You can help child refugees

Over half of the world’s refugees are children. Families are forced to flee their homes to escape conflict, disasters and humanitarian emergencies in countries including Syria, South Sudan and Ukraine. That's when they most need your help.

Refugee children and young people are more vulnerable to abuse, exploitation and extreme poverty.

With your support, World Vision can intervene quickly when disaster strikes. You can protect and bring hope to vulnerable children and families, supporting displaced people and those seeking refuge.

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How we're supporting child refugees

Refugees and displaced children all over the world have their lives changed in an instant when they’re forced to leave everything behind. They urgently need your help. Your gift could directly impact their lives today, providing lifesaving shelter, counselling, food, water, healthcare and child protection.

World Vision is a charity committed to helping child refugees to survive, recover from trauma, and build a future.

The difference we make in emergencies

Mother from Bangladesh washing her two boys' hands

Improving facilities in refugee camps

Thanks to supporters, we’re creating safer environments in refugee camps for displaced children, improving tents and shelters, for families like Juhara and her children Ares, eight, and Hares, five. We also provide counselling and play therapy to help children recover from trauma and make sense of what they've lost.

Ukrainian refugees receiving food from World Vision

Providing emergency aid

When people are forced to leave their homes, many people are unable to earn an income, and struggle to provide regular meals for their families. With your support, we can ensure that refugees living in camps like these Ukrainian families, have access to food, hygiene kits, resources and training so they can produce their own food in the long term.

Girl in Lebanon looking at the camera while standing in front of a temporary shelter

Giving children an education

Being displaced is often scary, and always disruptive to a child's life. To protect their futures, we work to make sure children still get access to a good education. To improve their present, we run Child Friendly Spaces, where children can learn, play games, and receive psychological support to work through their trauma. World Vision is helping 1,200 Syrian refugee children aged between four and six get an education, like Shamsaa pictured above.

South Sudanese refugee woman is picking out maize from a large sack she sells to make an income

Building resilience

Families and children around the world are having to flee all they have known and loved. The hope for a brighter future can feel out of reach. Thanks to your donations, we work with families to create long-lasting change through income generation and savings groups at refugee settlements.

Children are protected today and empowered for tomorrow

As a Christian charity, World Vision helps the most vulnerable children, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. With your help, we can do even more to support child refugees.

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The refugee crisis is only growing

110 million

Across the globe, there are 110 million forcibly displaced people

43.3 million

It’s estimated that 43.3 million children are forcibly displaced

36.4 million

There are 36.4 million refugees around the world - the most in global history

Stories about refugee children

Lebanese girl refugee smiling at the camera

Yara

“If you don’t have an education, you don’t have a future,” says Yara, 13. She’s delighted to be continuing her education through World Vision’s Basic Numeracy and Literacy programme in Lebanon. But not long ago, there were barriers stopping Yara from getting an education. Now, Yara is finding hope in the chance to learn and study.

Female child bride from Iraq facing away from the camera

Amai

Amai, 13, is one of many girls in Iraq who have been forced into child marriage. Her husband abused her, so she escaped and returned to her father and stepmother. Not long after, they had to leave their home because of the country’s violence. At the refugee camp, Amai participates in World Vision’s Child Friendly Space where she receives life skills classes and counselling.

Ukrainian refugee family standing outside World Vision support tent

Miroslava

Nine-year-old Miroslava, stood on the left, is one of the children fleeing the violence in Ukraine. She is among millions of women and children who have fled from the country, crossing the borders. Normally, she would be playing sports, but because of the conflict, she can’t. World Vision’s Child Friendly Spaces offer a safe-haven from the horrors they’ve left behind and respite for mothers.