Give These Children A Reason To Hope

SPONSOR A CHILD
Children sitting around table eating spaghetti at FAD community center

More than a monthly gift, it’s a relationship.

What Child Sponsorship Provides

Every dollar of your monthly sponsorship goes directly to the Queimadas Community Center in Brazil. Since all US operations are run by volunteers who also cover their own costs, 100% of your contribution supports the children.

Your sponsorship isn’t earmarked for one child alone; it goes into a shared fund that supports every child at the center, whether they have a sponsor yet or not. This fund covers the center’s operations, staff payroll, and daily meals for the children. Your sponsorship supports your child and all of the others as well.

As a sponsor, you’ll get updates on your child’s progress and can write letters back and forth with them. We believe giving is a two-way street; the relationships built through sponsorship bless both the giver and the receiver.

Children Waiting For A Sponsor

What You’ll Experience As A Sponsor

Sponsor A Child

Choose a child to sponsor for $50/month.
If you can’t afford a full sponsorship, we offered shared sponsorships at $25/month.

Stay Connected

You’ll receive photos, letters, and news from our Community Center in Queimadas, so you can get to know your sponsored child. You can reach out to your sponsored child at any time here.

Watch A Life Change

See exactly where your support goes and the difference it makes for your individual child and the community center as a whole.

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Why Sponsor Through Making A Difference Ministries?

100% Reaches Brazil

Our board covers every US admin cost, so nothing is taken off the top of your gift.

Small &
Local

Small enough to know their
names, big enough to make
an impact.

More Than A Relationship

Daily physical, emotional,
and spiritual needs are met,
not just friendship.

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Rated

Verified nonprofit transparency and accountability.

What Life Is Like for Our Sponsored Children

A Typical Day

FAD currently serves about 120 children and teenagers, while around 80 more are still waiting for a place in the program. Many come from families facing poverty, unemployment, single-parent homes, or grandparents raising grandchildren. Some also face violence, addiction in the family, and a lack of support or opportunity.

Because of limited resources, most children in Brazil only have access to half of a day at school. A typical child spends their day between school and FAD, attending one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. They usually spend about four hours at school and four hours at the center, often walking or using school transport to get there.

What We Provide

For many children, Making A Difference Ministries is much more than an after-school program. It is a place where they are known, loved, safe, and encouraged. It provides meals, education, stability, positive relationships, and hope in an environment where they are valued and supported. We also give children a safe alternative to spending time on the streets, helping protect them from negative influences such as drug use and gang involvement while guiding them toward a future filled with purpose and opportunity. Learning English in our program provides huge economic opportunities for these children as they grow into adults.

Sponsorship makes this possible. It allows children to be part of FAD, receive daily care, and grow in a safe environment. More than meeting basic needs, sponsorship is an investment in a child’s future and the belief that their circumstances do not define their destiny.

A bedroom inside a small home in Queimadas Brazil with green walls, bunk beds, a wood roof and a mosquito net
a girl inside her mostly empty room in Queimadas Brazil with a bed, pink backpack and green curtains
a family inside their home in queimadas brazil
The inside of a small kitchen in a brick home in Queimadas, Brazil

Testimonials

A woman posing with three young girls at the FAD center in Brazil

Mary Wagner, Sponsor

I started sponsoring MAD Ministries in February of 2007. In October of that same year, I went on my first mission trip…
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Frequently Asked Questions

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