Sponsor A Child
Sponsor a Child in Ukraine
Give a child a safe place to heal, a family to belong to, and hope for tomorrow.
War and poverty have taken homes, parents and childhoods. When you sponsor a child with Mission 823, you provide care, safety, healing and the hope of Jesus Christ to children who need it most.
Sponsor A ChildA Child's Future Can Change Today
Orphans, "social orphans" removed from abuse or neglect, children from poverty-stricken and underprivileged families, and children displaced and traumatized by the war are among the most vulnerable children in Europe. Without safe adults around them, they are at risk of being exploited and forgotten.
Mission 823 exists to defend, rescue and restore these children and the families who care for them. When you choose to sponsor a child, your gift goes to work through programs led by our all-Ukrainian team: family-type homes where trained adoptive and foster parents raise children who have lost their families, free healing youth camps, warm meals for hungry children, and relief for struggling families in the hardest-hit communities.
Sponsorship Is Already Changing Children's Lives
Plus hundreds more children at camps in the Carpathian Mountains, and families kept warm, fed and supplied with clean water through humanitarian relief. Read our 2025–2026 Impact Report →
Your Sponsorship Supports the Whole Child
"Child sponsorship" at Mission 823 means covering the cost of caring for a child in one of our programs. Your gift is pooled to serve every child in that program, so no child is ever left out because no one chose them.
Family Homes
Trained, licensed parents raise orphaned and vulnerable children in a real home instead of an institution.
About our family homes →
Healing Youth Camps
Free, all-inclusive camps with trauma care, healthy meals, fun and a safe place to heal.
About our youth camps →
Feeding Programs
Warm meals for hungry children every month in front-line communities like Nikopol.
See the impact →
Humanitarian Relief
Clean water, winter supplies and emergency help for children and families hit hardest by the war.
About war relief →How Child Sponsorship Works
Choose your gift
Sponsor a child once or monthly on our secure giving page. Monthly sponsorship keeps homes, camps and meals going all year.
We put it to work
Our Ukrainian team uses your gift where children need it most, with regular reporting to our U.S. board.
See the impact
Receive updates on the children and programs you support, and apply to travel with us to Ukraine to see it firsthand.
The war had wounded their stories. It had not taken away their ability to be children.Rick Melero, Mission 823 board member, after the Carpathian camps, August 2026
Meet the Family at Faith House
At Faith House, Mission 823's family-type home in Ukraine, Julia and Sergei Pestrushko are raising a family of 10 children, including four newly adopted teens. Children who once had no one now have a mom, a dad, brothers and sisters, and a place to belong. During the war, Faith House also sheltered dozens of people displaced from the front lines.
This is what sponsorship builds: not a program number, but a family.
"Defend the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: Rescue them out of the hand of the wicked."Psalm 82:3-4, the heart of Mission 823
Our Child-Safe Sponsorship Promise
Many sponsorship programs pair one donor with one child through letters, photos and messages. It's a beautiful idea, but it can also open doors that should stay closed. Personal details can travel far beyond their intended reader, and online contact is difficult to supervise. Across the child sponsorship world, organizations have strengthened their safeguards: limiting social media contact, requiring supervised visits, protecting children's identities, and in some cases moving entirely to program- or community-based sponsorship.
Children in a war zone are especially vulnerable to exploitation. That is why Mission 823 built protection into the way our sponsorship works, from the very beginning.
- No individual child contact. We do not facilitate letters, messages, gifts or social media connections between sponsors and individual children. This closes a door that people with bad intentions have tried to use.
- Children's identities stay private. We never share children's last names, addresses, schools or contact details.
- Every child is included. Your gift supports a child's care within the whole program, so no child is singled out or left out.
- Accountable local care. Our all-Ukrainian team and trained, licensed caregivers serve the children every day, with regular reporting to our President and U.S. board.
- Visits only with our team. Partners who want to see the children can apply to travel with Mission 823 to Ukraine, where every interaction happens in group settings, guided by our staff.
Traditional one-to-one sponsorship
- Letters and photos with one assigned child
- Children's personal details shared with sponsors
- Children without sponsors may be left waiting
Mission 823 child-safe sponsorship
- Your gift covers a child's care in our programs
- Children's identities and locations protected
- Every child in the program is served
- See the work in person on a team trip
Come and See: Travel With Us to Ukraine
Shawn Sullivan, our President, travels to Ukraine multiple times each year and leads specialized teams and volunteers to inspect the work in person. Board members and partners often join him. If you'd like to see the children and programs your sponsorship supports, we'd love to have you apply to join a future trip. Visits are arranged by our team, so you can experience the work fully while the children stay protected.
Learn about trips to Ukraine → or email office@mission823.com
Sponsor a Child: Frequently Asked Questions
What does it mean to sponsor a child with Mission 823?
Will I be matched with one specific child or receive letters?
Can I meet the children I'm helping?
Can I sponsor a child monthly?
How much of my gift reaches children in Ukraine?
Is my child sponsorship tax-deductible?
Who cares for the children day to day?
Is Mission 823 a Christian organization?
A Child in Ukraine Is Waiting for Someone Like You
Join the partners who are defending, rescuing and restoring Ukraine's most vulnerable children. Sponsor a child today.
