FAQs

In your Sponsorship welcome pack, or within your My World Vision Account.

Log in > My Sponsorship > Manage, and the ID will be alongside the Child’s photo. 

When you become a sponsor, you’ll receive an introductory letter from your sponsored child within the first three months. After that, it’s up to you if you’d like to keep the conversation going by writing.  
 
If you send a letter in the post, replies to posted mail usually take 2-5 months to arrive. Please be aware that delivery timeframes can vary. It can take a little time for World Vision staff to translate and deliver your correspondence. And postal services can be less reliable in developing countries.  
 
Sometimes things can happen out of our control that could delay you hearing from your sponsored child. If you haven’t received a reply within a reasonable amount of time please contact us on 0800 800 776 or email us at email@worldvision.org.nz and we will follow it up.

Chosen is a new invitation to child sponsorship where a child chooses his/her sponsor.
 
The sponsor can go online and submit a photo OR sign up at an event and have their picture taken. Their name and picture are then sent to a community where World Vision works, and a child from that community will choose them as their sponsor.
 
The sponsor will receive a photo of the child holding their photo, and a letter from the child explaining why they chose them. Then, like in all child sponsorship relationships, the sponsor and child can start a friendship, getting to know each other through emails or letters. And as that child’s sponsor, they’ll help the child’s entire community and other vulnerable children build real, lasting change.

Chosen is a new invitation to enter a child sponsorship relationship, and it works the same as traditional sponsorship.

Our effective, community-empowering sponsorship development model remains the same. The only difference is the way in which the sponsor-and-child relationship can begin. 

In the traditional invitation, sponsors are asked to choose a child to sponsor. In the new Chosen invitation, sponsors send their photo to a community where children choose them to be their sponsors. This new invitation is so powerful because it flips the choosing dynamic on its head and gives children the power to choose who their sponsor will be. This simple switch recognises children in extreme poverty have the power to change their own lives… and our lives, too. As with all sponsorship with World Vision, a sponsor contributes to help empower children and their communities to overcome poverty.