The way to your sponsorship

How do I become godfather?
Simply fill out the appropriate form and send you it to us.

How long does a sponsorship last?
It begins whit your application for sponsorship and ends when the child leaves the orphanage or the school. The Govinda-godparenthood does not have a temporal delimitation. Of course you can quit each sponsorship at any time. A short written information is sufficient.

Are there legal obligations connected with a sponsorship?
No, your signature obligates you to no performances, activities or observance of periods. As mentioned you can dissolve the sponsorship at any time.

Can I let my sponsorship »rest« without quitting?
Yes, after a written information we will continue your sponsorship noncontributory for some time.

Can I save taxes with a sponsorship?
The Govinda development aid association is recognized as non-profit and charitable by German authorities. At the beginning of the next year you'll get a receipt for your donations of the past year. According to the standards of your country you may use these to save taxes.

How can I help otherwise?
By recommending us, telling your friends about Govinda, giving us possibilities for newspaper articles, film lectures ... or help us at events. We also need support by trainees in Nepal and look for used materials for school projects.

With your monthly support of 18,- € with a full, or 9,- € with a half school sponsorship you give a child from a poor and underprivileged family a chance for a better future. Your sponsorship enables the child to get education, which would be too expensive for the family in the Nepalese educational system. So you contribute to a positive development of the families and villages enable the coming generation to find a way out of the poverty by own knowledge and abilities. The bad living conditions of the families require the cooperation of the children, what often means work on the field or in small family businesses. In order to create a balance between the requirements of the hard everyday life of the families and the school achievements, a support program was created directly in the villages of the children, by which they get intensive support, without having to neglect their family obligations. Most of these children need much educational support to be able to pass the final examination. The support program offers the chance to be able to keep up with the class and forms the consciousness of the children having faith in their own possibilities and abilities.

You finance:

• Education, including all school books etc.
• as well as leisure and creative offers of the school
• The daily nutrition at school
• Medical investigations and precaution
• Extra help and homework support in the support program
• The coordinator, who is active in the villages
• Transport between school and village

We send you:

• An annual development report of the sponsored child and current pictures
• 3 times a year the news brochure about the development of the projects and associations

With a Training sponsorship of 13,- € monthly you support a child to learn an occupation in our training centre. Beginning in the sixth class carpentry, pottery, agriculture and housekeeping are taught in modules. A nationally certified occupation certification can be attained by three-month intensive course after graduation. Thus the young people have better chances on the job market. They can open own workshops or small businesses or find an employment. Your sponsorship saves the child from the fate of becoming a daytaller, who spends the earned money already in the evening on nutrition for the family, without knowing whether he will find work the next day. Your sponsorship offers the only chance on vocational training. A project-own work mediator helps to find an employment with fair conditions after graduation.

You finance:

• 2 of 4 selected vocational modules
• all necessary materials and teaching materials
• the costs of the national examination and the intensive course before
• Participation in different Workshops like e.g. wind and solar energy, bio agriculture
• Computer course
• The work of a work mediator

We send you:

• An annual development report of the sponsored child and current pictures
• 3 times a year the news brochure about the development of the projects and associations

Your monthly support of 46,- € with a full, or 23,- € with a half sponsorship pays for a place of a orphan in our orphanage home. Here the child gets a family and thus a place, where it experiences security, love and affection and can realize and develop its personality, its childlike curiosity and creativity. You help us to assure appropriate personnel in the project too, in order to be able to care for the children individually and personally and keep up with the challenges of the group. Furtheron you sponsor regular support by a child psychologist, intensive contact to the teacher team and exchange with other orphanages. The loss of their parents, a life on the street or heaviy work in their infancy often leave deep scars in the hearts of the children. A positive life feeling, confidence in themselves and the fellow men, understanding of their own situation as an orphan and the origin from poverty are only some of the main topics in the pedagogical support of the children in the Shangrila project and the emphasis of our integration plan. You help us facing these challenges and assure a healthy, holistic and positive development of the children in a family environment. Your sponsorship is the basis for the life and development of a child.

You finance:

• Nutrition, clothes, medical support
• Education and all school materials
• Family support by trained personnel
• Leisure offers, creative offers
• Integration measures

We send you:

• The annual development report of the child and current pictures
• 3 times a year the news brochure about the development of the projects and associations

With a sponsorship of 25,- € monthly you help us to carry out development assistance in the poorest regions Nepal. The average life expectancy in the project region is 40 years, the relation of doctors to patients is about 1:8.000 and the illiteracy rate 75%. These facts oblige us to help the people there. Primarily the self initiative of the village population is promoted and supported. With the Westnepal sponsorship you finance the Outreach program in favor of 3643 persons in four villages, in which 128 students of the subjects agriculture, health and engineering develop their abilities and talents in favor of and with the population of village. The personal contact with the population and the lasting development of the community are the main target. We support the people in agriculture, health care and engineering, thus promoting their self confidence in recognizing own strengths. Your sponsorship helps students and village inhabitants directly and lastingly to find a way to reduce the poverty and improve the living conditions. Besides this you also help to keep up existing projects, like the mentioned SVTC, and extend their standard.

You finance:

• The practical training of the students of the Karnali Technical School Jumla
• The nutrition and accommodation of the students during their work in the municipalities
• The work of the coordinators active in the village municipalities
• Transport between school and village

We send you:

• The annual development report of the project
• 3 times a year the news brochure about the development of the projects and associations

With a monthly amount of your own choice you support our entire humanitarian work and help us to master conception, development and conversion of new plans. You enable us to support people in need outside the scope of our regular projects. With your help we can extend our work for lasting improvements. Hundreds of persons living in poverty profit from the support of sponsorships directly and unbureaucratically. Their living conditions are improved by medical assistance, infrastructure improvement or education.

You finance:

• food and clothes for families
• construction of the Shree Udaya Kharka government school for 750 children in Neopane Gaon
• the heart operation for an eight-year old girl and other surgical operations and prostheses
• eye doctors', dentists' and gynaecologists' camps
• medicine transportation for leprosy hospitals and hospitals
• development and conversion of the integration plan for our orphans
• extension of our scholarship program
• further training of the staff in medicine, pedagogics or development assistance
• further costs of all projects

We send you:

• 3 times a year the news brochure about the development of the projects and associations