World Vision India

World Vision India is a partnership office of World Vision International, a grass roots, child-focussed Christian relief and development agency, serving the poor without regard to religion, caste or gender, operating in India. World Vision aims to build capacity and empower families and communities around the children to give them a wholesome life filled with hope, dignity, justice and peace. World Vision also responds to major disasters around the country to provide much needed relief and rehabilitation. World Vision India serves people without regard to caste, religion, race or gender.

It focuses on five areas of change at the community level:
* building the capacity of families and communities to ensure sustainable well-being of all girls and boys,
* empowering children to be agents of change,
* restoring social harmony and building a culture of peace and participation,
* partnering with all local stakeholders in the development process
* creating structures and systems that enable the communities to participate in building our nation.

Financing

In India, sponsorships provide the majority of resources for programmes implemented by World Vision. Donors and sponsors from 18 countries including over 10,000 Indians sponsor close to 200,000 children in 107 programmes around India. World Vision programmes also access resources from the Government of India as well as other countries such as U.S., Canada, UK, Japan, Finland and Ireland to mention a few.

ponsorships

Sponsors pledge a monthly amount to help needy children, their families and communities. Child sponsorship helps children get access to clean drinking water, sanitation, education, skills for future livelihood, nutrition, health care and participate in an age-appropriate in development processes. It also helps communities to build a better future through empowerment, education, income generation, and self-sufficiency. Programmes seek equitable, just, peaceful, productive and inclusive relationships within households and communities, responsible relationship with the environment, a culture of participation with families and whole communities empowered to influence and shape their situation through coalitions and networks addressing systemic issues towards ensuring access to basic needs in a sustainable manner.

Area Development Programs

Area Development Programmes (ADPs) are integrated development programs in locales such as a community block helping children, families and communities achieve the basic standards of the four ‘well-beings’, physical, intellectual, socio-economic and moral well-being. World Vision’s community workers facilitate this by living in the communities, learning their problems and helping them find their own solutions. Rather than treat the effects of poverty, they help communities find ways to confront the root causes of poverty. Partnership with children, families and communities as well as local governments, other NGOs, corporates and citizens around the country makes this possible.

Each ADP touches the lives of 20,000 to 1,00,000 people. There are 107 ADPs spread over 24 states around the country, working in over 5000 communities.

Disaster Relief

Timely relief when a disaster strikes is another area of World Vision’s expertise. World Vision has been involved in every major disaster in India since the 1977 tidal wave struck Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The Bhopal Gas Tragedy (1984), the Orissa Super Cyclone (1999) and the Gujarat Earthquake (2001) were among its major relief interventions. The recent Tsunami (2004) spread out the World Vision's India Tsunami Relief Team all over the coastal regions of the peninsula and the J&K Earthquake (2005) drew a team to the snow-clad Himalayas.

World Vision also responds to issues that children in extremely difficult situations such as child labour, bonded labour, female infanticide, HIV/AIDS and exploitation face.

Links

[http://www.worldvision.in/child Child Sponsorship]