Transforming Lives & Child Sponsorship

“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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  1. Through transformational development, World Vision is working to achieve wellbeing for all children.
  2. By joining a rice bank in their community, Houn and her mother are assured of food throughout the year.
  3. Helping communities gain access to clean water is an important element of World Vision’s development work.
  4. Our child sponsorship programs promote the rights and participation of disabled children like Anita in Nepal.
  5. Increasing educational opportunities for girls is a powerful way to fight poverty.
  6. In India, child sponsorship supports women’s self help groups to set up savings schemes and generate income.
  7. Girls and boys participate in community development activities in age-appropriate ways.
  8. In Peru, remote rural communities are being supported to generate income through fish farming.
  9. Transformational development promotes a culture of participation, for children, families and whole communities.
  10. Members of a women’s co-op in Honduras are generating income and becoming leaders in their communities.
  11. Generous Australians sponsor more than 400,000 children around the world through World Vision.
  12. Projects help farmers like Masly to grow more food by providing agricultural training and inputs like seeds and tools.
  13. Children play a key role in enabling positive changes in their families and communities.
  14. Our development work aims to strengthen the capacity of families to support their children’s growth and development.
  15. World Vision child sponsors are encouraged to exchange cards and letters with their sponsored children.
  16. Child sponsorship elevates the status of children in their community and tries to ensure their views are heard.
  17. In Tanzania, mosquito nets and community education help protect children like Taji and her family against malaria.
  18. World Vision helps to train community health workers to monitor children’s health and nutritional status.
  19. In Peru, Florentina's children are now enjoying a healthier diet because she received help to grow vegetables.
  20. In Africa, many of our programs help families and communities respond to the challenges of HIV and AIDS.

What is this about?

Poverty affects all aspects of life - physical, emotional, social and spiritual - and it stops people from fulfilling their 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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Why is it happening?

Poverty has many dimensions which vary from one community to another and across countries and regions. World Vision's development programs aim to address the specific social, economic, cultural and environmental challenges facing local communities, while keeping children at the heart of our efforts.

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Where is it happening?

Around the world, more than 400,000 children are sponsored by generous Australians through World Vision. Their long-term support is helping to create positive changes, not just in the lives of the individual children they sponsor, but in the lives of families and 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. 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?

Sometimes, donating to a cause can feel like throwing pennies into a fountain: well-intentioned, but ultimately pointless. World Vision's child sponsorship program never feels like wasted effort - the results can be seen week after week, year after year, in the improved lives of the poorest children in the world.

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Let's talk about it

Your vision

Gabby
Mar 06, 2010

"When we complain about how we don't have the 'up-to-date' ipod or TV, think about the people suffering with malnutrition and loss of love ones. Anyone can make a di..."

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M.H
Feb 21, 2010

"no one should have to live like this.. ;("

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Tali
Dec 03, 2009

"We are so happy to be sponsoring Phoebie...and consider it the best Christmas present ever. We have been learning about Zimbabwe to see what kind of country Phoebi..."

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Andy
Nov 15, 2009

""I'm 11 and I think that if we don't have to suffer, why should they? I hope that all of their suffering will come to an end very soon. "

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