World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. Founded in 1950, World Vision serves close to 100 million people in nearly 100 countries, including the United States. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. World Vision empowers children, families, and communities to escape poverty and injustice through programs like child sponsorship, clean water, education, food security, farming and agriculture, economic development, disaster relief, medical care, clothing and shelter, spiritual nurture, trafficking prevention, and advocacy on behalf of those whom we serve.

Our Promise — Going further

Launched in November 2016, the Our Promise strategy represents our firm promise to the world’s most vulnerable children: We will continue to transform lives in the world’s hardest-to-reach places, empowering every girl and boy to reach their God-given potential. This drives to the very heart of our vision statement: ‘Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.’

Our strategy calls us to focus relentlessly on eradicating poverty in all its forms – in line with the goals of the Sustainable Development Agenda. The number of people suffering from acute food insecurity has nearly doubled in the past three years. Child hunger levels are the worst they’ve been in generations because of conflict, climate, and the lingering socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, all of which have sent food prices beyond reach for families worldwide. Climate change has accelerated, posing a devastating threat for the most vulnerable girls and boys around the world— causing harvests to fail, children to go hungry and become malnourished, forcing families from their homes, decimating livelihoods and creating conflict. This is why our focus will and must remain on the biggest threats to children. We have good reason to be going further than we imagined in this next phase of Our Promise.

Prayerfully aware of the uncertainties before us, and led by our Christian faith, we will partner with the poor and oppressed to tackle the challenges they face to achieve hope, joy and justice for all children. World Vision was born in a crisis 75 years ago and is called for a time such as this. Together, we will change the course of history for vulnerable children.

Our Strategy in Action

We have found our voice as a global Christian organisation, speaking to the highest levels of power with humility and amplifying the voices of those we serve. 

We are seen as a credible, strong Christian partner, capable of galvanising a diverse mix of faith actors in support of collective action for children. 

We are Going further by: 

• Developing and scaling evidence-based models that tackle the spiritual roots of poverty, vulnerability, and injustice. 
• Acting as connectors by mobilising Christians, the church, and other faith leaders to address the spiritual causes of poverty and injustice.  
• Continuing to become more externally oriented, taking hold of opportunities to mobilise the Christian church to demonstrate God’s unconditional love for children. 

Our technical programmes, including our faith and development work, are more child-focused and evidence-based, enabling deeper child well-being impact by applying focused, global sector approaches and core project models that align to the Sustainable Development Goals. 

All field offices have focused strategies on a maximum of four Child Well-being Objectives. 

Nearly 70% of relevant programming is aligned with core project models. 

We have industry-leading development programming approaches that drive sustainability and can differentiate World Vision. 

Unity, Inclusion and Trust 

Moving together as one, inclusive Partnership, we create a safe space for all staff to contribute, with mutual accountability and joint dependence on God. We ensure the voices and experiences of those who are under-represented or marginalised are included at every level of our organisation.

Wise Stewardship 

We act with agility to focus on impact for children, continuously improving value and simplicity in the way we operate. We are faithful to the purpose for which all resources are entrusted to us, including the sustaining of God’s creation. 

Looking Outward 

We are open and inquisitive, working with others to grasp opportunities and deal with threats. Learning from and working flexibly with partners, we innovate together to enhance our shared impact. 

Timely Truth Telling With Love 

Our conversations are always authentic, courageous, inclusive of a diverse range of voices, and full of grace and hope. We address issues, including greater racial justice and female representation, by saying what needs to be said and hearing what needs to be heard. We seek to understand as well as to be understood. This allows us to disagree, discuss, then commit and depend on one another.