Create a connection that lasts a lifetime, and change that lasts forever. Sponsor a child in Africa from £30 per month.
Sponsoring children in Africa gives you the chance to change not only the life of one child, but their whole community. Your donations go towards education, healthcare and nutrition. And the knowledge of your encouragement, the support you offer and the love you share, will help your child grow into the person they deserve to be.
Help whole communities
We make a plan with community leaders and the children
See change through their eyes
Letters, photos, videos, regular updates, and an online account
Be their only sponsor
You can form a powerful connection that builds confidence, happiness and hope
Celebrate their progress
See a huge and lasting change in the lives of everyone in the community
79% of your donation goes directly to charitable activities - helping families and their communities. The other 21% is invested in fundraising, so you'll support us to raise more money to help children around the world.
Whether there is a particular African country where you’d like to focus your sponsorship, or you’d prefer to sponsor a child in East Africa - an area heavily affected by poverty – we offer sponsorship programmes in the most vulnerable communities across a range of African countries.
World Vision UK funds child sponsorship programmes across countries in Africa, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zambia.
Simply use the filter above if you want to sponsor a child in a specific country.
Sponsorship has transformed Frida’s community in Tanzania, bringing hope to her and many children like her.
Many schools in this area are overcrowded and under-resourced, often without basics like water, safe toilets or enough classrooms and desks. Health services are sparse and so are clean water sources.
For girls like Frida, the challenges stack even higher. Menstruation is taboo and few families can afford sanitary pads. Schools often don’t have toilets with water or a place to change, so girls don’t go to school when their periods arrive. Because of the time missed each month, it can be harder for girls to pass their exams, and in turn, harder to get a job.
But thanks to sponsors, we are helping children here tackle these challenges and break the cycle of poverty.
Your donations have led to the installation of water points in schools. Toilets, classrooms and libraries have been constructed. Teachers have received training and classroom resources. Sponsors have also provided transportation for vaccines and nurses so that children in remote areas can receive care.
Thanks to sponsors, Frida and her friends have a bright future ahead of them.
By sponsoring an African child through World Vision, you’ll make lasting change for children living in poverty in Africa and help them go from surviving to thriving. We work with the most vulnerable communities, working together to create lasting solutions that can help them to become self-sustainable. We aim to never spend less than 10 years in a community, providing long-term solutions not short-term fixes.
Our goal is to break the cycle of poverty and, together, help build a world that no longer needs our help.
Stirred by our Christian faith, we’ve been working for over 70 years to support the world’s most vulnerable children. And because our programmes are community-led, when you sponsor one child, the whole community benefits. We work with local leaders to determine goals that will help all of their residents for years to come, bringing hope and transformation.
Shemi has sponsored children in Uganda for 14 years. For Shemi and her children, sponsoring Vincent has brought so much joy. Her sponsorship began when she had her first son, Adam, and she realised other children wouldn't have all the wonderful experiences he would.
I would say to someone who's thinking about sponsoring a child, go ahead and do it. It's the most life-changing thing ever, it's absolutely brilliant.
Shemi
Child Sponsor
You'll get to know your sponsored child through letters, photos and regular updates. You can watch as you transform a child's life, bringing food, shelter and safety to them and their local community. You can watch as they achieve their dreams.
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You'll get access to your online My Sponsorship account where you'll find updates, news and videos from your sponsored child and their community. You can build a relationship with your sponsored child, exchange letters, send photos or find out what the weather is like where they live!
Within the first week of signing up, we’ll email you a video of your sponsored child’s community giving you an insight into their daily life. You'll see what life is like for them and their family.
You’ll receive a welcome pack with more information, a photo of your sponsored child, and a postcard - so you can easily write to them if you want to.
You'll have received your very first letter from your sponsored child. If you want to, you can write to them anytime by post or online. We'll translate and hand-deliver messages and you'll always get a reply.
We’ll send you a card that you can add a message to for your sponsored child. Don’t be surprised if these arrive a couple of months before the big day - it’s just to make sure they get there in time.
We’ll send you a progress update, including a new photo so you can see how they’ve grown, an update on how their life is changing, details on how your monthly donations have been used and a note or drawing from your sponsored child.
Select one of the children above to sponsor a child in Africa, or visit our Sponsor a Child page to choose a child to sponsor from another region. Or if you'd prefer, give our Supporter Care team a call on 01908 84 10 10 to discuss the options around child sponsorship.
World Vision has had a Child Sponsorship programme for more than 70 years, we pair donors with a vulnerable child who needs protection and empowerment.
Child Sponsorship brings much-needed change to more than just one child — the benefits you help provide extend to each child's family, their community and other children in need.
This is because World Vision partners, plans and works alongside local community members to help build healthy, sustainable communities for children in the world’s hardest places. Learn more about how Child Sponsorship works.
All of World Vision's work begins with listening to African families and communities in need. Community leaders work with us to identify the most vulnerable children and families who will benefit from our Child Sponsorship programmes.
We work with national governments and other international agencies to identify the regions and communities that are most in need and where the most vulnerable children live. We then meet with community leaders and the wider community to gain a greater understanding of the challenges and the opportunities that exist for them. We develop a long-term plan together, to break the cycle of poverty. Find out more about how Child Sponsorship works.
We work with communities for ten years or more, and we only move out when we're sure the community are ready to stand on their own two feet, continuing their development without us. Your sponsorship will usually last until your child reaches the age of 18 or leaves education. But it also depends on how long we've been working with that community.
We'll keep you updated throughout your sponsorship when we're planning to move on from your child's community. If the project where you are sponsoring comes to an end, or your child moves on for any reason, we'll let you know and give you the opportunity to continue your sponsorship journey with a different child who needs the support of a sponsor.
