World Vision is now flipping the script on child sponsorship. Instead of donors always getting to choose children, children are beginning to choose donors. In the mid 1980s, World Vision experimented with putting its child sponsorship program on hold. World Vision integrated child sponsorship into its long-term community development approach by pooling monthly sponsorship dollars with other funds to ensure that all children and families in a particular community are supported. Building new modelsToday, World Vision donors are sponsoring 4 million children, a fourfold increase from the late 1980s.

Source: Ethiopian News November 04, 2019 21:45 UTC