Sponsorship Stories:
Find the monthly cost too much to handle alone? Stuck on how to
involve you children as sponsors? Check out these unique stories
for how you might spearhead a sponsorship program without having to foot
the entire bill yourself!!
Classroom Sponsorship:
Quite awhile back a teacher wrote in with this NEAT
idea (it's the idea that sort of put this whole thing in my head).
The idea could be used for school classes, daycare groups or sunday
school classes.
Each year she and her class choose a child to
sponsor. Every month the children each bring in $2 for the child
(only $1 is really needed, but she starts at $2 so they have money for
postage and anyone who forgets their contribution -- she later drops the
amount if they've built up a fair buffer).
The children do something each month related to their
child. One month it might be sending letters and mailing them,
another time drawing pictures, another reading correspondence from the
child and another learning a bit about the country the child is
from.
When the school year is over, the teacher sends home
notes with the children asking if anyone would like to take over the
sponsorship. She usually has 4 or 5 people volunteer. She
does a lottery to see who "wins" the sponsorship. She
said that it's never happened to her, but if for some reason no one
wanted to sponsor the child, you could just carry over the same child
from one school year to the next.
