Sponsor a Child

1) By helping the child to find his family and to live a path of forgiveness and reconciliation.

To find one own roots it is to find the peace; afterward, by asking to the parents to cooperate, we can envisage a school, a training school, and a work. But this stage is very often unsuccessful: the wounds of these children are so deep than they will take a very long time for healing.

2) By sponsoring the child.

For the Pilgrims of Charity the best way of fighting against the instability is the sponsoring. We propose to the child a godfather / godmother, with whom he is united by a contract:

• To establish between the child and his godfather / godmother, a personal link based on the affection and the trust, the link which becomes a reality by two annual letters, the exchange of photos, sharing of their story (both from the side of the godfather / godmother and of the side of P.C. Boys) and a possible visit of the godfather / godmother to Calcutta. This link of affection and trust can also become a reality by the possibility of informing the godfather / godmother of the particular problems which their godchild can meet (we had to request recently certain godfathers to help release their imprisoned godchild or still on the occasion of the death of their father).
• To give to the child an informal schooling: twice a week, on Tuesday and Thursdays, by coming to our school, he will receive a schooling adapted to his own life. To take him out of its usual place of survival, mainly the railway station, he has to stay two nights a week in our night shelter.
• To help the child to find a work or an accelerated training (some work with us).
• By this contract the godfather / godmother undertakes to support the child for a minimal duration of 3 years by overturning him 60 euro every month by direct debit, half being handed to him after having taught him to manage a budget, other half being placed on an account in which he will have access when he will be an adult, will have a situation and will want to start a family.

This strategy of sponsoring involve a whole organization in particular the implementation of two co-workers (SH Coop) who have for mission of:

• Favor relationships between the children and the godfathers / godmothers: exchange of mail, photos.
• Translate both annual letters.
• Guarantee a punctual relation, that is to inform the child or the godfather / godmother of such or such event.
• Make sure of the good management of the money. For India, the coordinator is Wasim and for France, they are Samuel and Fiji Path.

3) By being with them and by helping them to go out of certain dramatic situations in which they can be: drug addiction, prostitution or still disease.

Pilgrims of Charity work in very narrow links with three organizations:

• Interreligious Community of Development (ICOD)
• Birds and Friends of the Air (FBA)
• Shining Eyes (SE)

Pilgrims of Charity also cooperate, when it is possible, with the police (GRP / RPF) to release those who are in prison by finding them a place where they can envisage a new life.

For any request of further information or to participate in the program of sponsoring, do not hesitate to contact our coordinators Sophie et Cédric Morel, by e-mail to their attention: pilgrimsofcharity@gmail.com

At the moment donations are only possible by check (do not send notes by mail) and make out to the Pilgrims of Charity.