Category Archives: Child Sponsorship

[Bolivia bloggers] Day 1: 3 airports down, 2 to go…

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Lindsey Talerico-Hedren in Child Sponsorship

#WVBB Day 1 | Bolivia Bloggers | World Vision Blog

My morning started at 3:50 am, that’s the time my first alarm went off. Three alarms later, I rushed to get up, panicking, thinking I was already late for my first flight. I quickly showered, finished throwing in last minute items into the suitcase, grabbed a bottle of water, then I was out the door. By 6:30 am, I was through the long, dreaded security line, took my trek to the gate, and boarded my first of two flights for the day — this one at Sea-Tac airport, the next in about four more hours at Dallas Fort Worth international airport. Dallas welcomed me with 92 degree heat. I was certainly not in Seattle anymore. And Miami must have known...

The next 9 days… headed to Bolivia

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Lindsey Talerico-Hedren in Child Sponsorship

I’ll soon be en route to Bolivia — along with a few of my favorite colleagues and seven new friends — so keeping multiple copies of my travel itinerary is absolutely necessary. I figure that this will help ensure that nobody accidentally boards the wrong plane(s). Of course, that’s the least of anyone’s worries at this point. I need to finish packing. (Elizabeth Esther and Nish Weiseth beat me with the packing competition days ago.) And for many of my teammates, leaving home and their children is something really worth fearing. To hopefully lighten the anxiety a bit, I’m posting a bird’s-eye view of our itinerary and agenda while we’re in Bolivia....

Ask a humanitarian… Tough questions answered!

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Carla Swanson Gawthrop in Child Sponsorship, Conversations

Ask a humanitarian... | World Vision Blog

At the end of last week, Rachel Held Evans, one of the fabulous bloggers headed with us to Bolivia, asked her readers what tough questions they had about child sponsorship, humanitarian work, and World Vision. I dug for answers to the questions they asked with the help of colleagues across our organization. Perhaps you or others you know have wondered what the answers are to these questions. And if you have any other questions for us, just ask! Writing next time from Bolivia, Carla Here’s a couple of my fave questions on Rachel’s blog… (The follow is an excerpt from Rachel Held Evans’ interview “Ask a humanitarian… (Carla responds)“) Question from Elizabeth: How does child sponsorship help the community at...

5 days out: Background on Bolivia

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Lindsey Talerico-Hedren in Child Sponsorship

Less than one week to go before our team of 11 is in Bolivia, we’re printing our travel itineraries and making dinner and to-do lists to leave at home while we’re gone. In a team phone call last week, I shared a trip brief (thanks to the assistance of many of my esteemed colleagues) with our team that provides cultural and political context to the areas we’ll be visiting, photo and video guidelines, and key contact information. The portion below — with facts and info about World Vision’s work in Bolivia — we’re sharing with you as extended team members joining us (via our blogs and Twitter) in Bolivia, July 30-August 7. More to come later this week… BOLIVIA, officially...

Top 5 FAQs about child sponsorship

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Cleo Lujan-Eckhart, WV Donor Contact Services in Child Sponsorship

Top 5 FAQ's about sponsorship | World Vision Blog

If you’ve ever called or emailed World Vision with a question about your sponsored child, your online account, the mail we just sent you, what jobs and volunteer opportunities are available, or how World Vision is responding to the latest natural disaster you saw on the news, you’ve talked to us. We’re the team of donor contact representatives who answer your calls and respond to your emails. And its each one of those calls and emails that connects us with you and has showed us just how much you support World Vision and how much you love your sponsored child. Its an honor for us to be able to help make your sponsorship experience a rewarding one. In an effort...