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12 challenges for your summer bucket list

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Children in Laos. ©2010 Nila Douanesouvanh/World Vision
When I was in college, I spent my summers visiting family and friends, journeying on cross-country road trips, catching up on extracurricular reading, or traveling internationally (if I could afford it). I always started off my summer vacation with a desire to make my summer really count — to do something purposeful and intentional to help other people. But after a few weeks in the sun, I often resorted to all my summer norms. College students aren’t getting away with that mentality so easily anymore — not with resources like our World Vision ACT:S Summer Adventure Bucket List. It’s 12 challenges meant to get you out of the house and experience the world around you....
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Where kids’ books meet the real story: Building a healthy village

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Emily, the successful beneficiary of a World Vision microloan, with her children and niece in Zambia. ©2011 Collins Kaumba/World vision
In the afternoon of our first day with World Vision in Sinazongwe, Zambia, Emily Syabubila, a widow and mother of three, gives us a tour of her compound. It consists of a one-room house with two beds for her and her daughters; another one-room home for her son; three raised chicken coops; an outdoor cook hut; and a raised drying rack for her corn. In my last post, I shared how microloans (similar to those described in my book “One Hen“) had enabled her to restore her family to economic and food security after malaria claimed the life of her husband. She now invites us to share in rituals of harvest and shuck dried maize with her. Hard. Then she...
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Participating in protection

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Nepalese youths discuss their hopes for child protection in the country's new constitution with Kevin Jenkins, WVI President. ©2011 World Vision
Editor’s note: The following is a message that was shared with our staff around the world from Kevin Jenkins, president of World Vision International. As we share it here, we hope you find it as intriguing and worthwhile as we do. What helps children to prepare for — and cope successfully with — disasters? Why not ask them? With that simple question in mind, five organizations who regularly deal with crisis situations — including World Vision — asked 600 children in 21 disaster-vulnerable countries around the world what they thought. The answers were so powerful and informative that we turned them into a Children’s Charter for Disaster Risk Reduction, and presented them on May 12 to the third session of...
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BOLIVIA BLOGGERS: Exploring sponsorship

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In Bolivia, Arminda, age 6, whose family's fortunes were dramatically changed by the gift of two pigs from World Vision's Gift Catalog. ©2011 Jon Warren/World Vision
You’ve probably read stories — on this blog or elsewhere — of how extreme poverty can create a vicious cycle of hardship and despair for families and communities. And maybe you’ve even heard of how World Vision child sponsorship helps break that cycle — by providing essentials that empower families, like nutritious food, clean water, healthcare, education, training, and more. But where does sponsorship become more than just a simple explanation? Here at World Vision, we’re constantly asking ourselves: How do we make sponsorship a personal experience, where poverty and its remedies are embodied in the stories of real people and real places? And how can we connect our supporters with that?...
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Why I run…

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Team World Vision runner Paul Martin with World Vision staff member Nano Ngwane during the Comrades ultra-marathon in South Africa. ©2010 Andrea Peer/World Vision
Maybe running’s not your thing. So marathons wouldn’t really be your thing. Five kilometers or 42.195 kilometers — definitely not your thing. Maybe your thing is music, or sporting events, or enjoying the beautiful scenery of the Pacific Northwest. Now that sounds a lot more like the Seattle Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon. That’s because this marathon isn’t really your average running venture. Local bands play live music, and cheer squads line the roads every mile. Lake Washington neighbors come out of their homes to join the “crowd” en route from Tukwila, Washington, to downtown Seattle. It’s a “running [and I would add, outdoor entertainment] nirvana,” as the marathon Facebook page says....
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