Child Sponsorship: Exploring Pathways to a Brighter Future

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction to Key Issues in Child Sponsorship....Pages 1-17
Origins of Child Sponsorship: Save the Children Fund in the 1920s....Pages 18-40
A Typology of Child Sponsorship Activity....Pages 41-65
Issues in Historic Child Sponsorship....Pages 66-95
Excellence or Exit: Transforming Save the Children’s Child Sponsorship Programming....Pages 96-112
Child Sponsorship and Rights-Based Interventions at Plan: Tensions and Synergies....Pages 113-138
World Vision — Moving Sponsorship Along the Development Continuum....Pages 139-162
Compassion International: Holistic Child Development through Sponsorship and Church Partnership....Pages 163-190
Children at the Centre: Children International, Child Sponsorship and Community Empowerment in Underserved Areas....Pages 191-213
Baptist World Aid: Transition to a Child Centred Community Development Approach....Pages 214-235
Through the Eyes of the Sponsored....Pages 236-259
World Vision, Organizational Identity and the Evolution of Child Sponsorship....Pages 260-279
Give and Take? Child Sponsors and the Ethics of Giving....Pages 280-296
Child Sponsorship as Development Education in the Northern Classroom....Pages 297-316
Child Sponsorship: A Path to its Future....Pages 317-336
Back Matter....Pages 337-347