How it works

How does just £2 a week give a whole community water, food, education and healthcare?

Your donations are used in the context of our long-term development work, building sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there. £2 a week is what you might pay for a takeaway coffee or orange juice. But for people living in poor countries, it’s worth inestimably more...

• Over 6 months, your gift of £2 a week could buy six fruit trees, to give four families a vital source of nutritious food.
• Over 12 months, your gift of £2 a week could immunise five babies against diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, polio tetanus and tuberculosis – the six main childhood killer diseases.
• Over 24 months, your gift of £2 a week could pay for all the books for four classes full of children, giving them invaluable skills.
• Over 48 months, your gift of £2 a week could cover over half the cost of building a reservoir, to collect and preserve precious rainfall – and provide a source of clean, disease-free water for drinking, cooking and irrigating crops.

When you start to give you can learn more about our work as you will receive our regular supporter magazine, Insight. Each issue includes features on World Vision projects, and close-ups on the issues that are facing over half of the world's population.

You can make a difference by contributing to life's Essentials.