Sponsorship of a child in San Mateo brings hope for a better future to the sponsored child, their family, and the community.
On this page, you can sponsor a child, and now it’s also possible to make additional donations to San Mateo. You can give to the community project (shown in the far left column below), choose a special gift to help children and families, or provide help where most needed.
Your financial support and prayers are a blessing to the people of San Mateo!
Provide Food for Hungry Children
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Because of chronic unemployment and extreme poverty, many children in San Mateo are undernourished and their health and ability to thrive are at risk. Your gift will help build a well-equipped community kitchen where parents will learn to provide nutritious meals for their hungry children—and also assist families in income generation so they can better afford the food they need. Read more.
Gifts for San Mateo, Colombia
Clothing to Keep a Child Warm
The altitude in San Mateo is about 7,000 feet above sea level, and it can get very cold. Children in families that cannot afford warm clothing are susceptible to respiratory illness and other diseases. Your gift of a sweatsuit (heavy shirt and pants) will protect a boy or girl from the cold and provide warmth and comfort. Read more.
$30 gift
Musical Instruments for Children
Change a child’s life through the gift of music. Your gift will be used to buy musical instruments so children in San Mateo can attend music classes, feel the hope and joy that comes from learning and creativity, and experience a positive alternative to involvement with youth gangs. Read more.
$100 Gift
A Storage Tank for Safe Water
Without access to safe drinking water, children are at risk for illnesses such as acute diarrhea, infections by parasites, and skin diseases. Your gift will provide a 500 liter (132 gallon) storage tank to provide pure, uncontaminated water for an entire family. Read more.
$175 gift
Sponsor a Child
As a child sponsor, you are connected with one special child who will write to you, and feel your tender love and prayers. Your child sponsorship monthly pledge of $30 will provide a child with things such as clean water, nutritious food, health care, educational opportunities, and spiritual nurture—and give hope and assistance to an entire community.
Where Help is Most Needed
A gift, in any amount, to this "where most needed" fund will expand the important work in San Mateo already being accomplished with the gifts we receive from our generous sponsors.
Donate to World Vision
Giving a gift where most needed throughout the world is a great way to provide essential help to some of the world’s most vulnerable children and families. Your gift to World Vision's general fund allows us to respond quickly to those suffering from the effects of disaster, famine, poverty and neglect.
