Sponsorship is an effective way of transforming the life of a child from a poor community and offering them the chance of a brighter future. Sponsors' contributions are leveraged for maximum impact and used to fund vital development work in their sponsored child’s community, all designed to achieve long term, sustainable improvements in their well being. Child sponsorship is aimed towards achieving four key outcomes: that each child enjoys good health, is educated, cared for, protected and participating in decisions that affect their lives and that each experiences the emergence of hope for the future.

Through partnering closely with World Vision to help identify their particular needs, poor and vulnerable families benefit greatly from child sponsorship. Sponsorship projects can include improvements in healthcare through the provision of medicines and vaccinations, drilling wells for safe, clean water, the opportunity for their children to receive an education, vocational training to help families learn new skills and better provide for themselves, and many other life changing initiatives.

What it means for a child

In order to achieve lasting change in poor communities, sponsorship focuses on community wide, long term, sustainable projects that benefit all the children and families, for generations to come. By partnering closely with each community to identify their particular needs, World Vision facilitates a range of activities which can include health, education, water and sanitation, agricultural, economic development and other initiatives, all designed to help communities break the cycle of poverty and experience greater hope and opportunity for the future.

What it means for a family