Sponsor a child in Uganda for $45 a month
For $45 a month, you become the reason a specific child in Kampala stays in school. Your sponsorship covers termly fees, a school lunch every day, a uniform, and the exercise books and pencils that Ugandan public schools often can’t supply. You’ll receive the child’s name, a photo, and a short profile, plus a written update from their class teacher each term.
Start with Child Sponsor — $45/monthChild Sponsor
Pays full termly fees, uniform, meals and learning materials for one named child, from nursery through to Primary 7.
From your first gift to your first school report
- Choose a tier and pay. Pick an amount on the donate page and pay by Mobile Money or Visa card.
- Meet who you support. We email you the child, class or project your gift funds, with a photo and background.
- Cover several months at once. Pay for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months in one go.
- Follow their progress. Written reports and letters arrive at the end of every school term.
Before you sponsor
Yes. Within two weeks of your first payment you receive your sponsored child’s name, age, class and a photo, along with a short letter about their family.
Sponsorship covers school fees, lunch, uniform and learning materials for one child for the full school year, split across three terms.
By Visa card through our secure checkout, or by MTN or Airtel Mobile Money. Card checkout currently works best with cards issued in Africa; if yours is declined, email us and we will help you give another way.
Yes, at any time. Sponsorship runs month to month; email us and we will adjust or stop it.
Yes. Sponsors are welcome at the school in Kampala; email ahead so we can plan around the timetable and introduce you.
Only a monthly gift. You don’t need to live in Uganda or join any organisation, and sponsorship runs month to month, so you can stop at any time.
Every photo on this site was taken at the school. You can call or WhatsApp the staff before you give, visit us in Kampala, and every payment carries a reference code so we can show you what it paid for. Ask us for the school’s registration documents and we will send them.
The usual criticism is that sponsorship singles out one child while others go without. At Edna, sponsorship pays one pupil’s fees and materials, but lunches, teachers and classrooms are shared by every pupil, so the whole class benefits. If you would rather support everyone equally, give to the general school fund instead.