How 14-year-old Karie licked hunger after many years

World Vision Philippines has been helping children and their families out of poverty worldwide for over 60 years. With child sponsorship, children and their communities receive an opportunity for a better future

In 2021, World Vision and its partners continue the mission of helping the most vulnerable children and their communities reach the fullness of life.

Through its campaign “A New Year of Firsts,” World Vision invites sponsors to empower children by enabling them to experience powerful and life-changing moments of firsts — a family could eat until they were full, a village with clean water, children could go to school, and feel safe and protected at home.

For 14-year-old Karie, life was about hunger and fear of starvation — made worse by Covid-19. Yet it was during this period that she and her family experienced a miracle she never imagined possible.

You don’t have to be rich to sponsor a child.

For the first time, she could wake up without worrying if there was enough food to eat. On the contrary, she and the family had enough food to last them through the endless days of quarantine, even after the pandemic stripped the family of their only source of income.

With the seeds World Vision provided them and with training in sustainable farming techniques, Karie’s backyard transformed into a flourishing vegetable garden — a gift that could change her life for good.

World Vision Philippines has been helping children and their families out of poverty worldwide for over 60 years. With child sponsorship, children and their communities receive an opportunity for a better future.

“You don’t have to be rich to sponsor a child. All you need is the desire to be a bearer of hope,” said Mae, a child sponsor of World

Vision for the past

10 years.

Child sponsorship is not only making a difference in the lives of World Vision-assisted communities; it is also transforming their donors as they experience a series of beautiful firsts with their sponsored children.

“We are deeply grateful to all our partners for reaching out to the most vulnerable children. God first loved us so we are able show kindness to others. This year, may we be encouraged to help transform the lives of children and their families through child sponsorship,” said World Vision national director Rommel V. Fuerte.

To know how you can become a child sponsor, visit

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF WORLD VISION

WORLD Vision is committed to help millions of kids reach the fullness of life.

FOURTEEN-year-old Karie getting her first harvest at the family’s backyard garden.

CHILD sponsorship aims to improve the lives of beneficiaries.