Communication + Gifts
How to communicate, send gifts, and build a relationship with your sponsored child.
What can you expect from us?
Yearly Photo + Letter
Each year, you’ll receive an updated photo and a letter written from your sponsored child to keep you updated on their life and progress.
Communication
We do our best to facilitate two opportunities each year to communicate with your sponsored child. You’ll receive notice of these opportunities by email.
Logistics
Chariots for Hope coordinates all of the communication back and forth through our office to ensure that it arrives safely and to help avoid cultural miscommunications. The mailing services in Kenya are not reliable. Letters and packages are hand delivered.
What can you do?
Write Letters
The children LOVE receiving letters and updated photos from their sponsors. As you are writing, please keep the following in mind:
- The children who are in Grade 4 or beyond are fairly fluent in English. If your child is younger, an older child or a staff member is happy to read your letter on your behalf to your sponsored child.
- Ask questions! You can ask anything about their family, school, life at the home, etc.
- Do not include personal contact information (phone, address, email, social media, etc.)
- They want to hear about your life! Tell them about your family, work, hobbies, etc.
Attend Sponsorship Events
Join Chariots for Hope each June as sponsors come together to write letters, create personal packages, and learn more about the impact of sponsorship. You’ll recieve notice of these events via email and on social media.
Help Provide Christmas Cheer
Every year at Christmas, Chariots provides each community with a special Christmas celebration where all children and staff come together to celebrate the birth of our Savior. These events include great food, fun activities and a special new outfit for each child. Each Christmas, sponsors will have the opportunity to give toward Christmas cheer and send a family Christmas card!
Sponsor a child for $60/month.
Make a difference.
Sponsoring Lorna has been so sweet. I LOVE that Chariots genuinely wants you to feel connected to the child you sponsor and view each other as family. Because in Christ, we are family!
Lorna and I have connected through letters, pictures, emails, and videos and it is so encouraging to see that we serve the same God all around the world. Like seriously how cool?!
Our lives probably look pretty different but the most important thing is the same and that is so uniting!
One of the coolest moments was when she sent me her favorite verses from Psalm 27 which is the same chapter that holds one of my favorites 🙂
She already means so much to me and I can’t quite imagine how amazing it will be to someday meet her beautiful face in person after praying for each other and developing a friendship for years.
I’m so encouraged by her faith and JOY and can’t wait to see her keep growing️! Psalm 27:10-14
Olivia
Sponsor since 2019
