Childhood Rescue

Children in the world's most dangerous places urgently need your help.

Kids fleeing Ukraine, facing starvation in parts of Africa, growing up in Afghanistan, in war zones, and in refugee camps, are just like the kids in your neighbourhood. Except their homes have been torn apart. They face unimaginable dangers like starvation, trafficking and child marriage.

Join Childhood Rescue now to help the world's most vulnerable children survive, recover and build a future. You'll provide life-saving food, water, medicine, shelter, protection and more. You'll help kids recover from trauma. You'll help the adults around them to keep them healthy and safe. You'll help children who've lost everything to build a future. Every $1 you give to help kids in danger will provide $6 of urgent support.

"I would appeal to anyone who hears my message to help us."

"We are in a bad situation. We need immediate assistance,” says Fadumo, a loving mother in Somalia who is doing everything she can to help her children. But it's not enough.

The conflict in Ukraine has supercharged a global hunger crisis. “My biggest worry is the thought of my children dying from starvation," says Fadumo. "My children's health has been worsening. They are getting weaker and weaker."

Right now, you can provide life-saving food to families like Fadumo's. You can help children to survive this hunger crisis.

You can help little ones like Fadumo's daughter to recover from malnutrition. The deaths of children are preventable. If we act now. But time is running out.

Survive

When children are weak with hunger, at risk of disease, homeless, exhausted and scared. Your support brings immediate relief and life-saving supplies like food, water, medicine and shelter, with child protection and safety the number one priority.

Recover

During a crisis, many kids lose their parents, homes, and life as they once knew it. You can help them recover by providing counselling, re-building infrastructure, creating safe places for kids and tools and training to help families grow their own food.

Build a future

It's almost impossible to think about the future when you're fighting for survival. Your support gives children who have lost everything the chance to build a brighter future. You'll deliver long-term solutions, bringing lasting peace to communities.

You can protect children in the world's most dangerous places.

As Kiwis, we understand the significance of standing together and helping our fellow human beings, whether they’re next door or halfway across the world. Your donation to Childhood Rescue, will help children in the world's most dangerous places to survive, recover and build a future. You'll also help children in other places if emergencies arise, and be there right when they need you the most.

You'll reach vulnerable children in:

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Mali, Moldova, Myanmar, Niger, Romania, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, Ukraine

Afghanistan

Children were already facing horrific hunger due to droughts, floods, conflict and COVID-19. Today, they face even more uncertainty for what their futures hold. "We can't abandon them now," says Asuntha Charles, World Vision Afghanistan
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Ethiopia

Hunger is threatening the lives of children in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. Locusts have already destroyed the crops they rely on and now, a deadly conflict is raging. Families have been forced to search for safety and many are now living in camps.
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Ukraine

Children and families are being forced to leave everything behind due to the crisis in Ukraine. With no end to the conflict in sight, refugee families urgently need food, essentials, protection against trafficking, support to recover from trauma and more.
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Sudan

Tribal conflict, civil war and natural disasters are robbing children of their futures. People are displaced, children are malnourished and famine is looming. Girls as young as 10 are being forced to marry, violating their rights to health, education and opportunities.
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You've helped Mariska survive...

"One day, I walked to the fields to join my mum and dad picking beans. There were rebels all around them. Our neighbour warned me to run because the rebels were about to kill my parents. So I ran. A few months later I felt brave enough to look for them. I found their bones in the bushes."

recover from trauma...

"There is a lot of stigma against orphans of war. People feel that we are nothing without a family. I heard about this place we can go for support. At first, I couldn't join the other children because I felt very sorry about my parents. But now we play together, and the group sessions make me feel better."

and now, she is building a future.

"I like this place so much... it makes me feel happy again. They also teach us to read, how to write and we get some training so I can complete my education and get a job in the future. I need to be supported with my education, to complete it. When I grow up, I want to be a school mistress."

How does my donation to Childhood Rescue multiply 6 times?
For every $1 you give, we can multiply it to deliver $6 in urgent aid to children fighting for their lives, thanks to our partnerships with other organisations. So, when you give $20 a month, you will actually make six times the impact, and deliver $120 worth of life-changing support to children whose lives are on the line.

Where does my donation to Childhood Rescue actually go?
You'll help children in dangerous places in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Mali, Myanmar, Niger, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, the Philippines, Honduras and DR Congo to survive, recover and build a future. You'll also help children in other places if emergencies arise, and be there right when they need you the most.

How do I know my donations are making a difference?
You'll receive regular updates and personal stories so you can see the life-changing difference you're making for children in the world's most dangerous places. We use your donations to make the greatest possible impact for vulnerable children and communities, and pursue the highest standards of stewardship and accountability. Learn more about our impact.

Can I change how I give to Childhood Rescue?
Yes. We understand your circumstances can change. You can contact us at any time to change the amount of your donation or pause your giving. We have flexible options to help you continue your support in a way that suits you.

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

In 2022, 84.4% 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.

Childhood Rescue

You can provide life-saving food and more to help children survive, recover and build a future.

Children in the world's most dangerous places urgently need your help.

1 in 6

children live in a war zone.

45 million

people are facing starvation - half of them children.

Over 300 million

people could struggle to access food due to the crisis in Ukraine.

"I would appeal to anyone who hears my message to help us."

Please help the world's most vulnerable children to survive, recover and build a future.

You can give children the future they deserve – here’s how...

Survive

Recover

Build a future

You can be there for children like Samrawit in Ethiopia who urgently need protection.

“I came here with my mother. We suddenly left our village when we heard a gunfire. I don’t know where my father is.”

You can protect children in the world's most dangerous places.