By 2030, 80% of the world's poorest children will live in fragile areas.

These children face instability, poverty and hunger. Many also lack access to safe places to live, learn and play, putting their childhoods and futures at risk. But you can help change that.

In places where conflict, drought and displacement have taken so much, your support helps bring childhood back. With your help, we can reach places others cannot, meet urgent needs and stay to find solutions.

Your timely gift will multiply 7X in value, thanks to contributions from the World Food Programme. You will help children and their families to survive, adapt and thrive in complex, rapidly changing conditions.

Help end fragility in places like Somalia, Sudan and beyond.

How Your Gift Helps Children Living in Fragile Places

Our Survive, Adapt, Thrive approach brings together humanitarian aid, development and peacebuilding to help people in crisis. This allows us to be flexible, reduce risk and keep delivering support where it’s needed most. Your gift today will multiply 7x in value to deliver emergency food. It will also help provide clean water, nutrition support, education, health care and safer places for families in the world’s most fragile places. Here’s how your support helps families Survive, Adapt and Thrive:

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Survive

Help give lifesaving essentials like emergency food, water, shelter, medical assistance and child protection to meet immediate needs and ensure survival.

A doctor giving medical treatment to a mother.
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Adapt

Help restore services like education, health support and sanitation so communities can adjust and recover.

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Thrive

Provide long-term development to address root causes of fragility, enhance child well-being and promote sustainable growth.

Your gifts in action.

Marwa, 16 working washing dishes.
Woman carries a jug of water on her head.
A refugee family lives in a dry desert area.
Sucdi sits with her class in Somalia.
Healthy Hortense sits and smiles with World Vision staff.
Young refugee girls stands in the camp and smiles amidst shelters of sticks and tarps.
Sucdi presents in front of her class in Somalia.
Woman draws water from a well.
Refugee Father in Somalia stands proudly with his children in front of the school.
Refugee father stands in front of the Child Friendly Space in Somalia.
Sucdi reads in her class in the Child Friendly Space in Somalia.
Marwa, 16 talks about leaving school and working.

You can help meet urgent needs in places like Somalia, Sudan and beyond.

To donate by phone, please call: 1-800-387-7722

How we use your generous donations

When you partner with us, you’re joining a bigger story—a story where children can experience life to its fullest. Here’s the five-year average of how we put your donations towards ending poverty for children.

85%

Field programs and advocacy

10%

Helps raise more funds

5%

Vital support and accountability

This chart is based on a five-year average of World Vision Canada’s annual statement of total expenditures. Read the 2025 Annual Results Report p. 94.