Transform a girl’s life today – and a whole community forever.
Sponsoring a girl helps break the cycle of poverty and gender inequality by creating opportunities for her to stay in school, be protected from child marriage, and benefit from improved access to clean water and healthcare.
By supporting communities to lead lasting change, sponsorship helps create a future where children, families and whole communities can thrive.
You can choose a girl to sponsor based on her country and age. Or you can choose a child who has been waiting longest.
Your sponsorship starts from £30 a month and supports long-term change for your sponsored child and her whole community.
Girls have the right to be safe, to be educated, to be children and to live free from fear. Yet, 119 million girls are out of school right now.
Poverty and inequality can force many families to make impossible choices, leaving girls unable to continue their education. Many are held back by responsibilities at home, the need to collect water or earn an income, as well as risks such as child marriage and gender-based violence.
Child Sponsorship changes everything for girls. When a girl is sponsored, she doesn’t just survive – she thrives.
Sponsors are urgently needed to help a young girl rewrite her future.
Child Sponsorship provides life-changing support for vulnerable girls around the world. Through our programmes at World Vision UK, your monthly donation helps fund education, healthcare, and protection from child marriage and gender-based violence, allowing girls to stay in school and build a secure future.
Your sponsorship can help girls access education, stay in school and keep learning, giving them more opportunities to build confidence, develop skills and shape their future.
Sponsorship can support access to safe, clean water, helping girls spend less time collecting water and more time learning, playing and building their future.
Education can give girls more choice over their future, helping them stay in school for longer, avoid early marriage and build greater independence as they grow.
Your support can help protect girls from abuse, exploitation and violence by strengthening safeguarding, raising awareness of their rights and creating safer communities.
Sponsorship can improve access to healthcare and menstrual health support, helping girls manage their health with dignity and take part more fully in school and community life.
Your support can help protect girls from FGM by raising awareness, strengthening child protection and working with communities to challenge harmful practices and protect girls' rights.
Sponsorship can help reduce girls' risk of trafficking and exploitation by strengthening protection, supporting families and creating safer opportunities within their communities.
Your support can help girls access education, healthcare and opportunities that reduce the impact of poverty and give them stronger foundations for a more secure future.
When you sponsor a girl, you help remove the barriers that can hold her back, enabling her to stay in school, know her rights and look to the future with confidence. With an education, she can shape her own future and help strengthen her community.
Sponsored girls tend to:
Girls who stay in school often marry later, reducing child marriage
Each year a girl stays in school can boost future earnings by up to 25%.
Educated girls can become leaders and advocates for girls' rights.
Child Sponsorship is a monthly donation that connects you with a child while helping to create lasting change across their community.
World Vision works with children, families and local leaders to identify the community’s greatest needs. You sponsorship donations are then pooled with others to fund initiatives such as clean water, education, healthcare, nutritious food, child protection and opportunities for families to earn a secure income.
For every child sponsored, four more children benefit too.
When you sponsor a girl, your support goes beyond one child. It contributes to community-led programmes designed to give all children the foundations they need to grow, learn, stay safe and build a brighter future.
Sponsoring a girl starts from just £30 a month, that’s less than £1 a day. A small donation that creates a big impact because our sponsorship model is community-led, so your support extends beyond one child and will help transform a whole community.
What does your money achieve?
• Clean water systems are built and maintained.
• Schools are equipped and teachers trained.
• Clinics are stocked and health workers supported.
• Families learn new skills to earn a stable income.
By strengthening the whole community, girls are more likely to thrive – and stay thriving – even after sponsorship ends. It’s a smart, sustainable way to help.
The donation you give doesn't go directly to your sponsored child or family.
For maximum impact and efficiency, your monthly donations are combined with those of other sponsors to ensure consistent support for your sponsored child and their community, as well as other sponsorship communities around the world. This community-wide approach means your sponsorship can create change beyond one child.
Depending on what a community needs, this support can include:
• Building and maintaining clean water systems
• Equipping schools and training teachers
• Stocking clinics and supporting health workers
• Improving nutrition and sanitation
• Protecting children from violence and exploitation
• Helping families build skills and more secure incomes.
If your circumstances change and you need to stop sponsoring a child, you can do so at any time.
If you are thinking about cancelling your sponsorship, please get in touch, as there may be other ways in which you can continue your support.
The child you sponsor will continue to benefit from the changes in their community and we will do our best to find a new sponsor for them.
Across the world, girls face different challenges depending on where they live. We work around the world to remove the barriers holding girls back. The countries you can sponsor a girl in are:
Africa
Child marriage is most common in Sub-Saharan Africa, where wider challenges linked to poverty, education and health also increase vulnerability, making it a key focus of our work.
Sponsor a girl in Africa:
Asia
Across parts of Asia, many girls grow up facing barriers to education, safety and opportunity, including child marriage, poverty
and unequal access to healthcare.
Sponsor a girl in Asia:
A single donation can make a difference in a moment of need. Sponsorship provides long-term support that helps a girl stay in school, stay safe and thrive.
With your support, women and girls are empowered to fulfil their potential in many ways. By sponsoring a girl you help remove the barriers holding her back. This improves her personal safety, access to education and financial freedom. In turn, her family and community benefit.
Improving water and sanitation in communities is also a major focus. World Vision is the leading non-governmental provider of clean water in low-income countries, reaching someone every 10 seconds with clean water.
Toilets that are private for girls, alongside period products and handwashing facilities in schools, help keep girls safe and give them dignity during their periods. They also make it easier for girls to stay in school and complete their education. By sponsoring a girl, you can help create opportunities for her to build a brighter future for herself, her family and her community.
Sponsorship is more than a monthly donation. It gives you the opportunity to follow a child's journey and see the wider change taking place around her.
For every girl you sponsor, her whole community benefits too.
Receive letters, photos, videos and regular updates about your sponsored girl.
Your sponsored girl has one sponsor, creating a special connection between you.
Follow her journey and see the lasting difference being made in her community.
The kind of change she wanted to see in that little girl’s life is what I’ve always remembered. If I make it out there, then Georgie will be happy.
Nancy
Former Sponsored Child
World Vision works alongside communities to help girls stay safe, learn and thrive. Your £30 a month means your sponsored girl and her friends will be supported with fuel for their futures: food, healthcare, clean water, proper sanitation and education.
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Around the world, we help girls learn, lead and shape their own futures.
We work with communities to create lasting change for girls and families.
Read how your support is helping change girls' lives.
If you have further questions about Child Sponsorship or want our help finding a child to sponsor, we’re always happy to help.
Contact our Supporter Care Team on 01908 84 10 10 or email us at supporter@worldvision.org.uk.
Please note your regular donation amount may increase during the period of your Child Sponsorship. If this does happen, you will be clearly notified in advance and will be given the choice to not increase your donation.
