The Collection
The shirt is how you meet them. $25 a month is how you stay.
Heavyweight cotton, screen-printed, handmade to order. Every Shirt ships with a unique Number pressed on the back — and that Number belongs to a real Kid at the campus in Northern Uganda.
Front
Back
Pressed on the back, below the main design.
Sample shown — every shirt ships with a unique number on the back. You meet the child when it arrives.
$25
A heavyweight cotton tee, screen-printed by hand. Every shirt gets a unique number, pressed on after you order. Each is one of a kind. That number belongs to a specific child at our campus in Northern Uganda. Type it into beanumber.org and you'll meet them.
Youth S – Adult 2XL · Unisex · Heavyweight cotton
Color
Meadow
Size
Become their penpal.
+$25/mo
The shirt is how you meet them. Monthly sponsorship is how you stay: you get a penpal, monthly photos, report cards, and campus updates. $25/month.
Cancel anytime. Continuing is your choice.
Front
Back
Pressed on the back, below the main design.
Sample shown — every shirt ships with a unique number on the back. You meet the child when it arrives.
$25
A heavyweight cotton tee, screen-printed by hand. Every shirt gets a unique number, pressed on after you order. Each is one of a kind. That number belongs to a specific child at our campus in Northern Uganda. Type it into beanumber.org and you'll meet them.
Youth S – Adult 2XL · Unisex · Heavyweight cotton
Color
Blossom
Size
Become their penpal.
+$25/mo
The shirt is how you meet them. Monthly sponsorship is how you stay: you get a penpal, monthly photos, report cards, and campus updates. $25/month.
Cancel anytime. Continuing is your choice.
Front
Back
Pressed on the back, below the main design.
Sample shown — every shirt ships with a unique number on the back. You meet the child when it arrives.
$25
A heavyweight cotton tee, screen-printed by hand. Every shirt gets a unique number, pressed on after you order. Each is one of a kind. That number belongs to a specific child at our campus in Northern Uganda. Type it into beanumber.org and you'll meet them.
Youth S – Adult 2XL · Unisex · Heavyweight cotton
Color
Sky
Size
Become their penpal.
+$25/mo
The shirt is how you meet them. Monthly sponsorship is how you stay: you get a penpal, monthly photos, report cards, and campus updates. $25/month.
Cancel anytime. Continuing is your choice.
Front
Back
Pressed on the back, below the main design.
Sample shown — every shirt ships with a unique number on the back. You meet the child when it arrives.
$25
A heavyweight cotton tee, screen-printed by hand. Every shirt gets a unique number, pressed on after you order. Each is one of a kind. That number belongs to a specific child at our campus in Northern Uganda. Type it into beanumber.org and you'll meet them.
Youth S – Adult 2XL · Unisex · Heavyweight cotton
Color
Onyx
Size
Become their penpal.
+$25/mo
The shirt is how you meet them. Monthly sponsorship is how you stay: you get a penpal, monthly photos, report cards, and campus updates. $25/month.
Cancel anytime. Continuing is your choice.
Every Shirt carries a unique Number connected to a real Child in Northern Uganda. $25 starts their year at the campus — school, meals, medical care. When the Shirt arrives, come here, enter your Number, and meet them. $25/month finishes their year and keeps you in their story.
You pick your color and size, and we ship you a hand-printed Shirt with a unique Number pressed on the back. That Number belongs to a real Child enrolled in our program in Northern Uganda. When the Shirt arrives, you flip it over, read your Number off the back, come back to the site, enter it, and meet them: their name, their face, their story. $25 supports school, meals, and medical care at the campus. $25/month makes it real: you get a penpal, monthly photos, report cards, and campus updates.
Your $25/month supports the campus where your kid goes to school, eats two meals a day, and gets medical care through the on-site clinic. The campus runs on the combined support of every sponsor — that's what also keeps the 60 women in vocational training, the medical outreach that has served 700+ patients, and the construction apprenticeships going. You're not paying line items on one child's bill. You're supporting the ecosystem that keeps them in school.
No. And that's by design. Numbers are assigned in order so every Child gets a sponsor, not just the ones with the best photos. The whole idea of Be A Number is turning something impersonal (being reduced to a number) into something deeply personal. Your Number isn't random. It's someone's name waiting to be learned.
Our partner is Youth Development Organisation Uganda (YDO), led by Simon Peter Wilobo in Gulu District. YDO was born out of Northern Uganda's post-conflict recovery and has deep roots in the community. Every program (education, health, vocational training, child protection) is designed and run by Ugandan leadership. Be A Number provides the systems architecture, funding, and international bridge. The community owns the work.
Every shirt still carries a number, and that number still belongs to a child. But continuing the sponsorship at $25/month after your first month is completely your choice (no pressure, no guilt, cancel anytime). Some people buy the shirt, meet their child, and can't stop. Some wear the shirt and let it start conversations. Both matter.
Yes. We have an international lodge on our campus in Northern Uganda built specifically for sponsor visits and university cohorts. Meeting your child in person is something we actively encourage (not a theoretical perk buried in fine print). Contact us and we'll help you plan the trip.