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Sponsorships are available in the following countries:
Iraq, Afghanistan, Ghana, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Sierra Leone
For $55 a month a donor will provide an orphan with food, clothing, shelter, education and healthcare. Sponsors are encouraged to correspond with their orphans and orphans are encouraged to correspond with their sponsors on a regular basis.
Many sponsors provide additional funds for their orphans for the following reasons:
- Special gifts at Ramadan
- Special gifts at Eid Al-Adha
- Other special occasions
- Surgical procedures that the orphan may need
- Dental procedures that may require additional funds
- Special requests by individual orphans
Each year, the sponsor will receive an orphan update as part of the program which includes.
When a sponsor signs up for the orphan program they will receive their first orphan sponsorship packet by mail within 2 to 6 weeks:
- A letter from their orphan
- A recent photograph
- School reports for the year
- New and updated information about the orphan and his/her family
Life has other programs in place in each country of operation that help enhance the lives of orphans, these programs include:
- Orphans in need of medical treatment/surgeries outside of their country are sent to receive treatment by Life
- Food baskets given to orphans and their families during Ramadan
- Udhiya/Qurbani meat is distributed to orphans during Eid Al Adha
- Special parties are arranged for Life’s ‘Back to School’ program in many countries
- Through Life’s in-kind program in some countries Life provides English books to orphans that are donated by publisher’s in the US
- Life has a well established orphan sponsorship program in 8 countries and is serving the needs of over 3,700 orphans on a daily basis
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