GIFT CATALOG » Meeting Critical Needs Around the World

Prepared January 2017

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IMPROVING LIVESWorld Vision is grateful for your decision to join us in helping children thrive and reach their God-given potential. By helping to provide access to clean water, nutritious food, primary healthcare, and basic education, you are empowering some of the world’s most vulnerable people.

Th is report describes how the lives of children, their families, and their communities have changed and improved as a result of Gift Catalog donations. Th e report includes a sampling of progress and accomplishments from October 1, 2015, through September 30, 2016, focusing on the areas of water, health, and food.

GIFT CATALOGMeeting critical needs around the world

Thank you for your contribution to the World Vision Gift Catalog. Your support, together

with the gifts of other compassionate donors, reaches some of the most vulnerable,

isolated, impoverished children in the world. Your generosity is having a deep and lasting

impact on these children, their families, and their communities. Gifts like yours, including

wells, clinics, and animals—as well as programs specifi cally designed to benefi t girls and

women—provide tangible hope toward building a better world for children.

WATER

Access to clean water is foundational and transformative, providing freedom, hope, and opportunity. In this report, you will learn how safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) can be catalysts for sustainable improvements. A mother and wife in Ethiopia expresses her joy when a well is drilled in her community, and says, “... I felt like I was dreaming when I saw water coming out... It was like I was born again.”

HEALTH

Tragically, nearly 6.5 million children younger than 5 die from preventable causes each year, and nearly 300,000 women do not survive their pregnancies or childbirth. Th ankfully, World Vision’s proven, eff ective, community-based interventions are saving the lives of mothers and children and building strong foundations for a more promising future. You will learn why Florence Nabukela in Uganda thanks God for community health worker Susan Namutebi.

FOOD

It’s about more than just survival. Health and nutrition are foundational to children’s long-term physical and mental development and ability to learn in school and pursue their dreams. Herminia Villarroel de Vallejos of Bolivia, a mother of four, now has the means to ensure her children have enough food and proper nourishment.

A newly installed water tap at Nyarumbi Health Center in Uganda provides access to safe water for patients and staff .

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ETHIOPIA

Love Saved by Water

“Th ese long exhausting days are every day. It has been so long since we’ve been aff ectionate towards one another. Love had abandoned us along with water. Th e number one burden for me had been fetching water. It took me more than four hours, and I had to do that minimum twice a day.”

For Aynaddis Ababil, the burden of collecting water daily had robbed her marriage of love. Barely having enough energy to care for her family, she found herself feeling more alone and disconnected. However, the new drilled well in her community brought a renewed hope for her family and community.

Th e struggle women faced to collect water every day was unthinkable. When a man from their village asked a woman from another village for marriage, the parents would decline, saying that they do not want to send their daughters to an area where there is no sign of water and let them suff er.

All this changed with clean water from a drilled well. Aynaddis said, “With the help of the prayer, I felt like I was dreaming when I saw water coming out... it was like I was born again. We got what a human being deserves for the fi rst time. Th at day, I wish I could grab and kiss God.”’

HONDURASWater Improves Child Health

Erick lives in the community of Los Chorritos, Honduras. A few years ago, things were very diff erent in his community. “I remember my children having a high fever and diarrhea. At the beginning we thought that it was something they ate, but actually is was from drinking dirty water in the school,” he said.

Both the school and community lacked clean water, and people had to walk long distances to gather water, which was not safe for drinking. Other people saved money to buy clean water from a truck that only lasted a few days. “You have no idea how hard it was for us to get water. Getting [this water] was not good for our health, but it was the only water source we had,” Erick recalled.

Today, the entire community has clean water in their homes, along with a well at the school. “If you don’t have water, you don’t have anything. Water is life, and life has been given to my family with clean water,” Erick explained.

WELLS AND WATER SYSTEMS

Every child deserves clean water. Gift Catalog donations such as yours were combined with funds from other generous donors to make clean water accessible for thousands of families. Between October 2015 and September 2016, World Vision drilled or rehabilitated 21,831 wells and water points, enabling 4.67 million people living in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East to gain access to clean water. Below are some examples of how Gift Catalog funds were used to create wells and water systems.

For Aynaddis, pictured alove, water not only brought good health but also renewed the love in her marriage.

Below in Honduras, Erick opens the tap at his house, where clean water is constantly availble to sustain his family.

“Th e poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the Lord will answer them.” (Isaiah 41:17, NIV)

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INDIA

Dignity is PricelessSince birth, Abhay could not run or climb high stairs because of a disability in his legs. While Abhay tried his best to focus on his studies and not his disability, he did not succeed. Daily he was reminded of his disability when attempting to visit the latrine at his school.

Before World Vision intervened, the step to the school toilet was too high and he could not climb it and go inside the latrine. Abhay would skip school frequently because of the absence of disability-friendly toilets in his school. Abhay was unhappy by this inconvenience and would feel ashamed that he did not have access like the rest of his classmates.

Latrines at Nagchui Government Primary School were renovated, a ramp constructed, and bars installed to help Abhay and other students use the latrines with ease. Most importantly, the latrines provided dignity for the students, especially Abhay.

Parwati, his mother, shared, “Our son used to struggle to go to school before and faced several challenges. Now, that [World Vision] has constructed a disability-friendly toilet in school, Abhay is very happy and always willing to go to school.” Abhay agreed, saying, “I am happy to get this clean toilet which I can use, and my teachers also taught me how to use this toilet and wash my hands.”

MALAWI

Transforming Lives in Senzani

Th e birth of a child usually brings joy, especially to its mother. But this joy used to be tempered in mothers from Matale 7 village in the Ntcheu district, as they worried about accessing water to care for their baby.

According to Cecelia Goliyati, a 30-year-old mother of three, local mothers not only worried about the terrain on the one-third-mile walk to the spring where they accessed water, but also about the dangerous snakes and monkeys they used to meet at the water source every day, and the diarrheal diseases they suff ered from drinking unprotected water. Because of the lack of clean water, family members could only bathe two times a week, and Cecelia could only wash diapers in which her child had defecated.

It was an unforgettable day in Cecelia’s life when she fi rst drank water from a new borehole drilled by World Vision. “Because of this borehole, I now plan and manage my time. All my children go to school on time, after getting a bath and in clean clothes,” said Cecelia.

We thank you for joining us to bring clean water to families in the developing world. May the Lord continue to bless your faithfulness in giving.

Above, Abhay now has access to disability-friendly latrines at his school.

Below in Malawi, Cecelia pumps safe water from the new borehole in her village.

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WELLS AND WATER SYSTEMS

Many health clinics across Africa and in Niger lack on-site functional WASH facilities. Tallage Integrated Health Center was one such clinic.

Through the generous support of World Vision WASH donors, the health center benefited from a mechanized borehole with a tap stand, powered by solar panels, providing a continuous supply of water to the health center and maternity ward.

Hadiza Seyni, an assistant nurse from the health center, shared, “In the whole Tallage area, the population suffers from lack of enough safe water, because of a water shortage in the taps, almost seven months [of] 12. When women come for delivery to the health center maternity, they have to bring their 20-liter container of water along with them.

“I am in charge of the cleanliness and hygiene in the maternity, and I really cannot do my job well because of lack of water. Can you imagine a health center without hygiene? Now, thank God, we can rejoice because water is available in the health center, and I can be happy looking at the clean toilets when I leave for home at the end of work time. On behalf of my colleagues working in the center, I thank World Vision very much for the construction of this water facility,” she said.

With a new water tap on-site, the midwife, nurses, and patients now have the water they need to practice handwashing and good hygiene that helps save lives. Access to water at the health center is encouraging women to use the center more, since some would rather deliver at home than go to a clinic with no water.

One woman visiting with a patient shared, “I can remember last year, I accompanied one of my daughters who was about to give birth at the maternity. I was stressed by the pre-delivery suffering of my daughter when I realized that there was not even water to drink in the tap inside the health center. The husband of my daughter had to go back home and bring water in a 20-liter container so that we could even clean the baby.

“I realized that because of that, women didn’t like to go to the health center to give birth. Now things have changed. We feel free to come to the center without the fear of having to bring water in addition to all that we bring with the women about to deliver, to welcome the baby.”

I am the midwife in charge of the maternity inside Tallage Integrated Health Center. Before World Vision helped to drill a borehole fi tted with a mechanized pumping system in the center, workers had to wake up around 3 to 4 a.m. to fetch a small quantity of water for the day. Now we have water throughout the day.” —Samba Rahmou

Hamadou Fati, a nurse at the Tallage Integrated Health Center, turns on the new water tap for a visitor.

Assistant nurse, Hadiza Seyni, is now able to ensure cleanliness and good hygiene for the health center and its patients, thanks to the new water tap.

Tallage Integrated Health Center is located in World Vision’s Tallage ADP, near Niamey, Niger. The program area is urban, although the population living there is from nearby rural villages and is very vulnerable. Our ADP and the Tallage Integrated Health Center serve this community of about 50,000 people.

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HEALTH CLINICS

Florence Nabukela enjoys a tender moment with her son Paul.

Gift Catalog donors such as you are helping to ensure health clinics and mobile outreach clinics in Uganda have the tools and training opportunities needed to improve maternal and child health services. Trained volunteers, referred to as community health workers, are on the forefront of providing key health services in the communities in which they live. More than 9,500 community health workers serve throughout Uganda, and during fi scal year 2016 (October 2015 to September 2016), more than 1,170 community health workers received coaching and supervision to improve their use of mobile health technology and troubleshooting skills.

UGANDA

Encouragement and Guidance Saves LivesFlorence Nabukela is a mother of four children: Rachel, Paul, Kevin, and Jovans—ages 9 months, 4, 8, and 12 respectively. Florence used to deliver her babies with a traditional birth attendant. Th ankfully, when Paul was born, Florence had received counseling from Susan Namutebi, one of two community health workers in her community.

Among other things, Susan encouraged Florence to give birth in a hospital. Th is advice saved Florence’s life four years ago, when Paul was born. Due to complications, she would have bled to death without the help of the hospital staff and facilities.

Florence thanks God for Susan.

A few years later, when Florence was pregnant with Rachel, Paul became malnourished. Once again, Susan’s guidance was critical, and Paul recovered.

Florence now has become a peer counselor and role model in her community.

Susan Namutebi, a community health worker, provides services such as weighing and measuring children, nutrition counseling, immunizations, prenatal care, deworming children, providing folic acid to pregnant women, and informing families about the eight major killer diseases.

Susan provided maternal and child health counseling and guidance to Florence Nabukela (top photo).

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Martin Kabuye and Sister Diana at Kiboga District Hospital

Nyarumbi Health CenterNyarumbi Health Center in World Vision’s Rukiga community development area did not have safe water, delivery beds, and other important equipment and supplies. Vast improvements have taken place, including the installation of a water tap to provide access to safe water, and training for community health workers and local health clinic staff .

Kiboga District HospitalTwo years ago, Martin Kabuye served as the sole doctor for 350,000 people in the Kiboga district. Today services are better and there are four doctors who have come to the hospital. Doctor Kabuye, now the District Health Inspector, comments on his observations over the years.

“World Vision has been a father, a mother, everything. We have had comprehensive services where a child benefi ts in all directions—in health, in community, everywhere.”

Ntwetwe Health CenterWorld Vision built the outpatient department and provided latrines and a water system for the Ntwetwe Health Center.

“Mothers no longer give birth at home, children are immunized, health outreaches are put in all communities, and child mortality has greatly improved … World Vision is the bridge that unites the health center and the community.” —Nyarumbi Health Center staff member

HEALTH CLINICS IN UGANDA

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VIETNAM

Chickens, cows bring income and better healthGrowing corn and working as manual laborers wasn’t just hard work for Dinh Th i Mai and her husband, Bui Van Long. It also “never brought enough money for our family of four,” she says.

Th e couple joined 200 other households in three communities in the Mai Chau area to learn how to raise livestock through a World Vision project that trained participants and provided them with cows and chickens.

“Our neighbors have come visit us [on] their study tours,” Dinh says. “I told them it was important to select healthy breeds, get chickens vaccinated, and keep the henhouse clean. If we follow all those things, raising chickens will no longer be diffi cult.”

While an early sale of eggs and chickens earned the couple $140, they see livestock as their long-term income source. A local veterinarian says the couple’s livestock-rearing model has attracted visitors to learn how to build a cow barn, plant grass for grazing, and produce low-odor organic fertilizer.

Income isn’t the only benefi t. With eggs in her diet, the couple’s 5-year-old daughter, Bui Th i Oanh, has gradually gained needed weight.

“Importantly, our daughter is no more malnourished,” Dinh says.

INDIA

Goats help with children’s education and nutritionLiving in the remote village of Richawar, Savitha’s family depended on seasonal jobs. Her husband often traveled to nearby cities in search of work to support them and their four children.

After training Savitha in goat care and management, World Vision provided the family with three goats. Th e animals then doubled in number and are worth about $715.

Given the positive start, Savitha would like to expand the business by selling one male goat for about $120.

“I will use the money for my [children’s] education,” she says. “Th e remaining money I will use for our agricultural work. I love to take care of my goats. My children are drinking only goat’s milk.”

Th e goats are “useful and profi table for our poor family,” she says.

ANIMALS

A simple act can make a huge diff erence. During World Vision’s 2016 fi scal year, Gift Catalog donors enabled struggling families in 16 countries to receive animals—like a pair of chickens, a goat, a share of a cow—leading to stronger incomes, better nutrition, and greater hope. Th ank you for your generous support, which helps families build and sustain livelihoods and contributes to improved health for their children.

Above: Dinh Th i Mai and her 5-year-old daughter, Bui Th i Oanh, check their fl ock of chickens.

Below: Bui Van Long feeds his cow. His family’s livestock-rearing model attracts others wanting to learn his livelihood.

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Udayakanthi’s son cuddles one of the calves produced by the family’s two cows.

ANIMALS

SRI LANKALivestock project leads to ‘healthy family’ Udayakanthi’s husband did not earn enough as a daily wage laborer to provide for their family, including four children. Th eir youngest child was malnourished.

Th en Udayakanthi learned of World Vision’s livestock initiative in the Chavakachcheri and Walapane provinces. She attended dairy management trainings, visited farms, and prepared to start a business.

Th e project provided the family with two cows, each of which has produced a calf. Udayakanthi realizes a profi t of about $80 to $100 per month selling milk and puts aside about $25 per month in her savings group.

Th e family also is raising fi ve chickens, eating some of their eggs and selling the rest. Adding fresh eggs and milk to their diet has led to better health, with the youngest child no longer undernourished.

Once shy, Udayakanthi has stepped up to become a leader in the farmer society and secretary in the savings group.

With a loan of about $345 from VisionFund, World Vision’s microfi nance institution, Udayakanthi has expanded her cattle shed and constructed a compost pit. She grows beans, carrots, and other vegetables in her home garden, fertilizing it with compost made from animal waste.

“We have reorganized as a healthy family in the village,” Udayakanthi says.

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BANGLADESH

Ruma said no to child marriage and helps others do the sameFor Ruma, 16, the future is bright. But her situation could have been very diff erent. When her parents’ wages weren’t enough to support their family, her two older sisters were married off and they became mothers by age 15. Ruma dropped out of school to work and contribute to the household income.

Ruma’s participation in World Vision’s life-skills training taught her about the negative consequences of marrying at too early an age. So when she was faced with a marriage proposal, Ruma refused. She also engaged with World Vision staff members, who convinced her parents she shouldn’t marry.

World Vision assisted Ruma’s family with purchasing a sewing machine and materials (fabric and thread). With this support, Ruma earned income that she could use for school fees and supplies, and she re-enrolled in school. Ruma’s earnings also are helping her younger siblings stay in school.

Ruma has become a peer educator, reaching hundreds of adolescent girls. Girls who have taken part in Ruma’s trainings have persuaded their parents to say no to child marriage. Th e result is that school dropout rates have declined and child marriages in the community have been prevented.

Today, Ruma’s dreams are to establish a tailoring business—for which she would hire additional workers—after completing her high school studies. She also wants to continue her education at the college level.

KENYA

Faith pursues her dream to gain an educationFaith, 17, is the only girl in a family that includes her mother and three younger brothers. Faith’s mother was not well and struggled to support her children. Neighbors advised Faith to fi nd work, but the girl would not give up on school.

Th e best student in Kwambu Primary School in Matete, Faith was admitted to a leading high school because of her marks. Unable to pay her way, an Area Advisory Council established with World Vision’s assistance named Faith as one of the girls to benefi t from World Vision’s subsidies for school fees.

Faith graduated in 2015 and is now enrolled in a computer training course. She also serves as a life-skills educator at her former primary school. Faith said, “I am very grateful to World Vision and all the donors who made my dreams of getting educated, especially as a girl, come true. Today, if it was not for your support, I would be a casual laborer and maybe married off .”

HELP FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN

God created human beings in His own image, endowing all individuals—men and women—with fundamental dignity and value. Yet too often, girls and women are at risk of exploitation and abuse, or simply denied the opportunity to live in the fullness God intends. Caring Gift Catalog donors such as you enabled World Vision to mobilize communities to champion women’s rights and change hearts, which helped thousands of girls and women in 11 countries to overcome injustice.

“World Vision has played a great role in mentoring me.”

—Faith, 17-year-old high school graduate

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HELP FOR GIRLS AND WOMENZAMBIA

Pastor shares the Bible’s message of gender equalityPastor Kennedy has a deeply personal reason for being a champion for Channels of Hope, World Vision’s biblically based model for teaching about gender relationships. Many years before he was introduced to Channels of Hope, his younger sister was beaten almost to death by her husband. Everyone told him that he shouldn’t interfere, that it was an issue between husband and wife. But the pastor knew in his heart that he had to do something, and went to the police.

When he was introduced to Channels of Hope, Pastor Kennedy recognized immediately that his feelings of right and wrong weren’t just a brother caring for his sister, but were aligned with Scripture. Th e Bible supported his own deeply held belief that men shouldn’t be authorities over women, even though that was common in his culture. He immediately embraced the teaching that God’s design is for all people—men and women—to be equal and interdependent. Channels of Hope gave him the tools he needed to share this knowledge—which he does passionately in his church near Kasama, Zambia.

Shortly after he attended the Channels of Hope training, he took the opportunity to focus his Easter weekend teachings, starting on Good Friday, tying what he’d learned about gender roles into the resurrection. At fi rst, his congregation was suspicious, saying, “But pastor, these are Western ideas. Th ey don’t apply to us.”

Th e pastor responded, “Is God Western? Or is God everywhere? As Christians, we must be able to stand up for God’s people.”

MOZAMBIQUE

Young woman gains confi dence as a community leaderTúnia Bibi, Cipriano Balate, and Milena Mondlane are three youth who have embraced the opportunity to make a diff erence by participating in their local child parliament. Túnia is the president of her local parliament and vice president of the district-level parliament.

World Vision facilitates and promotes the functioning of the parliament. Working with government representatives, children receive training, including lessons about child protection.

Th e child parliament empowers youth with knowledge and also the skills to articulate rights and responsibilities. Túnia said, “When I see things that are wrong, I say to myself that I must intervene. … It’s hard to fi nd courage and speak to them about what they are doing is wrong. I once saw a girl at a local bar. She was underage and drinking. I spoke to the owner of the bar and told him what he was doing was wrong. I was so afraid, but I knew I had to be fi rm on my words. He did not respond well at fi rst, but then … he stopped serving the girl.”

Th is is the kind of resolve that will enable young women to be leaders today and in the future.

Pastor Kennedy (at left) is a passionate advocate for Channels of Hope. Mr. and Mrs. Banda (at right) say it has complete-ly changed their marriage and family life. As they share responsibility for household chores and teach their sons to cook and clean, Mrs. Banda now has the time to be a leader in their local savings group.

Their new way of life is a big change from the cultural norms, but they say that once they’d learned Scripture’s teachings about gender equality, the decision was clear that they needed to follow Christian teachings and put aside their old beliefs.

Milena, Cipriano, and Túnia

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World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. Motivated by our faith in Jesus Christ, we serve alongside the poor and oppressed as a demonstration of God’s unconditional love for all people. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.

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Th anks to generous donations through the Gift Catalog over the past year, World Vision has been able to assist hundreds of thousands of impoverished children and families in 29 countries.

Hope is growing in Malawi, where more children are able to attend school because they no longer have to spend as much time gathering water. Children’s stomachs are full in rural Vietnam, where families are eating more regular meals by being provided with chickens and training in poultry raising. Women in Uganda are less fearful about their pregnancies, thanks to health clinics, fi nanced in part through support from caring people like you.

May God bless you as you have blessed so many. Th ank you for your compassionate generosity.

For more information about the World Vision Gift Catalog and the impact of your giving, please contact your World Vision representative.

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Ugandan mothers are grateful their infants have access to medical care.