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Your sponsorship will help change their life and transform their community for good.
For every child you help, four more children benefit too.

To achieve lasting change in the child’s community, Child Sponsorship is a minimum monthly donation of £30. Please click here to donate a smaller amount towards our work with children living outside a Sponsorship programme. You have exceeded the Maximum donation amount limit
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SPONSOR A CHILD

Change their life, and their whole community, from £30 per month.

For £30 a month, you will join our incredible community of child sponsors who, like you, are dedicated to giving the most vulnerable children a brighter future.

Your monthly donation will be pooled with those of other sponsors to ensure consistent support for your sponsored child and their community, as well as other sponsorship communities around the world.

This means your donations go much further, helping support children going hungry or without access to clean water. Children missing an education. Children at risk of forced child marriage or abuse.

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What will my Child Sponsorship achieve?

From £30 per month, you’ll help provide education, food, protection, healthcare, income and empowerment.

Scroll through to read all the ways in which your sponsorship supports the world’s most vulnerable children.

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How Child Sponsorship works

What will I get when I sponsor a child?

When you sponsor a child, you'll receive letters, photos and regular updates. You'll see how your support brings food, shelter and safety to them and their community. You'll also witness them achieving their dreams.

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How your giving helps change lives

How your giving helps change lives

79% of your donation goes directly to charitable activities - helping families and their communities.  The other 21% is invested in fundraising, so you'll support us to raise more money to help children around the world.

Five boys in a sponsored community in Kenya smile to the camera

Because of our community-focused solutions, for every individual child you help, 4 more children benefit, too.

What child sponsors say

When Shemi had her first son, Adam, it made her want to do something for other children without the same opportunities as him. Her sons watched Rachael grow up letter by letter, rushing to open the envelopes, amazed at the transformation each time.

Shemi
I would say to someone who is thinking about sponsoring a child - go ahead and do it; it is the most life-changing thing ever!

Shemi

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Do something incredible today

There are children all over the world that need your help. Our Child Sponsorship programmes help not only the most vulnerable children, but their families and communities too.

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Why sponsor a child with World Vision?

We’ve spent 75 years helping to improve the lives of children worldwide, and over that time, we’ve established a highly effective, community-led strategy for lasting change. Inspired by our Christian faith, we focus on helping the most vulnerable children in the world’s most challenging environments fulfil their potential.

Stories from sponsored children

These young people across the world have had their lives transformed by their sponsors.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • World Vision has had a Child Sponsorship programme for 75 years. We pair donors with a vulnerable child who needs protection and empowerment.

    Child Sponsorship costs from £30 per month, and brings much-needed change to more than just the sponsored children — the benefits you help provide extend to each child's family, their community and other children in need. 

    This is because World Vision partners, plans and works closely with local community members to help build healthy, sustainable communities for vulnerable children and their families in the world’s hardest places. Learn more about how Child Sponsorship works. 

  • The donation you give doesn't go directly to your sponsored child or family. 

    For maximum impact and efficiency, your monthly donations are combined with those of other sponsors to ensure consistent support for your sponsored child and their community, as well as other sponsorship communities around the world. This means your donations go much further.

  • We work with communities for ten years or more, and we only move out when we're sure the community are ready to stand on their own two feet, continuing their development without us. Your sponsorship will usually last until your child reaches the age of 18 or leaves education. But it also depends on how long we've been working with that community. 

    We'll keep you updated throughout your sponsorship when we're planning to move on from your child's community. If the project where you are sponsoring comes to an end, or your child moves on for any reason, we'll let you know and give you the opportunity to continue your sponsorship journey with a different child who needs the support of a sponsor.

  • If your circumstances change and you need to stop sponsoring a child, you can do so at any time. If you are thinking about cancelling your sponsorship, please get in touch, as there may be other ways in which you can continue your support. The child you sponsor will continue to benefit from the changes in their community and we will do our best to find a new sponsor for them. 

  • All of World Vision's work begins with listening to communities in need. Community leaders work with us to identify the most vulnerable children and families who will benefit from Child Sponsorship.

  • We work with national governments and other international agencies to identify the regions and communities  most in need and where the most vulnerable children live. We then meet with community leaders and the wider community to better understand the challenges and the opportunities for them and we develop a long-term plan together to break the cycle of poverty. Find out more about how Child Sponsorship works. 

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Contact us to learn more about Child Sponsorship

Whether you have further questions about child sponsorship or want our help finding a child to sponsor, we’re always on hand to help. To contact us, you can call our Supporter Care Team on 01908 84 10 10 or if you’d prefer, email us at supporter@worldvision.org.uk.

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