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Our visit to our sponsored child, Chrestina in South Africa

It's wonderful to hear stories and see pictures of our ADPs whenever our Child Sponsors actually go to visit their Sponsored Child and family! We're grateful for Garry's kind words: "World Vision is clearly doing a great deal for this community - and others like it all over the world. It was a real pleasure, and a day we’ll never forget, to see the work first-hand." We hope you enjoy reading more about Garry and Nina's experience, meeting Chrestina in South Afirca.

What is an ADP?

You may know that sponsoring a child supports their whole community. You may know that your child lives in one of our Area Development Programmes. But what exactly is an ADP and how does your support help?
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A Wonderful Wedding Gift: Helping Communities In Honduras

Child sponsors Chris and Anthony used their wedding to ask people to support our work in Honduras, where they sponsor 12-year-old Nubia. This winter, they went over to see how she - and the communities their guests helped - are getting on.

Meeting Srey Da in Cambodia

Our child sponsor, Eric is a Professor of Social Work and has written a technical blog about his visit to Cambodia.

Elizabeth McGovern Describes Seeing World Vision's Work in Sierra Leone

World Vision Artist Ambassador Elizabeth McGovern appears in the Sunday Telegraph describing the moment she first met the child she sponsors in Sierra Leone.

Meeting Juan Carlos in the mountains of Bolivia

Reka is responsible for arranging all of our supporters' trips to see their sponsored children, so she felt it only right that she take the trip out to see her own sponsored child to understand just what it felt like to see the faces of the community she's helping.
Sponsor Visits

A 44,000-Strong Family

When Reka's trip of a lifetime turned into a nightmare of ill-health, the reaction of our colleagues in World Vision Peru surpassed anything she – or we – could have expected.
Sponsor Visits

Visiting Kettie in Malawi

12-year-old Davina recently went on a sponsor visit to Malawi along with her parents and 8-year-old sister, Damaris. The family had a chance to see their sponsored child, Kettie. Here is a short blog of their visit written by Davina:

Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern speaks of 'gracious and humbling experience' of meeting sponsored child

Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern met the child she sponsored through World Vision for the first time this week

Think of World Vision next time you eat a packet of crisps...

3-year sponsor Peter recently visited his sponsored child in Armenia for the second time and came back with some reflections on sponsorship, World Vision's work and carb-rich snacks.

A story of sponsorship: from the UK to Hong Kong to Cambodia

World Vision supporters Susann, William, Elena and Amelie share the story of their visit to Cambodia to see the real impact of child sponsorship.

Visiting my three sponsored children in Armenia

Ivan, a committed World Vision supporter from Northern Ireland decided to travel the length and breadth of Armenia in order to visit all three of the girls he sponsors, and what an experience it was for him:

I always wondered what charities do in Africa

14-year-old Murray from Glasgow visited World Vision's work in Malawi and kindly offered to share his experience with us. Here's a very personal account from Murray:

A day of firsts!

Marian and Jamie stopped off in Myanmar on their way back from Australia to spend a day with Min Chit, the young boy that Marian’s mother sponsors through World Vision. Read this wonderful story from Marian of their most memorable and humbling experience.

Meeting our sponsored child Sylvia in rural Uganda

We hope you enjoyed reading Chris and Jon's stories from last week about health care and primary schools in Uganda. Here is another lovely piece from the couple about them meeting their sponsored child, Syliva:
account of their sponsor visit. The two of them are full of experiences

What do healthcare and education look like in Uganda?

Two of our wonderful sponsors, Chris and Jon, recently visited Uganda and they have written a couple of blogs to share their experiences with you. In their first blog today, Chris tells us about a health clinic she had special interest in as a retired nurse and then Jon tells us about the impact World Vision has had (and is having) on two primary schools in the area.