World Vision brings City Advocacy Caravan to Cebu
4:22 AM
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 55th
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 55th 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.”
