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You can sponsor an Australian child today

How does child sponsorship work?

When you sponsor a child, your donations of $55 a month are combined with that of another sponsor to provide your sponsored child with three key pillars of support:

School uniforms and excursions

Financial support to pay for books, shoes and a complete school uniform, as well extra-curricular activities like school excursions.

Matched with personalised, tailored support

Our Learning for Life Coordinators provide on the ground support with student's schooling and links them to local learning opportunities.

Access to learning support and tutoring

Ongoing access to our out-of-school learning and mentoring programs to help students build the skills to thrive at school and beyond.

Who can your sponsorship help?

Meet one of our graduates

Lily didn’t think she’d make it through high school.

“I was raised by my single mum in a home filled with love, but also hardship,” she says. “We had a lot to cope with. Money was tight. I wasn't enjoying school and I probably would have dropped out.”

But when she was 12 The Smith Family came into Lily’s life.

Child sitting on a chair with a teddy bear.
As a child Lily was raised in a home filled with love, but also hardship.
young woman sitting at a table with a laptop looking at the camera and smiling
Today Lily is working in public relations.

Sponsorship changed everything. "I realised there were these kind strangers helping me”.

“My sponsors kept me motivated, even when things were really tough.” Through sponsorship, Lily received school essentials and dedicated learning support.


Lily’s hard work paid off. After school, and with support from her sponsors, she studied journalism at university. Today, she works in Public Relations. “I’m living my dream, and it’s made my mum so proud!”

As a child sponsor you can...

Create a Sponsor Profile

Kick-start communication with your sponsored student by sending them your Sponsor Profile. Here, you can introduce yourself and start building a deeper connection.

Communicate with your student

Through our secure My Smith Family portal, you can communicate with your student, including messages of support. Correspondence with your student is entirely optional.

Send gifts to your sponsored student

We will send you birthday reminders so you can send on birthday wishes and/or gifts such as books and vouchers to your sponsored student.

Sponsor a child today for less than the price of a coffee a day.

You can cancel at any time. We make sure that your student continues to receive support until we can match them with a new sponsor.
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1 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Consumer Price Index: Tables 1 and 2, All Groups, Australia, Date Range: Jul 2022 to Mar 2024.
2 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Consumer Price Index: Tables 3 and 4, All Groups, Australia, Date Range: Jul 2022 to Mar 2024.