Safe and Secure Childhoods

World Vision works alongside communities to protect children from violence, abuse, and exploitation. We strengthen families, equip communities, and create safe environments where children can grow, learn, and thrive. Safety is a basic right, not a privilege. Every child deserves to feel safe and protected.

Every year, more than 1 billion children experience violence. Child marriage, child labour and corporate punishment still affect children on a daily basis. Children caught in conflict face even greater dangers. They are forced to flee their homes, separated from their families, and grow up without the safety every child needs. For children living in poverty, protection means more than safety. It means freedom from fear, from harm, and from growing up too soon. 

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Child Protection through Child Sponsorship

When you choose to sponsor a child, you help protect children from violence, abuse, and exploitation. You create safe environments where children can grow up feeling secure, cared for, and heard. Your support brings lasting change that impacts not just one child, but their entire community. 

Together, we can keep children safe - one child, one community at a time. 

Sponsor a Child

Challenges Children Face

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Child Labour
Child Labour

Millions of children are forced into work, often in dangerous conditions that harm their health and development. 

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Violence Against Children
Violence Against Children

Violence affects 1 in 2 children each year, leaving lasting physical, emotional, and mental harm. 

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Child Marriage
Child Marriage

Millions of girls are married before 18, limiting their education, health, and future opportunities. 

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Displacement
Displacement

Children forced to flee conflict lose their homes, safety, and protection, becoming vulnerable to exploitation. 

World Vision Child Protection Programmes

We work with families and communities to keep children safe from harm, creating environments where they are protected, valued, and free to be children.

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Strengthen Protection Systems
Strengthen Protection Systems

Work with governments and communities to improve laws, reporting systems, and coordinated responses to child abuse and exploitation. 

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Support Families and Prevent Harm
Support Families and Prevent Harm

Walk with families and communities to recognise risks, challenge harmful norms, and keep children safe from abuse, labour, and early marriage.

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Support Children to Heal and Recover
Support Children to Heal and Recover

Support children who have experienced violence, abuse and exploitation to feel safe again, rebuild trust, and move forward in caring environments.

In 2025,
1,279,040 children were protected against violence, neglect, and abuse. 

Stories of Child Protection

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Soni’s Story: Hope on the Horizon
From a one-room home in Nepal, Soni’s childhood was shaped by loss and financial hardship that interrupted her education. A story of how she finds her way back to the classroom and begins to dream again.
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Forced to Grow Up - Story of Kamrul, a Child Labourer
11-year-old Kamrul works 12 hours a day, 6.5 days a week to support his family. He and his family moved from their village to Dhaka city, hoping for a better future, but reality has taken him far from his dreams.
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Sewing Her Dreams into Reality
Faiza, 16 years old, was once a child labourer working in a leather factory. Through World Vision's sewing training programme, Faiza is now shaping her own future with each stitch.
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Beginning of His Brighter Days
Once a child labourer, 10-year-old Kawsar is now stepping into school for the very first time. With the help of World Vision, Kawsar and his family embark on a journey towards a promising future.
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Shining Bright in a Dumpsite
14-year-old Nadine has been living in a dumpsite with her family ever since she can remember. Life has not been easy for Nadine but she is not letting her circumstances hold her back. She is finding her way to her dreams through education.
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Nuri’s Hammer
Nuri, a 11 years old child labour is found by the roadside, who lives on breaking bricks. She hardly earns BDT 60 each day, which is mostly spent to buy her lunch. She cannot save even a single money. Yet she dreams to go back to school, to get herself admitted in grade 7. COVID 19 has buried many dreams of children like Nuri worldwide.
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A Child Mechanic
He was just a year old when his father died of kidney failure. Now both Sakib, 13, and his 17-year-old brother, Sohug, have dropped out of school to contribute to the family income.
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Binsa: A Meal Comes with Her Mother Selling Her Body
Binsa lives in a one-room house with her mother, Lakshmi. She follows her mother everywhere except when she is working. She doesn't understand the nature of her mother's job yet.
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Juvy: A Meal Comes with Enduring Dangers on the Street
14-year-old teen has been selling in the streets for more than a year already. She shares that she encountered all kinds of danger while she was outside.
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