FAQs

If you’re stuck on what to write, tell your Sponsored Child about your life in New Zealand. You can talk about things like:

• The suburb or town where you live.
• What you do at work or at school.
• What you and your family like to do for fun.
• Your pets, friends, hobbies.

Remember to keep your message short and simple. In many of the countries where we work, English is not the first language of the staff who will translate your message.

World Vision’s Global Rapid Response Team brings together international disaster experts from around the world, who are deployed within hours of a major emergency to support local teams and communities. The Global Rapid Response team includes relief managers, programme officers, and specialists in health and nutrition, human resources, finance, logistics, security, food aid, child protection, information technology, and communications — all working as a team to provide effective emergency relief.

In a large-scale response, World Vision collaborates with the United Nations and other local aid agencies. This collaboration helps avoid duplication, maximize efficiencies, eliminate gaps in humanitarian response, and ensure all needs are met. 

World Vision works in Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste. This is where the needs are most urgent with alarming health indicators similar to countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands fall into the UN’s category of the poorest countries in the world. Vanuatu is consistently ranked as the most at risk country in the world to natural disaster - in 2015 it was devastated by tropical cyclone Pam, and months later severely affected by drought from the El Nino weather pattern. Timor Leste has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the world.

In these four countries we have vast experience and programming expertise.

World Vision is a Christian aid agency and we help people on the basis of their need. This means our assistance is given regardless of race, religion or creed. We help the poorest of the poor and go where we are needed the most.