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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Poverty affects all aspects of life - physical, emotional, social and spiritual - and it stops people from fulfilling their God-given potential. World Vision is committed to fighting poverty through transformational development that is community-based, sustainable and focused on the wellbeing of children.

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Who is it happening to?

Levy from Zambia has experienced many positive changes since World Vision commenced work in his community with the support of Australian child sponsors. His story demonstrates the lasting difference that sponsorship can make in the life of a child and his or her community.

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Why is it happening?

Each community we work with has different needs. World Vision brings globally proven approaches together with each community's own strengths to address their specific challenges, while keeping the wellbeing of children as the focus of all we do.

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Where is it happening?

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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What is our response?

World Vision's work is guided by the conviction that children, just like adults, have the right to participate in decisions and actions that affect their lives, where appropriate. Through child sponsorship, we also recognise that children can be powerful agents of change in their families and communities.

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How you can help?

In order to thrive, children need to grow up in an environment that provides them with the essentials they need for today, together with hope and opportunity for the future. World Vision Child Sponsorship is an effective and fulfilling way to help give a child from a poor community the chance of a brighter future, while at the same time supporting the child’s family and wider community.

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Four decades of caring: the story of Bernadette and Anthony
Yen Sapparth
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"Thank you for sharing the story which is so inspirational. Individualy, we can always make a different however small. "

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Dave Martin
May 01, 2013

"Great story! Love hearing about people who are on their 2nd, 3rd, and even 4th generation of sponsored children. What a great legacy these caring people are creatin..."

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Helen
Apr 30, 2013

"Wonderful couple Anthony and Bernadette. Such big hearts ...wow they must have experienced some wonderful changes over the years. Well done Helen and Grahame Haidle."

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kevin pearce
Apr 15, 2013

" Thank you. Keep on doing what you are doing. You are always in my prayers. Victory in the name of the Lord."

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