Sponsor a child in Albania
and change their life for good
In Albania, child poverty, abuse and a lack of opportunity plague childhoods.
For just 85p a day you can be the difference in a child’s life.
Together with supporters, we’ve already impacted the lives of over 200 million vulnerable children around the world, by tackling the root causes of poverty.*
Your sponsorship can bring child protection, clean water, food, healthcare and education – to them and their community.
You will give them the opportunity for a better future.
Sponsor a child in Albania and save a childhood.
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Hello, I’m Dilkash
Boy | My age: 12 | My home: Sarlahi, Nepal
My birthday is on the 3rd July. My favourite game is playing ball games. In Sarlahi life is hard for children like me. But sponsor me today and you can help change my life.
Dilkash's life in Nepal
Dilkash’s daily needs:
For children like Dilkash, growing up in Sarlahi, hunger and malnutrition are everyday realities. Parents don't know how to grow enough nutritious food to feed their hungry children. Mothers don't know the benefits of breastfeeding. Meanwhile, children frequently catch diseases from drinking dirty water.
- Most families use traditional farming methods that don’t use the land to its full potential, leading to poor income and food supply.
- Many girls drop out of school and get married at a very young age, because of poverty and social norms.
- Families struggle to sell their crops, have low incomes and don’t have any savings to fall back on.
Your sponsorship can change Dilkash's world, and his community, for good.
How Sponsorship Helps
How sponsorship works
When you sponsor a child for £26 a month it brings much needed change to one child… and many more. The benefits you help provide, extend to your child's family, their community and other children in need. This is because we partner, plan and work alongside local community members to help build healthy, sustainable communities for vulnerable children in the world’s hardest places.
What will your donation actually change?
Because of our community-focused solutions, for every child you help, four more children benefit, too. Depending on the priority needs in your child’s community, as a sponsor you will be improving lives by providing:
Clean water
Each year children are dying from diseases caught by drinking dirty water. World Vision is reaching one new person with clean water every 10 seconds and brings clean water to three more schools every day.
Healthcare
We save lives by training volunteer health care assistants, bringing vaccination programmes, and working with families to help protect their children from infection and disease ensuring the most vulnerable have access to healthcare services.
Food
We deliver nutrition programmes and farmers' schools, teaching new techniques to grow stronger crops, protect the soil and grow kitchen gardens - helping families feed their children and saving millions of lives around the world.
Education
Education can transform a child’s life. We’re improving basic literacy and numeracy and working alongside communities to help them better understand their children's rights, and raise their voices to protect and provide for their children.
Family income
We provide training in new skills, and support mothers to start their own businesses helping provide a stable income so children and families can have better nutrition, healthcare and greater access to education.
Create lasting change
When you sponsor a child, you transform their life by helping to create lasting changes for their entire community
We work with whole communities to understand what they need.
We then work together to plan and deliver the changes that will make life better for them and their children - now and always.
Why choose World Vision?
We are the world’s largest international children’s charity, working to bring real hope to millions of children in the world’s hardest places.
What makes child sponsorship special?
What do I get as a sponsor?
This week
Sign up to My Sponsorship - your online account where you'll find updates, news and videos from your sponsored child and their community. You can even email your child, send them photos or find out what the weather is like where they live!
Next week
Within the first week of signing up, we’ll email you a video of your sponsored child’s community giving you an insight into their daily life.
Within two weeks
You’ll receive a welcome pack with more information, a photo of your sponsored child, and a postcard - so you can easily write to them.
In 12 weeks time
You'll have received your very first letter from your sponsored child. You can write to them anytime by post or online via My Sponsorship. We'll translate and hand-deliver every message and you'll always get a reply.
On your child’s birthday and at Christmas
We’ll send you a card that you can add a message to for you sponsored child. Don’t be surprised if these arrive a couple of months before the big day - it’s just to make sure they get there in time.
Once a year
We’ll send you a progress update every year, including:
- A new photo so you can see how they’ve grown
- An update on how their life is changing
- Details on how your donations have been used in the community that year
- A note or drawing from your sponsored child.
You can visit your child
Visiting your sponsored child is a great way to see for yourself the difference that sponsorship makes. You can experience first-hand the transformation that your generosity can bring to a community living in poverty.
Why sponsor a child in Albania?
Albania has high levels of poverty. And without established welfare systems, children are particularly vulnerable to abuse, child marriage and child labour.
Child sponsorship in Albania: the facts
• 14% of Albanians face unemployment.
• Many who are employed, work in near-subsistence agriculture.
• World Vision began working in Albania in 1999, in response to the refugee crisis.
• Our projects focus particularly on improving the treatment of children.
You can find out more about our child sponsorship work in Albania, here
Please sponsor a child in Albania and save a childhood today.
Together we’ve impacted the lives of over 200 million vulnerable children by tackling the root causes of poverty.*
*Based on data over a five-year period (2012-2016) reflecting direct beneficiaries for both development and humanitarian emergency programmes. This is combined with the number of children where World Vision has contributed to multiple policies addressing causes of vulnerability for children with evidence of at least one of them being implemented. Eliminating for any potential overlap the total number of children reached through World Vision’s three lines of ministry (development, humanitarian and advocacy) is 200 million. The methodology World Vision uses to carry out this calculation undergoes an external audit in order to refine and strengthen how we count our contribution across all areas of our work.
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