Celebrity Charity Ambassadors

Over the last few decades we've enjoyed the support of actors, musicians and beyond.

They've helped us to bring global attention to vulnerable children across the world.

Here's just a few highlights.

Meghan Markle

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.

Jerome Flynn

Now one of our high profile supporters, Jerome Flynn has been sponsoring children with World Vision for almost twenty years, well before his time on the award winning Game of Thrones series.

More recently, he’s been supporting our work with child soldiers.

In 2017, Jerome 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.

In March 2019, Jerome spent time with families in South Sudan, including an entire family who had been abducted by armed forces.

These young children were threatened and even forced to kill others. Jerome said, “They’re just children … all they should be getting is love, and that’s the opposite.”

All children deserve to live free from violence.

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Eyal Booker

Love Island star and model Eyal Booker is a passionate supporter of World Vision’s work, visiting the Philippines in 2018 in the wake of Typhoon Mangkhut.

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

Model and TV Personality

More World Vision celebrity supporters

Maro Itoje

England rugby star Maro Itoje 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, no matter where they live. 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.

Freda Ayisi

Charlton Athletic footballer and FA Women's Cup winner Freda Ayisi is also a World Vision ambassador. Freda joined us to visit in her homeland of Ghana, where she witnessed the impact of our transformational projects first hand and shared memorable moments, including playing football with the local children.

Brett Staniland

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. Along with other creators, Brett recently visited Ghana, shining a light on some practices in the fast fashion and beauty worlds which are having a detrimental effect.

Amanda Redman

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. Once home she appeared on ITV's This Morning, Loose Women and Aled Jones' Weekend talking about our emergency response efforts in the mountain kingdom.

Elizabeth McGovern

Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern sponsors Jestina in Sierra Leone and in 2013 she travelled to meet her. In 2014 she helped promote our #ANightOfHope campaign to raise money and awareness to help children in war-torn Syria.

Selasi sits surrounded by children and adults with plates of food

Selasi Gbormittah

In August 2017, TV baker Selasi travelled to the refugee settlements in Uganda – including the world’s largest, Bidi Bidi – with World Vision UK, where he met the child refugees who had fled the brutal conflict in neighbouring South Sudan.

Natasha Little

Star of The Night Manager, Natasha Little, travelled to Serbia with World Vision in 2015. She visited a desolate village close to the border with Croatia and helped distribute food packages to refugees from countries like Syria and Afghanistan. She also saw the impact of our Child Friendly Space on refugees, as she sat with children suddenly able to safely play with toys and other children.

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