For £26 a month, you will join our incredible community of child sponsors who, like you, are dedicated to giving the most vulnerable children a brighter future.
Your monthly donation will be pooled with those of other sponsors to ensure consistent support for your sponsored child and their community, as well as other sponsorship communities around the world.
This means your donations go much further, helping more children going hungry or without access to clean water. Children missing an education. Children at risk of forced child marriage or abuse.
From just £26 per month, you’ll help provide education, food, protection, healthcare, income and empowerment.
Scroll through to read all the ways in which your sponsorship will help the world’s most vulnerable children.
Your sponsorship can help teach children like Nita in communities across the world. You can make sure not just one child, but future generations no longer live in poverty. Your sponsorship can help to fund community development projects and clubs so children have endless opportunities to learn.
You can help make sure families like Maria's have the means to provide for their children - with your money we'll teach communities about growing stronger and effective farming techniques. We share knowledge of nutrition, helping families feed their children nutritious food and saving millions of lives around the world.
You can make sure some of the most vulnerable children in the world escape abuse or exploitation, including child marriage. Together, we can give these children a safe and secure life and hope for the future.
Help fund World Vision's healthcare assistants in some of the toughest parts of the world and make sure children living in poverty are vaccinated. We'll also use sponsorship money to empower families living in vulnerable conditions to protect their children from pandemics.
You can stop children like Bizwell and Leonard from dying from drinking dirty water. Child Sponsorship helps us build boreholes and clean water taps – so no mother has to choose between giving her child dirty water, or none at all. Clean water saves lives, keeps children healthy, and allows them to go to school.
You can help World Vision teach young people, like Nzuzi, new skills, and support mothers to start their own businesses. We're helping families gain a stable income so they can afford the essentials, like healthcare, nutrition, and education.
Our community development approach is about making sure communities and children can lead fulfilling lives, without our help. So when a community has everything that it needs, we move on. Sponsoring a child creates the teachers, nurses and community leaders of the future.
You'll get to know your sponsored child through letters, photos and regular updates. You can watch as you transform the life of a child, bringing food, shelter and safety to them and their local community. You can watch as they achieve their dreams.
Scroll through below to learn more.
You'll get access to an online account where you'll find updates, news and videos from your sponsored child and their community. You can build a relationship with your sponsored child, exchange letters, send photos or find out what the weather is like where they live!
Within the first week of signing up, we’ll email you a video of your sponsored child’s community giving you an insight into their daily life. You'll see what life is like for them and their family.
You’ll receive a welcome pack with more information, a photo of your sponsored child, and a postcard - so you can easily write to them if you want to.
You'll have received your very first letter from your sponsored child. If you want to, you can write to them anytime by post or online. We'll translate and hand-deliver messages and you'll always get a reply.
We’ll send you a card that you can add a message to for your sponsored child. Don’t be surprised if these arrive a couple of months before the big day - it’s just to make sure they get there in time.
We’ll send you a progress update including: a new photo so you can see how they’ve grown, an update on how their life is changing, details on how your monthly donations have been used and a note or drawing from your sponsored child.
When Shemi had her first son, Adam, it made her want to do something for other children without the same opportunities as him. Her sons watched Rachael grow up letter by letter, rushing to open the envelopes, each time amazed at the transformation.
I would say to someone who is thinking about sponsoring a child - go ahead and do it, it is the most life-changing thing ever!
Shemi
Child Sponsor
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There are children all over the world that need your help. Our child sponsorship programmes help not only the most vulnerable children, but their family and community too.
We’ve spent 70 years helping to improve the lives of children around the world, and over that time, we’ve established a highly effective, community-led strategy for lasting change. Inspired by our Christian faith, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children in the world’s most challenging environments fulfil their potential.
70 years of experience
Experts in transforming communities and children's lives.
Almost 100 countries
Trusted worldwide to provide water, education, food and emergency response.
200 million children
We've helped more than 200 million children to achieve their dreams.
These people, across the world, have had their lives transformed by their sponsor.
Now, alongside World Vision's work, they are helping to transform their local communities.
31-year-old Abimael, a former sponsored child, is now the mayor of his local district in Peru.
It’s a position he never dreamed he would reach as a child, when just surviving was the most he and his mother could hope for.
Abimael says sponsorship gave his family a lifeline. He was able to continue his education and eventually went on to study civil engineering in university. His involvement in World Vision's leadership programmes left him with a desire to create meaningful change in his community, and he decided to run in local elections.
Today, as mayor,he says his goal is to improve education, health and well-being in the region.
Geteneh, a former sponsored child, is living proof that sponsorship has a lasting impact.
As a young boy, it was difficult for his parents to afford essentials for his education and Geteneh always worried he would not be able to continue to go to school.
Thanks to sponsorship, he was given all he needed to seamlessly continue his education. Fast forward a few years, he has now graduated from university.
"Being sponsored is to be positively impacted for a bright future for yourself and for others too - this is what happened in my life." he says. He now works for a bank in his community.
Zeer, a former sponsored child who has dreams of giving back to her community by teaching, has now graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Education.
One of five children from a low income household, she was on the verge of dropping out of school when she got sponsored.
Every year I received school supplies, school uniforms, a school bag and student shoes. My parents also received supplementary livelihood support... Without the support of my sponsor, I would not have come this far."
Zeer now works as an administrative officer at a school while she waits to sit her exams to become a government teacher.
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World Vision has had a Child Sponsorship programme for more than 70 years, we pair donors with a vulnerable child who needs protection and empowerment.
Child Sponsorship brings much-needed change to more than just the sponsored children — the benefits you help provide extend to each child's family, their community and other children in need.
This is because World Vision partners, plans and works alongside local community members to help build healthy, sustainable communities for vulnerable children in the world’s hardest places. Learn more about how Child Sponsorship works.
The donation you give doesn't go directly to your sponsored child or family.
For maximum impact and efficiency, your monthly donations are combined with those of other sponsors to ensure consistent support for your sponsored child and their community, as well as other sponsorship communities around the world. This means your donations go much further.
We work with communities for ten years or more, and we only move out when we're sure the community are ready to stand on their own two feet, continuing their development without us. Your sponsorship will usually last until your child reaches the age of 18 or leaves education. But it also depends on how long we've been working with that community.
We'll keep you updated throughout your sponsorship when we're planning to move on from your child's community. If the project where you are sponsoring comes to an end, or you child moves on for any reason, we'll let you know and give you the opportunity to continue your sponsorship journey with a different child who needs the support of a sponsor.
If your circumstances change and you need to stop sponsoring a child, you can do so at any time. If you are thinking about cancelling your sponsorship, please get in touch with us, as there may be other ways in which you can continue your support. The child you sponsor will continue to benefit from the changes in their community and we will do our best to find a new sponsor for them.
All of World Vision's work begins with listening to communities in need. Community leaders work with us to identify the most vulnerable children and families who will benefit from Child Sponsorship.
We work with national governments and other international agencies to identify the regions and communities that are most in need and where the most vulnerable children live. We then meet with community leaders and the wider community to gain a greater understanding of the challenges and the opportunities that exist for them and we develop a long-term plan together, to break the cycle of poverty. Find out more about how Child Sponsorship works.
Whether you have further questions about child sponsorship or want our help finding a child to sponsor, we’re always on hand to help. To contact us, you can call our Supporter Care Team on 01908 84 10 10 or if you’d prefer, email us at supporter@worldvision.org.uk.
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