Operation Kid-to-Kid is one of the world’s largest service mission projects for children.

International Christian organizations and Group’s Vacation Bible School programs team up to get kids involved with helping other kids. Kids have the opportunity to help other children around the world by giving gifts like school supplies, Bibles, hygiene kits, Christmas gifts, Bible coloring books, and socks and shoes. Children have also funded extensive malaria prevention and clean water initiatives in Africa and India!

Year after year, Operation Kid-to-Kid is one of the driving forces in mobilizing children to serve other kids in need. VBS kids have donated millions of dollars over the years to help kids in need around the world.

Total Giving
$35,645,974
Countries
25
Kids Helped
3,652,667
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2023: Shine a Light Across the World

Sending Bibles Around the World

Across the globe, millions of people lack the comfort and hope that come from reading God’s Word in their own language. In fact, in some places, even pastors don’t have a Bible in their own language. That’s where your VBS kids come in!

Operation Kid-to-Kid is a partnership between World Vision and Group Publishing VBS programs seeking more than 2 million Bibles to use in discipleship ministries in African nations, Latin America, and the Middle East. These Scriptures aren’t simply handed out—they’re used in Bible clubs, VBS programs, parenting classes, and Sunday schools. Kids and adults discover how to read and apply the truth in God’s Word. That’s where we can shine!

Your VBS kids can make a big difference. Just think, when your church participates, you’ll join other VBS programs and shine Jesus’ light to families around the globe. A $12 donation for Operation Kid-to-Kid provides a language-appropriate Bible, plus connects recipients with discipleship opportunities that help them grow in faith.

HOW IT WORKS WITH GROUP’S 2023 STELLAR AND BABYLON VBS

  1. Set up your interactive display in a main gathering area using the Operation-Kid-to-Kid Poster Pack.
  2. Share how everyone can add dollar bills, checks, even loose change.
  3. Send in the total donation amount to World Vision. The donations help provide translated Bibles to kids around the world.
Donate Online at World Vision

Donate by Mail:

Write a check for your collected donations and put 400066167 on the memo line of your check, then mail it to:

World Vision
PO Box 70200
Tacoma, WA 98481-0200

See Group’s 2023 VBS Programs

2022: Turn Donation Dollars into School Supplies!

Kids can do a world of good through Operation Kid-to-Kid™

A shiny new notebook, colorful pens, a rainbow box of crayons. There’s something fresh and exciting about back-to-school lists. They’re more than supplies; they represent all the potential and possibility of a new year and a bright future. But for some kids in North America, basic school supplies are hard to come by. Something as simple as basic school supplies can represent real hope. That’s where your VBS kids come in!

This summer Operation Kid-to-Kid is mobilizing millions of children to help bless countless students and teachers on Native American reservations! Due to World Vision’s key partnerships,$1 can supplement school supplies for one child for a whole year! When your VBS combines your donations with other VBS programs from across the world, you’ll make a monumental difference for kids on reservations in North America. WOW!

HOW IT WORKS WITH GROUP’S 2022 MONUMENTAL AND JERUSALEM MARKETPLACE VBS

  1. Order the Operation Kid-to-Kid Poster Pack (available at group.com) and set it up as part of a school supplies display in a main gathering area at your church.
  2. Use the pencil poster (included in the poster pack) and the shipping tube the posters were shipped in to create a collection station. (Instructions on the poster.)
  3. Share how everyone can drop dollar bills, checks, even loose change into the pencil display to help bless students and teachers on Native American reservations with much-needed school supplies!
  4. Send in the total donation amount to World Vision. With World Vision’s partnership, as little as $1 can supplement school supplies for one child for a whole year!
Donate Online at World Vision

Donate by Mail:

Write a check for your collected donations and put 400052824 on the memo line of your check, then mail it to:

World Vision
PO Box 70200
Tacoma, WA 98481-0200

Funds Received by World Vision Through 9/30/2022:
$332,867
Estimated number of kids impacted:
332,867

Operation Kid-to-kid

Throughout the years

2021
girl smiles at the camera from under a mosquito net
2021 Operation Kid-to-Kid Overview

Squashing Malaria

Group Publishing partnered with World Vision and churches like yours in an effort to protect children from a small—but deadly—enemy. Mosquitoes. In many countries, mosquitoes carry a frightening disease called malaria, which is often fatal. Malaria is one of the deadliest diseases affecting poor children around the world. The gift of simple mosquito nets goes a long way toward keeping children safe. Plus, it’s tangible evidence that someone cares for them.

This program helped provide specially treated nets to protect kids against malaria. Each $10 donation helped provide a net that can protect 2 or more children for up to 4 years! Your donations were able to provide a large number of life-saving, health-preserving nets that will last up to 4 years. Thank you!

Funds Received by World Vision:
$231,498
Estimated number of kids impacted:
46,299
2020
boy rubs faces with a baby alpaca
2020 Operation Kid-to-Kid Overview

Life-changing Livestock

Alpacas help provide a critical source of income for many Ecuadorian families. They are uniquely created by God to live in the mountains of Ecuador and they help out in the garden by providing rich fertilizer for hungry plants. Their thick fur is sheared every year and provides warm clothes in the cold Andes climate. Because their feet are not hard like horse or cow hooves, they don’t compact the soil, and that’s good for farming and the environment.

Group Publishing and World Vision are partnered with your VBS kids to help bring alpacas to needy families in Ecuador. Adding an alpaca to a family farm in Ecuador not only transforms the fate of the family but also helps provide jobs and resources to the entire community! Each $10 donation through Operation Kid-to-Kid helped provide life-changing livestock to Ecuadorian families. Thank you. Your donations made it all possible!

Funds Received by World Vision:
$734,977
Estimated number of kids impacted:
29,399
2019
2019 Operation Kid-to-Kid Overview

Giving Babies in Zambia a Healthy Start

Malnutrition during the first 2 years can lead to irreversible issues that limit babies from reaching their full potential in life. BUT, it’s preventable!

Group Publishing and World Vision partnered to help moms and babies get the best beginnings they can. Each $10 donation through Operation Kid-to-Kid provides supplemental nutrition and education to a mom and child for 2 years.

By joining with thousands of other VBS kids, you brought health to new moms and babies—and hope to the nation of Zambia!

Funds Received by World Vision:
$735,000
Mothers and children who will receive two years of supplemental nutrition and education:
367,500
2018
2018 Operation Kid-to-Kid Overview

Growing God’s Love in Haiti

VBS kids really came through in support of the people of Haiti in 2018. Group’s VBS partnered with World Vision to help bring sustainable farming to this small island nation. With a population of almost 11 million people, Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Decades of deforestation have resulted in prolonged drought and poor soil conditions. The end result is over 26% of Haitian children under the age of 5 suffer from chronic malnutrition.

Generous donations from VBS kids around the world are starting to change that for the better! Your donations will help feed over 120,000 kids for a year and provide the foundation to feed families in Haiti for many years to come. Mr. Milius, a project partner with CASEC, expressed his great satisfaction saying, “I am very grateful for the support in transforming the lives of children and community development.”

Funds Collected
$1,214,306
Estimated children who can be fed for a year as a result of your giving:
121,430
2017
2017 Operation Kid-to-Kid Overview

Clean Water for Peru

The summer of 2017 saw millions of Group VBS kids across the country mobilize to help bring clean water to families in remote villages in Peru. VBS programs partnered with Operation Kid-to-Kid and Living Water International to help provide sustainable wells throughout Peru.

Vicente Tapia Hernandez, a resident of Puerto Requena, shared his excitement saying, “I thank God and [you] for bringing this project to us. Our village is 52 years old, and we never had a well before. Now, our children and their children will have clean water.”

Video thank you from Living Water
Funds Collected
$1,250,000
Estimated Number of people who will receive clean water as a result:
206,986