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Your Charitable Donation Helps World Vision, a Nonprofit Organization, Provide Successful Global Relief Programs


Thank you for your interest in the charitable work of World Vision!

As a charitable & relief organization, World Vision's charitable donations help provide successful disaster relief programs.Who we serve
World Vision helps transform the lives of the world’s poorest children and families in nearly 100 countries, including the United States. Our non-profit work extends assistance to all people, regardless of their religious beliefs, gender, race, or ethnic background.

Why we serve
World Vision is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty.

How we serve
Relationships are the starting point and the end goal of World Vision’s work. Through relationships with community leaders, World Vision’s staff help communities set goals that families can achieve by working together. By our demonstration of God’s love through our work, we hope that people will experience life in all its fullness.

Community Development

As a charitable & relief organization, World Vision's charitable donations help provide successful disaster relief programs.
  • Helping people to discover and use their own vision, skills, and resources to move from abject poverty to abundant living.
  • Targeting critical needs: clean water, reliable food supplies, access to basic health care, access to education, and income-generating microeconomic development.
  • Partnering with churches, governments, local organizations, and international agencies.


Disaster Relief

As a charitable & relief organization, World Vision's charitable donations help provide successful disaster relief programs.
  • Responding to sudden natural disasters and slow-building humanitarian emergencies around the world.
  • Saving lives and reducing suffering by tracking crises, pre-positioning emergency supplies for immediate response, and remaining after the crisis to rebuild and restore communities.


Global Issues

As a charitable & relief organization, World Vision's charitable donations help provide successful disaster relief programs.
  • Engaging a worldwide AIDS Hope Initiative of prevention and care, especially for widows, orphans, and vulnerable children, that brings a compassionate Christian response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

What is your World Vision?

Points of contact to make a difference:

>> Sponsor a Child or a Family
Build new relationships as you help a child or family tackle poverty in their community. 888.511.6414


>> Contribute to Tackle Poverty Worldwide
Give a gift to tackle poverty and enable children to realize their God-given potential. 888.511.6414

>> Give Gifts of Hope
Offer hope, honor loved ones, and change lives with the unique gifts in this catalog. 888.511.6511
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The ways we help
World Vision focuses its work on projects that help communities address the root causes — not just the symptoms — of poverty.

Sponsorship
Children and families connected to sponsors through life-changing relationships.

Child Crisis Partner
Helping the world’s most vulnerable children escape a life of horror.

Food and water
Fresh water wells, seeds, tools, agricultural training, and livestock.

Health care
Immunizations, health clinics, HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention.

Education
School fees, teachers, tutoring, building and repairing schools.

Economic Development
Micro loans, business training, job skills, new markets for entrepreneurs.

Emergency Aid
Prepositioned relief goods, family survival kits, disaster mitigation, and shelter.

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