Of course, we suggest writing short letters in plain language and using the language spoken in the child’s Country (English, French or Portuguese). This is how to write to the child you sponsor:
we will give you the address of our local premise where the letter shall be addressed (please do not write your address as sender to avoid possible inappropriate request from third parties)
we will supply you with a phrase book with useful sentences and expressions in the local language
we will deliver your letter to the child and we will inform you when he will have received it;
- it will be the child to decide whether to answer or not. Many of them have not learnt to write yet or are just too shy to write to someone they do not know personally.
If you have already planned your journey, please write to info@weworld.it or call 848 883 388. It is important to contact us at least one month before departure to better coordinate your visit with the work of our local operators.
We will give you all the necessary information, maps and instructions on how reach the child’s community.
Once arrived, our operators will welcome you and show you the results achieved THANKS TO ALL THE PEOPLE LIKE YOU!
A monthly donation to any of the projects that we run in the Countries where we work is also a steady and effective way to contribute to WeWorld’s mission.
Long distance sponsorship is a hug that feeds and warms, that is help and love. A hug that can offer a child the opportunity of having a future. Thanks to your sponsorship, your child will have the chance of attending school and getting adequate food and health care.
You can express a preference but WeWorld’s priority will always be to help children from areas that are most in need at the moment of your request, identified on the basis of the reports from our local operators or from the various local partners with which we cooperate.
To send a gift to the child, for instance for Christmas, is a lovely and generous act but keep in mind that not all the children involved in our projects are so lucky as to be sponsored by a person like you. For these other children, it would be difficult to understand and accept that only some of them receive gifts. You can imagine their disappointment… we do not want discriminations between children! Moreover, to get gifts from local postal offices is often an operation involving several bureaucratic difficulties and sometimes customs duties are so high that exceed the gift’s value. This is why we advise against sending gifts to a sponsored child. There are other means to show your generosity. Using one of the postal forms we will send you or though the dedicated sections of www.weworld.it, you can make a donation that will become your gift to all the children in the community where the child you sponsor lives.
Most children start working while others keep studying and attend secondary school, which unfortunately is not covered by our programmes. As soon as your child’s primary school cycle ends, we will inform you and will offer you the chance to sponsor another child who is still attending primary school.
In Italy, donors (natural persons) are allowed to detract from gross tax (IRPEF) an amount equal to 26% of the donation for a maximum of 30.000 Euros (art.15 comma 1.1 DPR 917/86). Alternatively, donors can deduct donations up to 10% of their gross income but not exceeding 70.000 Euros (art.14 Dl.35/05). Donations should be made through traceable payment methods.
You can help us in several ways:
donate to us the 5×1000 of your individual income tax return by filling in the dedicated form field “Sostegno delle organizzazioni non lucrative di utilità sociale” with our tax code 97241280151
make a one-time donation whenever you wish or during one of our special campaigns (for instance during the Christmas period). Call us at +39 02 56 81 19 38 or send us an e-mail at info@weworld.it to ask for more information
choose our bonbonnières or party favours to celebrate your wedding or a special moment in your life with the children involved in our projects; call us at +39 02 56 81 19 38 or send us an e-mail to bombonieresolidali@weworld.it
support us through your company; contact us at phone number +39 02 55 23 11 93 or send us an e-mail to corporate@weworld.it
An individual or a group of people such as a school class or a company.
Your help reaches the child through services (food, healthcare, education), we do not give money directly to the children or to their families. Your donation is dedicated to development projects realized in the community where the child lives.
If you wish you can go to meet the child you sponsor in his home Country, in his village.
Imagine the emotion of meeting him personally, hearing his voice, feeling his arms around you while you return his hug with all of your love – the love of somebody who is beside him and supports him every day. Think about the joy of such hug! You will see where he lives, the difficulties he faces every day and at the same time you will get to know the results of what we are achieving, thanks to your support, through our projects on the ground. At WeWorld we think it is important that is you see with your own eyes how we work day by day. We will send you all the necessary information to reach the place where we work as well as suggestions for the accommodation. Our operators will accompany you during your visit. All we ask of you is that you inform us of your journey at least one month in advance for organisational reasons.
Usually relatives take care of him or her because family bounds are very strong inside communities.
Our target is to make the local population self-sustaining, therefore the time span of our intervention varies from Country to Country.