Tens of Thousands More Children Helped Through the Child Sponsorship Rate Increase

For the first time in more than seven years, World Vision has increased the cost of our regular child sponsorship donations, from $35 to $39 a month. This is because it's costing more and more to maintain the same level of program work in the countries we work in. We all know from our experience that food, fuel and other costs have risen here in Canada; the situation is the same or even worse in developing countries. We share your commitment to help children overcome poverty, and have planned this increase so we can maintain our commitment to you and our sponsored children.

We have used an automatic increase approach or Opt-out method, which was the best and most effective use of donations, and that respects the expectations of our faithful donors and the needs of children in our communities. We've used the same approach in the past, and have had strong support from our sponsors. Using this approach saved over $5.4 million in administrative costs, allowing us to help 20,000 more children this year alone. Other sponsorship organizations have used the same method. We look carefully to ensure that all of our fundraising lines up with legal and ethical requirements.

Over the last year, we've communicated this approach to you, our sponsors, right from the moment of starting your sponsorship, on our website, and through regular donor publications, letters and other material. We've already heard from thousands of you that our approach is one you support, as it allows us to keep our commitment to you to provide quality support for children.

If you do not wish to increase your rate at this time, or have other questions about the child sponsorship monthly rate increase, please call us toll free at 1-888-526-4441. If you have more questions, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions section.

False Claims About World Vision Canada's President

You may have recently read an email or blog post making extravagant claims about the salary and compensation of World Vision Canada's president. All of these assertions are completely false.
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Have You Received Multiple Copies of the Gift Catalogue?

We work very hard to avoid sending multiple copies of the Gift Catalogue to the same World Vision supporter. We compare our list of donors to the various mailing lists used to distribute the Gift Catalogue. Despite our efforts, however, duplicates are occasionally sent. We apologize for this inconvenience. As a solution, we suggest you to pass your extra copy along to someone who may be interested in browsing the Gift Catalogue.

Thank you for your understanding.