{"id":20583,"date":"2017-07-10T08:54:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?p=20583"},"modified":"2023-05-25T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T17:10:04","slug":"former-sponsored-child-help-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/sponsorship-news-stories\/former-sponsored-child-help-others","title":{"rendered":"Former sponsored child builds on his own empowerment to help others"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>A pair of dumbbells hits the floor as Tipu Azad finishes a set of chest presses. The disciplined 22-year-old, a former sponsored child, works out most mornings at the gym, moving from one machine to the next in a circuit-training plan.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a utilitarian space &mdash; more like a boxing gym than L.A. Fitness &mdash; that matches the feel of his no-frills neighborhood in southeast Delhi. Most families here live in poverty, but enough have crossed an economic threshold to where they, like Tipu, have some disposable income to pay for a gym membership.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing his workout, Tipu strolls through the maze of narrow concrete streets back to his home. With a haircut modeled after soccer star David Beckham and a cell phone in his pocket that captures frequent selfies, he waves hello to neighbors and friends he passes.<\/p>\n<p>He shares a four-story home with five brothers, one sister, and their parents, who brought the family to Delhi in 1995 from Bhojpur, a small city in Bihar state about 620 miles away.<\/p>\n<p>An unexpected byproduct of their move: access to World Vision&rsquo;s presence in Delhi, which has helped each family member flourish. Eldest brother Saddham was sponsored at age 5; now 23, he&rsquo;s a graphic designer. Sixteen-yearold Amir still has a sponsor in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>World Vision&rsquo;s economic empowerment programs also helped transform the family&rsquo;s future. Because they had tailoring experience, Tipu&rsquo;s parents, Nasima and Mohammad, received sewing machines to start a business from their home. Their workshop is now a hub of activity with two sewing machines that barely rest. &ldquo;The entire neighborhood are our customers,&rdquo; Nasima says with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Tipu was sponsored at age 7. But as a younger teenager, he got involved with the wrong crowd &mdash; skipping school, loitering, and teasing girls. All that changed when he began spending more time with staff at World Vision&rsquo;s center in his neighborhood. &ldquo;It was a mindset shift,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s about taking negative things and making them positive.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote pullquote--full\">It was a mindset shift. It&rsquo;s about taking negative things and making them positive.<cite class=\"attribution\">&mdash;Tipu Azad<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<p>All seven siblings have embraced a variety of World Vision programs and workshops. Children&rsquo;s clubs help them develop leadership skills and a passion for helping others; self-defense training for Heena, the only daughter in the family, inspires confidence; drama performances teach creative expression. Even the library at the World Vision center shaped Tipu&rsquo;s future by stimulating his appetite for books. He became a regular visitor, checking out novels, biographies, fables, and language instruction books.<\/p>\n<p>Because of his transformative experience as a sponsored child, Tipu started&nbsp; volunteering for a local nonprofit organization in 2011. Soon, he was hired as a full-time staff member in their South Delhi office, teaching children about health, how to respect their parents, social and emotional learning, sports, and the importance of education.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There are small kids &mdash; 6 and 7 years old &mdash; smoking, drinking, stealing, not going to school,&rdquo; he says &mdash; ample opportunity for him to make a difference in their lives.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20585\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20585 lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/email\/met3\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"A former sponsored child in India now helps other children reach for their potential.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/07\/D165-0800-110-1280x854.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/07\/D165-0800-110-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/07\/D165-0800-110-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/07\/D165-0800-110-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/07\/D165-0800-110-848x566.jpg 848w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/07\/D165-0800-110-1140x761.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/07\/D165-0800-110-850x567.jpg 850w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/07\/D165-0800-110.jpg 1618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/07\/D165-0800-110-1280x854.jpg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Once encouraged by World Vision staff, Tipu now helps children who aren&rsquo;t in school with tutoring so they can enroll. (&copy;2017 World Viison\/photo by Eugene Lee)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Every day, he facilitates two two-hour sessions for local children. Today, a dozen kids form a circle in the neighborhood park, and Tipu leads them in a song about good hygiene habits before playing a few games and working on soccer skills. The sessions are a hodgepodge of educational activities and games, and through it all Tipu builds trust and reinforces that he&rsquo;s available for the kids whenever they need him.<\/p>\n<p>He&rsquo;s proud to be a leader in his community. &ldquo;A train has both cars and an engine,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;A lot of people say they want to be leaders, but not many do.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by a World Vision staff member, several years ago Tipu switched the focus of his college studies from communications to social work, receiving a bachelor&rsquo;s degree in 2016. He&rsquo;s now working toward a master&rsquo;s in social work.<\/p>\n<p>Exhausted from the two kids&rsquo; sessions and his own coursework, Tipu ends the day with his siblings. They crowd into their parents&rsquo; workshop, joking and talking over one another. Bolstered by their affection and care for each other, the tight-knit family has shone their warmth outward into their community.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We want two things for our kids,&rdquo; says their father, reading glasses perched on his nose. &ldquo;Character &mdash; that they be soft-spoken, behave in the proper way, and have good manners. 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