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Give gifts that matter. You can change lives this Christmas.

<br>Give gifts that matter. You can change lives this Christmas.

Don't just give more stuff. Choose a Smiles gift and change lives! If you're looking for gifts that really matter, your search stops here! With more than 30 Smiles gifts to choose from, you'll find something special for everyone on your list.

Whether you choose a $12 Chicken or a $50 Goat on behalf of your family and friends, you'll change lives. A $28 Family Vege Garden will help a hungry family feed their children. An $80 gift to Help a Girl Get an Education can give her the tools to break free from poverty, for good.

Each gift comes with a card explaining the amazing impact you’ve helped your special someone make.

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Your support is vital to change children's lives.

<h4>Give to Childhood Rescue</h4>

Give to Childhood Rescue

Help the world's most vulnerable children to survive, recover and build a future. You can provide life-saving food, water and protection to kids whose lives are on the line.

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<h4>Include a gift in your Will</h4>

Include a gift in your Will

A gift in your Will can make a significant difference, no matter how large or small and is a wonderfully generous way to ensure the values which are important to you live on.

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<h4>Be Chosen as a sponsor</h4>

Be Chosen as a sponsor

Give a child the power to choose you as their sponsor. Sign up to be Chosen, and your photo is sent to a Child Sponsorship community, where you empower a child to choose.

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<h4>Smiles Pop-Up Shop</h4>

Smiles Pop-Up Shop

After Black Friday and Cyber Monday comes Giving Tuesday on 29 Nov. The perfect day to visit the Smiles Pop-Up Shop and unleash the power of giving. Choose a gift. Change a life.

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Together we can protect vulnerable children.


Thanks to the support of people like you, we focus on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith. Together we can protect children today, and empower them for tomorrow.

<h4>70 years of experience<h4>

70 years of experience

World Vision New Zealand is part of the World Vision International partnership. Together, we've impacted the lives of over 200 million children across almost 100 countries by tackling the root causes of poverty.
 

<h4>Maximum impact</h4>

Maximum impact

We ensure all resources entrusted to us bring maximum impact. In 2020, 83.9% of World Vision New Zealand's total operating expenses supported international programs benefiting children, families and communities in need.
 

<h4>Reaching the most vulnerable</h4>

Reaching the most vulnerable

We're dedicated to helping vulnerable children thrive. We work with communities in the hardest places in the world to be a child. Helping children caught in emergencies, extreme poverty, or facing abuse and exploitation.
 



 

Cheru's life has changed forever.

Cheru no longer needs to walk more than 6km a day to collect dirty water; now, her whole community have access to clean, safe water. Thanks to your kindness and generosity, we're reaching one new person, like Cheru, with clean water every 10 seconds. Read Cheru's story.

Cheru (6), Kenya



You can help transform lives by tackling the root causes of poverty.

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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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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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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.