What is Child Sponsorship?

Child Sponsorship, through community development, achieves real and long-lasting change for children, families and communities living in extreme poverty.

Working through Area Development Programmes (ADPs), World Vision focuses on clusters of villages in the same geographic area, carrying out an integrated programme over a period of up to 15 years. The population benefiting can range from 25,000 to 250,000. We focus on the wellbeing of children, addressing not only immediate problems such as food and water supplies, hygiene and health, but also the long-term issues of education, vocational training, agricultural development, and economic stability.

Sponsoring a Child gives you personal contact with a child and their family within an ADP. You will receive annual updates on your child and their community and you can also choose to correspond with your sponsor child. Money does not go directly to sponsored children, because World Vision has found the best way to help a child is to help the whole community through our long-term community development programmes. We know through decades of experience that these programmes work, and children’s lives are changed through transforming their communities.