Sponsor a child.
₹208 a month keeps one child in rural India nourished, measured and growing. Monthly, cancellable any time, and 80G tax-exempt.
What ₹208 a month actually is.
One number, one child, one month of food. Here is exactly what it covers and what it does not.
₹208 is the nutrition line on its own: the food that keeps one child in Project Roha at a healthy baseline for a month, bought locally and given every month. Multiplied out, that is ₹2,500 across a year. It is the number a monthly sponsorship charges, and nothing is added to it.
Keeping that child inside a programme costs a little more than the food. Transport to the villages and the people who weigh, measure and follow up add about ₹200 a year, which is why a one-time year is ₹2,700 all in. Around 92% of every rupee goes straight to nutrition, and the split is drawn out to the rupee on where your money goes.
How sponsorship works.
Three steps, and the third one is the one that matters.
Choose
One child, two, five or ten, every month. Pick a tier on the donate page or drag the slider to the number you want.
Give
The payment runs through Razorpay. A thank-you with the details reaches your inbox within minutes, and your 80G receipt follows.
Follow
One email every three months on what changed in Roha and Karasgaon. Pause or stop any time in My Circle.
What a sponsored child’s month looks like.
Sponsorship funds a rhythm, not a parcel. Every month, three things happen for every child enrolled.
Food, on schedule
A measured monthly nutrition support that keeps a healthy child healthy, sourced locally so the money stays in the village economy.
A measurement, not a guess
Mid-upper-arm circumference, weight and height are recorded so an early dip is caught and corrected before it becomes a crisis.
A caregiver in the loop
Mothers and caregivers are partners in the programme. They see the numbers and they carry the habits that make the gains last.
Why monthly, and not once.
A child does not need food once. The programmes work because the support arrives every month without a gap, and a gap is exactly where a healthy baseline slips. Monthly sponsorship lets us plan a cohort a year ahead instead of month to month, which is what lets a region stay in the programme long enough for the systems to keep running without us.
It also keeps the giving honest. You see the same ₹208 leave every month that we spend every month, the quarterly update tells you what it did, and if the number ever moves with food prices you will read why before you pay it. Fewer initiatives, deeper commitment: that is the whole model, and monthly is how it is funded.
Before you sponsor.
The questions people ask us most, answered plainly.
What we send you, and what we never will.
Sponsorship comes with reporting. It does not come with a child’s face.
The quarterly update
How many children are enrolled, where, how the measurements moved, and what the money did that quarter. Numbers first, then a field note from the programme.
The ledger, open
The cost per child, the split between food and everything else, and the amount raised so far, all published and all live. If a number changes, you read why.
Never a story of hardship
No named children, no before-and-after photographs, no letters written for you. Dignity is our first non-negotiable, and it holds for donors too.
Sponsor as a family, a team or an office.
A group can hold one sponsorship between them. Start a circle, give it a name, and share the one link: each person gives what they choose, in their own name with their own receipt, and the page keeps a live tally of how many children the group is keeping in the programme. Offices use it for a birthday round, families for a wedding, runners for a race.
The money never passes through the person who started the circle. Every gift is made to Zoro Foundation directly and lands in the same programme, so a circle is simply a way of counting together. Start one in under a minute, or read the questions people ask before they do.
Sponsor a child.
Pick a tier or set your own number. The first debit runs today and the first update reaches you within the quarter.