FAQ

To create your personal action page, go to www.voorwarchild.nl and click on the button ‘start your own fundraising initiative’ and follow the steps. After you have filled out your details, you will receive a confirmation e-mail. With this link, you can confirm your account and start with personalizing and finalizing your fundraising page. 

Best of luck!

On the fundraising platform voorwarchild.nl you can easily create a personal fundraising page and raise funds for conflict-affected children.  

You're able to share the URL to your page with friends and family and see the comments from those who have donated to your fundraiser. Adding photos and a personal text to you fundraising page will help you create a personal page to inspire people to support your efforts.

 Your fundraising page has several great features:

• You can see who has donated to your fundraiser
• With the social media buttons, you can easily share your page on your social media channels
• You can make your own fundraising poster
• You can download your own QR code via the QR button. Using this code, people have direct access to your fundraising page
• Your supporters have the option to add a personal message along with their donation
• Donors can also choose to stay anonymous when donating
• You can keep your network up to date by posting fundraising images and news items
• Your supporters have the option to contribute using iDeal, CreditCard or Paypal

No, you don't necessary have to. You can start a fundraising initiative without a fundraising page. If you’d like to start your fundraiser without a page, please send an email with your fundraising idea to action@warchild.nl

Definitely! You will receive multiple e-mails from us throughout your fundraising process, with confirmations links, further information and tips and tricks to turn your fundraiser into a great success!

In order to create a QR code, you can go to your own fundraising page and click on the red 'QR' icon (7th dot on the left). Et voila, your QR code will pop up!

It is possible to create a personally generated Tikkie QR code, direcly linked to your fundraising page. Sharing this Tikkie QC code with your friends and family through social media will help people contribute to your fundraiser - without the fuss. Looking to have your own Tikkie QR code? Please send an email to action@warchild.nl

It is useful to create a 'Team' page when you are starting a collaborative fundraiser for War Child, with individual participants looking to have their own individual fundraising page.

In this situation, you'll first create your Team page, and then afterwards, individual members can create their own action underneath this Team page.

If you start a fundraiser for War Child as a group (e.g. school or company), without every participant needing a separate fundraising page, your best choice will be to select 'Individual' during your registration process.

When you no longer wish to remain active on this website, you have the option to (have us) remove all your data. You will find this option in your profile settings. This will happen a week after you file your request. Within that week, you’re able to cancel the request and keep the data. After that, it’ll be gone forever. War Child will also anonymize your data in her administration.

This link will redirect you our promotional materials (mostly in Dutch).

  The fundraising package consists of the following:

• Donation box
• Poster
• Button
• Stickers
• Action flyer (A5)
• War Child Info Booklet

 The War Child charity run package consists of the following:

• Step-by-step plan: how to organize a charity run?
• Useful tips
• Letter for parents
• Sponsor card for students
• Stamp card for students
• Promotional poster for schools
• War Child PE class
• Template for a cheque
• Certificate for students
• Press release

War Child is active in regions where conflict-affected children are in - oftentimes desperate - need for psychosocial support, child protection and education. Our many supporters and fundraisers enable us to respond quickly if and when conflicts erupt or flare up.

Additionally, we owe it to the children we help and work with to continue supporting them for as long as necessary. Therefore, we elect not to link War Child fundraising initiatives to specific projects, but to use these funds for projects that need it the most at that time.

If you (also) raised cash during your fundraising campaign, you can make a money transfer to:

• War Child's account number NL24 INGB 0000 0066 69
• Mention your personal campaign number
• Directed at War Child in Amsterdam

You will have received your personal campaign number from your contact person at War Child. After your transfer, we will add the donated amount to your fundraising page.

Of course! Your campaign can be symbolically finalized through handing over a check.

We have amazing volunteers working with us, who are happy to visit you if they’re available. Let us know well in advance where and when you would like the volunteer to come by, and send an email to action@warchild.nl. We will do our absolute best to accommodate the hand-over of your check!

Yes, that's definitely possible! War Child has specially trained volunteers who would be happy to visit you and tell War Child's story.

Our information officers work on a voluntary basis, so we cannot guarantee their availability. The sooner you request their presence, the greater the chance they'll be able to meet you! Please send an email to action@warchild.nl.

More information about War Child’s work can be found here.

We are very grateful for Marco Borsato to commit himself to War Child in his spare time. He is a hugely engaged and passionate ambassador, but his busy schedule does not allow him to be present at fundraising campaigns and/or information sessions. We hope you'll understand!

Many artists and atheletes such as Marco Borsato, Chef'Special, Vivianne Miedema, Martin Garrix and Michaela DePrince support our work because music, sports and dance play an important role in our approach. Our ambassadors are happy to raise funds and generate attention for our cause through their own network and the media, which we are very happy about and grateful for. Unfortunately though, we cannot mediate with regards to requests to involve them in fundraising initiatives.

We are committed to improving the lives of 100,000 children at war. We help them process their profound experiences, encourage them to engage and trust other people again and build their self-confidence. We ensure that children have a safe space to recover, learn to read, write, count and teach youth a trade, so they can build a stable and peaceful future. We do this worldwide. Read more.

We can not reach and support the 160 million conflict-affecte children by our own - we need all the support we can get, including yours. How you can support us?

• Become our Friend. This means you authorize us to debit a certain amount from your account every month.
• Organize a fundraiser and donate the proceeds to War Child.
• Sponsor us with your company.
• Share our mission through and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.

You and your colleagues can support our work in many different ways. Here you can find all of the possibilities.

Curious to know more about our challenges, finances, and results? Read our Annual Report!

We have a Low-Cost Policy in place to ensure that the percentage of our budget spent in support of conflict-affected children is as high as possible. This policy commits us to ensure that the percentage of our budget spent on administration and fundraising activities is as low as possible - and that gifts-in-kind are utilised to the fullest extent possible.  

In our Annual Report you can read all about our results, how much we raise each year and how much we spend on our projects for children worldwide.

We have earnt the CBF quality mark for charities. This means that we are not allowed to spend more than 25% of our income on overhead costs. We spend well below this limit.

To collect money, you need a permit from your municipality. We never collect money going door to door with change boxes, and we wouldn't encourage you to do so either. However, if, for example you'd like to sell homemade pies or cupcakes and you're looking to donate the proceeds to War Child, you could visit your neighbours and ask if would like to buy your goodies in exchange for a War Child donation.

Please find all available jobs, voluntary positions, and internships here.

 Certainly, since July 1st, 2000. Read more here (in Dutch).

We have a Low-Cost Policy in place to ensure that the percentage of our budget spent in support of conflict-affected children is as high as possible. This policy commits us to ensure that the percentage of our budget spent on administration and fundraising activities is as low as possible - and that gifts-in-kind are utilised to the fullest extent possible.  

Our Financial Policy states that we do not invest money trusted to us by our donors in any way that presents a potential risk - nor do we keep unnecessarily high reserves. War Child also maintains a continuity reserve to ensure ongoing financial support for our operations. The level of this continuity reserve is determined according to annual risk analysis - and excess funds are spent on our operations.

Our Financial Policy also directs us to spend our funds responsibly, to have proper internal controls and to be able to justify each expenditure we make. 

 Here you can find War Child's latest Annual Report.

As of June 1st 2021, Ramin Shazahmani is the new director of War Child. Ramin’s annual income is 105.738,96 excluding holiday pay.

As director of War Child, you have a demanding job. Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, you bear the responsibility of helping conflict-affected children, and for the safety of the people who work with War Child. Of those nearly 500 people, the vast majority work in our programme countries, often in the midst of conflict. The safety and future of the hundreds of thousands of children and families participating in our programmes is at stake. War Child's director is responsible for the safe and optimal implementation of our projects worldwide.