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What Is Child Sponsorship?
Expand What is Child Sponsorship
Child sponsorship pairs one caring sponsor with one child in need in a mutually rewarding connection. When you sponsor a child, you help their community establish long-term access to essentials like clean water, nutrition, education, and more, according to the community’s needs. You’re also able to connect with your sponsored child through letters, photos, small packages, and your prayers for them. Our programs are Christ-centered, child-focused, and community-based.
Sponsoring a child is the most personal, effective way to fight poverty – and help children build better lives and futures.
Expand Does child sponsorship really help?
Yes! Multiple independent studies have proven the long-term effectiveness of sponsoring a child and child sponsorship programs in general. Independent university research evaluating World Vision’s programs specifically shows that participation leads to multiple improvements in children’s lives such as:
• Being happier and more hopeful
• Enjoying good health
• Having higher levels of school attendance
Teen participation in World Vision activities was associated with higher levels of social support, resilience, and life satisfaction.
The research also found that World Vision’s child sponsorship programs foster collaboration and build bridges that strengthen communities. Across the five area programs that were evaluated, sponsorship was successful in involving vulnerable and marginalized groups as well as including communities of both Christian and non-Christian faiths.
Expand Why is child sponsorship important?
When you sponsor children in need, you build special relationships and encourage them with hope for the future. Plus, your donations join forces with other sponsors to lift your child, their community, and other vulnerable children out of poverty for good.
For Php 900 a month, you’ll help empower a child — and children in their community — to overcome poverty for good. You’ll show God’s love and meet practical needs by helping their community get sustainable access to essentials like clean water, education, healthcare, and more.
Expand What is the best organization to sponsor a child through?
The best organization to sponsor children through depends on what’s most important to you. There are several reputable child sponsorship organizations with different but effective approaches. The World Vision difference stems from what we’re trying to achieve – life in all its fullness for children, especially the most vulnerable. We value every child as a precious gift from God, made in His image and valuable in His sight. We value them as whole people and seek to support their entire well-being: physical, emotional, social, and spiritual. This shapes our approach to helping children become all God meant them to be in body, mind, and spirit. If these values resonate with you, then you’re likely to agree that World Vision will be the best organization for you to sponsor through.
How does World Vision child sponsorship work?
Expand How do you choose children to be sponsored?
World Vision works with the poorest communities in the Philippines. We partner with local staff and families to identify areas of greatest need. The community selects children from these areas and nominates them for sponsorship. We then ask the children’s families if they want to be part of the sponsorship program and explain how sponsorship works.
Expand What is the difference between sponsored and unsponsored children?
World Vision’s Sponsorship program is a demonstration of God’s love for all children in a community—not just those fortunate to be sponsored. The children who are registered in our Sponsorship program are the most vulnerable children in the community and are considered representatives of all children in the broader community. Children either wait for a sponsor to choose them, or they get to choose their own sponsor at a choosing event. Kids in the community who aren’t sponsored yet still benefit from sponsorship-funded community improvements in areas like clean water, healthcare, education, job opportunities, and more.
Although our goal is to help all children in a community, sponsored children can significantly benefit from the personal relationship they build with their sponsors. The cards, letters, and prayers they receive from their sponsors are a great source of encouragement. They help children build self-esteem and realize their self-worth in a world where poverty tells them that they don’t matter.
Expand How does becoming a sponsor help the child, his/her family, and their community?
Your monthly sponsorship gift is combined with other donations to invest in locally tailored solutions — ensuring long-term access to essentials for your sponsored child, their community, and other kids in need. World Vision staff connect with local leaders and parents to determine their needs, then partner with them on lasting solutions. Our aim is to equip people with the tools and knowledge they need to build better futures for themselves.
Expand What are the benefits received by sponsored children?
Everything we do has one aim – fullness of life for every child. Your support helps ensure the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social well-being of vulnerable children. Sponsorship tells a child that you believe in them and their God-given potential, all while establishing lasting access to basics like clean water, nutrition, education, and more.
World Vision’s solutions are focused on communities. For every child helped, four more children benefit, too! Your love, prayers, letters, and donations result in real, lasting change for your sponsored child, their family, and their community.
Expand How do I know that the child I’m helping is real and my contribution gets to him/her?
Each child is matched with only one sponsor, and yes – they’re real children with real stories. You can get to know your sponsored child through letters and emails, photos, progress updates, and more. You will receive your sponsored child’s picture and profile in a welcome pack that we send soon after receiving your first donation. This comes with a handwritten thank-you note from your sponsored child. You may choose to respond to this first letter and keep the conversation going throughout your journey.
Sponsored children do not receive direct cash benefits. Instead, your monthly donation is pooled with other donations to fund development programs that benefit your sponsored child and their whole community, as well as other kids in need – ensuring you have maximum impact. And it works! Because of our community-focused solutions, for every child you help, four more children benefit, too.
Expand Will my monthly donation be enough for the child I’m helping?
To maximize your monthly gifts, we combine them with other donations to fund programs that create long-term access to essential resources for your sponsored child, their community, and other vulnerable kids. Everywhere we work, our aim is to strengthen and empower the entire community, so all children have the chance to experience the fullness of life.
In 2021, we used 86 percent of our total operating expenses for programs that benefit children, families, and communities. Your monthly sponsorship gift is combined with other sponsors’ donations and leveraged with public grants and corporate donations. All these help deliver resources that empower your sponsored child and their whole community — as well as other kids in need — to improve their own lives for the long term.
World Vision children, families, and communities receive
Access to education, healthcare, and values formation
Initiatives for children’s participation and protection
Leadership and livelihood training
Other community-based development interventions
What child sponsorship is not
Expand Child sponsorship is NOT a SCHOLARSHIP
As a child sponsor, your help goes further than giving a child access to education.
At World Vision, we try to build a world where each child experiences the fullness of life. We identify the specific, underlying causes of poverty in each community and work alongside our beneficiaries to implement long-term solutions that respond to their specific circumstances. Rather than specializing in providing education, World Vision works to bring about change in every aspect of community life. Our holistic approach—which can include digging wells, teaching new farming skills, and training community leaders—makes the difference between short-term fixes and long-term self-sufficiency.
Expand Child sponsorship is NOT ADOPTING a child
The well-being of children is the focus of World Vision, and our work centers on improving the lives of vulnerable children without removing them from their local community. We strive to empower their families and build sustainable communities to enable these children to thrive.
Because the well-being of a child is tied to the well-being of their family and community, we work to meet the challenges that their community has identified. Many of our programs are directed towards developing the skills and capabilities of their parents, governments, and/or communities, with the ultimate goal of improving the lives of children.
Expand Child sponsorship is NOT GIVING MONEY DIRECTLY to the child’s family
True community development is not about providing money or even services. It lies in helping people discover their God-given potential as human beings, and working together to realize that potential. Fundamental to this is a spiritual transformation that brings about hope for the future.
Technical help and funding in areas like health, agriculture, water resources, sanitation, nutrition, and income generation are important, but the underlying foundation of community development work is motivation and community organization—something a simple cash handout can’t provide.
Expand Child sponsorship is NOT a ONE-TIME donation
Child sponsorship is a long-term commitment comprised of monthly contributions that are used toward the sustainable development of a community in need. The ideal length of each sponsorship depends on the needs of the child and their community. Your child’s age of independence or circumstances will vary.
What can I expect upon sponsoring a child?
Expand Can I see the photo of the child I'm about to sponsor?
We’re delighted that you’d like to sponsor a child with World Vision! In compliance with DSWD’s revised guidelines, we can only provide his/her photo after we have received your initial pledge donation of Php 750/child a month.
Expand How long should my sponsorship commitment be?
Your sponsorship is an ongoing commitment that helps your sponsored child and their community overcome poverty in the long term. We partner with communities, typically for 10 to 15 years, until they can sustain improvements on their own. Your ongoing sponsorship allows you to witness the progress firsthand, for as long as you’re able.WHAT
Your sponsorship may last for several months up to several years depending on circumstances. Sometimes, your sponsored child may leave the program for the following reasons:
The community’s capacity and development have become sustainable.