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World Vision International
Mission: "We are Christian. We are committed to the poor. We value people. We are stewards. We are partners. We are responsive."
In China since: 1982
Annual China budget: $15,000,000
Number of staff: 625
Mainland China contact:
Chao Wang
Chief Operating Officer
Cheung Sha Wan Plaza
833 Cheung Sha Wan Road
Kowloon
Hong Kong SAR, PRC
Tel: +(852)2394 5613
Fax: + (852) 2394 1578
Activities in Other Countries:
More than 100 countries
Religious Affiliation:
Christian
World Vision was founded in 1950 by an American evangelist priest. Its first major operations were during the Korean war, when war orphans were assisted through a system of child sponsorship whereby individual donors are matched to individual children in need. The organisation grew rapidly and has become one of the world’s largest non-government humanitarian relief and development networks. Today, the global World Vision network has many national members, and works in around one hundred countries worldwide. It continues to place children’s welfare at the centre of its work, and about half of its worldwide income comes from child sponsorship; but the funds contributed in this way are now used not just for helping individual children but also for projects that benefit the wider communities in which they live.
Work in China began in 1982, from a base in Hong Kong that both raises funds and manages the China programme. A Beijing office opened in 2004.
Relief aid following natural disasters has been one staple of World Vision’s China programme. It has also implemented many longer-term integrated rural development projects. Since 2002, projects of this kind have been initiated in 27 poor counties. Typically, they include health and sanitation, education, environment protection and income generation components. Training and microfinance is given for
animal husbandry, agriculture, agroforestry and microfinance. An urban microfinance programme is also being piloted in Kuming (Yunnan). In addition, World Vision has supported work to benefit orphaned and disabled children. Also, in partnership with the China Charities Federation, it has supported a ‘candlelight project’ to assist and build the capacity of poor, rural schoolteachers.
World Vision now plans to scale up provision of social services and poverty awareness-promotion in urban areas, and to deliver microfinance, legal support, AIDS prevention, and child protection services to vulnerable populations of ‘floating’ migrants.
As of December 2006, World Vision was working in 17 provinces/municipalities/autonomous regions across China. In November 2005, World Vision's poverty alleviation and development projects in Guangxi province won the "China charity award" given by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the China Charity Federation.
In 2003, World Vision offices across the world raised an aggregated total of USD 1.25 billion. Two thirds of this was in cash donations and one third of which was gifts in kind – mainly food and clothing donated by corporations and government agencies for emergency relief operations. The World Vision China programme office in Hong Kong raised USD 30 million.
Links
http://www.worldvision.org.cn
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