Every child deserves a loving home.

You can help a vulnerable child grow up in a safe home with a loving family.

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We believe family matters.

The love and protection of a thriving family is vital for a happy, healthy childhood and successful future.

As part of our global community, you help give loving families to children, strengthen families to prevent separation and provide life-saving services to children and families in emergencies.

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What we accomplish, together 

For more than 75 years and in 130 countries, we’ve been raising children with all the encouragement and resources they need; we support their transition into adulthood, while strengthening the families and communities around them.

An estimated 220 million children–1 out of 10 worldwide–are at risk of growing up alone. But, together with our supporters, we're working tirelessly to end violence against childen, neglect and exploitation–​breaking the cycle of abuse so that every child grows up safe, healthy and educated.

With our innovative, family-based model, we provided safe homes, loving families and essential resources to more than 600,000 children in 2023. And we won't stop until every child is raised with love, respect and opportunity. Are you with us?

Here’s how you can help!

Sponsoring a child, donating, sending a gift, fundraising–there are so many ways you can make a difference in a child’s life today.

Sponsor a child

There are over 150 million children alone in the world. Your sponsorship can change that and give a child the safety and support of a loving family.

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Give a child without a family or daily essentials the most precious gifts of all: love, care and hope for their future.

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Help children achieve their full potential with real gifts like school meals, access to clean water, school supplies and much more!

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Emergency response:
The children who need you most

War and natural disasters leave children worldwide without parents and vulnerable to violence and exploitation. With your support, our local emergency response teams act quickly to protect children, provide critical humanitarian aid and reunite families. 
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Latest news

Colombia

Hope in La Guajira: Delivering nutritious food to hungry children and families 

July 1 2025 - A province nestled between Venezuela and the northeastern coast of Colombia, La Guajira is at the heart of Colombia’s ongoing migration crisis.  
Global

Five global hotspots for child hunger—and how you can help 

July 1 2025 - Imagine that instead of watching your child grow stronger, proudly noting each inch of growth on a closet doorframe with a pencil-marked date, you helplessly see the opposite: your child slowly shrinking before your eyes as hunger wastes away their developing body. 
Gaza

Baby’s first birthday: How one child brings hope to displaced children and families in Gaza

June 5 2025 - Unmistakable sounds of joy broke through the quiet, grueling struggle for survival as laughter echoed through the makeshift shelter in Khan Younis. Children sang, danced and clapped.
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