The document summarizes the work of World Vision India, an organization that aims to create lasting change for children, families, and communities living in poverty. It details World Vision's work in areas like education, health, disaster relief, and community development across India since 1962. Key programs mentioned include child sponsorship, HIV/AIDS response, and area development programs focused on long-term sustainable solutions to poverty.

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5. Robert Pierce was a war correspondent in the Korean War.
The time was 1947 and the place, China. Bob (Robert) Pierce
visited many places in China and spoke with various groups of
people.
Propelled by the prayer that Pierce wrote in the flyleaf of his Bible,
"Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God," -
this gift of love launched a movement called World Vision.

6. In India World Vision's work began in the year 1962 in
a small way in Calcutta.
Today, more than 1700 staff work in over 5000
communities, touching the lives of a little over
2,25,000 children, their families and communities.

7. VISION
“To create lasting change in the
lives of children, families and communities
living in poverty and injustice”
MISSION
‘To serves all people regardless
of religion, caste, race, ethnicity or gender’

8. ABOUT WORLD VISION
INDIA
• Create lasting change in the lives of children,
families and communities living in poverty
and injustice.
• Spread across 174 districts in India, World
Vision works through long-term sustainable
community development programmes and
immediate disaster relief assistance.

9. ABOUT WORLD VISION
INDIA
• Focus on Children: All development work
World Vision India carries out is focused on
building the capacity and ability of
communities and families to ensure the
wellbeing of children. The wellbeing of
children includes ensuring children have
access to education, health, protection and
participation.

10. ABOUT WORLD VISION
INDIA
• Grass root Based: World Vision India is an
operational organisation involved in relief and
development that is community-based. World
Vision India's staff live with communities at
grassroots level, learning from them and
working alongside them while pursuing the
goal of promoting the wellbeing of all
children.

11. ABOUT WORLD VISION
INDIA
• Partnering for Change: World Vision partners with
communities, children, Government, civil society,
corporations, academia, and faith based
organisations to build a nation fit for children.
• World Vision has responded to every major disaster
in India in the last few decades including the 2004
Tsunami, Kashmir earthquake and recurring flood
situations in various States.

12. CORE VALUE
STEWARDSHIP
ACCOUNTABLE
TRUTHFUL
TRANSPARENT
FAITHFUL

13. ABOUT WORLD VISION
INDIA
• As part of World Vision International, we uphold a
range of NGO standards to help benchmark our
performance.
• We are an active member of the International NGO
Charter of Accountability Company Limited and the
Humanitarian Accountability Partnership.
• World Vision is also actively involved in the
International Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Open
Forum on Development Effectiveness and the
International Aid Transparency Initiative.

14. ABOUT WORLD VISION
INDIA
• World Vision India endeavours to convey a
public image conforming to reality, to always
speak and act honestly. God helping us, we
intend to continually pursue excellence
beyond compliance, in all aspects of our work
- governance, management, operations and
administration.

15. ACCOUNTABILITY
A CORE VALUE

16. OUR ACCOUNTABILITY
• It is governed by a committed
group of leaders from various
disciplines spread throughout the
country. A multi-disciplinary team
of passionate and dedicated
professionals manage it.

17. FUNDING
• Child Sponsors provide the majority of the funds raised by
World Vision. Supporters in 18 countries sponsor close to
2,25, 000 children and through them their families and
communities in close to 127 projects around India. More
than 40,000 Indians support over 30 projects around the
country.
• Sponsorship is about partnering girls and boys in their
pursuit of a new future with dignity, justice, peace and
hope. Sponsors pledge a monthly amount to help needy
children, their families and communities.

18. FUNDING
• Child sponsorship helps children get access to clean
drinking water, sanitation, education, skills for
future livelihood, nutrition and health care and
participate in an age-appropriate development
processes.
• World Vision programmes also access resources
from the Government of India as well as other
countries such as USA, Canada, UK, Japan, Finland
and Ireland, to mention a few.

19. FUNDING
• 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.

20. CHILD SPONSORSHIP
• Child Sponsorship is a unique relationship between
you and your sponsored child.
• When you become a World Vision Child Sponsor,
you will help a child break free from the clutches of
poverty and gift the child a future full of hope.
• It is also a relationship that extends to the child's
family and the community.
• For Rs.800/- a month, you can make a lasting
impact.

21. CHILD SPONSORSHIP
• Child Sponsorship therefore changes a child's
life by changing the world to which he/she
belongs.

22. CHILD SPONSORSHIP
• Along with this, newer business opportunities
are generated among poor families, so that
someday, they can continue to provide for the
coming generations, even after World Vision
has left their area!
• Child Sponsorship is therefore a long-term
commitment, and its effects are sustainable
and long lasting!

23. CHILD SPONSORSHIP
• As a sponsor, you get the satisfaction of being
a very important part of this whole new
world! You can keep in touch with your child
through letters and personal visits and
become a part of your child's world!
• Child sponsorship is therefore a long-term,
meaningful relationship between you and a
needy child!

24. HIV AND AIDS RESPONSE
• World Vision's HIV and AIDS initiative is a
natural extension of World Vision's work with
the poor and oppressed to seek justice and
transform their lives.
• While every programme of World Vision is
involved in raising awareness on the issue of
HIV and AIDS, there is a special focus on HIV
prevention, care and advocacy interventions
in districts with high prevalence.

25. HIV AND AIDS RESPONSE
• We work with people living with HIV and AIDS in
the six 'hard hit' states of India - Andhra Pradesh,
Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Manipur and
Nagaland.
• We also work in vulnerable districts in other states.
World Vision responds to the medical, nutritional,
educational, economical, emotional and social
needs of adults and children affected by HIV and
AIDS.

26. AREA DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMMES

27. SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS
TO POVERTY
• World Vision's primary approach to poverty
alleviation through transformational development is
called 'area development programme' (ADP).
• Each ADP focuses on a geographical area and covers
a population of 20,000 to 1,00,000 people. It is a
long-term involvement of 12-15 years, rooted in the
community and in partnership with the civil society,
NGOs and the Government.

28. SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS
TO POVERTY
• World Vision India consciously focuses on people
groups and areas in our country that are socio-
economically vulnerable. Hence majority of the
ADPs in rural and isolated tribal areas specially
focus on the unreached, marginalized and
disadvantaged people.

29. SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS
TO POVERTY
• We seek to place ownership and resources in the hands
of the community based organizations (CBOs) and to
build their capabilities. The CBOs include
• Women federations
• Development Committees
• Yuvak Mandals
• Child Parliaments
• Self Help Groups
• Child Protection Committees
• Children Clubs etc.

30. THE GUJARAT EXPERIENCE
• At 8:50 am on 26th January 2001, Republic
day, an earthquake with an intensity of 7.6 on
the Richter scale shook the state of Gujarat
leaving millions destitute and homeless. The
death toll was put at 20,000 and more than
3,00,000 houses were completely damaged.

31. THE GUJARAT EXPERIENCE
• World Vision has
– rebuilt 1467 houses in 21 villages
– provided seeds for crop sowing and horticultural saplings and
agricultural implements have been distributed to 3500 farmers
– established 32 sapling nurseries
– provided 180 milk buffaloes to people in 21 villages.
• Apart from constructing houses, World Vision concentrated a major
portion of its endeavours to rehabilitating water and irrigation
systems that were destroyed by the earthquake. More importantly,
19 check dams were constructed and will benefit 800 acres of
agricultural land in villages that have been perennially drought-prone.

32. THE GUJARAT EXPERIENCE
• To help children go back to school, World Vision rebuilt
21 primary schools and 20 community education
centres. Nine public health centres were also
constructed by World Vision.
• To further support the people of Gujarat on their path
back from destruction World Vision has launched Micro
Enterprises Development (MED) programmes in select
areas of the Kutch district, providing small loans and
other means of financial assistance to enable people to
attain economic sustainability.

33. BIHAR AND UP FLOODS
• World Vision provided timely and immediate relief
to those affected by the recent floods in UP and
Bihar by distributing seven-day ration packs to more
than 11000 families.
• World Vision also distributed Oral Rehydration Salts
(ORS) and Halozone tablets and bleaching powder
to prevent the spread of disease.

34. BIHAR AND UP FLOODS
• In Bihar, World Vision's relief including food and
non-food items have reached another 4000
families, bringing the number of flood-affected
families being helped by the organization in the
month of August and September to 24,555.
• World Vision continues to work with the
government in the flood-affected areas, mobilising
relief to the vulnerable sections of the population.

35. RESPONDING TO EVERY
MAJOR DISASTER
• A swift and effective relief response when a
major disaster strikes is a World Vision
expertise.
• World Vision has responded to every major
disaster in India since 1977, starting with the
Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the Latur earthquake, the
Super Cyclone in Orissa, the Gujarat Earthquake,
the Tsunami, Kashmir Earthquake, the Bihar
Floods and many other disasters.

36. BUILDING UP RURAL INDIA
ALLEVIATING POVERTY
• Nearly 40% of India's population of a billion plus
lives in abject poverty. In India, we find that many
are poor because of one simple reason — 'lack of
regular income'. To add to their miserable plight,
over 90% of the rural poor are deep in debt.
• Unable and unwilling to access banks or to apply for
loans , the poor turn to local moneylenders, who
charge 60% to 120% interest (per annum) or even
more, trapping the poor into extreme poverty.

37. BUILDING UP RURAL INDIA
ALLEVIATING POVERTY
• Micro Enterprise Development (MED) is a proven way
to strengthen viable, small businesses, resulting in
increased household income and savings, and thus,
alleviating the crunch of economic poverty.
• World Vision works alongside enterprising members,
helping them realize their economic potential and
proving that they have the capacity to build their own,
small Micro Enterprise units. World Vision facilitates
the formation of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) to save, share
and build capacity. Small loans for the businesses are
provided and collected through individual members in
SHGs.

38. BUILDING UP RURAL INDIA
ALLEVIATING POVERTY
• A specialized non-profit company, established
under the Indian Companies Act, manages the
loans and economic assessment. The non-
profit company called 'IMPACT' focusses on
MED in target communities of World Vision.
Small loans (ranging from Rs 2,000 to Rs
10,000) are provided for individuals in SHGs,
along with training on management,
marketing and investments.

39. A VOICE FOR CHILDREN

40. INFLUENCING THROUGH
ADVOCACY
• World Vision India is part of,
– Planning Commission Working Group on
Women's Empowerment and Child
Development.
– National Disaster Management Authority,
the premier agency dealing with disaster
relief and preparedness in India.

41. CHILD HEALTH NOW
• World Vision's 'Child Health Now' is a five year
campaign to improve maternal and child health in
India.
• World Vision India's 60 years experience of improving
life for children and their families in 24 states and more
than 5000 communities means we can speak with
authority on the issue of child mortality.
• Every day our staff witness and work to address the
devastating effects of poor health on mothers and their
children. We will do all we can to keep mothers and
their children alive and healthy.

42. CONTACT US
• World Vision India - National Office
• 16,VOC Main Road, Kodambakkam,
Chennai - 600 024.
• Phone : +91 44 42287070
Tollfree : 1 800 425 4550
Fax : +91 44 42287242
• E-mail:
• For general queries: indiasponsors@wvi.org
• For queries on online transaction and the
website: indiawebsponsors@wvi.org