Sponsor a Special Child
Bring joy to an exceptional individual…
Today we have 25 children and young adults living in Kelly’s House.
Each child has one or more severe physical or mental disabilities requiring full-time care of our amazing staff. We need Sponsors to partner with us to ensure these exceptional children who have known poverty and loneliness from a culture where they are often hidden from view – even in 2024. Our aim at Kelly’s House is to provide companionship, love, and professional medical care to enable children to achieve their highest potential and greatest quality of life. Your monthly support of $40 enables us to do just that.
Through a gift of Sponsorship, you and your family are truly Saving Lives at Kelly’s House.
In Guatemala, those affected by developmental disorders, physical disabilities, and other special needs are often the most marginalized in impoverished rural communities. The child mortality rate for children with special needs in Guatemala is among the highest in the Western Hemisphere, and the uncomfortable reality is that these children often die from neglect and preventable causes.
Sponsorship support of helps us provide occupational, psychological and physical therapies, nutritional support, wrap-around medical services, and a safe and loving home filled with loving and medically-trained staff. Exchanging letters, small gifts, photos, and real-life hugs is where the real power of Sponsorship is found. Hope of Life encourages you and your family to visit Kelly’s House here in Guatemala: see our facility, meet our staff and experience a glimpse of daily life here on campus. We’ve got puzzles, games, and the playground is waiting! Come and see for yourself how Sponsorship is changing the lives of children with special needs in Guatemala today.
When you Sponsor a Child at Hope of Life International,
you are part of something bigger:
COMMUNITY
PARTNERSHIP
We connect with community leaders, teachers and parents to determine your child’s unique needs, then partner with them to create sustainable solutions. Our goal is to provide children with opportunity to create better futures for themselves, their families, and their communities.
PERSONAL
CONNECTION
Nothing compares to in-person hugs with your sponsored child. We invite you to come walk the village path to meet your child and see firsthand the impact of Sponsorship. You will not be the same.
Regular
Updates
Twice each year you will receive updates from your child, including updated photos to hang on the fridge! Your letters, prayers, gifts, love, and donations result in real, lasting change for your sponsored child, their family, and their community.
As in most developing countries, children with disabilities are among the most marginalized population in Guatemala. Often children born with disabilities are, at best, outcasts; at worst, they are discarded at birth or in early childhood. Kelly’s House provides full-time care for children with special needs and is dedicated to the memory of Kelly Loveland Gourley, who dedicated her short life to helping those in need before losing her battle with cancer.
“…I did not die, I lived! And now I am telling the world what God did.” Psalm 118:17
For more information about our Sponsorship Program, please call 401.421.9078 or email sponsorship@hopeoflifeintl.org