Pedro, 11, is a World Vision sponsored child in El Salvador. When asked what he would give his mother, Irma, for Mother’s Day, he said, “I would give her all my love, my feelings — she deserves all my heart. For four years, since my father died, my mother has been a mother and father to me. I am getting ahead [in school], and I am a good child.” (©2017 World Vision/photo by Katia Maldonado)

Eight-year-old Clarita, registered in World Vision’s sponsorship program, is a Syrian refugee living in Lebanon. If she could give her mother anything for Mother’s Day, she says, “I would get her everything beautiful in the world.” Stretching her arms open wide, she adds with a smile, “I love my mother just as much as she loves me, and it’s this big.” (©2017 World Vision/photo by Josephine Haddad)

A World Vision sponsored child in the Palmera area of northern Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 9-year-old Ismael says, “If I could, I would give a refrigerator to my mom — and lots of love. I want my mom to have many years. If I could, I would give an SUV to my mom.”  (©2017 World Vision/photo by Juan Pablo Ramirez)

Hadi, age 9, is a sponsored Lebanese boy who would like to buy his mother a cat for Mother’s Day. “She is crazy about cats. We already have one, but I would buy her another so she can give it a weird name like she did with the first kitten.” He continues, “I would tell her that she is the smartest person I know, and the best mother in [the] world.” (©2017 World Vision/photo by Josephine Haddad)

Eleven-year-old Sebenele is in grade 6 in Sierra Leone. When asked what she would like to buy her mother for a gift, she said a cell phone. “She will use it to call my father. My father works in South Africa and visits once in three months. My mother’s phone is old, and sometimes she cannot receive calls,” she says. (©2017 World Vision/photo by Sahr Kemoh Ngaujah)