A direct sponsorship with Back to Life is possible for 50 EUR or 75 EUR per month.
This is due to the fact that the effort for a sponsorship program in Nepal as well as in Germany is very high and of course we want to guarantee a high quality and consistent support for both the children and the sponsors.
Additional staff and some logistical costs are essential for home visits to families and for reporting and exchanging letters. Thus, in addition to contributing to the well-being of the child and his or her family, the sponsorship program must also cover its own costs.
Since Back to Life does not want to offer the sponsorship program as a mass product, economies of scale of these operational costs are limited. This means that through the monthly amount we ensure that even as a small organisation in development aid we can guarantee high-quality care for sponsored children.
With a school sponsorship, the monthly donations regularly support our school projects. In the process, many students and schools benefit from your support.
In a school sponsorship, there is no direct contact with a specific child. We inform our school sponsors about the progress of our educational projects through our magazine “namaste”, which is published three times a year. The monthly amount can be freely chosen and flexibly adjusted according to their financial situation.
The gifts for your sponsored child and his or her siblings or family can be purchased directly on site by our staff in Nepal according to your budgetary requirements and ideas. This is more cost effective as there are no international transport costs, supports the local economy, is quick and is also environmentally responsible. In addition, there have unfortunately been problems with customs again and again in the past.
Therefore, we hope for your understanding that no gifts will be sent from Germany to Nepal, but will be purchased locally, taking your wishes into account.
We would like to point out that most of the sponsored children have siblings and that the privilege of a gift from Germany for a single child may lead to disappointment or resentment among siblings without their own sponsor. Therefore, we welcome ideas for gifts that can be shared below the siblings.
There are two options for choosing gifts:
You are welcome to get in touch with your godchild. The easiest way is to send us an e-mail with your message and if necessary to send a photos to children@back-to-life.org. Alternatively, you can send your message to our office in Bad Homburg by mail. You can write the message for your godchild in German or English. We will then forward your letter to your godchild. In order to make the contact as quick and inexpensive as possible, we transmit your message electronically to our colleagues in Nepal. There, the sponsor mail is printed out and then personally handed over to your sponsored child, if necessary with a translation into Nepalese.
A response can take up to three months. In most cases it is quicker, but as some places are very remote and difficult to reach, especially in winter or the rainy season, it can sometimes take longer. Please feel free to contact us at children@back-to-life.org to inquire about the current status.
We would be happy to enable you to visit your sponsored child in Nepal, should you decide to take this holiday trip. However, we cannot act as a tour operator, the planning and financing of the trip would have to be ensured by yourself.
Of course, we are happy to arrange a meeting with your godchild on site.
We would be delighted if you would share your sponsorship with family and friends and perhaps even inspire others to do so. However, you should not make any information or pictures of the child publicly available, because apart from general data protection regulations, according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the child also has the right not to have his or her data published without consent. However, you are welcome to tell us about your sponsored child, e.g. by using the general information about the region or the living conditions that we provide.
Support through a direct sponsorship with Back to Life e.V. can be provided up to the completion of the 12th grade. When your sponsored child successfully graduates from high school, you will have traveled a long, crucial road together. The end of the sponsorship in this case is a real reason for joy. You have played a decisive role in ensuring that your godchild can now venture the start of a self-determined adult life. Wish your godchild all the best for his or her future path and review the development of the last few years. If you wish to enable another child to follow this path, we will be happy to make a proposal for a new direct sponsorship for a child in need.
Please understand that communication can only take place via our office (email) and not directly between you and your godchild (by post or telephone). This is done, among other things, for reasons of duty of care, logistics as well as data protection.
Your sponsorship can be cancelled at any time and ends in the same month of your announcement. Notice should be given in writing, but an email is sufficient.
Please use the e-mail address children@back-to-life.org.
In our response, we will confirm receipt of your cancellation and termination of your sponsorship. Direct debit mandates will be terminated accordingly by us on the requested date. If you have set up a standing order with Back to Life e.V., please remember to cancel it with your bank.
If the sponsored child moves with his or her parents to another district where Back to Life does not work, if the child finishes school, drops out of school or marries, the direct sponsorship ends.
We would also like to take your personal preferences and ideas into account when arranging sponsor children. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with a selection of children for data protection reasons.
Primary and secondary education in Nepal is based on a so-called 10+2 system, whereby students (can) attend school for a total of 12 years. The grades are divided into 4 phases:
In most states of Nepal, English is taught as a school subject from the first grade, and in private schools English is the language of instruction. But even in public schools, the language of instruction is increasingly being switched to English. Basically, this differs from municipality to municipality because the government has given the municipalities the responsibility for education. In our schools in Chitwan and Mugu there is currently only one compulsory English subject from the first grade, all other subjects are taught in Nepali.
Back to Life e.V.
61348 Bad Homburg