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For $39 a month, help children around the world grow up and become all God meant them to be.

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Your one-to-one relationship encourages a child today, and you’ll join other sponsors in helping their community become a place they can thrive.

How sponsorship works

1 child + 1 sponsor

Community leaders identify children most in need, and each child is paired with one sponsor, opening the door to personal connection that shares God’s love in a powerful way.

Partner with communities

Our local staff work alongside community leaders and parents to understand their needs and build lasting solutions, equipping them with the tools and knowledge to shape their own futures.

Your gifts go to work

Your monthly donation is combined with other donations to invest in locally tailored solutions, ensuring long-term access to essentials for your sponsored child, their families, and their community.

Together, with God’s help, we can see lifelong transformation for a child and their community.

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Celebrate progress through sponsorship

When a community graduates, it means it’s now thriving independently, with the tools to keep moving forward. Celebrate with us!

children graduated in the last five years alone

We’re all part of the story

When you join us in a movement to end extreme poverty, you’ll see that lasting change happens for all of us.

A sponsorship experience that changed the lives of both the child and the sponsor

An abandoned child turned into an advocate and sponsor

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A family develops the tools to thrive

A child ready to change a generation

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About World Vision

We have over 75 years of experience working with communities, donors, partners, churches, and governments to create opportunities for better futures for vulnerable children … even in the hardest places to be a child.

Proven impact

In 2025, 86% of World Vision’s operating expenses went to programs helping children, families, and communities in need.

Transparent and accountable

Regularly evaluated by third-party organizations to maintain the highest levels of transparency and accountability.

Local partnerships

Most of our staff work in their home regions, ensuring sustainable, community-led solutions.

Abiding in Jesus

We serve alongside the poor and oppressed as a demonstration of God’s unconditional love for all people. World Vision serves every child we can, of any faith or none.

Together, we can end extreme poverty in our lifetime

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Sponsorship FAQs

Child sponsorship is an opportunity to personally connect with a child, family, and community in need. You’ll walk alongside them as they work on lasting solutions to fight poverty and help vulnerable children reach their God-given potential.

When you become a child sponsor, you’ll start to build a relationship with one special child. You can connect with your child by writing letters and emails or sending cards and gifts. Knowing that someone far away cares about them and their future will be a great encouragement for a sponsored child.

Our decades of experience have proven that the most effective way to help a child is to strengthen the child’s entire community. We do this by pooling your monthly sponsorship donations with those of other sponsors to provide the assistance that children and families living in poverty need most. Your generous donations will help your child, their community, and other children in need by providing vital resources like clean water, nutritious food, healthcare, education, economic opportunities, and more.

Each community that we work with faces different challenges and has different needs, so the work we do is unique to each community. We listen to the people in the community to understand the issues hindering children from reaching their full potential and partner with them to address their short-term and long-term needs. We also work with local groups—such as churches or government organizations—to build stronger communities.

Our child sponsorship program addresses the root causes of children’s vulnerability, empowering children, their families, and their communities to break free from poverty. We take a comprehensive and integrated approach to community development, using evidence-based interventions in our programming that are externally validated. When we partner with communities, we start by inviting them to identify their greatest needs. Then we work together to develop a plan, equipping them with resources to address their specific challenges—like improving water and sanitation, health and nutrition, education, child protection, and spiritual nurture.

And it’s effective! Our holistic, community-empowering approach is helping kids and families transform their own lives.

In places where we work:

Kids are healthier: Over a five-year period, 89% of the severely malnourished children we treated in severe relief environments made a full recovery. This expertise informs our nutrition programs in all the communities we work.
More children have local health services: In Zambia, moms in areas where we run health and nutrition programming are 6X more likely to get healthcare that is designed to boost newborn survival compared to mothers in areas we haven’t yet reached.
Kids are thriving in school: In Bangladesh, children’s reading comprehension was measured at 68% in schools using our literacy program, compared to 4% in schools without the program.
Water solutions are long-lasting: A study conducted by the University of North Carolina’s Water Institute found that 8 in 10 of our wells drilled in Ghana were still functioning at high levels after nearly two decades. This is 33% higher than the industry average of 6 in 10.
Young people are growing in their faith: In our sponsorship programs in Central America, 85% of children say they experience God’s love and almost 90% of children and youth are taking part in activities like Sunday school and youth ministry.

Through World Vision child sponsorship, you’re connected with one specific child, but your monthly sponsorship donations are pooled for maximum effectiveness. This means that instead of giving direct cash benefits to one child, you join forces with other sponsors to fund long-term community development programs that benefit your sponsored child, their community, and other children in need so they can overcome poverty and thrive. Some organizations focus on providing handouts or only helping individual sponsored children, but we’ve learned this can divide communities and slow progress. In other parts of the world, societies are much more communal and less individualistic than western cultures, so a community-based model is more effective.

World Vision recently received the Leadership & Adaptability beacon from Charity Navigator, receiving a maximum score of 100! This beacon provides an additional level of transparency to donors from a leading charity evaluator and highlights our leadership capacity, strategic thinking, and ability to innovate and respond to changes in order to achieve our mission. Here’s how we rank on Charity Navigator.

Sponsoring a child is an ongoing commitment where you’re able to help meet the basic needs of a child by investing in their community, as well as build a relationship and watch them grow up until they, or their community, become independent. Sponsoring a child is like inviting another person into your family.

We see a world where each child experiences fullness of life, and we know this can only be achieved by addressing the problems of poverty and injustice in a holistic way – that is how World Vision is unique. We bring decades of experience in three key areas needed to help children and families thrive: emergency relief, long-term development, and advocacy. We bring all of our skills across many areas of expertise to each community where we work, enabling us to care for children’s physical, social, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

We work in nearly 100 countries throughout the world. Through our experience we understand that there is no “one-size-fits-all” solution to poverty. A community’s ongoing problems cannot be solved just by providing clean water, more medicines, or a new school. We know that success can only be achieved by looking at the big picture. That is why we start by identifying the specific, underlying causes of poverty in each community and then partner with the people in the community to achieve long-term solutions that will work for them. Rather than specializing in just one area, World Vision works to bring about change in every aspect of community life. Our holistic approach – which can include digging wells, teaching new farming skills, training community leaders and much more – makes the difference between short-term fixes and long-term self-sufficiency.

We don’t come into a community with the idea that we have all the answers. Rather, we recognize the gifts God has given to each individual, be it one of our staff members or a community member. Working side by side, we bring together our collective gifts and expertise – with the goal that the local people become “owners” of the solutions that will transform their community because, in the long run, we have not really helped a child unless we have also strengthened the family and community to provide for his or her continuing care.

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