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| Mali, Africa. Six-year-old Fanta is one of 171 sponsored children in Daelan-Sobala. She is one of 73 students in this second grade classroom in the village school which World Vision enabled the community to build. Fanta is a quiet, timid girl but it's obvious from her eager participation in the classroom that she throughly enjoys the opportunity to learn. World Vision opened the Sanke ADP in southern Mali in 1996. Sponsorship funds made it possible for the community to construct the first school here in 30 years. Fanta Thera (MLI-170368-0460) is one of some 1,109 children sponsored here by World Vision Germany. The presence of her and other girls in school is challenging local thinking on gender and education. Useful statistics on education in Mali. Students in Daelan-Sobala's primary school which World Vision helped the community construct. The school, which opened in December 1996, has 243 children in first and second grade. "This school is the first we have had on our community for 30 years," explains Chief Doubare. For years, village leaders pleaded with the government to construct a school here and send teachers. Promises were made but nothing materialized. Erecting schools in remote rural villages was obviously not a priority. When World Vision began a sponsorship program in Daelan-Sobala, building a school was the community's top priority for their childlren. Parents from Daelan-Sobala banded together with parents from 12 other neighbouring villagers to hire two teachers. The Ministry of Education sent a third teacher when they learned about the community's initiative. Photo by Karen Homer/World Vision. | |
| Ghana, Africa. Akosua Betowane pumps water for her grandmother. Now that World Vision has helped install a fresh water well in her community she will be free from guinea worm forever. On the day the well was completed the people trooped to the well site amid drumming and dancing, as if it was festival day. Young girls dressed and painted with beautiful designs danced. One of them carried a symbolic pot, ready to draw and carry the first gush of water. The drummers beat their drums with a vim they have never exhibited before. The people danced to the throb of the drums, their faces reflecting the excitement in the hearts and minds of the people of Kwayase. The lyrics of their songs told of their appreciation to World Vision and how the well would be the end of their woes. The occasion for all this celebration? The long-awaited installation of a handpump on the borehole. As part of World Vision's provision of water to communities in the Yeji traditional area, a borehole, yielding 13 litres of water per minute from a depth of 46 metres, had been drilled for this guinea worm endemic village. Photo by Faustina Baakye/World Vision. | |
| Seattle, Washington, USA. Vision Youth -- BJ Engstrom (left) and Anthony Moore (right) pray together. Photo by Todd Bartel/World Vision. | |
| Tacoma, Washington, USA. Every day, 3,356 U.S. children quit school. Years of earning barely-passing grades culminate in this final act of frustration and defeat for many dropouts. World Vision's KidREACH program stops this decline and provides struggling Pacific Northwest children with the academic and life skills they need. Derek Banghart, 10, could have become one of the children in that statistic. His father, Mike, spent two to three hours a night studying with Derek, but the boy still could not easily remember his spelling words, understand his math lessons, or comprehend his reading materials. Mike felt badly for his son, who thought of himself as less smart than his peers. By third grade, Derek's teacher began to consider holding the boy back. Then she learned about KidREACH and recommended Derek for the church-based tutoring program. In fiscal 1997, KidREACH served 1,144 children like Derek at 42 program sites in the Seattle-Tacoma area. Every week Derek meets with his tutor, Gloria Smith, a retired stockbroker, and they work on his arithmetic and reading. However, Gloria noticed that Derek would always arrive 'wound up." Seeing Derek's restlessness, Gloria thought to begin their sessions with games. "Tutoring was stupid and homework was boring," Gloria says, remembering Derek's initial attitude that stemmed from his insecurities. To build Derek's arithmetic skills and forge their relationship, Gloria brought in a cribbage board, an idea suggested by her husband. Derek took it home, practiced with his dad, and began playing with Gloria. "He beats me now and then, and he likes that a lot," she remarks. Photo by Todd Bartel/World Vision. | |
| Tacoma, Washington, USA. 30 Hour Famine -- Teens that are taking part in the fasting of the 30 Hour Famine program. Photo by Sheryl Watkins/World Vision. | |
| South Delhi, India. Eleven-year-old Saroj Mahavir takes her tuberculosis (TB) medicine from Mumta Gupta, a community health volunteer. World Vision's health strategy, in the face of a resurgence of TB in the slums, is to employ volunteer monitors to make sure that every single TB patient in the community takes their medicine properly, thus reducing the chance of resistant TB developing. The slums where World Vision works in the southern part of Delhi are like most slums in India, created by people coming into the city from the countryside, usually in search of employment or a better life. The South Delhi Area Development Program is providing health care and education, especially to girl children, in these slums. World Vision recently developed an intensive campaign to fight an outbreak of TB. The project is also creating Tutoring Centers in the slums to provide quality education to students who are working or are otherwise too busy to attend regular school. Photo by Steve Reynolds/World Vision. | |
| Ashanti Area Development Programme, Ghana, Africa. Most of the children in Appiadwaa village walk about barefoot and in tattered clothes. As in much of rural Ghana, most parents in this farming village do not worry much about decent clothing. Keeping the children alive and in reasonable health is enough challenge. The children in the community are happy after gift-in-kind clothing has been distributed to them by Relief Manager Chris Bonuedie. Ten-year old Yaa Yaa Ayi walks barefoot most of the time. Snake bites are common in this area of the Savannah grasslands of central Ghana's Greater Afram Plains, and Yaa Yaa and her friends are always at risk. Iddrisu Haruna, a 7-year-old boy in the same village, also wears tattered clothes most of the time. During the rainy season, when the weather often gets rather chilly by Ghanaian standards, Haruna and other children like him catch colds and often suffer from coughs. Children's clothes are a critical need in the Ashanti program. Photo by Faustina Boakye/World Vision. | |
| Kandal Area Development Programme, Cambodia. Sponsorship is making it possible for children like Chanry to get an education and for her parents and community to become self-reliant in food as well as develop additional and steady sources of income. A rice bank has brought food security to the region and a loan program has enabled families to purchase animals they can use for farming or sell for a profit. World Vision is also helping to provide wells, health care, day care and other community improvements. Photo by Sanjay Sojwal/World Vision. | |
| Uganda, Africa. Micro-Enterprise Development Network -- World Vision U.S. President Richard Stearns learns from Gema Nanyonjo, 30, how she developed her small pharmacy with a loan from MED-Net, a micro-enterprise development lending institution affiliated with World Vision Uganda and funded by World Vision US. The goal of the program is to improve the socio-economic status of households in selected poor communities through the development of small businesses, especially targeting those owned by women. As of August 1998, loans worth more than US$975,400 have been dispersed to 5,227 clients in Masaka and three other districts. Gema, a mother of four who lives in the village of Nakayiba in Uganda's Masaka district, began her business four years ago with 2,500 Ugandan shillings (US$2.50). In December of 1997 she received a MED-Net loan of 200,000 shillings (US$200), along with helpful business skills training. The loan money enabled her to buy more stock at cheaper prices. Her monthly profit increased to US$120 per month. This is remarkable income given that half of Uganda's population lives on less than a dollar a day. Photo by Karen Homer/World Vision. | |
| Cabezas Area Development Program (ADP), Honduras. Ingrid Aguilera is one of 1,400 sponsored children that the Cabezas ADP supports. With sponsors' help, children who live with their families in remote communities in the State of Choluteca (Southern Honduras) now have potable water, education, housing, health care, medical care and a better diet through training on different agriculture techniques and land conservation. Choluteca is one of the most deforested states in the country. The project trains farmers to plant shade and wood trees and also to reforest watersheds. | |
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