Funding child education up to 18 seems like a great and noble cause. How does it work beyond that though, with university?

Could you fund a scholarship or a specific department or something with the universities instead of sponsoring an individual person?

The idea I've had is to just keep funding as long as they want to keep attending. The reason I track specific kids is because I think it maximizes the impact rather than just funding one kid for one year, then running out of money so they to take a year off, then getting a donation to have another kid go for a semester, etc. The idea is if they start the program then they can keep going until they want to stop, or finish.

This is a bit of pressure on me as you might imagine, which is why I've kept it small until today. I want to make sure that if everyone stops giving then I can personally keep things going.

My hope now is to expand it to the point where x amount of donations mean another kid can join the program.

Seeing this response from HN has been really insightful and I hope to add more kids soon now that I see the reaction that people have.