Sponsorship Waiting List
Our Sponsorship Waiting List of children needing sponsorship is regularly updated. Please see below to see the children and read their stories. You can help change their lives. To sponsor, click here and remember to input the name the child you would like to sponsor. Each sponsorship is set at $40 USD per month.
Important notice: please review the years remaining of school for each student. We kindly ask that sponsors commit to supporting students for this amount of time as we never want to tell students they no longer have a sponsor. If you would like to donate monthly, without a minimum time commitment and flexible amounts, please see our Champions for Children Program.
Komang Desi
Current Grade: 8
Years of Sponsorship Required: 4 years and 6 months
Desi is the middle child of five daughters. Her two younger sisters are still in primary school, while her second oldest sister just graduated from senior high school last year. Her older sister could continue school since she was being sponsored through BCP. Currently, her older sister works, but she has to pay for her family’s debt on top of her living expenses. So, her older sister cannot help with Desi’s school expenses. Her oldest sister is married and lives separately.
Kadek Fiona
Current Grade: 9
Years of Sponsorship Required: 3 years and 5 months
Fiona is the second child out of four children. Her older sister is in grade 12 of senior high school and could go this far in her education due to her being sponsored through BCP. Her younger brother is still in primary school and the youngest is not of school age yet. Her parents dropped out of school and have very limited skills. Her father was imprisoned for five years and they already had loans to afford their living expenses.
Kadek Dia
Current Grade: 9
Years of Sponsorship Required: 3 years and 5 months
Diah is the younger of two. She lives with her parents and her older brother. Her parents dropped out of school in primary level, while her brother dropped out in junior high school. As a result, all of them have very limited skills and can only work as laborers, earning less than the minimum wage. Diah will have to follow her brother’s footsteps if she does not get sponsored soon. She is supposed to enroll into a senior high school this June, but her parents cannot afford to take any more loans on top of their current $1,100 USD debt at the bank.
Ketut Putra
Current Grade: 7
Years of Sponsorship Required: 5 years and 5 months
Ketut is the youngest of four. He has two older brothers and one older sister. His oldest dropped out of school and is already married. Ketut often helps his oldest brother in babysitting his nephew, while his brother works as a laborer. His second oldest brother also dropped out of school and currently works as a laborer as well. He earns only enough to afford his living expenses. Both of his older brothers earn less than the minimum wage.
Nyoman Pera
Current Grade: 9
Years of Sponsorship Required: 3 years and 6 months
Pita is the older of two. She lives with her parents and her little sister, who is still in primary school. Her father used to work as a construction laborer before the pandemic. Unfortunately, since the pandemic hit Bali in March 2020 until now, her father has struggled to get his old job back and could only work odd jobs as a laborer. Her mother can only earn money by making and selling Balinese offerings in the market, which Pita has always been helping to do every day, so they could earn extra money. Both of Pita’s parents dropped out of school, so they have very limited skills. Their family income is still less than the minimum wage.
Jesita
Current Grade: 9
Years of Sponsorship Required: 3 years and 5 months
Fifteen-year-old Jesita is in grade 9 or third year of junior high school in Badung. Jesita is the older of two. She lives with her parents, little sibling, and grandmother. Her father works as a laborer, while her mother only makes and sells Balinese offerings in the market. Their combined income is still less than the minimum wage of one person in Bali. Jesita always helps her mother in making the offerings to earn extra money so she could buy meals at school. Sometimes Jesita has to go to school hungry when her parents cannot give her any money.
Nyoman Pera
Current Grade: 9
Years of Sponsorship Required: 3 years and 5 months
Pera’s father used to work as a construction laborer, earning less than half of the minimum wage. Unfortunately, he got into an accident and broke his leg, so he had to be put into recovery for six months. Ever since, her sickly mother became the main bread winner for the family. Her mother is sickly as well and had undergone a surgery. She has a chronic disease and could only work by selling various goods in the market. Her mother had to borrow money as well to purchase the goods and to pay for Pera’s father medical bills.
Made Ayulia
Current Grade: 9
Years of Sponsorship Required: 3 years and 5 months
Ayulia is the younger of two. She has an older brother who is still unemployed and cannot help with her school expenses. Her father is a rice-field laborer, and he only gets paid once every four months. Even then, his income is still less than the minimum wage. Ayulia’s mother is a housewife who makes and sells offerings. Ayulia always helps her mother in making them so they could earn extra money. Both of Ayulia’s parents dropped out of school, so they have very limited skills and can only work as laborers.
Made Riski
Current Grade: 7
Years of Sponsorship Required: 5 years and 5 months
Riski is the middle child. He has an older sister who dropped out of school due to their poverty and could only work as a daily worker. He lives with his father, stepmother, younger half-sister who is in grade two, grandmother and uncle. Riski’s mother passed away when he was two years old. Then his father remarried his current stepmother when Riski was four years old.
Luh Lila
Current Grade: 8
Years of Sponsorship Required: 4 years and 5 months
Lila is the oldest of four sisters. She lives with her parents and three younger sisters who are still in primary school and the youngest is just a baby. Lila often helps her mother in babysitting her baby sister. Her father is a small merchant in the traditional market. Her mother cannot work much since the youngest still needs a full-time care. So, her mother can only make offerings to be sold in the market. Lila and her sisters always help their mother to make more offerings so they could earn more money.
Kadek Mela
Current Grade: 10
Years of Sponsorship Required: 2 years and 5 months
Mela is the second oldest of four siblings. She has an older sister in grade 11, who receives support from the priest in their district to go to school, as her older sister also works for the priest. Otherwise, Mela’s older sister would have dropped out of school. Mela also has twin little brothers in grade one of primary school.
Juita
Current Grade: 9
Years of Sponsorship Required: 3 years and 5 months
Juita is the younger of two sisters. Although her older sister is working, she earns only enough to afford her own living expenses and cannot help with Juita’s school expenses. Her parents dropped out of school in junior high. Juita will have to follow her parents’ footsteps as well if she does not get sponsored soon.
Komang Gopal
Current Grade: 8
Years of Sponsorship Required: 4 years and 5 months
Komang is the second youngest of four siblings. His two older sisters dropped out of primary school and got married young due to poverty. His younger brother is in grade 6. Next year, his little brother will also need a sponsorship in order to continue his school.
Putu Indah
Current Grade: 8
Years of Sponsorship Required: 4 years and 5 months
Indah is in grade 8 and goes to a junior high school in Buleleng. Since her family only has one old motorbike, Indah’s father takes her to and picks her up from school. Indah is the oldest of three children in her family. She has two little brothers in grade 6 and 2, age 12 and 8 years old respectively.