Yari is currently providing help to 1167 children, and since the founding of Yari, sponsors like you have helped thousands of children. Our goal is to provide help to 5 000 children by 2023.

When you become a sponsor, you will have a child assigned to you from our waiting list. The child will then begin to receive monthly financial aid through Yari and we will ensure that the child actually attends school and is completing his/her studies.

Yes. Every six months you will receive a compilation of the child’s grades and the contact person’s assessment of hers/his well being. You also have the opportunity to communicate directly with the family, under our monitoring the first times. After that, it will be between you as a sponsor and the child’s family to plan your phone calls or visiting dates. In case of illness or non-attendance you will be notified by us, something we also monitor continuously.

It is primarily our contact persons in Iran who give us a first recommendation after a thorough investigation of a potential Yari-child and their family. The investigation is done by our coordination group in Teheran, if the child meets our criteria, she/he is registered in our waiting list. After which we start searching for a sponsor for the child. Any member of the Yari Foundation also has the right to recommend families and children to be investigated, under the presumption that you are able to become a sponsor for her/him and if the foundation has a contact person in that area.

Yari maintains a waiting list of children in need, generally they are prioritised according to the longest waiting time, though at times urgent cases are presented that merit a higher priority and placement in the list.

Yaris check up on children’s school attendance consists of several parts.
Systematic checks: all children’s certifications and grades are collected twice a year (when the semesters end). The children’s contact persons also carry out two direct controls per year with each school to ensure that the children physically attend school as well. The data is then imported into our bespoke IT systems that automatically flags and notificies us if a child are missing proof of attendance or even if their grades has dropped significantly. We control the grades since we have seen strong correlation between dramatic changes in grades with dramatic changes in their lives. A dramatic negative change signals that something serious has happened and that the family or child might need further support or help which we will try to provide.
Random samples done by our coworkers in Iran: Our central organisation do sample testing by contacting the children and their families directly.
Visits by our board members: Our board members regularly visits Iran and then also visits sites where we are active in order to do their own sample testing as well.
Democratised controls: As a sponsor you are encouraged to have contact with the families, this also means that you are able to notify us if you feel something isn’t right. Note: We are always there in the beginning of initiating contact, in order to ensure the safety of the children.

You have the possibility to get in touch with your sponsored child and their family through the contact person assigned to that child. When you become a sponsor, you’ll also receive the contact person’s phone and email so that you can contact them directly. Keep in mind that they are volunteers and that rural areas might have bad coverage, but if your attempt in contacting them has remained unsuccessful,  please email us at support@yari.se and we’ll help you get in touch.