Transforming lives and child sponsorship

  1. In Africa, many of our programs help families and communities respond to the challenges of HIV and AIDS.
  2. In Peru, Florentina's children are now enjoying a healthier diet because she received help to grow vegetables.
  3. World Vision helps to train community health workers to monitor children’s health and nutritional status.
  4. In Tanzania, mosquito nets and community education help protect children like Taji and her family against malaria.
  5. Child sponsorship elevates the status of children in their community and tries to ensure their views are heard.
  6. World Vision child sponsors are encouraged to exchange cards and letters with their sponsored children.
  7. Our development work aims to strengthen the capacity of families to support their children’s growth and development.
  8. Children play a key role in enabling positive changes in their families and communities.
  9. Projects help farmers like Masly to grow more food by providing agricultural training and inputs like seeds and tools.
  10. Generous Australians sponsor more than 400,000 children around the world through World Vision.

“It takes a village to raise a child.” World Vision encourages Australians to sponsor a child, and then works to ensure that the benefits to individuals and disadvantaged communities are meaningful and long-lasting.

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Around the world, almost 400,000 children are sponsored by generous Australians through World Vision. Their contributions are helping to create positive changes, not only for their sponsored child, the child's family and community, but also children in other sponsorship communities, for generations to come.

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S Taylor
Jun 13, 2013

"If you think you are too small, too insignificant, to do something, sleep the night in a windowless hut with a mosquito. "

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Jessica
May 31, 2013

"What a touching story! I recently sponsored a child for the first time and I can only hope my sponsorship makes a difference like Lyn and Norm's did for Reni."

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Elaine Sutherland
May 30, 2013

"What a wonderful story. Reni to meet Lyn and Norm and for her to now sponsor 4 children herself. It makes me so glad I sponsor my two children. I hope they get ahea..."

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Hannah
May 29, 2013

"This story was really nice. I hope my sponsor child will get the same opportunity in Bethlehem."

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