News & Stories

Because of our community-focused solutions, for every child you help, four more children benefit, too. Debby and her friends are all benefiting thanks to the fact that she’s sponsored.
Special Features

More than enough: Child sponsorship inspires hope in Zambia

Ivy in Moyo, Zambia, was delighted to receive a World Vision Promise Pack, which contains school supplies, hygiene items, and an insect-repelling blanket.
From the Field

How’d they do that: Kits with care letters

A World Vision staff member walks through a sunflower field with two brothers.
From the Field

Birthday parties leave lasting gifts in sponsorship communities

A pastor’s challenge inspires a Sunday school teacher and her students to give the gift of goats.
Change Makers

No goats, no glory: Sunday school students give the gift of goats

Marilee Pierce Decker shares her father’s thoughts on the word “crisis” and how to manage in times of fear.
Voices

Crisis is danger plus God’s opportunity

World Vision U.S. President-elect Edgar Sandoval poses with 8-year-old Faith, his World Vision sponsored child, in Kapululwe, Zambia.
Voices

Is Jesus at the center of your life?

Hurricane Michael, a Category-4 storm, laid waste to the Florida Panhandle when it made landfall on Oct. 10, 2018. Destroyed docks and damaged boats in Panama City, Fla., show the results of Hurricane Michael’s landfall in the Florida Panhandle.
From the Field

2018 Hurricane Michael: Facts, FAQs, and how to help

Jesse Klaasen, 16, worked on a farm during school breaks for three years to save up and purchase a home for a family in a developing country through the World Vision Gift Catalog.
Change Makers

A teenager gives his treasure to help a family from the Gift Catalog

Battery-powered Christmas lights hang on the house of a sponsored child in Zambia.
Voices

Santa Switch: Shine bright by ‘flipping the focus’ this Christmas

Sugarland group members Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush
Voices

Q&A: Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush of Sugarland

A sponsored child in Zambia is silhouetted against the sky.
Prayers

Praying for your sponsored child

From the Field

2018 life frames: Storytelling from World Vision photographers