Be Chosen

This Christmas give a child a powerful gift. The gift to choose you as their sponsor.
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Nicholas (10), Kenya


Looking for a life-changing gift?

<br>Looking for a life-changing gift?

Don't just give the same old thing this year. Give a Smiles gift guaranteed to change lives!

When you gift a goat or help a girl get an education in honour of your friends or family, you can change the world for kids and families in great need. This year, Smiles gifts are needed more than ever.

Give a Smiles gift today



Other ways you can help

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Sponsor a Child

You can help a child break free from poverty, for good. Your sponsorship will help bring essentials like clean water,  education and healthcare to a child and their community.

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Where Needed Most

Support life-changing work right around the world. Help people rebuild in the wake of disasters and empowering entire communities to lift themselves out of poverty.

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Protect Children in Crisis

Protect vulnerable children in dangerous places and situations. Your pledge of $20 to Children in Crisis, will provide $100 worth of life-saving essentials every month.

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COVID-19 Crisis

We urgently need your help to slow the spread of COVID-19 by setting up hand-washing stations, delivering life-saving food and training community healthcare workers.

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Thanks to you, every 60 seconds a family receives the tools to overcome poverty.

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Clean Water

Reaching 1 new person every 10 seconds, World Vision is the largest non-government provider of safe water in the developing world.
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Education

Every year we provide millions of children with an education so they can reach their full potential and contribute to their communities.
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Nutritious Food

Every year, we provide more than nine million people with life-saving food assistance, including five million children.
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Family Income

Breaking the poverty cycle with economic empowerment, by strengthening families' capacity to provide for their children.
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Healthcare

We ensure the most vulnerable have access to healthcare services to help children and their families live long and healthy lives.
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Child Protection

We work alongside communities to protect children who are vulnerable to abuse or exploitation like child marriage, child labour and trafficking.
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Emergency Relief

We respond to disasters with life-saving speed and then stay to ensure the lives of disaster-affected families and communities are rebuilt.
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Advocacy

We relentlessly advocate for an end to violence against children and ensure the voices of the world’s most vulnerable children are heard.



When you support World Vision, you help the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. Inspired by our Christian faith, we help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places.

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4,000,000 children

reached in 24 countries around the world, thanks to our generous supporters and partnerships.
 
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45,000 children

in some of the world’s poorest countries benefited from the relationship and support of their New Zealand sponsor in 2019.
 
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90,000 New Zealanders

made a stand for the world's most vulnerable children by taking part in the 2019 40 Hour Famine.