Sponsor a child in Uganda
and change their life for good
Right now, in Uganda, one family in five lives in poverty.
But for just 85p a day you can be the difference in a child’s life.
And it works. Together with our supporters we’ve already impacted the lives of over 200 million vulnerable children by tackling the root causes of poverty.*
Sponsor a child in Uganda and save a childhood.
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Hello, I’m Tesfanesh
Girl | My age: 13 | My home: Lemo, Ethiopia
My birthday is on the 21st March and I have 1 brother and 3 sisters. My favourite game is playing hide and seek. In Lemo life is hard for children like me. But sponsor me today and you can help change my life.
Tesfanesh's life in Ethiopia
Tesfanesh’s daily needs:
In Lemo, children like Tesfanesh 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 Tesfanesh's world, and her 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 Uganda?
The vast majority of Ugandans work in agriculture, but almost 20% of families are living in poverty. The country is recovering from years of conflict and the terrible affects it's had on the lives of many children. Unemployment, child poverty and disease are sadly rife.
Child sponsorship in Uganda: the facts
• 6.5% of the Ugandan population are either HIV positive or are living with AIDS.
• During the civil war an estimated 25,000 children were kidnapped by the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army. They were forced to be labourers, frontline soldiers and many were sexually exploited. It will take time for them to recover and rebuild their lives.
World Vision has been working in Uganda since 1972.
Our key achievements so far have included:
• improving access to primary education,
• healthcare and nutrition training for mothers and caregivers,
• reducing the spread of malaria and of HIV.
We're also counselling former child soldiers and reuniting them with their families.
You can find out more about our child sponsorship work in Uganda, here.
Please sponsor a child in Uganda 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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