Pur Pur Ter spends time in a World Vision safe space where he can play, learn and receive emotional support. Photo: James East/ World Vision
Bring a smile to your sponsored child
Supporter Newsletter September 2014
Naume in Uganda. Photo: Simon Peter Esaku/World Vision Thanks to supporters like you, Jordan and his family now have access to clean water, helping them stay healthy and safe. Photo: Ilana Rose/World Vision
Naume, aged six, in Uganda looks through her activity book. Children like Naume love to receive greeting cards and gifts like activity books from their Australian sponsors. Gifts like these not only remind Naume that someone in Australia is thinking of her, but also help her learn more about the world around her. If you receive gifts from World Vision for your sponsored child, don’t forget to send them back. It’s sure to bring a smile to their face and might just make their day!
Hope for Pur Pur Ter Pur Pur Ter is just two years old and his world has already been turned upside down. He is one of the more than 1.5 million people who have fled their homes in South Sudan because of violence. Sadly, children just like him make up half of this number.
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In emergencies, it is the vulnerable who suffer the most: children, women, the elderly and the disabled.
Sunday 23 November 2014
Join with your church and stand up for justice Abolitionist Sunday, held this year on Sunday 23 November, is an annual event when Australian Christians take a stand against human trafficking and slavery. Following in the foot steps of the great slave -trade Abolitionist William Wilberforce, we can stand together and say “no” to a world where men, women and children are exploited for profit. To find out more visit :
Many children have lost their lives; others have been injured. Many are distressed, having witnessed brutal attacks on their families and communities. Some are dying from preventable diseases, like cholera and diarrhoea. Thanks to donations from generous supporters like you, World Vision has been able to create safe spaces for children like Pur Pur Ter, so they have a place to play and to be children again. Your support has also helped make emergency aid possible – providing children and families with emergency water purifiers, water containers, hygiene items and cooking equipment. Any further support you can give would make a big difference. In fact, just $50 could provide urgently needed water purifiers to 280 people for one week to help prevent water borne illnesses. Visit worldvision.com.au/southsudan to learn more.
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Sponsors like you have created a healthier future for Ignacia and Jordan In Peru, Jordan and his brother used to get sick from dirty water and poor hygiene. The family had no running water and their toilet was a hole in the ground, constantly covered in flies. “The children used to be sick too,” Jordan’s mother Ignacia explains. “They’d get diarrhoea and would have to miss out on school … I had to take the children to the hospital.
“The children don’t get sick anymore. Life has changed for us,” Ignacia says. “I don’t have to dig holes and I don’t have to take the children to hospital. The children are in school more.
“Sometimes the children weren’t able to eat anything; they had no appetite. This made me sad too and I wouldn’t eat either – I was sick from the worry. You want to see your children happy and know they are healthy …” Thanks to the support of sponsors like you, this family – and their whole community – now have access to clean, safe water.
“I also teach my children about good hygiene, which World Vision taught us about … I teach them about washing their hands and brushing their teeth.”
World Vision connected each home to a water source and worked with the government to provide drainage for toilets. Ignacia’s husband then built a toilet for their home.
Ignacia is also delighted that her children are being sponsored.
“The children don’t get sick anymore. Life has changed for us,” Ignacia says. “I don’t have to dig holes and I don’t have to take the children to hospital. The children are in school more.
“I want my children to be happy and I want them to have more choices. That is my hope for the future. It makes me happy and glad to know that people care,” she concludes. To learn more about child sponsorship visit worldvision.com.au/howsponsorshipworks