Find out how they’ve helped change lives
We are privileged to have a large network of influential people - actors, musicians, content creators and campaigners - who champion our mission and help us to bring global attention to vulnerable children across the world.
Here's just a few highlights.
In 2016, the Duchess of Sussex became a Global Ambassador for World Vision.
She travelled to Rwanda and witnessed lives transformed through World Vision's work. She celebrated with a community as water pumps were turned on bringing them clean water for the first time. She saw toilets brought to schools so that hundreds more children could be educated.
Inspired to continue working with World Vision, Meghan Markle joined us in India in 2017 to see World Vision’s progress in getting more girls into school, and how we raised awareness to tackle stigma around periods and a lack of access to toilets.
Broadcaster and campaigner Carrie Grant has a long history with World Vision.
She is a passionate supporter of World Vision’s youth campaigners and recently travelled to Sierra Leone to record our Raising Changemakers podcast. Carrie interviewed young people campaigning locally, nationally and internationally who are working to ban FGM, child marriage and child labour, fighting climate change, and ensuring everyone has access to quality education.
Game of Thrones actor, Jerome Flynn has been sponsoring children with World Vision for over twenty years, and has supported our work with child soldiers.
Jerome has spent time in Myanmar with World Vision, meeting young children who had been forced into armed groups and visiting projects helping street kids and victims of human trafficking. More recently, he spent time with families in South Sudan, including four siblings who had been abducted by armed forces whilst out collecting food.
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TV personality and content creator Eyal Booker is a child sponsor and a passionate supporter of World Vision’s work. He visited the Philippines in the wake of a devastating typhoon to learn about World Vision’s emergency relief work.
World Vision provided relief essentials to thousands of families including hygiene kits, kitchen sets and emergency shelter kits in the Philippines. Eyal was inspired by our emergency response that created child-friendly spaces and helped hundreds of children and young people with psychological and psychosocial support.
World Vison have helped countless kids and their communities, both through child sponsorship and their emergency work.
Eyal Booker
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England rugby star Maro Itoje is passionate about children’s access to education and has proudly launched the Pearl Fund which will work in partnership with World Vision UK. Maro believes that every child has a right to education, regardless of where they live and their family circumstances. The fund aims to create a lasting change by investing in children's education on the African continent, working with World Vision UK in Ghana.
FA Women's Cup winner Freda Ayisi is almost as well known for her viral TikTok trick shots as she is for her football career, which includes representing Ghana. Freda joined us to visit her homeland of Ghana where she witnessed the impact of our transformational projects first-hand and shared memorable moments playing football with local children and drawing a crowd with her trick shots.
Model, activist and sustainability fashion advocate Brett Staniland joined World Vision UK to raise awareness of the impacts of fast fashion on the environment and importantly, on children. Brett recently visited Ghana, shining a light on some practices in the fast fashion and beauty worlds which are having a detrimental effect, and Azraq refugee camp in Jordan to show how climate change is disproportionately affecting refugees. Listen to Brett on episode 1 of World Vision’s Raising Changemakers podcast.
British actor Amanda Redman has sponsored a child with World Vision since the 1990s. In 2015, she travelled with us to Nepal to see our work following the devastating earthquake and has done extensive media work to shine a spotlight on our emergency response work when disaster strikes.
Great British Bake Off favourite Selasi travelled to refugee settlements in Uganda – including the world’s largest, Bidi Bidi – with World Vision, where he met the child refugees who had fled the brutal conflict in neighbouring South Sudan. Selasi was so moved by the stories he heard, he then ran the London Marathon for World Vision raising vital funds for our lifesaving work.
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We’re grateful to work with content creators from around the world who help share World Vision’s stories. If you want to join World Vision’s growing network of content creators, please contact Deborah.Fraser@worldvision.org.uk
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