Chosen

A new invitation to Child Sponsorship. Who will choose you?

What if, instead of choosing a child to sponsor, a vulnerable child reached out for your photo and chose you? Chosen™ is our radical new invitation to Child Sponsorship, which puts the power to choose into a child's hands.

When you sign-up to be Chosen™, you'll step into a life-changing connection with your sponsored child and their community. You'll empower a child to make lasting change in their own life – and even in yours. It all starts with a first choice.

Give a child the most powerful gift. The gift to choose you.

Children don’t choose to be married off, to get sick, to go hungry, to go to work, or to live in fear. Poverty steals their choices. It robs them of the chance to grow up healthy, to be educated, to achieve their dreams.

But you can change that today. You can put the power to choose back into a child's hands. It starts with a life-changing first choice. The power to choose you.

A choice that can lead to clean water, healthcare and vaccines, nutritious food, education, and a safer and brighter future.

When you sign up to be Chosen™, we send your photo to a community where vulnerable kids are waiting for sponsors. There, a child like Collins will have the chance to choose you as their sponsor. Watch the amazing moment when Joel found out that Collins chose him as his sponsor.

Sign up and submit your photo.
Your name and photo are sent to a sponsorship community, where staff are setting up for the life-changing choosing party!

A child will choose YOU.
Some kids have waited for years to be chosen by a sponsor. Now, at the choosing party, it's their turn. Which child will choose you?

You'll see your gifts at work ...
You'll receive updates on the impact you're making in your Sponsored Child's life, through community projects helping kids thrive.

... and celebrate the progress!
You are a part of a mutually transforming journey that empowers kids and communities to build lasting change.

<br><br>Being chosen by a child like Nicholas can change your life too.

Nicholas (10), Kenya

At 10-years old, Nicholas was empowered to make a choice that would change his life forever.

Nicolas chose his new sponsor Melissa and her family, from the display at the choosing party in his community in Kenya.

Being chosen by Nicholas has also changed Melissa's life forever, "It's powerful to have someone you haven't met believe in you," shares Melissa. "Being a part of this is so moving and powerful."

As a Sponsor Child, Nicholas will benefit from the long-term development programs that are lifting his whole community out of poverty.

You can make a difference for a child like Nicholas.

Child sponsorship helps break the cycle of poverty by transforming communities.

Our decades of experience have proven that the most effective way to help a child is to strengthen their entire community, caring for every child along the way. In fact, because of our community-focused solutions, for every child you sponsor, 4 more benefit, too! Your sponsorship will help enable a community to lead their own development and become resilient and self-sufficient.

Your sponsorship keeps children safe. Children that are sponsored are regularly monitored, which protects them from dangerous situations and exploitation like child marriage and child labour. Sponsored children also are more likely to go to school and receive regular healthcare check-ups.

<br>If you prefer, you can choose a child to sponsor.

You can choose which child's life you will change forever through sponsorship. Your sponsorship helps pursue the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being of vulnerable children.

As a child sponsor, you walk alongside a child and their community, empowering the world's most vulnerable through long-term development programs.

I want to choose a child to sponsor

FAQs

Can I choose a child to sponsor?
Yes, you can choose a child to sponsor. Whether you are chosen or choose a child; your sponsorship will make a life-changing difference. Choose a child to sponsor, and start your sponsorship journey today.

What is a choosing party?
A choosing party is an empowering experience where children come together in their community, and for the first time, get to choose a sponsor. At a choosing party, photos that sponsors have submitted are displayed, and children are invited to choose their sponsor from the selection of photos. After choosing, they write a letter to their sponsor, letting them know why they chose them.

How are you protecting children from COVID-19 at choosing parties?
We are doing all that is needed to keep children and their families as safe as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specific safety measures for choosing party events will vary depending on the country.

If I sponsor a child where does my money go?
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. Your Sponsor Child receives the benefits of this incredible change and their own lives are transformed.

More Child Sponsorship FAQs

As part of an international partnership working in nearly 100 countries, World Vision New Zealand pursues the highest standards of stewardship and accountability.

In 2020, 83.9% of World Vision New Zealand's total operating expenses were used for international program support that benefited children, families and communities in need. Learn more.

Be chosen as a sponsor

Instead of choosing a child to sponsor, you can sign up to be chosen. Send in your photo and empower a child to choose you as their sponsor!

A new invitation to Child Sponsorship. Who will choose you?

Give a child the most powerful gift. The gift to choose you.

Do you want to be Chosen?

How it works

Being chosen by a child like Nicholas can change your life too.

When you sponsor a child, you change their life, for good.

If you prefer, you can choose a child to sponsor.

Have questions about sponsoring a child or being Chosen™?

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