For the orphan
To sponsor an orphan is to step into a place left empty — to provide for a child whose protector is gone. The Prophet ﷺ described the sponsor's reward in unusually direct terms.
“I and the one who sponsors an orphan will be like this in Paradise” — and he gestured with his index and middle fingers, holding them slightly apart.
Narrated by Sahl ibn Sa'd · Sahih al-Bukhari 6005