ActionAid believes that all children should have an equal chance to thrive.
Whether you sponsor a girl or a boy, your sponsorship will support the work, action and determination of an entire community.
Through sponsorship, you’ll have a personal link to the child you sponsor, who will share updates and messages with you. But your sponsorship goes much further - supporting community-led projects that benefit many children and families.
You can choose where you sponsor a child, or you can leave it to our team to decide; they know which communities are in greatest need. It only takes a few minutes to become a child sponsor, but you could be part of the change.
What will my child sponsorship pay for?
Child sponsorship supports a range of women-led community-based projects.
Elizabeth plays with her daughter Eunice under a tree behind their house in Ghana's Upper West Region
Misper Apawu/ActionAid
How child sponsorship helps children like Eunice
Eunice, from Ghana, says she loves going to school and wants to be a nurse when she’s older. But when Eunice’s mother Elizabeth was just 15 she was abducted and forced into child marriage. She says:
My mother wanted to be a nurse but she could not because she got married at an early age."
There are now 'COMBAT' squads in Eunice’s community: community groups trained by ActionAid to recognise, prevent and report cases of forced marriage. The squads hold regular community meetings, visit schools and help girls to learn about their rights.
By becoming a sponsor, you could help a girl like Eunice to go to school, and fund local groups like COMBAT squads to tackle child marriage. You could help a girl to reach her full potential, without the threat of child marriage.
Rejina with her mother prepping for school.
Angela Shrestha
What ActionAid does
Around the world, women and children are affected the most by poverty. From the moment they are born, girls especially face inequalities and injustice in almost every aspect of their lives.
ActionAid puts women and children at the centre of our work across 45 countries. We make sure girls go to and stay in school, we work with communities to end gender-based violence, and we train women in the skills they need to earn a living.
We also help women and communities prepare for and recover from disasters, at a time when they can be at their most vulnerable. We demand action at local, national and international level. We don’t walk away until we’ve achieved lasting change.
Page updated 4 February 2026