Child Sponsorship transforms the lives of vulnerable children.
We work with children and their families in some of the poorest areas of Uganda, 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.
Uganda and our Area Programmes:
Nepal
Capital city: Kathmandu
Main language: Nepali
Main religions: Hinduism, Buddhism
Currency: Rupee
Popular sports: Soccer, cricket, volleyball
Traditional food: Dal (lentils and spices), rice, dumplings, roti (flat bread)
Rautahat East
Rautahat East is located in the plains of Nepal - known as the Terai. The Terai Region shares an open border with the neighbouring country of India, which is why there are many socio-economic and cultural similarities between the two countries.
Because of the open border with India, many families living in Terai are seasonal migrant workers who move to India for better employment opportunities. During monsoon season, disaster-induced migration has also been observed among families living in flood-affected areas.
Priority Challenges:
Child Health
The key barriers World Vision is working to overcome in Nepal are:
1) inadequate capacity of the local health facilities to provide services on preventive measures and health care
2) Inadequate knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers and caregivers on maternal and child health
3) Inadequate access to all year round food to meet the dietary requirement of mothers and children and inadequate feeding practices.
Food insecurity
In Nepal, the national household food security is only 48.2%. Although 76% of the population depends on agriculture, dependency on agriculture is declining along with contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is 33%. The Key barriers World Vision are working to overcome are:
1) Inadequate income to buy food required for health and nutrition, especially among the bottom quintile of the population
2) Seasonal food insecurity due to inadequate production of food at households (i.e. low food selfsufficiency).
Quality of basic and secondary education
Key barriers to enrolment and attendance include poverty, social exclusion, disability, migration, child labor, social norms and gender bias, inadequate capacities of the school management committees and local government to provide quality education services due to constraints of the resources, and governance.
Child Marriage
Nepal has the third highest rate of child marriage in Asia, after Bangladesh and India. While the legal age of marriage is 20 years, girls in this region are known to get married as young as the age of 12 years. Girls are forced to marry young, and there are instances of young girls initiating the early marriage.
Key barriers include: Poverty, lack of access to education, child labour, social pressures, and harmful practices (notably the ‘chauppadi’), plus ‘love (voluntary) marriage’. Cutting across all of these is entrenched gender inequality, and damaging social norms that make girls less valued than boys in Nepali society.
Child Labour
1.6 million children between (5-17 years) are engaged in child labour. Of these 621,000 are estimated to be engaged in hazardous work. Estimates suggest that 60 percent of children in hazardous workplace are girls (373,000).
Poverty is main driver of child labour. Poor parents engage children for earning works. The other causes are school drop out, child trafficking, failure to care for children due to family conflicts or orphanage.
For €25 per month you will:
How your donations help
With the support of our generous sponsors, the strategic goal for World Vision in Uganda 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.