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Sponsor a girl

Help a girl to learn about her rights, stay in school and become all she was born to be.

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We can bring an end to child marriage, but we urgently need your support.

We’re used to thinking of weddings as cause for celebration. But that isn’t the case for all of us. Every 3 seconds, a girl under 18 is forced to marry. Ruby was one of them. Married at 12, a mother of two by 16, and left to raise her daughters alone. Now she's fighting to make sure they never face the same fate.

Ruby's marriage was arranged at just 12 years old after her father abandoned the family. Poverty left her mother with impossible choices. By 16, Ruby was a mother of two, then her husband divorced her, sending her home alone with both children.

Ruby dreams of a different life for her daughters. She wants them to go to school, and have the childhood she never got to experience. "I don't want my girls to go through what I went through," she says. "I want them to have the future I always dreamed of."

No child should have to carry what Ruby has carried. Your support can help make sure they don't. Sponsor a girl today and help bring an end to child marriage.

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How does it work?

For just $54 a month, you can open the door to a future filled with possibilities – not just for the girl you sponsor but for all girls and boys in her community. Your kindness will help them and their community to break free from poverty, for good. You'll provide life-changing essentials like nutritious food, clean water, healthcare, education, protection and more.

It only takes a few moments to become a child sponsor. But your impact can last a lifetime.

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Kat McCormack, Child Sponsor

Kat McCormack, Child Sponsor

"The girls I met in Tanzania were strong and hopeful. But when you know how much better their lives could be, you have to do something. I feel so proud to be giving a young girl the chance to access clean water, go to school, get healthcare, and fulfil her hopes and dreams."


Nita, Sponsored Child

Nita, Sponsored Child

"I felt honored to have gotten the sponsor. It motivates me to study harder. My favourite letter was when she asked about my well-being and wished me a happy birthday. Then she talked about her birthday and the culture she came from. It made my heart smile."

The impact of your support

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FAQs

Child Sponsorship changes children's lives by transforming the community where they live. Using your donations, we identify the causes of children's poverty and vulnerability and create development projects to address them. Child sponsorship pairs one sponsor with one child and allows you to connect through letters and photos.
Through Child Sponsorship, World Vision transforms the lives of your Sponsor Child’s whole community; enabling your child, their family, and their wider community to have access to better healthcare, education, water and economic opportunities.

To change a child’s life, you have to change the world in which they live. Your money does not go directly to your sponsor child, or their family, but enables World Vision to work with their entire community to have an even bigger impact and make long-term sustainable change for everyone. As a member of this community, your Sponsor Child receives the benefits of this incredible change and their own lives are transformed. It’s a pretty incredible change to be a part of!
In most cases, it will be throughout their childhood and into their teens. Many children remain in the sponsorship programme for the duration of World Vision's work in their community. In this way, you could follow their journey into young adulthood.

In some cases, children leave the sponsorship programme unexpectedly. For example, the child's family may move away from the area World Vision is working in. If this happens with your sponsored child, we will let you know as soon as possible and offer you sponsorship of another child.

Most children will be in the sponsorship programme until their community has begun to reach most of its goals, and become self-sustainable. As a project comes to a close we will let you know of the achievements in the community so you can celebrate with us, and we’ll offer you another child to sponsor so the development process can begin again in another community.
When you sponsor a child, you build a special relationship that encourages your child with hope for the future. Your donations join forces with other sponsors to lift your child, their community, and other vulnerable children out of poverty for good. Your support helps pursue the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being of vulnerable children.

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