Written by: Aavash Malla - 26001, Grade IX
Posted on: 08 March, 2023
Christian relief, development, and advocacy group World Vision is committed to assisting families, communities, and children in overcoming poverty and injustice. The global partnership of World Vision International (WVI), which operates in more than 100 countries, includes World Vision International Nepal. World Vision International is an international organization which is a child-focused relief, development, and advocacy organization. World Vision has helped millions of vulnerable children throughout the world change their lives. Robert Pierce established it as a charity organization to care for children in Korea in 1950 and it has grown more and more ever since. Later that year, in Portland, Oregon, the first World Vision office opened. A second office, in Korea, followed in 1954.
The World Vision has established many branches in the world. It is in more than 100 countries and generates $3.14 billion USD in total revenue through donations, sales, and foreign donations. Due to the Korean War, World Vision opened a charity that served as a missionary service organization that provided immediate aid to those in need in East Asian crisis areas but slowly the organization was made international. In order to encourage long-term progress and community self-reliance, World Vision started teaching families the agricultural skills required to establish small farms in the 1970s. Infant mortality rates decreased once the organization started putting up clean water pumps. Volunteers are now using the fresh water to spread awareness of good health and educate cultivation and irrigation. World Vision International began focusing on the requirements of kids who had become orphaned in Uganda, Romania, and Somalia as a result of AIDS, negligence, and civil conflict in the 1990s. Additionally, they joined in UN peacekeeping operations to support civil war victims. Furthermore, World Vision began to actively promote the worldwide ban on landmines. WVI began its long-term development program in Nepal in 2001 to support children's wellbeing. Currently, WVI Nepal is working on long-term development projects in six different Nepalese provinces including Udayapur, Sarlahi, Mahottari, Rautahat, Sindhuli, Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Lamjung, Jumla, Kailali, Achham, Doti, Bajhang, and Kanchanpur. World Vision promotes social understanding of other people's needs, the main causes of poverty, and the characteristics of compassionate action. Since 40.7% of marriages in Nepal used to occur before the age of 18, child marriage is a significant issue. World Vision has created a video to assist people understand this reality and how it is hurting the children and communities in Nepal in order to raise awareness about minimizing child marriage. The video is based on actual occurrences and this is not just in Nepal.
In many other countries World Vision has helped to reduce many child related problems like child marriage and improvement of children’s health. World Vision International has also helped to reduce gender discrimination promoting gender equality, youth economic development, disaster risk management and many more. World Vision International is just a small organization which does not get enough recognition but is very essential for the betterment of children in various countries in which it is established.
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