Where Needed Most

<br>Your support has never been more important.

Right now, millions of children around the world struggle to survive, living in impossible circumstances. COVID-19 makes this even worse.

Where Needed Most is a powerful way to give, supporting life-changing work right around the world. This includes helping people rebuild in the wake of disasters and empowering entire communities to lift themselves out of poverty by equipping them to thrive with the tools to tackle the root causes.

Your donation will help provide the world’s most vulnerable children and their families with reliable access to vital essentials like clean water, nutrition, healthcare and education.

Community Development
Your ongoing support will create futures for children living in extreme poverty. World Vision's unique model of development focuses on providing long-term solutions. It addresses the root causes of poverty and allows families to lift themselves out of poverty.

Ongoing Crises.
When a crisis threatens children's lives, your support helps them to survive, recover and build a future. Your support protects vulnerable children in the world's most dangerous places by providing access to food, water, education, healthcare and protection from abuse and exploitation.

Disaster Relief
When a disaster strikes, you enable us to respond with life-saving speed. Thanks to your support, our response protects lives, restores dignity and renews hope so people can rebuild their lives. We stay for the long-term, supporting survivors to transition from emergency relief, to recovery and rebuilding.

Clean Water

World Vision is the largest non-government provider of safe water in the developing world. We reach one person every 10 seconds with clean water - that’s over two million people a year!

Without clean water and basic sanitation, disease spreads quickly, children drop out of school and families struggle to grow crops and earn an income, impacting overall health, nutrition and development.

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Education

Education has the power to transform a child’s future. Yet 120 million children under 15 are out of school. World Vision is bringing lasting, quality education to children in the world’s poorest, most dangerous and hard-to-reach places.

We’re improving basic literacy, numeracy and providing essential life skills. We’re providing safe learning spaces for refugee children who wouldn’t otherwise have a chance to go to school. Together with your help we’re giving millions of children across the world a chance to write their own futures.

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Nutritious Food

Hunger and food security is a critical part of World Vision’s ongoing work. A lack of food begins a rolling impact on child health, families and communities at every level. Without nourishment, the body has a reduced ability to fight disease. Increased sickness in communities directly affects economic development and productivity.

We work to provide nutrition to those most at risk and then focus on long-term agricultural improvements and economic development to increase food security. Our work is both immediate, emergency provision and strategic long-term partnership in communities.

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Family Income

Our world-class income-generating programmes lift millions of people out of poverty every year. With a strong and stable income, families not only have better nutrition, healthcare and a chance at education, but they can plan ahead and invest in their futures.

Through education, savings groups and micro-finance loans, we work in our communities to provide expanded income opportunities and economic futures.

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Healthcare

Every day 16,000 children under five die, mostly from preventable causes. World Vision works with communities to improve their health and nutrition, and reduce child deaths. Every day, our health teams are saving lives in hard-to-reach communities around the world. We deliver proven, cost-effective interventions, focusing on the lives of women and children so they can live healthy and fulfilling lives.

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Child Protection

In parts of the world facing poverty, hunger, social and political conflict and gender-based violence, children and particularly girls are at high risk of human trafficking, exploitation and social norms such as genital mutilation, underage marriage, violence and sexual abuse.

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Emergency Relief

When disaster strikes, World Vision responds with life-saving speed. From Syria to South Sudan, last year we responded to 130 emergencies in 66 countries across the world.

With your support we go where we’re needed most, providing immediate relief. And we don’t stop there - we stay until people have rebuilt their lives and are back on their feet.

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Advocacy

For World Vision, advocacy means giving voice to the world’s most vulnerable children: making their needs visible to those who can and should be meeting them, and urging those decision makers to take action.

World Vision advocates at the local, national, regional, and global levels to ensure better laws and policies, systemic and structural change and improved more effective service delivery. Through our advocacy work, we aim to achieve better futures for children.

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<br><br>You can make real and lasting change for children like Karlos.

Karlos (14), Uganda

Karlos fled the violent and deadly war in South Sudan with his uncle Mambo and sister Nancy. He doesn't know where his father is, or if he is even alive.

For children like Karlos, living in dangerous places, life can change in an instant.

With your support, World Vision is there when children need them most, ready to provide families with what they need to live the lives they choose. Your support provides nutritious food, clean water, sanitation, healthcare, shelter and essential household items.

It’s your generosity that enables us to bring positive and lasting change to the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children.

Help protect vulnerable children like Karlos today.

<br><br>You can be part of the long-term solution for climate-vulnerable communities.

Prisca (14), Malawi

Unseasonal and unpredictable weather events like cyclones, droughts and floods have devastated Prisca's community in Malawi repeatedly over the last few years.

For families like Prisca's who get nearly all their food from their farm, extreme weather events are their greatest fear. Without their crops, they have no food, resulting in food shortages, hunger and malnutrition.

You can be part of the long-term solution by providing these climate-vulnerable communities with the support they need to adapt to the changing climate and survive.

Your donation today can help families to better prepare for any disaster; by supporting them to be more resilient with a steady income.

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

In 2019, 83.3% 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 about our impact.

Where Needed Most

You can make real and lasting change in the lives of the world's most vulnerable children and their families.

Now more than ever, vulnerable children need you.

Your support has never been more important.

We are committed to being there for children when and where they need us most.

Lasting change starts with you.