NOV. 28, 2016, ZAMBIA — Chickens and goats from World Vision’s Gift Catalog and child sponsorship set a family on a path to prosperity.
News & Stories
Child Sponsorship
From the Field
Zambia: The princess and the people
Kasamba Moyo was born into privilege — a princess in fact — but now spends much of her time with people in Zambia who have faced hunger, sickness, and lack of education all brought on by poverty.
Special Features
Family finds hope in gift of goats
NOV. 1, 2016, ZAMBIA — Just a few years ago, Rosemary’s family was stuck in poverty — both physical poverty and poverty of the mind. Then a gift of goats changed everything.
Special Features
5 Gift Catalog goats equal renewed lives
OCT. 25, 2016, ZAMBIA — Gift Catalog goats and child sponsorship work together to provide a girl from Zambia with plenty of food, clean water, and an opportunity for education.
From the Field
A former sponsored child is now his neighborhood’s doctor
Now a physician, a former sponsored child in the Dominican Republic developed his interest in medicine through World Vision health programs.
From the Field
Child sponsorship transforms a shoemaker’s family
Child sponsorship changed Baasandorj’s and his family’s lives forever. Now they’re stepping into the future with hope. Read their story.
From the Field
Olympians meet inspiring Brazilian ‘sister’
While in Brazil, Olympian cyclists Annette and Alex Edmondson finally met Vanessa, the sponsored child whose life story they’ve followed for 10 years.
Change Makers
6 things Ashton Eaton and Brianne Theisen-Eaton learned in Kenya
Olympic medalists Ashton Eaton and Brianne Theisen-Eaton visited their sponsored child in Kenya and learned first-hand how World Vision sponsorship works.
From the Field
Defying La Bestia, ‘The Beast’
Crushed by natural disasters, poverty, and violence, many Hondurans are making the dangerous, desperate trek north using a network of freight trains to find opportunity. Find out how World Vision is creating ways to give young people and their families a reason to stay — and flourish — in the country they love.
Voices
Kelvin Beachum Jr. witnesses a forward pass for progress
Kelvin Beachum Jr., an offensive tackle for the New York Jets, reflects on how sometimes the biggest obstacle to overcoming poverty is access.