Category Archives: Child Sponsorship

World Vision Sri Lanka blogger Allison Olfelt shares about her remarkable encounter with a young women who was forced into marriage at the age of 13 — and became pregnant shortly thereafter. The girl’s story is a heart-wrenching one — but thanks to World Vision sponsorship, her daughters can avoid becoming trapped in a similar situation. This post originally appeared on Allison’s blog, O My Family....

Laura Tremaine is traveling with our team of eight bloggers in Sri Lanka this week, visiting children, families, and communities whose lives have been impacted by World Vision’s work through our sponsorship programs. Today, she discusses a provocative question: How do we make international assistance a priority when the need is so great right here in the United States? Read on for her thoughts — and then share your own! Laura’s post originally appeared on her blog, Hollywood Housewife....

Roxy Wieman, traveling this week with our team of eight bloggers in Sri Lanka, shares her experience with a question that’s not often considered but is equally important to World Vision’s work: What happens when our development efforts are complete — and how do we know when a community is ready to be self-sufficient? Read on to find out what she observed. This post originally appeared on Roxy’s blog, Roxy Composed....

As the Sri Lanka bloggers continue their journey experiencing firsthand how World Vision sponsorship helps transform the lives of children and families in poverty, Joy Bennett shares a collection of pictures of a special moment — meeting her two sponsored boys. This post originally appeared on Joy’s blog, Joy in this Journey. As you read Joy’s thoughts and view her pictures, consider this: How are these children and their mother like families you know right here in the United States? What dreams could they pursue — and what goals could they achieve — with the same access to life-giving essentials that we’re used to as Americans?...

Tony Jones is traveling with World Vision’s blogger team in Sri Lanka, experiencing firsthand the impact of our sponsorship programs on the lives of children and families in need. Here, he shares this touching story of meeting 8-year-old Afra, his sponsored child. We hope our readers are as inspired by it as we were. This post originally appeared on Tony’s blog, Theoblogy....