Sponsor A Student

You will be assigned a student in the months before the new academic year begins. A profile of the student including some basic information on the student’s family will also be emailed to you.

During the course of the academic school year, your sponsored student will send thank you notes, a year-end greeting card and their school report card to you via email.

For illustration purpose, the following is the schedule of how a sponsored student from the Philippines will connect with you:

The following are the countries that Care Channels presently offers the Education Sponsorship programme and the respective academic calendars. Actual dates may shift from year to year:

For illustration, the following chart provides a breakdown of how your sponsorship is typically used in the Philippines. Sponsorship allocations differ from country to country.

What is common in all the countries is that your sponsorship will be utilised entirely for the running of the programme to benefit your sponsored student. Deficits, where expenses exceed sponsorship amount received, are covered wholly by Care Channels.

CCI Operational Cost in the above illustration reflects expenses such as programme materials, briefings, etc. It does not cover the overheads of Care Channels. Care Channels relies on donations to finance its overheads and the running of various health and livelihood programmes for the poor.

The ES programme is run with the assistance of volunteer partners who are physically located in the communities where the students live. The Coordinators Operational Cost captures support offered to these volunteer partners to cover expenses relating to their role. These include transportation and banking as they visit all students in their ward on a monthly basis to check on the well-being of the students and their families, as well as distributing allowances and nutritional supplements.

Yes, token gifts for occasions such as birthdays may be sent to your student via our office. We send things to our various overseas location on a regular basis and we will forward them to your student for you. We suggest the gifts to be no more than S$10 in value.

Procedure – pack your gift in a box / bag – do not seal. On a separate sheet of paper, indicate (a) your name, (b) your student’s name, (c) your email address.

E-cards and notes that are transmittable by email will be scanned and emailed to your student through our local office.

Yes, visits to your sponsored student can be arranged. We organise regular trips to the various countries that Care Channels operates in. Please indicate your interest by writing to us at edu.sponsor@carechannels.org

Tax deduction for donations made to charities in Singapore is determined by the accordance of IPC status by the Commissioner of Charities. The IPC status is exclusively granted to benefit the Singapore local community.

Care Channels currently is not granted an IPC status by the Commissioner as the majority of its programmes run in countries outside of Singapore ; Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand and Timor Leste.

For more information on the granting of IPC, please visit: https://www.charities.gov.sg/Pages/Charities-and-IPCs/IPCs/About-IPCs.aspx