Make Child Poverty HistoryOne child, one village at a time
Trekkers ascending a rocky ridge on Mount Kilimanjaro at first light

Our Impact

The work, in the order it happened.

A climb that gave the network something to rally behind, a country that made it real, and the long, unglamorous work that keeps going.

The WSI team holding the WSI flag at the Uhuru Peak summit sign on Mount Kilimanjaro

Chapter One

Kili Climb 4 Kids

In June 2015 a team from the WSI network carried the flag to Uhuru Peak — 5,895 metres — for children who will never see the mountain.

WSI founder Dan Monaghan joined Team World Vision and celebrity ambassadors J.D. Scott, Cheryl Bernard and Rick Campanelli on World Vision's Kili Climb 4 Kids expedition, June 16–24, 2015. Nine days from the rainforest at Lemosho Glades, across the Shira Plateau and the Barranco Wall, to the summit at dawn. Before the climb the team visited Ketumbeine Village in northern Tanzania to see the work first-hand. The goal: raise $150,000 for World Vision's No Child for Sale campaign and its Women and Girls in Crisis Fund.

Sponsored children and their families meeting the visiting team outside their home

Chapter Two

On the ground

Numbers on a fundraising page become people the moment you meet them.

Walking into a community that has just been connected to clean water changes how you think about a donation. Children who used to spend hours carrying water are in classrooms. Mothers who used to nurse waterborne illness are running small businesses. The work is slow, local and led by the people who live there — and it holds.

Villagers filling jerrycans at a newly built hand-pump water well

Chapter Three

World Vision's work: wells and communities

One well changes a village's whole day — and then its whole decade.

World Vision does not parachute in and leave. A community water point is paired with sanitation, health, education and livelihood work, run with local leadership over years, until the community no longer needs the partnership. That long-horizon model is exactly why WSI chose them.

On film

The Kili Climb 4 Kids documentary

The climb was captured in a documentary. Here are the World Vision and WSI teams on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

By the numbers

What it adds up to.

Figures marked as placeholders are being confirmed before launch. We would rather publish a smaller true number than a bigger guess.

20+

Years of the program, since 2005

1,200+

Children sponsored

PLACEHOLDER — confirm figure

$875,000

Raised for World Vision

80+

Countries in the WSI network

PLACEHOLDER — confirm figure

Where we’ve worked

Places this network has reached.

  • Tanzania
  • Rwanda
  • Kenya
  • Uganda
  • Ethiopia
  • Peru
  • Canada (fundraising)

Every chapter here started with someone volunteering.

The next one is open. Bring your agency, your team, or just yourself.

Sponsored a child? Let us know each one — WSI will sponsor another child to match it.