This Christmas, you can empower a child and their community to break free from poverty, for good.
How Child Sponsorship Works
When you become a Child Sponsor, both you and the child experience a life-changing and truly inspirational connection with each other.
How Child Sponsorship Works
Enjoy the incredible journey of your child's progress through personal letters, updates, and photographs, and watch as they are empowered to achieve their dreams.
Where your money goes when you sponsor a child
There is nothing else quite like sponsoring a child. Your generosity can make a measurable difference, a difference you can see and experience.
- You can protect and empower children living in the world's toughest places.
- Children at risk of child marriage.
- Children without an education.
- Children without parents.
- You can help impoverished families, children, and entire communities find hope in their future.
Where will your donation go?
Education
Your money can help teach children in communities across the world. You can make sure not just one child, but future generations no longer live in poverty. You can help to fund community projects and clubs so children have endless opportunities to learn.
Food
You can help make sure families have the means to provide for their children - with your money we'll teach communities about growing stronger and effective farming techniques. We share knowledge of nutrition, helping families feed their children nutritious food and saving millions of lives around the world.
Protection
You can make sure some of the most vulnerable children in the world escape abuse or exploitation, including child marriage. Together, we can give these children a safe and secure life and hope for the future.
Healthcare
Help fund World Vision's healthcare assistants in some of the toughest parts of the world and make sure children living in poverty are vaccinated. We'll also use sponsorship money to empower families living in vulnerable conditions to protect their children from coronavirus.
Water
You can stop children dying from drinking dirty water. Child Sponsorship helps us build boreholes and clean water taps – so no mother has to choose between giving her child dirty water, or none at all. Clean water saves lives, keeps children healthy, and allows them to go to school.
Income
You can help World Vision teach new skills, and support mothers to start their own businesses. We're helping families gain a stable income so they can afford the essentials, like healthcare, nutrition, and education.
Empowerment
Our community development approach is about making sure communities and children can lead fulfilling lives, without our help. So when a community has everything that it needs, we move on. Sponsoring a child creates the teachers, nurses and community leaders of the future.
Success Story
With the help of child sponsorship, Nancy became one of the first girls in her community in Kenya to graduate high school and was inspired to become an emergency aid worker. Her sponsor, Georgie, is amazed at the impact that her child sponsorship has had on Nancy.
“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!”
Frequently asked questions?
How do I sponsor a child?
You can easily sign up to sponsor a child by choosing a child above or by calling our Supporter Care Team on 01 498 0800
What you get when you sponsor a child?
How do you choose the children that will be sponsored?
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.
How can I be sure my money gets to those in need?
World Vision only works within countries where we have our own offices so we can be sure that we can account for all the money that we receive and how it is used.
We have audited accounts that are publicly available at any time. As a charity, we're regulated by the Irish Charities Regulator – a legal body, which oversees all Irish charities and their activities.
We are a not-for-profit organisation, and we know that the continued support we receive is dependent on our efficient use of supporters’ money. Our Annual Reports are available here.
How do I write to the sponsored child?
Click here for top tips and guidelines on how to write to your sponsored child - wherever they are in the world. You can also send messages or photos online. Each year, we’ll send you a Christmas card and a birthday card, which you can write a message in and send to your child.