Chosen™ Sponsorship with Awaken

The power to choose in a child's hands

What does it look like when the Kingdom of God comes?

Through your partnership, children's lives and their communities are being transformed. In Pajule, Uganda there is profound church unity, child empowerment and community transformation.

From despair to hope, from horror to joy, a community destroyed by war experiencing utter hopelessness and poverty, is being restored and redeemed through awakened hearts of the church. This is revival.

Join in with what God is doing. Be Chosen today and be part of the next choosing party in Uganda or Malawi.

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What is Chosen?

Chosen Sponsorship enables community transformation by tackling extreme poverty at its roots.

With your support, we work alongside vulnerable communities to bring lifesaving healthcare, clean water, nutrition, quality education, child protection, ways for families to make a living and spiritual nurture.

For every child sponsored, four more benefit.

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How does Chosen Sponsorship work?

Sign up and submit a photo

Your name and photo are sent to a community in need where a big choosing party is held.

Child holds a photo of the sponsor she chose

A child chooses you

At the choosing party we let the children pick which person, couple, or family they want to be their sponsors from the photos displayed. Then we let you know who chose you! You'll also find out why you were chosen.

A child studies alongside a World Vision worker

Your gift gets to work

Your donation is pooled with the donations of other sponsors to support community projects such as the installation of clean water taps, improved healthcare facilities, and more to make sure your sponsored child can achieve their dreams.

A sponsor looks at a letter from their sponsored child

See the change

We provide regular updates on how you are transforming your sponsored child's life including videos and photos. You'll receive letters from your sponsored child, and if you'd like, you can even write back and send birthday cards.

How Child Sponsorship works

I choose you because...

Fahin stands with a photo of the person he's chosen as his sponsor

"I feel like I know him!"

Greisy and a photo of her chosen sponsor

"You're a cute family"

Rosemary stands with a photo of her chosen sponsor

"You look smart"

Rosemary, 9, Kenya

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It feels quite special that she [Faith] chose us because she got to personalise her journey and decide it was us who could help her - Phoebe & Family

Sponsor stories

Children, like Daniel and Ngasike, are empowered

“I chose her because she is loving,” says Ngasike, two, Kenya.

“I like the way he is dressed,” explains Daniel, Ngasike’s twin brother.

Before Chosen Sponsorship and World Vision’s support, life was hard. Daniel and Ngasike’s family had 15 goats, but when Kenya’s prolonged drought came, all 15 died. “Sometimes we would sleep without food,” says their mother, Pauline.

World Vision provided cash transfers to help the family rebuild their livelihood. Daniel, Ngasike and their five siblings were both invited to take part in a Chosen Sponsorship event, where they were empowered to choose their sponsors. Now they’re taking control of their future and creating change in their own lives.

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Family from Kenya in their home, six of their children are holding pictures of their Chosen Sponsors — Pauline and Simon with their children Loibach, five, John, three, Akiru, eight, Enok, 10, twins Daniel and Ngasike, two, and baby Simon, one.

Bring Chosen to my church

Find out how you can bring the Chosen experience to your church.

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Why World Vision

75 years of experience

Experts in transforming communities and children's lives.

Almost 100 countries

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

Transforming lives

We focus on children to bring hope and lasting change for communities everywhere

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Chosen Sponsorship FAQs

A choosing event is an empowering experience where children come together in their community, and for the first time, get to choose a sponsor. Photos that sponsors have submitted are displayed and they are invited to choose their sponsor from the selection of photos. After choosing, they write a letter to their sponsor letting them know why they chose them.
Your money does not go directly to your sponsored child, or their family, but enables World Vision to work with their entire community, as well as other sponsorship communities around the world, to have an even bigger impact and make long-term sustainable change for everyone.

As a member of their community, your sponsored child receives the benefits of this incredible change and their own lives are transformed. You can still however send your child letters, photos and gifts.
If you don't want to wait for our next Chosen™ event before sponsoring a child, you can choose a child to sponsor immediately. There are children around the world waiting to be chosen by you. Choose a child to sponsor to start your sponsorship journey today.

Sponsor a child today.
In most cases, it will be throughout their childhood and into their teens. Most children will be in the sponsorship programme until their community has begun to reach most of its goals, and is ready to support itself. As the project comes to a close, we will let you know of the achievements in the community so you can celebrate with us.