Bring clean water to a child's community

By sponsoring a child today, you can provide clean water, healthcare, and education - giving them the chance to fulfil their dreams and transform their life and community.

Ethiopia

Boy 5 years old

Your sponsorship will help change their life and transform their community for good.
For every child you help, four more children benefit too.

£ 30 £ 34 £ 50

Monthly amount £

To achieve lasting change in the child’s community, Child Sponsorship is a minimum monthly donation of £30. Please click here to donate a smaller amount towards our work with children living outside a Sponsorship programme.

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It's more than water – it's life

Every day, millions of children suffer because they don’t have access to clean, safe water. Contaminated water makes children sick; it keeps them out of school, and diseases that are treatable can often be life-threatening. But it's not hopeless, together it's a crisis we can solve.

Everyone should have clean water. For drinking and washing, for sanitation and hygiene too - it's essential for children and families. You can help us reach more children with clean water by sponsoring a child today.

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A child in Zambia holds a bucket of water above her head — Aphinety walks 11 km to fetch water from a distant source, a journey filled with danger and hardship.

How sponsoring a child helps

World Vision is the largest non-government provider of clean water in the developing world. Every 10 seconds, we reach one new person with clean water.

So when you sponsor a child for £30 a month, you're helping to bring clean water to their community. You'll also be helping to ensure children have enough nutritious food, access to healthcare, a full education and more. And because of our community-focused solutions, for every child you sponsor, four more children benefit.

With Child Sponsorship, you’re helping children like Vinety, Lisa and Nyangoma reach their full potential.

A girl in Cambodia smiles to camera whilst holding a container of clean water

No longer ill from dirty water

For years, Lisa’s family relied on the lake for drinking, cooking, and cleaning, unaware of the harmful bacteria making them sick. Seeking medical help was a challenge. But with support from World Vision sponsors and the local government, her community can now purify water in minutes. With clean water, Lisa is healthier, and her family saves money once spent on bottled water — money now saved for her education.

A young girl in Zambia collects clean water from a tap

Education doesn't have to suffer

In Vinety's community, children used to take long journeys to collect water from contaminated sources. They would miss lessons at school and risk getting sick from drinking dirty water.

But with the new solar-powered water system built thanks to World Vision’s sponsors, Vinety and her friends now have safe, easy access to clean water — they no longer have to choose between water or an education.

A girl in Uganda smiles while running clean water from a newly-installed tap

New facilities for mothers and babies

In Nyangoma’s community, giving birth was dangerous. Without clean water, mothers had to wash their babies with contaminated supplies, risking infections and life-threatening complications.

Thanks to World Vision's sponsors, the health centre now has clean, running water, making it safer for mothers and babies. The entire community is experiencing real, lasting change.

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How Child Sponsorship works

It feels very meaningful to be a sponsor - to be a positive influence in a child's life.

Jane

Child Sponsor

For £30 per month you can

Help whole communities

Tackle issues like water scarcity, hunger, FGM and child marriage

Receive first-hand updates

Letters, photos, regular updates from your sponsored child and their community

Be their only sponsor

Form a meaningful connection that builds confidence, happiness and hope

Celebrate their progress

See a huge and lasting change in the lives of everyone in the community

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How your giving helps change lives

79% of our income 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.

FAQs

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 the sponsored children — 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 vulnerable children in the world’s hardest places. Learn more about how Child Sponsorship works.
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 means your donations go much further.
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 you 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.
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 with us, 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.
All of World Vision's work begins with listening to communities in need. Community leaders work with us to identify the most vulnerable children and families who will benefit from Child Sponsorship.
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 and we develop a long-term plan together, to break the cycle of poverty. Find out more about how Child Sponsorship works.