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Malawi

What's Child Sponsorship about?

It’s a powerful way to help a child—and their community—grow, thrive, and break free from poverty. And thanks to our community-focused approach, four more children benefit too.

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Tackling poverty
Your gift of $54 a month means children can get better access to life’s basics and live healthier, happier lives.

Joining a movement
You’re partnering with generous sponsors around the world. Together, we make a real difference.

Brighter futures
As your sponsored child gains what they need to thrive – their friends, family and community do too. That’s the kind of change that lasts.

A special connection
Get to know your sponsored child through letters, photos and updates. You can even visit them! Find a child to sponsor.

Our education work in Africa is making learning possible

“I want to explore space and travel to India and other countries. I want to be an engineer or a pilot. ”

- Susan, age 11

How does Child Sponsorship work?

As a sponsor, you help transform a child’s world. That’s because you support community-led projects that help families overcome poverty for good. Depending on needs in each area, projects can focus on:
Nutritious food

Nutritious food

Empower families with the skills and tools they need to grow food and restore their land. By investing in local knowledge, you can help communities build food security and protect the environment for future generations.



Education

Education

Every child deserves a safe, inclusive, and high-quality education. By working hand-in-hand with communities, you can help create learning environments where children can thrive.



Healthcare

Healthcare

Help ensure that children and families have access to nutritious food and essential medical care. Your support can help us deliver life-changing services to those who need them most.



Clean water

Clean water

You can help provide sustainable clean water access, sanitation, and healthy hygiene behaviours to communities, reducing sanitation and hygiene related diseases.



How you'll be helping the community



Tackling poverty’s causes
We partner with communities and plan projects to meet their unique needs. Your sponsored child and others start to gain life’s basics. The future looks brighter!

Setting up for success
As life improves for children, we track and celebrate progress. Communities learn what works best and set up their own systems to build on their success.

Ready for the future
Communities become self-sufficient and can continue the work we started together. So, we celebrate and gradually move on to another area in need.

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Because of our community-focused
solutions, for every child you help,
four more children benefit.


Supporters like you have transformed lives in Lipiri Community

Pemphero pumping water in Lipiri, Malawi

When we first started our mahi in Lipiri community, Malawi, 59% of children were enrolled in school. Today, that number has soared to 93% — thanks to generous supporters who believe every child deserves an education.

Every family now has access to clean water, all year round. Homes, schools and health centres are equipped with safe toilets and hand-washing stations, helping stop the spread of disease and keeping children healthy.

We also work closely with parents and caregivers, sharing practical ways to cook nutritious meals using local ingredients. Families are now growing their own vegetables, helping their children thrive with more diverse and nourishing food. This is the power of community — and the compassion of people like you.

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"I felt like there was someone out there who cared, who was interested in me."
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Nancy, former sponsored child

What you'll receive when you sponsor a child

Trish Peng with her sponsored child

All the essentials
Get started with a welcome pack, an introductory letter from your sponsored child and your My World Vision account.

News & updates
See progress reports, photos and videos about your sponsored child and their community. It’s all in your personal online account.

Chances to connect
Exchange letters and learn about each other’s lives. We make it easy for you to write to them from your account. You can even visit them!

The joy of helping
Enjoy being part of the solution. See your sponsored child grow as their world changes for the better.

Image: Trish Peng and her sponsored child Fenella

Real impact

Join the everyday kiwis who’ve partnered with World Vision New Zealand and helped to change the lives of over 27.1 million children globally. Your generosity creates the kind of change that can last for generations and feels incredible to be part of.




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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.
Absolutely! We love it when sponsors invite more than one sponsored child into their lives! 

Here's how it works: If you want 3 kids to choose you, we’ll print and display 3 copies of your photo at the choosing party, and a different child will choose each photo. By the end of the choosing event, you'll have 3 sponsored children! 
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