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Sponsor a Child

Your sponsorship funds a full year of therapy, assistive devices, school fees and family support for one child, with regular updates on their progress.

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Why sponsorship works

Individual change is where social change begins

DRRA believes meaningful social change can start with one person. When an individual gains rights, access, education and inclusion, they can become an agent of change β€” first in their family, then their community, and eventually more widely.

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Individual

Rights, access, therapy, education and inclusion for one person

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Family

Reduced caregiving burden, new income, shared hope

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Community

Community leadership, ownership and participation grow

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Society

Local change contributes to wider, systemic change

Community is never separate from individual support β€” DRRA works directly with communities at every step, not around them.

Our Sponsorship Guideline

How we choose and tell sponsorship stories

Every sponsorship story DRRA publishes follows an internal guideline built around consent, dignity and verified information. This is a summary of that guideline, not the full internal document.

Story for Change

What happened to this person, and what measurably changed in their life, health, education or income.

Story for Inclusion

How accessibility, rights and participation opened doors that were previously closed.

Story for Empowerment

How the person, and often their family, moved from receiving support to leading and contributing.

Every sponsorship story is checked against DRRA's child and adult safeguarding policy before it is published. Families give informed consent for any name, photo or personal detail used, and that consent can be withdrawn at any time. Case selection favours stories that reflect the real range of DRRA's work, not only its most dramatic outcomes, so sponsors see an honest picture of what their support achieves.

Your Sponsorship Package

Not just a project. A person, a story, a change.

A sponsorship package is built to answer four questions: what happened, what changed, how the family changed, and how the community benefited.

People

Farhad β€” a child living with cerebral palsy.

Story

DRRA funded physiotherapy, a necessary operation, and his education.

Change

He was later supported to organise, build capacity and develop leadership skills.

Impact

Today Farhad leads an organisation that works with young people in his community.

This is one real, documented example of a DRRA sponsorship journey. Read Farhad's full story β†’

Choose a sponsorship type

Every sponsorship covers the essentials

Sponsor Therapy

Physiotherapy & rehabilitation, 1 year

$540 / yr
Sponsor Education

School fees, supplies & tutoring, 1 year

$960 / yr
Sponsor Assistive Devices

Wheelchair, hearing aid, or mobility aid

from $180
Sponsor Livelihood

Family vocational training & enterprise support

$720 / yr
Full Sponsorship

Therapy + education + family livelihood support

$1,800 / yr

Start your sponsorship

Our team will contact you with your sponsored child's profile and payment options (bKash, bank transfer or PayPal). Sponsors receive progress updates twice a year.

What sponsors receive

What sponsors receive

πŸ“Έ Progress updates
Biannual photo & report updates on your sponsored child
βœ‰οΈ Direct connection
Exchange letters and messages through our programme team
🧾 Full transparency
Itemised annual report on exactly how funds were used