Child Sponsorship transforms the lives of vulnerable children.
We work with children and their families in some of the poorest areas of the Solomon Islands, where we support families to lift themselves out of poverty for good via improved farming methods and community saving groups.
We help shield children from poverty and malnutrition.
By becoming a sponsor, you can give a child in Uganda power over their own future.
The Solomon Islandsand our Area Programmes:
The Solomon Islands
Capital city: Honiara
Main languages: Engliah and Pijin
Main religions: The dominant religion in the Solomon Islands is Christianity
Currency: Solomon Islands dollar
Popular sports:Football is officially recognised as the national sport in the Solomon Islands. Rugby, cricket, and volleyball are also popular
Traditional food: Traditional food in the Solomon Islands centers on staples like Taro and cassava, often prepared into a fermented paste called Poi or baked into Cassava Pudding and Lap Lap. Seafood, especially fish, is a major protein source, and coconut milk is widely used in cooking.
Honiara Area Program
Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, is home to the country’s first World Vision Area Programme.
The region faces unique challenges due to its urban setting and vulnerability to natural disasters, especially during the wet season from November to April, when flooding and infrastructure disruptions are common.
While the Solomon Islands does not share a border, seasonal migration and displacement still occur- particularly in response to climate-related events and economic hardship. Families in vulnerable communities may relocate temporarily or permanently due to flooding, cyclones, or lack of employment opportunities, especially in informal settlements around Honiara.
World Vision’s sponsorship program in Honiara is designed to support these families through education, child protection, and community resilience, ensuring children remain safe, healthy, and engaged even during times of instability.
Priority Challenges:
Child Health
Many children face health risks due to poor sanitation, unsafe water, and limited access to healthcare. The program includes monitoring child well-being, training parents, and improving access to clean water and health services.
Climate Resilience & Disaster Preparedness
Honiara is vulnerable to flooding, cyclones, and other climate-related disasters. The Area Programme includes risk management planning, emergency response integration, and resilience-building activities.
Education
Children’s access to quality education is limited, especially in vulnerable communities. The program promotes school attendance, supports learning activities, and engages parents in understanding the importance of education.
Child Protection
Violence and neglect are key concerns, especially in urban and disaster-prone areas. The program strengthens child safeguarding, trains volunteers and staff, and builds community-based protection mechanisms.
Economic Vulnerability
Families face unemployment and financial instability, which affects children’s well-being. The program supports livelihood training and community development to improve household resilience.
For €25 per month you will:
How your donations help
With the support of our generous sponsors, the strategic goal for World Vision in the Solomon Islands is to contribute to increased and sustained well-being for children, especially the most vulnerable. This will be achieved in several ways, including:
Education
Education can transform a child’s life and break the cycle of poverty. We’re improving basic literacy and numeracy and working alongside communities to help them better understand their children's rights, and raise their voices to protect and provide for their children.
Protection
We work with some of the most vulnerable children in the world, and protecting children is an essential part of everything we do. Children affected by extreme deprivation, abuse or exploitation, those vulnerable to disaster, or living with a disability.
Food
We teach people about food from the 'ground up'. From protecting the soil, growing stronger crops, effective farming techniques, to kitchen gardens and nutrition - helping families feed their children and saving millions of lives around the world.
Healthcare
We save lives by training volunteer healthcare assistants, vaccinating children, and working with vulnerable families to help protect their children from infection and disease, including coronavirus. We also help them access healthcare services.
Clean water
Each year children die from diseases caught by drinking dirty water. Sponsorship helps us build boreholes and clean water taps – so no mother has to choose between her children drinking dirty water, or none at all. Clean water saves lives, keeps children healthy, and in school.
Family income
By providing training in new skills, and supporting mothers to start their own businesses, we're helping families gain a stable income so they can afford the essentials, like healthcare, nutrition, and education.
Because of our community-focused solutions, for every child you help, 4 more children benefit, too.
The impact of Child Sponsorship
I now support my family... I want my younger siblings to complete school too because I have seen how education can change one’s life.
Why World Vision
FAQs
How do I sponsor a child?
You can easily sign up to Sponsor a Child page on the sponsor a child page or by calling our Supporter Care Team on 353 1 498 0800.
How does Child Sponsorship work?
World Vision has had a Child Sponsorship programme for more than 70 years, we pair donors with a vulnerable child who needs protection and empowerment.
Child Sponsorship brings much needed change to more than just one child — the benefits you help provide extends to each child's family, their community and other children in need.
This is because World Vision partners, plans and works alongside local community members to help build healthy, sustainable communities for vulnerable children in the world’s hardest places. Learn more about how Child Sponsorship works.
How do you choose children that will be sponsored?
All of World Vision's work begins with listening to communities in need. Community leaders work with us to identify the most vulnerable children and families who will benefit from Child Sponsorship.
How do you choose communities to work in?
We work with national governments and other international agencies to identify the regions and communities that are most in need and where the most vulnerable children live. We then meet with community leaders and the wider community to gain a greater understanding of the challenges and the opportunities that exist for them and we develop a long-term plan together, to break the cycle of poverty. Find out more about how Child Sponsorship works.