Sponsor a child in India
and change their life for good
Many children in India's urban slums and rural areas face child poverty.
The good news is, your child sponsorship can help an Indian child benefit from a better education, clean water, child protection, food and healthcare – for them and their community.
And, even better, whether you sponsor a girl or a boy, because of our community-focused solutions, for every child you help, four more children benefit, too.*
Sponsor a child in India for just 85p a day and save a childhood.
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Hello, I’m Gediyon
Boy | My age: 7 | My home: Lemo, Ethiopia
My birthday is on the 10th May and I have 3 brothers and 3 sisters. In Lemo life is hard for children like me. But sponsor me today and you can help change my life.
Gediyon's life in Ethiopia
Gediyon’s daily needs:
In Lemo, children like Gediyon are at risk of all kinds of challenges. Parents often don’t understand why common practices such as child marriage or child labour are harmful to children.
- Children have to walk long distances for water due to a lack of proper water points. Poor hygiene practices and lack of proper sanitation facilities in the area.
- Children struggle to do well at school, and many drop out, because classrooms and facilities are poor.
- Many parents lack knowledge of nutrition, and struggle to provide a balanced diet. Children suffer from malnutrition, leading to stunted growth and poor development.
Your sponsorship can change Gediyon'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 India?
In recent times, India's economic growth has created new opportunities. But many children in urban slums and rural areas are still living in abject poverty.
By sponsoring a child in India you can help them benefit from the development and growth around them – as well as future employment chances – with access to clean, safe water, food, healthcare and an education.
Child sponsorship in India: the facts
• 22% of people live below the poverty line.
• In a group of 20 pre-schoolers, seven will be underweight.
• Poverty is at its worst in rural areas and is often accompanied by high levels of illiteracy and poor health.
• We’ve been working in India since 1960.
Together, we're improving sanitation, access to healthcare and sustainable farming techniques for stable food sources. Young women have been empowered to enter the workplace, immunisation rates have increased to 85% in rural communities and we have helped local governments uphold child labour laws.
You can find out more about our child sponsorship work in India, here.
Please sponsor a child in India and save a childhood today.
Because of our community-focused solutions, for every child you help, four more children benefit, too.*
*Based on 1,000 development programmes in 50 countries across all seven of World Vision’s regions. The data is based on averages of the number of sponsored and registered children plus the number of additional children who directly benefited from World Vision’s programming and are tracked using World Vision’s child monitoring system.
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