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I'm working for an organization that their primary focus is having people sponsor children in various countries around the globe. Their current site uses Drupal 6 and a modified Ubercart to handle this. It's kind of finicky. We're working on building them a Drupal 7 site and wanting to use Civi to replace a great majority of what the current site does with a conglomeration of rules and views. The real problem right now is figuring out how to make sponsorship work. The way it works is we would need Civi contacts to be able to sponsor children. Children also need to be displayed on the public facing site where people can sponsor them. There also needs to be various reports for staff, but I imagine I can figure that out once I have a good way to implement sponsorship. Is this something that Civi can do? How would such a thing be modeled in Civi?

if you are showing the Children who need sponsoring via a View, with a link to a webform-civicrm (set up for 2 contacts, the sponsor and the child) and if the link includes the id of the child - as ?cid2=[id]
then your webform will prefill with whatever details of the child you need to know, and the user will be added to civi with whatever relationship you want to set up for that purpose - and if useful, with an Activity that may have a follow up set for one of your team to take the next step.

yes webform-civicrm lets you create memberships - but if payment is required it currently only works within inline payment processors afaik