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| Child-Focused Community Development EmergesWorld Vision field staff noted that most of the developing world’s poor children lived far beyond the reach of an institution — their days were spent in poor villages or dangerous urban slums. In 1975, World Vision expanded its work to rural areas, helping provide parents with money for books and school fees for their children. But these and other standard benefits seemed ill-suited to many children’s needs. Gradually it became clear that this method of providing direct support did not fully address poverty’s root causes. In the end, communities remained poor, and families’ capacities to help themselves continued undeveloped. Recognizing that children would remain poor as long as their families and communities were impoverished, World Vision began working with parents and local leaders to identify development needs and break the cycle of poverty. New Approaches to Poverty Alleviation This newfound desire to help children by empowering their communities for change ignited a blaze of innovation within World Vision. World Vision’s Indonesia office launched the first program that targeted the poverty of sponsored children’s families. Called "Pioneers for Community Development," this program focused on a community business of raising ducks. Sponsorship dollars were used for community projects, such as this one, that benefitted individual sponsored children by helping parents improve the environment in which their children lived. |  | 1-888-511-6548 : P.O. Box 9716 World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.
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