Over our nearly 70-year history, we’ve seen how lives change when a child is empowered. This year, starting with a church in Chicago and a rural community in Kenya, we began to empower children with another choice. For the first time ever, the power to choose a sponsor is in the child’s hands.
In honor of Day of the Girl, let's get 1,000 girls sponsored!
Empower 1,000 girls to choose their own sponsors, October 11-26.
Empower kids for a future full of choices.
See what happens when a child chooses you as their sponsor.
Empower kids for a
future full of choices.
See what happens when a child
chooses you as their sponsor.
Rosemary
Rosemary Wausi, 12, isn’t used to choices. She lives with her grandma and barely has enough food. But this year, she got to choose her sponsor, Regis.
Greisy
Greisy Garcia, 3, lives in a remote area of Guatemala where poverty takes away most choices. But getting to choose her own sponsor? Her smile says it all.
You’ll be stepping into a life-changing connection that empowers the child and their community for a future filled with opportunity. That’s because your monthly sponsorship will bring essentials like clean water, nutrition, healthcare, education, and more.
Serah
Serah Mwende, 6, loves to dance and dreams of being a teacher. She chose Sherrise Greene to be her sponsor, a professional dancer whos parents are teachers.
Love comes
first
Motivated by our faith in Jesus Christ, we serve all people. No matter their religion, ethnicity, or gender.
Thriftiness
Keeping our costs down means your gifts make the biggest waves possible.
Targeting root
causes
Going after poverty’s symptoms is temporary. Going after its causes is permanent.
Hi, we’re World Vision.
We’re a Christian humanitarian organization helping children, families, and their communities overcome poverty and injustice.
Love comes
first
Motivated by our faith in Jesus Christ, we serve all people. No matter their religion, ethnicity, or gender.
Thriftiness
Keeping our costs down means your gifts make the biggest waves possible.
Targeting root
causes
Going after poverty’s symptoms is temporary. Going after its causes is permanent.
With us
Every 60 seconds, a family gets water, a hungry child is fed, and a family gets the tools to overcome poverty.
Voices
The blessing of being chosen
World Vision U.S. President Edgar Sandoval Sr. reflects on Chosen, a simple but profound twist on our tried-and-true child sponsorship model — how it recognizes the dignity of children living in extreme poverty and emphasizes their God-given potential to change their lives and their communities.
Voices
Chosen: Encountering the ‘thin place of God’s presence’
Sponsors at Soul City Church were the first in World Vision’s history to be chosen by the children. Pastor Jeanne Stevens takes us to Mwala, Kenya, where she caught a glimpse of heaven on earth.
From the Field
A Special Gift empowers a family to choose
Did you know that you can give a Special Gift to your sponsored child’s family that enables them to choose what they need most? For 7-year-old Ndinda Kinguuthe and her family, a sponsor’s gift empowered them to create a home they can feel proud of.