Christian Foundation for Children and Aging (CFCA)

Updated: January 14, 2009 | Hunger and Poverty Relief |

CFCA is a sponsorship model organization helping families in developing countries put food on the table and send their children to school. It was established in 1981. It now works in 25 countries around the world and has over 300,000 people in the sponsorship program. CFCA believes in the potential of the poor to effect change in their own lives and in our world. We don’t see poverty. We see potential. We help families in developing countries put food on the table, send their children to school, access health care and have a decent place to live so that together, we can end the cycle of poverty.

How we work

We bring people together through a sponsorship model in which one sponsor partners with one child or aging friend in a developing country, offering support and encouragement. This relationship impacts not only the child or aging friend but the sponsor as well. CFCA is unique in that it offers not only the opportunity to sponsor children but also elderly people. Sponsors have the opportunity to visit their sponsored friend, and they can get to know their friend by exchanging letters.

Financially Responsible

CFCA stewardship has consistently garnered the highest ratings from independent oversight organizations, including the American Institute of Philanthropy and Charity Navigator. CFCA meets all 20 of the Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance’s rigorous Standards for Charity Accountability. In 2007 total program support represented 94.7 percent of CFCA’s expenses.