What we do | World Vision Australia

Together with Australians like you we help make a lasting difference in the lives of vulnerable children

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World Vision Australia currently has 327 projects in 40 countries meaning transformation for 7,554,870 people.

But we do nothing without you.

Our work includes

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Transformational development

Focused especially on the needs of children. We guide communities to set and achieve their own goals and equip them so that progress made is sustained long after we’ve left.

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Emergency relief

Assisting people affected by conflict or disaster. When disaster strikes, we are on the ground quickly to provide immediate support – and we stay, helping people to rebuild their lives and communities.

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Promotion of justice

Working towards changing attitudes and practices that deny human rights and create inequality. We equip children, communities and local partners with tools to address the root causes of violence and exploitation against children.

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Engaging Australians

Helping them make a lasting difference in the lives of vulnerable children. Generous individuals, families, schools, churches, companies, philanthropists, governments and institutions make our work possible.

Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness

Moses wants to be a doctor and help save lives in his community.

Being sponsored at seven gave Moses the opportunity to go to school. With his sponsor’s support, Moses’ family received livestock and training to support their children with school fees, school shoes, healthy food, and all the essentials they needed to grow up smart and strong. Now Moses is determined to achieve his dream of becoming a doctor.

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Mwila isn’t forced into marriage and can support her family.

In Nyimba, Zambia, one out of every three girls gets married before they become an adult. Supported by her Australian child sponsors, Mwila signed up for a four-month tailoring class. She started to make dresses in beautiful prints and patterns, which became sought-after all over town. Mwila can now support her family with food and household bills and is saving up to study.

We empower everyday Australians

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Eleni Kallianiotis started sponsoring a child with World Vision when she finished high school. "I really wanted to do something good – and I wanted to sort of pay it forward," she explains.

As a mother of two small children, she appreciates that it also brings something very special to her family.

“I’m able to share this experience with [my family], especially my son who’s four now,” Eleni says. “It’s teaching him kindness and giving, and having someone on the other side of the world that he can write to.”

We unite in emergencies to care and protect children

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The conflict in Ukraine sparked the world’s fastest growing displacement crisis since World War II. To date, more than two-thirds of children from Ukraine have been displaced from their homes. Millions of Ukrainian boys and girls have had their education disrupted for more than two years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. To help fill this critical education gap, we’re providing children with safe places to play and learn. Over the 2022 European summer, we worked with local partners to run 34 summer camps for children aged 5-17 in Ukraine where they enjoyed a much-needed reprieve from the challenges of living in a war-torn country.

We work together to create powerful alliances

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The Australian NGO Cooperation Program (ANCP) is an annual grants program administered by the Australian Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. We are thankful and proud to be the leading recipient of ANCP funding. The ANCP enables World Vision to deliver impact across all aspects of community development, often in fragile contexts and to reach the most vulnerable people. During the 2024 financial year our ANCP-funded projects reached 319,706 people across Africa, Asia and the Pacific.

We care for the land and our climate

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In 2022, Elgeyo Marakwet County in Kenya’s Central Rift Valley was crippled with drought. While many families in this region watched helplessly as their crops withered and livestock perished, Joyce and her husband Edward had plenty of food to eat and enough hay for their animals. That’s because for the past six years they’ve been practising Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) on their land. FMNR is a simple technique to regrow trees from stumps with living roots through careful pruning and protection. It helps to restore soil fertility on degraded land so farmers can grow more food. It also promotes grass growth that can be used as animal feed.