Sponsorship Selection : Criteria & Process -

Criteria for sponsorship: Economical condition of the family - Income less than Rs.6000/- per month Age 5-12 yrs in Child Record, Age 13 & above Student Record, Age 50 & above Aging record. Parent responsibility – willingness to participate in the program and improve upon their family situation giving access to quality education (child), and income generation activities (family). No of children going to school from a family Distance between school and home Girl Child Priority (at least of 50 percentage) One child policy. (Exceptions are given if economic condition is too bad) (The idea is to reach out many more families because practically everyone in the village is poor)

Process of Sponsorship: The families can apply for sponsorship to neighborhood CFCA mother groups. The CFCA mother groups nominate a committee to sit over the selection process. This elected committee oversees this process by following Project Selection Criteria policies. The application is approved if the child/ family is within the criteria. If not, the application is rejected. The approved applications are being submitted to the zonal office for further follow up. The zonal coordinator sends two staff members to visit the families to verify whether they selected child/ family is truly deserving, and willing to participate in the program activities. If found family is poor and deserving, the “Family Assessment Form” is filled in and photo is taken. It is further scrutinized and verified by the zonal coordinator before he/she really sends it to the project office. The “Family Assessment Form/record” is being digitally processed in the Project office, Bhagalpur in a presentable format ...we call it “ Family Record”. Along with the family record we attach the beneficiary photo . The digitally processed family record and child photo is being sent to UNBOUND, Kansas, USA to seek new sponsorship. The rest of the responsibility seeking sponsorship is the work of UNBOUND, Kansas, USA. Once they fetch sponsorship for a particular individual they intimate us through Welcome Letter alert. We inform the concerned family/child that he/she is sponsored. Now that the child/ family know their sponsor, they begin writing exchange of letters between them (Sponsored and sponsor). Besides writing letters it is also mandatory for the child/family to open a bank account in their name       (child & mother joint a/c) in any bank which is accessible to them, and they let us know the bank account number to which the sponsor contribution is being sent regularly until the child retires. The reason for retirement of the child could be of graduated, married, working, discontinued studies, non-cooperation, economically situation improved, migrated etc. The sponsorship benefit stops while the child retires, and the sponsor is intimated of the same through a farewell letter from the child/ family which is forwarded to his sponsor through Unbound, Kansas, USA. CFCA Mother Group Selection Committee