Sponsor a child - Help a child in need

This Christmas, you can empower a child and their community to break free from poverty, for good.

As another year of uncertainty comes to a close, children in the most vulnerable places face more risk now more than ever.

This Christmas, you could give a child and their community the gift of hope for a brighter future.

Imagine if this Christmas, you could help a girl get water without fearing for her safety for the first time or empower a family eat until they are full.

The global crises of the past year have left even more children and their families in extreme need.

Imagine if you could help a child end 2022 with hope for the first time.

How Child Sponsorship Works

When you become a Child Sponsor, both you and the child experience a life-changing and truly inspirational connection with each other.

Enjoy the incredible journey of your child's progress through personal letters, updates, and photographs, and watch as they are empowered to achieve their dreams.

Your donation could make a lasting difference.

Sponsor a child

For every child you help this Christmas, 4 more children benefit too.

Together, we can make a 'first' possible for you and a vulnerable child: The first time a family gets clean water. The first time a hungry child receives a full meal.

Sponsoring a child this Christmas could be the start of a new year of firsts – for both sponsors and vulnerable children.

Children need your help in some of the world’s toughest places. What if 2022 ended with a child feeling safe, maybe for the first time?

Make this a Christmas of Firsts.

Where your money goes when you sponsor a child:

A young girl from Malawi sat in a classroom with a workbook and listening, with lots of other children in the background

Education

Your money can help teach children in communities across the world. You can make sure not just one child, but future generations no longer live in poverty. You can help to fund community projects and clubs so children have endless opportunities to learn.

A family of four from Cambodia smiling at the camera with a large bowl of rice

Food

You can help make sure families have the means to provide for their children - with your money we'll teach communities about growing stronger and effective farming techniques. We share knowledge of nutrition, helping families feed their children and saving millions of lives around the world.

Mother and son from Bolivia with a brick background. Mother is looking at her son as he looks at the camera.

Protection

You can make sure some of the most vulnerable children in the world escape abuse or exploitation, including child marriage. Together, we can give these children a safe and secure life and hope for the future.

Two mums from the DRC at a health clinic holding their babies and laughing

Healthcare

Help fund World Vision's healthcare assistants in some of the toughest parts of the world and make sure children living in poverty are vaccinated. We'll also use donations to empower vulnerable families to protect their children from coronavirus.

Water

You can stop children dying from drinking dirty water. Sponsorship helps us build boreholes and clean water taps – so no mother has to choose between giving her child dirty water, or none at all. Clean water saves lives, keeps children healthy, and allows them to go to school.

A young girl holding a bowl of eggs, and a boy holding an egg in each hand. Standing in front of their family smallholding in Myanmar

Income

You can help World Vision teach new skills, and support 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.

Children in Zambia run happily towards camera

Empowerment

Our work is about making sure communities and children can lead fulfilling lives, without our help. So when a community has everything that it needs, we move on. Sponsoring a child creates the teachers, nurses and community leaders of the future.

What you get when you sponsor a child

Within four weeks

You’ll receive a welcome pack with more information, a photo of your sponsored child, and a postcard so you can easily write to them if you want to.

Young sponsored girl in Kenya reads birthday card from sponsor

On their birthday

We’ll send you a card that you can add a message to for your sponsored child. Don’t be surprised if these arrive a couple of months before the big day - it’s just to make sure they get there in time.

Once a year

We’ll send you a progress update including: a new photo so you can see how they’ve grown, an update on how their life is changing, details on how your donations have been used and a note or drawing from your sponsored child.

I would say to someone who is thinking about sponsoring a child - go ahead and do it, it is the most life changing thing ever!

When you sponsor a child

For just €25 a month

Be uniquely paired
Each sponsor is uniquely paired with a child living in one of the world's toughest places.
Empower a community
When you sponsor a child, you support their whole community to lift themselves out of poverty.
See the difference
You’ll see first-hand the difference you make through the eyes of your sponsored child.

Sponsor a child

Why World Vision

70 years of experience

Experts in transforming communities and children's lives.

Almost 100 countries

Trusted worldwide to provide water, education, food and emergency response.

200 million children

We've helped more than 200 million children to achieve their dreams.

Success story

Moses is 19 and about to become the first person not only in his family, but in his whole village, to go to university. It’s all thanks to hard work, his sponsor, and a cow.

“There haven’t been any children from my village so far who have made it to college, so just making it there will help motivate my siblings and other kids in my community to think that they can do it too.” – Moses

Our child sponsorship programme is transforming the lives of children, families and communities.

Frequently Asked Questions

You can easily sign up to sponsor a child by choosing a child above or by calling our Supporter Care Team on 01 498 0800
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.
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.
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.