Sponsor a child in Sierra Leone
and change their life for good
Four out of ten pre-schoolers are stunted by malnutrition in Sierra Leone. They need something to change if they're going to have a better, brighter and longer future.
The good news is that, across the world, over the last five years, 89% of the severely malnourished children we treated made a full recovery.*
And for just 85p a day, you can fight child poverty with food, healthcare, clean water, child protection and education - for a child, their family and the whole community.
Sponsor a child in Sierra Leone and save a childhood.
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Tommy's life in Sierra Leone
Tommy’s daily needs:
For children like Tommy, growing up in Jaiama Bongor, malnutrition is a fact of life. Families don’t have enough money to provide children with the essentials. Many children don’t go to school. Those who go to school struggle to succeed because of overcrowded classrooms and poorly-trained teachers.
- Children don't eat enough nutritious food to grow up healthy and strong.
- Schools are badly overcrowded and teachers are poorly trained.
- Parents can't afford basics like school uniform, school books and medicine.
Your sponsorship can change Tommy'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 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 Sierra Leone?
Families in Sierra Leone face extreme poverty.
With a literacy rate of under 50% and life expectancy of just 58 years, children need something to change if they're going to have a better future.
Child sponsorship in Sierra Leone: the facts
• 70% of people are living in poverty.
• A mother is more likely to die in childbirth here than elsewhere in the world.
• In a group of 10 pre-school children, four will be stunted from a lack of nutrition.
World Vision have been working in Sierra Leone since 1996 and since then UK sponsors have helped over 3,000 children.
UK child sponsors have: provided food aid, helped farmers, improved sanitation and healthcare, helped children get an education, and given them a real chance for the future.
You can find out more about our child sponsorship work in Sierra Leone, here.
Please sponsor a child in Sierra Leone and save a childhood today.
Over the last five years, 89% of the severely malnourished children we treated made a full recovery.*
*Based on 261,028 children under five years old treated for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) from 2013 to 2017 in World Vision’s community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programmes. The average recovery or cure rate over this fiver-year period was 89.8%.
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