By sponsoring an SOS village community, you also support the wider community. A village sponsorship pays for carers and teachers, schoolbooks, uniforms and food, as well as providing access to good healthcare, clean water and building maintenance. It also funds community projects including our family strengthening programmes which help families in the wider area to stay together. 80 pence in every £1 you donate is spent in the country where you sponsor, the remaining 20 pence enables us to put the strongest safeguarding mechanisms in place to protect children, ensure our programmes have a measurable impact on the lives of vulnerable children, and that we have good governance. It is also invested in fundraising, so we can protect and care for even more children around the world.