Sponsor a child, empower a future

By sponsoring a child for $49 per month, you can help a child break free from poverty.

Children play together outdoors, smiling and enjoying each other's company.
A young boy reads letters from his sponsor while sitting by a window.
A young boy waters and tends to his kitchen garden.

How Child Sponsorship Works

For every child you help, four more benefit. How? Our community-powered child sponsorship program fuels sustainable change to address the realities children face. How to sponsor a child:

Ending poverty through child sponsorship

These children can face the future with hope because of generous child sponsors.

Cambodian girls joyfully read and colour together at a reading program.
Child sponsorship supports education through reading programs. In Cambodia, trained volunteers run reading camps each weekend for children aged six to eight years old with games, songs and stories.
A medical professional measures a young girl's weight on a scale.
Aniga was often ill and lethargic due to malnutrition. When sponsorship began a nutritionprogram in their community, her mother learned how to make nutritious meals with affordableingredients. Within three months, Aniga gained a kilogram and had much more energy to play.
A teenage boy collects water from a community borehole tap. 
Mohamed spent his early years fetching water from a river in Sierra Leone, putting his safety, education and health at risk. Child sponsors funded the installation of a solar-powered borehole that pumps water to five tap points throughout the community year-round.
A boy from Senegal beams with joy as he uses his new wheelchair.
Seven-year-old Boubakar grew up facing physical challenges and social barriers in Senegal. World Vision engaged the community and helped reduced the stigma around disabilities. He received a wheelchair to help with his mobility and restore his dignity.
A teenage girl holds a duckling at her successful farming business in Peru.
Ana was once a sponsored child in Peru. Sponsors helped her learn new life skills, including how to plan and run a business. She launched Pekin Ducks and is now supplying restaurants across Cochabamba and nearby Oruro.

Frequently asked questions

It costs $49 per month to sponsor a child with World Vision Canada. That’s about $1.60 per day—less than a cup of coffee. And yet, this tax-deductible donation provides boys and girls access to education, safe water, nutritious food, healthcare and more.