Chosen

What it means to be Chosen™

Chosen™ is a unique experience where children select their own sponsors instead, flipping the process of traditional Child Sponsorship.

This gift of choice empowers children with the confidence to take hold of their future, create change, and transform their community. It sows a seed of hope for a life in all its fullness. For children who have waited years to be sponsored, Chosen™ lets them know that they are valued and loved. As a sponsor who is being chosen, you are in turn also empowered by the child to make a difference.

Register to be Chosen™ today

The choosing party will take place on 28 November 2024. Stay tuned to find out which child will choose you!

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Be Chosen

How to be Chosen™ as a child sponsor

Register and submit your photo

Your name & photo will be sent to local staff on the ground, where they will set up a choosing party for the children.

A child will choose YOU

At the choosing party, children will select from a string of submitted sponsor photos. EVERYONE will be Chosen!

Build a friendship with your sponsored child

You will receive a photo of the child and a letter explaining why you were chosen!

... and celebrate the progress!

Receive updates on your sponsored child's growth and see how your $45/month impacts the community with other sponsors!

The joy of being Chosen™

Hear from Chosen™ child sponsors on the excitement they experience from being chosen.

Fynn

"This is really very empowering and uplifting because it tells the children that they are valued."

Felicia

"God can be using their voices to encourage us that we are special and we are loved."

Beverly

"It was a family project to teach my child how blessed she is to have many opportunities."

Our past Chosen™ events

Son Tra, Vietnam

Wazirpur, Bangladesh

Sambour, Cambodia

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Chosen and how does it work?

Chosen is a new invitation to child sponsorship where a child chooses his/her sponsor. You (the sponsor) can have your photo taken at an event or submit it online (coming soon).

Your photo and name are then sent to a community where World Vision works and a child from that community will make their choice. Once the choice is made, you will receive a photo of the child and a letter from the child explaining why you were chosen.

Finally, as with all our sponsorship relationships, your sponsored child and you can build a friendship through letters or e-letters.

How is Chosen different from traditional child sponsorship?

Chosen is not a "different" child sponsorship product or model - it is a new invitation to sponsorship. The only thing changing is the way sponsor-and-child relationship begins.

In the traditional sponsorship 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. It is a new invitation that is powerful as it flips the choosing dynamic on its head and gives children more ownership in the choice of who their sponsor will be. However, World Vision's effective community-empowering sponsorship development model remains unchanged.

How does the flip of the power dynamics happen through Chosen?

Chosen invites you to put the power of choice in the hands of the child, there flipping the traditional selection dynamics. It sets the tone from the start and is a tangible manifestation that children can (and should) have choices in life. It emphasises that they have the power to choose what their life can become. Additionally, it gives children a greater contribution in the process as they get to have more ownership in the decision-making process.

It is a simple switch in thinking that recognises the dignity, value and honour of everyone involved - acknowledging that children living in extreme poverty have the power to change their own lives...and your lives too.

How are the children being empowered through Chosen?

One critical component of child empowerment is giving children space to develop their own opinions and act on their thoughts and preferences. Through Chosen, children have the opportunity to select their own sponsor, instead of being informed of who has selected them.

This is only one of the many things that World Vision is doing to empower children as part of our child-focused, community-empowering approach.

What is a Choosing Party?

A Choosing Party is the photos that you, and other sponsors, have submitted are displayed. It is at the Choosing Party where the children will make their choice from the selection of photos.
After they have selected a sponsor, the children will then write a letter to you to explain why they picked you from the other photos.

What it means to be Chosen™