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How child sponsorship works13 Oct 2009
How child sponsorship works
World Vision finds a place where children are not doing as well as those in other areas.
World Vision workers gather with the adults and children to talk about the needs in the area.
Children speak for themselves at the meetings.
Everyone plans how to solve problems and build a good life for the children.
Child sponsorship is part of the plan.
The people think of ways to help all the children.
The community agrees on who can do what to meet the needs.
They decide which children need to be sponsored.
World Vision supports people to achieve the goals they set.
The community values sponsored children because they focus attention on vital issues.
They are the means through which sponsors help.
Sponsors are people who care about children and the people in children's lives.
World Vision and local leaders make sure the sponsored children thrive.
They check that the children have good food and clean water to drink.
They ask if the children are learning in school and are healthy.
This helps the people to measure how their children are doing.
World Vision works with the community to try to protect children from harm.
World Vision helps the people to be ready for bad events that might happen.
Sponsors give donations every month which are put together to make a fund.
This fund is used to build a better life for sponsored children and other children around them.
World Vision may stay for 15 years before moving on to new places.
Everyone learns how to improve things as they see progress along the way.
The people know how to work for the good of their children.
Their success brings joy to them and to the sponsors who have been partners in the work.
The sponsored children will become adults who can improve things still more for their own children. |
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