Our aim in allocating sponsorships is, to assign a maximum of ten sponsors to each child and largest number of sponsorships possible to those villages with only a few sponsors or none at all.

The prospective sponsor has the chance, before taking on a sponsorship, to make their wishes known regarding the choice State in the Country, Male/Female, Age group, Specific educational stream / Professional training. The Sponsorship office is responsible for allocating sponsors to children in order to maintain a balance distribution of sponsorships to all children. We try, however, to consider the sponsor's wishes as far as possible but we do not guarantee.

To ensure that the living costs (food, clothes, schooling and vocational training, medical care, free-time activities, co-worker pay etc.) are covered, SOS Children's Village children usually have up to ten sponsors.

Only by allocating several sponsors to each child can we ensure the long-term provision for the children living in the SOS Children's Villages.

By sponsoring an SOS Child you’ll help to give the child a home, access to medical facilities, a good education and vocational training, all of which will provide the child with the skills and knowledge he/she would need to lead an independent life.

If you choose to sponsor a village, your money will help all the children living there, as well as families and children from the local community, who are free to make use of the additional facilities, such as kindergarten and medical centers.

As a sponsor you will receive an update on progress of the past year about your sponsored child / village and a New Year Greeting with a recent child / village photo and annual village report.

Additionally you will receive our regular SOS Messenger filled with news and information on our work.

You are welcome to visit your sponsored child at Children’s Village. You may contact the National Office / Children’s Village of your sponsored Child, well in advance, to arrange your visit.

You can send letters, cards, gifts directly to your sponsored child’s village, which would be handed over the child and an acknowledgment would be sent to you promptly.

Children generally are brought up in their SOS mother's faith until they are old enough to make decisions themselves. Our villages have families of different faith and if children come to us of a particular faith, we generally place them with a mother of the same faith.

You may send a crossed cheque / demand draft / M.O in favour of SOS Children’s Villages of India and can be sent by postal services or through courier along with complete personal details at A-7, Nizamuddin West, New Delhi – 110013.

Also you can pay though on line donation through our payment gateway option by clicking on ’Donate now’ window available on Home page of our website.

After receiving your contribution SOS-India will acknowledge your contribution by sending official receipt with a Welcome / Thank you letter.

In case of Child Sponsorship donor will also receive their sponsored child profile with a recent photograph.

SOS India will also provide 100% IT Exemption Certificate under section 35 AC or 50% under 80 G to the donor, if asked by donor for claiming tax exemption. However, this exemption will be valid for Resident Indians only.