We love people

Motivated by our Christian faith, and the belief that no child should live in poverty, World Vision works alongside communities, of all faiths and none, to improve the well-being of children.

We believe in people power

Child sponsorship connects people to fight poverty enabling sponsors to make a positive and real difference to the life of the sponsored child within their family and community and gain an insight into the reality of life in developing countries. People’s lives are changed on either side of the child sponsorship connection.

3 million people can’t be wrong!

Globally, World Vision supporters currently sponsor 3.4 million children in almost 100 countries, with over 120,000 children sponsored by the UK alone.

Our people do their job very well

With over 50 years experience in delivering quality child focussed, community based, transformational development programmes, World Vision is the largest privately funded international relief, development and advocacy charity in the world. World Vision’s highly trained and experienced staff manage Child Sponsorship Projects locally, and the input of the community is foundational to the development work undertaken. Ninety seven percent of our 35,000 staff are employed in their country of origin and because of that, they have a real understanding of local community needs.

Why support our work with vulnerable children and poor communities?

The need has never been stronger or more urgent. The global economic downturn, coupled with the global food crisis, compounded by the effects of global warming is hitting the poorest of the poor the hardest. Vulnerable children are the group most severely impacted by these deepening disasters. World Vision believes that though children are born into poverty, they don’t have to live their lives that way. When you sponsor a child with World Vision, you are joining with us in a global movement to tackle and end child poverty.