Sponsor a child in
INDIA
When you sponsor a child in India for
$39 a month, you’ll help both a child and
their community to pull up the roots of
poverty and plant the seeds of change.
Sponsor a child in
INDIA
When you sponsor a child in India for $39 a month, you’ll help both a child and their community to pull up the roots of poverty and plant the seeds of change.
Sponsoring a child means sharing joy. It’s the joy of helping a child break free from poverty to create a life of health, safety, and a bright future! It’s the joy of showing God’s love to a child full of potential.
Sponsoring a child means sharing joy. It’s the joy of helping a child break free from poverty to create a life of health, safety, and a bright future! It’s the joy of showing God’s love to a child full of potential.
Poverty in India
One third of India’s people live in extreme poverty, going hungry for days at a time, getting sick from preventable diseases, and struggling to find clean water. With so many challenges, millions of children in India cannot attend school long enough to graduate.
Children trapped in poverty are forced to drop out and find ways to survive, working 12-hour days or marrying men who are decades older. And when they have children? The devastating cycle continues.
60 years of child sponsorship in India
2 million
World Vision’s work in India began in 1958. Generous people like you now sponsor over two million children there. The work impacts more than 26 million children.
6000 communities
What started as a small, local project in Calcutta now reaches over 6,000 communities across nearly 200 districts of this vast country.
Disasters
We have responded to every major disaster in India for the last several decades, including the devastating 2004 Tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, and repeated flooding in various states.
We are honored to partner with other non-profit organizations, local and national governments, community organizations, faith-based organizations, and churches across India. Learn more about our work in India.
How sponsoring a child in India helps
When you sponsor a child with World Vision, here are some of the ways your support will help children and communities to break free from poverty for good:
When you sponsor a child with World Vision, here are some of the ways your support will help children and communities to break free from poverty for good:
Protect and care for children
- Help parents and caregivers start small businesses and provide for their families
- Get kids involved in clubs, where they can cultivate leadership and develop character
- Teach children about health and nutrition, hygiene, safety, and their rights
Keep families healthy
- Work with schools and local government to ensure communities have access to clean water and bathrooms
- Train community members to teach families about health issues such as breastfeeding, prenatal care, sanitation, and anemia.
- Complete the elimination of Polio through vaccination and health education
Educate new generations
- Create more tutoring centers and train more community members to help the kids who are struggling in school
- Empower local Parent Teacher Associations
- Work with local partners to provide young people with vocational training
Help Christians in India be the hands of God
- Strengthen local churches to demonstrate Christ’s love in practical ways
- Help churches mobilize humanitarian ministries such as caring for those with HIV or physical disabilities
- Learn from the wisdom of Christians in India so we can better understand them, ourselves, and God’s beautiful world
Protect and care for
children
- Help parents and caregivers start small businesses and provide for their families
- Get kids involved in clubs, where they can cultivate leadership and develop character
- Teach children about health and nutrition, hygiene, safety, and their rights
Keep families healthy
- Work with schools and local government to ensure communities have access to clean water and bathrooms
- Train community members to teach families about health issues such as breastfeeding, prenatal care, sanitation, and anemia.
- Complete the elimination of Polio through vaccination and health education
Educate new generations
- Create more tutoring centers and train more community members to help the kids who are struggling in school
- Empower local Parent Teacher Associations
- Work with local partners to provide young people with vocational training
Help Christians in India be the hands of God
- Strengthen local churches to demonstrate Christ’s love in practical ways
- Help churches mobilize humanitarian ministries such as caring for those with HIV or physical disabilities
- Learn from the wisdom of Christians in India so we can better understand them, ourselves, and God’s beautiful world
How can we stop the cycle?
Sponsoring a child is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty. When you sponsor a child in India, you give access to life-changing essentials like clean water, improved nutrition, healthcare, education, and economic opportunity for their parents.
Child sponsorship means that kids are healthy and stay in school. Parents can protect and provide for them. The generational chains of poverty are broken!
The seeds of change extend not just to sponsored children and their families, but to the communities where they live. With your partnership, World Vision’s local staff in India come alongside your child’s community to identify their unique challenges and how to solve them. Implementing sustainable, community-led solutions for their needs helps children not just survive but thrive.
With the generosity of sponsors like you, millions of children in India have been lifted out of life-threating poverty, along with their families.