Tesfa Foundation kindergartens are funded largely by private donations. Your $21 a month pays the entire cost of one child’s education for one year. Become a child sponsor and you can follow your child’s progress and correspond directly with them. Find out firsthand what your help means.

Why sponsor a kindergartener? With no publicly funded options in early childhood education, an unsponsored child would stay home during these critical developmental years.

What happens to the children after kindergarten? The Tesfa Foundation stands by its alumni. Through partnerships, through sponsorships, through after-school tutoring, we will ensure our children’s opportunities for educational excellence - all the way to college.

If you despair of change ever being possible in this part of the world, we challenge you - how will it happen, except through education? Will you turn away from these children simply because of the misery they’ve inherited? Or will you choose to make a difference?

Sponsorship strategy: Get to know our programs. Every year, we introduce you to a new child in a different program. Learn about Ethiopia and about Ethiopia's children – city, town, and village – by renewing your sponsorship each year.

Sponsorship policy: In the interests of privacy and security, we discourage direct contact between sponsor and child. All communications flow through our Ethiopia office. But we do guarantee delivery of all appropriate communications.