A community in Mali dancing in the flowing water to celebrate World Vision’s 150,000th borehole in the country

Ending Child Poverty

Empowering vulnerable children and communities to reach their full potential

Supporting the vulnerable

Our focus is to help the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

We tackle child poverty at its roots. With your support, we come alongside communities to bring lifesaving healthcare, clean water, nutrition, quality education, child protection and ways for families to make a living.

We empower communities to set their own goals for transformation and stay for up to 15 years to ensure families are self-sufficient, healthy and thriving when we leave. Because we empower children and their community, the changes we make together last.

We focus on efforts to end child poverty:

Clean Water

We are the largest non-government provider of safe water in the developing world

Malnutrition

Our feeding programmes have an 89% cure rate, surpassing standard of 75%

Disease

Our TB programmes have an 88% success rate compared to the industry average 85%

How we're working to end child poverty

Breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty by 2030 so that the most vulnerable children can reach their full potential.

A boy from Rwanda wearing a blue top smiles off to the side of the camera standing with a blackboard behind him

Together we’ve impacted the lives of over 200 million vulnerable children by tackling the root causes of poverty.

A boy from Zambia grins as he holds one of the family goats, provided by World Vision, that helped his parents work their way out of poverty

Nathan's Story

Giving Back - From Poverty to Providers

Zambia, where Nathan, 9, lives, is experiencing a hard drought. He and his family are resilient, however, thanks in part to the 4 goats World Vision provided to his family in 2016. Goats are the backbone of their financial success, Nathan’s father Diyo says. “Before we got goats, the children had no milk and sometimes we went to bed hungry. Now they are healthy and go to school.” The family have come so far that in 2018, they shared some goats with other families in need through World Vision’s Animal Give-back programme. "I was so happy that we could do it!” Nathan's mother Eunice says.

Sponsor a child like Nathan today, and improve their life forever

Your support empowers your sponsored child’s community,
equipping them so that progress made continues, long after we’ve left.

A brighter future is possible, but the need is acute

Our focus is on reaching children who are most vulnerable, who suffer most acutely the hardships that extreme poverty brings. By supporting them and their whole community, we empower people to break free from poverty and experience the fullness of life.