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World Vision brings City Advocacy Caravan to Cebu

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Vernon Joseph Go

World Vision’s City Advocacy Caravan is a week-long campaign to promote child-sponsorship and its advocacies in key cities outside Metro Manila. World Vision team of fundraisers will explore Cebu on June 11-17, 2012 to engage capable individuals to be part of our ministry through child sponsorship.

As the school year opens this June, we are aiming to find more kind and generous individuals for 50 poor children and its families and communities, as World Vision aspires for every child to enjoy good health, be educated for life, experience love of God and their neighbour, be cared for, protected and participating.

With the City Advocacy Caravan, celebrity sponsor and Bossa sensation Sitti Navarro joined and visited Tiltilon Elementary school, liloan last June 11, 2012 where World Vision has been supporting its education and school building activities.

The Caravan is part of World Vision’s 55^th anniversary celebration. True to its theme: “Sharing the Joy of Hope”, child-focused organization World Vision, has been working since 1957 to uplift the lives of children in some of the country’s poorest provinces.

Now on its 55^th year, the organization aims to inspire more Filipinos to take on the collective responsibility of sharing hope and reaching out to help their fellow men in poverty. Today, World Vision assists more than 112,000 children and their families in 29 provinces in the Philippines.

Area partner for this City Advocacy Caravan:

UFNCGD or United Families of Northern Cebu for Genuine Development, Inc. Is World Vision’s community partner in which have existed since 2008. Their goal is mainly to improve the quality of life of children and families and communities in the seven barangays of two (2) covered municipalities of northern Cebu. They also partner with other agencies such as: LGU of the municipalities of Liloan and Compostel, Children’s Legal Bureau in Compostela.

UFNCGD Assistance in served communities will basically depend upon the needs of the community with the following focused sectors: Education, Health & Nutrition, Economic, Sponsorship, Leadership. These focused sectors also fits or is aligned with World Vision’s child well-being aspirations: Children enjoy good health, Children are educated for life, Children love God & neighbours and Children are cared for; protected & participating.

The served municipalities of UFNCGD are liloan and compostela while they also cover four in liloan (Jubay, Cotcot, Poblacion Liloan, Yati); five in Compostela (Cabadiangan, Cambayog, Cogon, Canamucan, Tubigan) with registered families reaching a total number of 2,125 while 2,200 registered children.

About child sponsorship:

It links a particular child from a community we help to a generous individual or organization for a monthly giving of only six hundred pesos (PHP600.00). Sponsors can monitor the progress of the children and their communities thru correspondences from the child, and regular reports from World Vision. As the school year opens this June 2012, we are aiming to help 8,000 more kids to benefit from the program.

Child sponsorship works in the context of an Area Development Program. An Area Development Program (or ADP) is a partnership with the communities in the poorest provinces that employs an integrated sustainable programming model where the people themselves take the initiative and ownership of their community’s child focused development translated into well planned programs and projects.

About World Vision:

World Vision is a child-focused, relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families, and communities worldwide to overcome poverty and injustice. For more information, log on to www.worldvision.org.ph

“Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.”