The regular support is monitored and carried out by local churches, within the framework of the Agape-Ministries programme. Besides the financial support, which guarantees the school education and basic needs of the children, most of the churches also offer private tuition and practical lessons (home work supervision and extra lessons).

Kids’ worship services on Sundays, or creative sessions with the kids during the week give the children the chance to grow up in real families, and also to be part of the church congregation and to experience the love of Jesus in their lives.

Besides sponsorships, the Agape-Ministries programme also offers free training courses for women at many locations, free private tuition at an education centre and free medical provision for people in need from the church and the surrounding area.

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Your sponsorship will enable the local church to provide for the living costs for a child in a host family, and also for the schooling (school fees, uniform, books and materials), including any private lessons needed at the tuition centre. As all the families are members of the local church, this means we have a clear overview of the development of the child and can control the costs involved.

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 Every investment in a girl is seen as a loss, as girls leave their families when they get married and therefore cannot support their parents when they reach old age.

As a consequence of this there are 2-5 million gender specific abortions per year and 250,000 girls are killed by their families after birth. Yet girls should live!

With a sponsorship you can help to save the life of an Indian girl, by financially supporting the family concerned, should they decide to allow the girl to live. This is not a personal sponsorship. In order to safeguard the families concerned, we are not able to pass on any detailed information.

The support is provided by the local church, which has regular contact to the family concerned and is able to closely monitor the well-being of the girl herself.

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On request, we would be happy to send you a short description of your chosen project at the start, so you can have a personal connection to it. In contrast to the child sponsorships, we are not able to send regular updates however.

With the help of your sponsorships the local church is able to carry out various offers of Agape-Ministries and thereby support above all children, pastors, widows and other financially and socially disadvantaged people.

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With the help of a sponsorship, the local church can support a widow financially. This takes place either through financial support, or by providing material support via the local church (food, clothes, day centre), or a combination of these offers. The widows are mostly active in the church, depending on their age and state of health.

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With this sponsorship a pastor can be freed to carry out his ministry. Often churches in poorer areas, or newly founded churches are not able to support a pastor financially. The sponsorship will guarantee the family a warm meal every day and cover the costs of their rent and school fees.

A further form of support is to sponsor a water buffalo, or dairy cow for pastors in persecuted areas, in order to enable them to provide for their daily living. 

We keep in regular contact to the pastors, who are not only financially supported but also spiritually encouraged.

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We urge you to “adopt” this unreached Hindu group of people and to pray regularly for them!

With the help of your sponsorship, staff from the local churches can regularly provide aid for these people and in particular support children and other financially and socially disadvantaged people.

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Child sponsorships can be taken out for the sum of 30 Euro per Month.

Girl sponsorships help save a life for 30 Euro per month.

Widow sponsorships cover the living costs of a widow for 30 Euro per month.

Pastor sponsorships are covered with 100 Euro per month.

Sponsorships for a project from Agape-Ministries (sewing school, clinic, tuition centre or tea picking project) can be taken out for any amount. 

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Taking on a sponsorship is easy and it can be cancelled at any time. You decide whether you wish to pay by monthly bank transfer, or whether we can take the money from your account by direct debit (the cheaper option). In each case you will receive a confirmation of your donation and the purpose.

We will keep you informed. You will receive our India Newsletter four times a year, with details of the various CIfI projects. As a sponsor you will also receive the biannual sponsor’s newsletter with current news regarding our sponsorships. (For security reasons these newsletters will be sent by letter post.)

Small print
Regrettably, it is not possible to have any personal contact to a child sponsored either by letter, or to send presents and invitations. Research has shown that this kind of preference of individual children does not do them any good. Interested parties however, do have the possibility to visit one of our churches – provided they are culturally well-prepared – as part of the short-term mission outreach trips scheme (info: einsatz@cifi.de).

We do not arrange adoptions, but instead we help the children to grow up within their own culture. We support them in carrying out their vocational training and beyond, so that as people who value life, they will have the chance to co-form their society.

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The young girl of that time has now become a young lady full of faith and hope, with a college degree and a bright perspective for the future. Today she invests her time, her love, her knowledge and her gifts, in giving private tuition free of charge and for three hours to about 40 children from difficult family backgrounds. She is able to show them just how valuable they are and that God has hope and a future for them and their city!