What if you were the reason a malnourished child became healthy? What if you helped educate an entire community of mums on how to raise healthy kids – teaching them how to protect their babies from sickness, disease and malnutrition?

Derartu's community in Ethiopia is facing the worst hunger crisis in a generation but sponsors are a lifeline in keeping malnutrition at bay. Sponsors don’t just impact a single child, but invest in an entire community.

64-year-old Mae Tui no longer struggles to provide food for her children and grandchildren. She no longer needs to go out looking for food in the water streams like before. After receiving training and fingerlings to grow her own, her pond is flourishing with fish. Her family no longer needs to worry about when their next meal would be. 

The challenges the world faces can feel insurmountable. But, you can help to turn the tide – and together, we are an unstoppable force for change. 
Here are five reasons to sponsor a child - today.

Matt Hyam, Senior Church Specialist from World Vision UK reflects on the hope we can cling on to this Easter despite the difficulties and the uncertainties the world is experiencing right now. 

Fourteen-year-old Stella is an environmental conservation champion at her school. Her love for nature inspired Stella to join the school’s environment club after being taught about the benefits of trees by one of her teachers that founded the club. The benefits that the children have reaped from the increased tree cover in their school have given them hope for a bright future in their community.

"...if I can live my life comfortably with the money that I have, why not challenge myself to also put aside a sum of money every month to give to these children," shared Shawn.

World Vision’s Tony Rinaudo is the man who championed a reforestation technique over 35 years ago that led to the largest possible environmental transformation across Africa. Known as Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration or FMNR, the simple farming practise has morphed desert plains into reforested and productive farmland.

Cutting forests for firewood and farming had ruptured the ecosystem and set off a chain reaction. Fuel-efficient cook stove has shown themselves to be capable of solving many of these problems such as reducing reforestation, indoor pollution at homes, protecting children against respiratory diseases and more.