What child sponsorship does

World Vision Child Sponsorship helps to provide long-term benefits to child, family and community. The work that goes on in each community varies according to its specific needs. These vital community based projects funded by child sponsorship focus on the key areas that make a big difference to children.

Core projects:

• Food security – enabling families to grow or access enough food.
• Clean, safe water – drilling boreholes and providing access point close to homes.
• Healthcare – immunisations, vaccinations, developing skills in midwifery and community based care for elderly and infirm.
• Education – ensuring that girls and boys complete primary school education.
• Sustainable livelihoods <– developing individual and community business skills providing increased income and employment opportunities through revolving loan schemes.
• HIV and AIDS – tackling stigma, community based care for those living with AIDS and those affected such as orphans, improving access to testing and counselling.

Plus:

• Child Protection – helping families and communities protect their children from sexual and/or commercial exploitation
• Disability awareness – encouraging communities to extend the opportunities disabled people have in both participating in community life and in being independent.
• Disaster preparedness – helping communities to plan ahead to mitigate the impact of floods, drought, cyclones etc and be less dependent on outside help, and that such disasters don’t destroy the progress the community has made.
• Community skills/capacity development – preparing the community to continue the work without World Vision.