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In the community
In the community
If you enjoy engaging directly with members of your local community and are passionate about the work World Vision does overseas, there are many volunteer opportunities that you can get involved in, including:
Child sponsorship promotion
World Vision’s child sponsorship program plays an important role in the fight against global poverty.
You might have seen the World Vision stands in shopping centres – but did you know that volunteers play a big part in their success? Many volunteers help out at these stands for a couple of weeks each year, for a specific campaign.
Christmas is one of the best times of the year to volunteer. As a volunteer on the Christmas Angels shopping centre stands, you can give children around the world a reason to smile at Christmas.
The 10,000 Appeal is also a time when volunteers are invaluable to World Vision. Occurring in the middle of each year, the 10,000 Appeal aims to find 10,000 sponsors for 10,000 needy children.
Advocacy
Join the fight to end poverty.
The movement to make poverty history is gaining momentum. There’s never been a better time to get involved, and World Vision has made it easy for you to be part of the action.
Explore WV Connect to find out how you can get involved with an action that is right for you.
Church
World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.
Volunteering through your church helps you to raise awareness about poverty and injustice, and lets you form a partnership between your church and World Vision.
Together, we can make a difference in the hearts and minds of Australians.
"Faith and works, works and faith, fit together hand in glove."
James 2:18
Opportunities for putting your faith in action:
- Find ways that you and your church can partner with World Vision to end poverty
- Learn more about the issues of poverty and work to raise awareness in your community
- Organise a group from your church to participate in the 40 Hour Famine
- Discover how your church can connect with local schools and be involved in volunteer mentoring through KIDS HOPE AUS.
Contact the World Vision office for more information about how you or your church can get involved.
Featured volunteer
"Being involved with World Vision makes me more inspired to make a difference in the world. Sponsoring a child myself, I now know that I have helped my sponsored child and her community. I would never think twice about doing it again!" Sultan Ozonal, 22
Sisters Sultan and Seher are bound by an unwavering love for the world's poorest children. Both passionate World Vision volunteers, together they attend to shopping centre display stands where they advocate for child sponsorship.
"The most fulfilling part of volunteering is the satisfaction of seeing children from all over the world sponsored on a long-term basis. The experience has been a great eye-opener to broader issues of poverty." Seher Ozonal, 20
Sultan and Seher Ozonal
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