means decide to send 100 € per month to their godchild while his friend in the same class receives only 5 per month, this may create inequalities.
The non profit organisation is therefore responsible for paying school fees for sponsored children directly to the school.
SUBSIDIES AND DONATIONS
Our non profit organisation is counting on the harvesting of subsidies to work, to get school bags to Africa, but also to pay school fees for children whose parents can not afford to take on this task.
We also count on your donations to enable us to realize this beautiful project.
WHY DO WE NEED YOUR HELP ?
WE WANT TO HELP AS MANY CHILDREN AS POSSIBLE
It is unacceptable that in the 21st century, children are deprived of normal schooling because of poverty.
TOGETHER, OUR ACTION WILL BE MORE EFFECTIVE
Indeed, there is strength in numbers. Godparenthood will allow children to go to school, and will open the door to friendships.
EVERYONE CAN MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO THE BUILDING
Let’s teach our children to become agents of positive change.