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Walk for water

Do the Global 6k for Water on May 6

Be part of the world’s largest 6k walk for clean water. Let’s have fun, get some exercise, and make a difference!

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Why a 6k?

A child in a community without clean water walks an average of 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) per day to get dirty water that makes them sick.

The right help at the right time

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Your donation adapts in real time to meet urgent needs. You’ll fill critical funding gaps and help those who need it most, like hungry children in South Sudan, and refugee families fleeing violence in Syria.

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Dare to be kind

Take the 10-day kindness challenge

Let’s throw kindness around like confetti! Get 10 daily dares in your inbox. Ready? Set. Go!

6 Ways We Earn Your Trust

We’re a Christian humanitarian organization helping children, families, and their communities overcome poverty and injustice.

Love Comes First

We aspire to be like Jesus. So 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.

Transparency

You’re welcome behind the curtain. In fact, there is no curtain…because we're accountable to you, to the kids we serve, and ultimately to God.

Your Donation Multiplies

Your gift + grants + donated goods = WAY more impact.

Local Leadership

When community members lead change, the change lasts and lasts. That’s why World Vision’s international staff is 95 percent local.

Thriftiness

Keeping our costs down means your gifts make the biggest waves possible.

Love Comes First

We aspire to be like Jesus. So we serve all people. No matter their religion, ethnicity, or gender.

Targeting Root Causes

Going after poverty’s symptoms is temporary. Going after its causes is permanent.

Transparency

You’re welcome behind the curtain. In fact, there is no curtain…because we're accountable to you, to the kids we serve, and ultimately to God.

Your Donation Multiplies

Your gift + grants + donated goods = WAY more impact.

Local Leadership

When community members lead change, the change lasts and lasts. That’s why World Vision’s international staff is 95 percent local.

What’s Happening in World News

News of big needs and great hope. Fair warning, we’re pretty biased towards hope.

FEATURED STORY

Clean Water

One woman creates a ripple in bringing clean water to impoverished communities

Get your friends and family to walk or run World Vision’s Global 6K for Water like Johgina Densmore did. This year’s event is on Saturday, May 6.

4-minute read

Christian Faith

What to do for Lent: Love others

Lent, a time of sacrifice and reflection leading up to Easter, is an ideal time to emulate the counter-cultural ways of the early Christians, whose faith was so attractive that Christianity spread like wildfire. Provoke thought and action for how to make this Lenten season count.

3-minute read

Child Sponsorship

The best-dressed list you won’t find on the red carpet

The red carpet at the Academy Awards is crowded with glamorous gowns and tailored tuxedos as Hollywood stars put their best foot forward. We’ve got our own best-dressed list: children around the world who celebrate their cultural pageantry with traditional clothing.

10 Photos

Disaster Response

South Sudan: Conflict, hunger, and the threats to children

Civil war in South Sudan has created a crisis in which 6.1 million people out of an estimated population of 11.8 million are in need of immediate aid. Children are among those most at risk for malnutrition, disease, and recruitment into armed groups.

4-minute read