World Vision is deeply grateful for the partnership of Columbia-Willamette Women of Vision in assisting impoverished children and families around the world.

In World Vision’s 2015 fi scal year (October 2014-September 2015), Columbia-Willamette Women of Vision gave $172,713 for programs focused on child protection, economic development, and the provision of clean water, improved sanitation, and hygiene education. Your support enabled us to help 21,262 people in Bangladesh, 1,277 in Mozambique, and 23 households in Bolivia.

The following reports explain program accomplishments in more detail. Thank you for helping save and improve lives around the globe. May God richly bless you.

Report to Columbia-Willamette Women of Vision

February 2016

REPORT TO COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE WOMEN OF VISION—FEBRUARY 2016

This project is taking place outside of Cochabamba in the municipalities of Colomi and Soracachi, where women are generating income through sales of textiles, apparel, peppers, prepared foods, and various types of animal meats.

Poverty disproportionately affects Bolivian women, who face widespread discrimination and violence. Bolivia ranks 113th globally in gender equality—the lowest among South American countries (U.N. Development Program, 2015). With your support, the situation is improving in two World Vision project areas near Cochabamba. Together, we are empowering women entrepreneurs and inspiring a culture of greater respect ands value for women.

IMPROVING INCOMES AND GENDER EQUALITY

In the municipality of Colomi, Paulina Montecinos used to earn income by working in the potato fields, but has seen positive changes since joining a textile cooperative as a weaver. With increased income from clothing sales, “we can freely give to our children,” she said. “We also know women can be empowered.” She and other members enjoy more respect today. “Before, we were mistreated,” Paulina said, recalling working conditions on the farm. “We don’t let our men mistreat us anymore.”

World Vision began the Women’s Entrepreneurial and Gender Equality Project (WEGEP) in July 2013 as a part of the Strong Women, Strong World initiative. This project is taking place in communities that also are benefiting from ongoing World Vision community development programs that are working to address the root causes of poverty. By March 2016, planned WEGEP project outcomes include:

• Increased income and employment for 300 women and their families through vocational and business development training

• Equitable participation among women and men in social and family life through programs that address gender roles and relations, gender-based violence, and human rights

Through September 2015 in the municipalities of Colomi and Soracachi, more than 280 women have received vocational and business training, and 205 women and their husbands have participated in workshops on gender equality. So far, 135 women have developed small enterprises that increased their incomes by an average of 19 percent. Meanwhile in 48 percent of the targeted households, the roles of income generation and providing for children’s health and education are now equitably shared.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND GENDER EQUALITY IN BOLIVIA

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“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will fi nd; knock and the door will be opened to you.”— Matthew 7:7 (NIV)

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REPORT TO COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE WOMEN OF VISION—FEBRUARY 2016

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND GENDER EQUALITY

In addition to helping change attitudes about gender roles, workshops have improved vocational skills. At left, members of the Association of Producers and Vegetable Processors (APAOSUP) bake carrot bread on a regular basis for school breakfasts in Soracachi.

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MAKING A DIFFERENCEWith your generous support, the Women’s Entrepreneurial and Gender Equality Project achieved the following in Bolivia between October 2014 and September 2015:

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT• 175 women improved their productive and entrepreneurial skills through training

in textiles, crafts, and food production.

• Seven producer cooperatives were developed and strengthened through leadership training.

• The cooperatives increased their access to credit and markets by obtaining loans for equipment and supplies, by developing business cards and product labels (such as the shown on the right), and by participating in trade fairs.

• Five cooperatives obtained contracts from local customers for locoto peppers, guinea pig meat, baked goods, and apparel.

GENDER EMPOWERMENT• 171 women and their husbands participated in a Channels of Hope-Gender

workshop on gender roles, equitable relationships, and causes and consequences of gender-based violence. Forty percent said the workshop changed their perception of gender stereotypes.

• Among women participating in the project, 34 are now in leadership positions in producer cooperatives, and six are leaders of community-based organizations.

• Beneficiaries in two support groups reported 22 cases of abuse to local law enforcement agencies, contributing to improved relations.

THANK YOUOn behalf of women and girls in Colomi and Soracachi who are being empowered economically and socially through this project, World Vision extends deep gratitude for your support. May God richly bless you.

NEXT STEPS

As the project nears completion, World Vision is helping strengthen ties between producer cooperatives and local markets, and between women’s support groups and law enforcement, to help ensure sustainable improvement in incomes and gender relations.

Improved product packaging and labeling is helping boost income among the women’s cooperatives.

Program SummaryThanks to you, the Child Protection Program is tackling risks to children—especially traffi cking and child marriage—by making more and more people aware of the potential for harm and equipping them to prevent it.

Parents, journalists, police offi cers, and judiciary members have participated in training to better understand children’s vulnerability and how to protect them. Just this past year, almost 150,000 students learned about traffi cking and how to stay safe in special sessions at school.

The program also continues to provide healing care to traffi cking survivors. Girls and young women who have been subjected to heinous acts have received help recovering.

You have demonstrated God’s love for the children of Bangladesh through your support. We could not serve these children without you. We are deeply grateful.

CHILD PROTECTION

BANGLADESH

Program Update

1,600,014people have benefi ted

from the program since it began in May 2011.

Minara, left, is better able to care for her children with income-generating support provided by the program.

168 vulnerable families trained in vocational skills or income-generating activities

337,896adults and youth reached with traffi cking awareness and prevention messages

FY15 Target: 318,657

1,160 vulnerable youth educated in life skills

FY15 Target: 1,200

FY15 Target: 105

Fiscal Year 2015 ProgressOctober 2014-September 2015

% Exceeded Target

106%

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In his time at the Child-Friendly Space, Alamin has learned the Bengali and English alphabets. He can write his name and is able to count and write numbers. When Alamin met the World Vision staff person, he was quite dirty, with inadequate clothing. He did not like talking or responding to others. All of this has improved.

Alamin is more active today. He keeps himself neat and clean. And he likes to interact and play with other children. Change is happening in Alamin’s home life, too. His parents try to keep a clean house and want Alamin to receive an education. The family has moved nearer the Child-Friendly Space, and Shainur regularly brings her son there. The Child Protection Program continues to help Alamin and prepare him for formal school.

Alamin’s father, Samma, is grateful to World Vision for the help. He says that, “now Alamin [has] learned many things from the Child-Friendly Space. I will not send him further for picking up trash from [the] street, even if [the program’s] support will stop. I will send him to school.”

Thanks to the program’s 20 Child-Friendly Spaces that serve more than 750 children and youth, this is the kind of change happening in many families in southwestern Bangladesh.

I will not send him further for picking up trash from [the] street, even if [the program’s] support will stop. I will send him to school.” —Th e father of 5-year-old Alamin

In Bangladesh, World Vision helps a young boy move from collecting trash to a healthy learning environment. With guidance, his parents improve the quality of life at home and see the importance of education in their son’s life.

CHILD-FRIENDLY SPACES LEAD TO POSITIVE CHANGES FOR CHILDREN, INCLUDING 5-YEAR-OLD ALAMIN

Samma, 45, works pulling a rickshaw to earn money to support his family. But his income is too small to meet their needs. All three of Samma and his wife, Shainur’s, sons have worked to help their family. Until about a year ago, the youngest, Alamin, 5, spent his days on the city streets of Jessore, picking up trash with his mother.

In January 2015, after seeing Alamin with a big waste bag on his shoulder, collecting trash from a dump, a World Vision staff member invited the young boy to attend the local Child-Friendly Space operated by World Vision's Child Protection Program. Alamin has regularly attended since that time.

When Alamin began taking part in the program, he had no knowledge of the alphabet or numbers and had no birth registration. The program facilitated his registration and began providing Alamin with a preschool education at the Child-Friendly Space. He also began joining in creative activities such as drawing and singing.

Assistance was offered to Shainur and Samma, too. Alamin’s parents received counseling from the Child Protection Program on topics such as caregiving, parenting, the importance of educating children, and hygiene.

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Alamin takes part in an educational game with other children at the Child-Friendly Space they attend.

WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE

MOZAMBIQUE

Program Update

237,300people provided

with access to clean drinking water

since October 2011, including 60,600

during fiscal year 2015.

196 new and rehabilitatedwells and water points

19,677 hand-washing facilities built

25,517 sanitation facilities built

FY15 Target: 347

FY15 Target: 37,803

FY15 Target: 32,229

Program SummaryWorld Vision is grateful for your partnership in our vision of making access to clean water, improved sanitation, and hygiene education a reality. As we reflect on the accomplishments of the Mozambique Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Program this fiscal year, we thank God for your support and prayers, which have made it possible for us to press on toward our hope of building a healthier future for thousands of families in Mozambique.

Despite the unexpected floods and delays earlier in the year, the WASH program completed 156 boreholes. These new boreholes alone will give 46,800 adults and children more time and opportunities to earn money or attend school. Your partnership also enabled us to help 4,435 households to safely treat water—significantly surpassing our fiscal year goal of 321 households. In total, more than 127,000 people benefited from the program’s hygiene- and sanitation-related activities this year.

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Fiscal Year 2015 Progress

— Ana Maria, school director

Many Mozambican children are absent from school because of water-related health issues or because they are too busy trekking long distances in search of clean water. In response, the WASH program is building latrines (as pictured) and boreholes in schools. One child, Elsa, shares her story about how the new borehole at her school has impacted her life.

When Elsa, a sixth-grader in Mozambique, recalled the experience and consequences of drinking dirty water, she could not help but get emotional. As she wiped tears from her eyes, she talked about how the water from her community’s old well was infested with frogs, worms, grass, and mud. Elsa and her mother used to wake up at 5 a.m. and walk to the river where the well was located. The line to get water was always long, causing Elsa to miss school and fail first grade.

“It was really challenging to get to the well in the rainy season or in cold weather,” Elsa said. “Grass and mud along the way caused me wounds on the feet while walking to fetch water.”

Since the construction of this borehole, the attendance in classes has grown, and the students come in time. Many thanks to donors because this borehole increased the attendance of students in our classes.”

As part of the Mozambique WASH Program, World Vision constructed a borehole at Elsa’s school, benefitting the school’s staff and 714 students, as well as the rest of the community.

“Because of the borehole, now I have time for my homework, [to] play with my friends, and wash the clothes,” Elsa said. “I don’t think I will ever fail again in school. On [the] other hand, I can see that my parents, especially my mother, [are] spending more time with us than before. It is always a great joy for me to drink this water, wash my hands after engaging myself in activities demanding so. We are all happy. In this season of the year, we can wash mangoes before eating to avoid diseases.”

CLEAN WATER MEANS HOPE FOR A MORE PROMISING FUTURE

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