2026 Annual Campaign
Every child deserves the basics that allow them to grow—a safe place to live, nutritious food, clean water, an education, and the opportunity to build a future.
Across the World’s Children family, our partners know their children and communities best. This year, they have come to us with practical needs that can make an immediate difference: a safe roof over a girls’ home, breakfasts for children arriving at school hungry, clean water, sustainable electricity, tools for vocational training, and projects that help young people and children’s homes become more self-sufficient.
These aren't extravagant requests. They are the everyday things that create stability, dignity, and opportunity.
This season, give what every child needs.
Sometimes protecting a child begins with something as basic as a dry roof, a safe window, clean water, or a comfortable place for a caregiver to sleep.
At BVS Girls Home in India, a temporary roof over the third-floor kitchen and dining area allows rainwater to enter the building, creating wet and slippery floors and stairs. A permanent roof would finally make this important part of the girls' home safe and dry. A new lift would also allow heavy bags of rice, groceries, and water to reach the kitchen without women staff and older girls carrying them up multiple flights of stairs.
In Tanzania, New Vision Engikaret School hopes to capture precious rainfall from its dormitory roofs to help provide water through the region's long dry seasons. And in Kenya, Garden of Eden hopes to finish and furnish the staff housing World’s Children donors helped provide, giving caregivers a place to rest while remaining close to the children they care for.
A roof. Clean water. A safe window. A bed for a caregiver. Ordinary things can become the foundation of a safe childhood.
A meal does more than satisfy hunger. For a child, it can mean having the energy to learn, grow, play, and simply be a child.
In Baja, Mexico, Nutrir por Aprender wants to make a simple promise to 50 children attending three rural schools: breakfast will be there every school day. Their goal for 2027 isn't to reach more schools. It's to deepen their commitment to the children they already serve by providing a nutritious breakfast for all 185 days of the school year.
At New Vision Engikaret School in Tanzania, enrollment has grown dramatically since the original kitchen was built. A new kitchen annex is already standing; two additional cooking stoves and pots would help complete it so staff can prepare meals for the growing student body.
And at Mab's Haven in Zambia, pigs and chickens could provide food and income while also teaching the girls practical skills they can carry into adulthood.
Together, these projects move from feeding children today → growing food locally → creating greater independence tomorrow.
Meeting a child's needs today matters. So does helping young people reach the day when they can provide for themselves.
At Kuna Nuru Leadership Academy in Kenya, young adults are ready to turn leadership and education into employment. A renovated vocational workshop and professional tools would allow students to gain hands-on technical skills and work toward recognized trade credentials.
At BVS Girls Home, a new dress-design and manufacturing program would give young women who were unable to pursue higher education another pathway forward. Sewing machines, materials, training, and employment opportunities can turn practical skills into income—and income into independence.
These aren't simply tools and sewing machines.
They are tools for a future.
Several of our children's homes in India have asked for something remarkably similar this year: solar power.
Electricity keeps lights on for evening study. It runs fans, water pumps, kitchens, classrooms, and the everyday systems a children's home depends on.
But electricity is also a significant recurring expense.
Solar installations at Happy Home, Pandravedu, Fatima Home, Nirmala Matha, St. Antony's, and Nambikai Illam would provide renewable power while reducing monthly electricity costs. Those savings can then remain available for what matters most: food, education, healthcare, clothing, and the care of children.
Give light today—and help care for children for years to come.
A safe childhood.
A full plate.
A light to study by.
Someone nearby who cares.
The tools to learn.
And the chance to imagine a future of their own.
Across countries and cultures, what children need isn't so different.
Your year-end gift to World’s Children helps our partners meet those needs in practical, lasting ways—protecting childhood today while creating opportunity for tomorrow.