Tag Archives: Community development

PHOTOS: A new chapter for Amri Karbi, India

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Jon Warren in Child Sponsorship, Stories

A new chapter for Amri Karbi, India | World Vision Blog

After 15 fruitful years, World Vision’s work is coming to a close in the Amri Karbi region of India’s Assam state. Some 2,300 children have been sponsored in the area, and significant improvements have been made in education, economic development, infrastructure, and healthcare. World Vision sponsorship funds have bought books and furniture for classrooms, while helping parents pay for their children’s school fees and uniforms. Women have been provided with training in entrepreneurship, as well as funds for start-up business efforts. A new chapter is beginning for the Amri Karbi region as the cycle of poverty is broken. World Vision photographer Jon Warren gives us a glimpse of life there through the images below. Read the full story in World Vision magazine....

PHOTOS: A day in the life of a sponsored child

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Collins Kaumba in Child Sponsorship

A day in the life of a sponsored child | World Vision Blog

What do your sponsored children do on their days off from school? Have you ever wondered what a weekend or school holiday looks like for them? Meet 10-year-old Peggy from Zambia and see how she spends a free day. (Photos by Collins Kaumba/World Vision.) * * * 6 a.m. — Wake up and pray! * * * 6:30 a.m. — Morning chores * * * 8 a.m. — Breakfast time * * * 8:30 a.m. — Picking tomatoes for neighbors * * * 10 a.m. — Digging up cassava * * * 11 a.m. — Preparing lunch * ...

A story of two Sams

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Guest blogger in Child Sponsorship, Stories

Heather Althoff’s family sponsors a Ugandan boy named Sam. Below, Heather shares her story of meeting Sam and his family. Wondering how sponsoring a child can bless your life and perspective just as profoundly as it does the life of the child you help? Here’s a story for you....

Dirty water for now — but clean water is in the works

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Rachael Dill Boyer in Causes

Water: It’s such a simple thing, but if you don’t have enough, it takes over your life. That’s what 13-year-old Zinhle Dlamini told me. Getting water for her family in rural Swaziland is a two-hour-per-day chore. And the dirty water they get is not nearly enough for all the drinking, cooking, cleaning, and bathing for a household of 10 people....

PHOTO BLOG: Child sponsorship reaches parents, too

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Jon Warren in Child Sponsorship

Children, children, children. Everything we do at World Vision is for children. But when I visited a sponsorship area in northeast India earlier this month, program staff first wanted to show me the work they were doing with parents. They believed the most effective way to make a difference in the lives of children was to care about the whole family, improve parents’ livelihoods, and involve the entire community in long-term problem-solving. As a parent myself, this made complete sense. My life centers around my kids. Make my earning more secure, and I’m better able to care for my family. Improve community structure, and everyone benefits. So I was first shown fish ponds and weaving groups, rubber trees, and orange...