D335-0077-425HIRES_food


Food

Nutritious food is a critical building block for children’s growth and development. Half of all childhood deaths can be traced to malnutrition or lack of food. And when parents are weakened by hunger, they cannot work, grow crops or provide for their families. Severe food shortages result from factors that often compound each other: poor farming techniques, overplanting, environmental degradation, drought and other natural disasters. Unless communities can establish secure sources of food to meet their nutritional needs, they have little hope of offering their children a healthy future.

Fast Facts
- Some 799 million people go to bed hungry each night — most of them women and children.
- More than 153 million children below the age of 5 are underweight.

By becoming a sponsor, you will be helping ensure that children get the nutritious food they need to survive, grow and experience life in all its fullness.

Become a child sponsor with World Vision today

 
NCS Food image 3

Making hunger history: one family's story

Patrice and his wife Kyungu are right to be proud of what has been achieved working alongside World Vision. Living in central Africa, Pastor Patrice acknowledges how ''World Vision's agricultural skills helped us to gradually transform our miserable life to a better one. We learned how to produce, save, and multiply our farm productions. From this, we bought our own farms." It was Kyungu who understood that the family’s lives would be transformed through the sponsorship of two of their children, as the family learnt agricultural skills that has enabled them to grow nutritious and varied crops so they have enough food to eat throughout the year.

 
NCS Food image 4

Making hunger history: one family's story

Patrice and Kyungu’s village understand and are committed to Child Sponsorship and its activities. The fruits of their farming means the family were able to buy 2 bicycles which helped them to gain access to their fields more quickly and farm with more energy than if they had to walk the 5 kilometres each way. Their initiative means they have been able to build a larger brick built house with the additional income from a productive farm, gain some extra cash by renting out their original hut and sell their recently harvested peanut crop to travellers along the main road into town.

 
NCS Food image 2

Making hunger history: one family's story

Kyungu says “I sincerely thank World Vision. When I think of all this, I realise that the best way of helping someone is to increase his knowledge. Today I hear that World Vision may soon leave, I do not fear because World Vision has already done its job with us. It is up to us to teach other people here, those who will want to be taught. I remember World Vision staff told us, at the very beginning that they won't be there forever, they came to show us how to be productive without dependency, this was the aim.'' It’s clear that for Patrice and Kyungu, they have seen first hand how Child Sponsorship really has changed their world for good.

 
NCS Food image 1

Making hunger history: one family's story

Their children, Narcisse and James, understand sponsorship very well through what they see happening to their family, and appreciate the sponsors for the help they have offered them. “I thank my sponsor for all this. Because he helped [us] we are no longer living in a hut. I am proud of having the right to study. It is a privilege here for a child to join education. Many [children] work in mining sites,” says Narcisse. The two boys enjoy taking care of the goats their father bought after World Vision advised the family to diversify their farm.

 

You can sponsor a child by phone:

0800 012 1202

World Vision UK is a Registered Charity no. 285908, regulated by the Charities Commission.

83.1% of donations goes to direct charitable activities. The rest goes toward raising more funds and governance.

 

Bookmarks

FacebookStumbleUponDeliciousRedditDigg