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World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organisation dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice.
Motivated by our Christian faith, World Vision is dedicated to working with the world’s most vulnerable people.
World Vision serves all people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or gender.
World Vision started out in Korea in 1950 to meet the needs of children orphaned by the war in Korea. From there, the programme expanded to other Asian nations and gradually spread to over one hundred countries.
Our Vision
Our Vision for every child, life in all its fullness;
Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so
Our Core Values
We are Christian
We are committed to the poor
We value people
We are stewards
We are partners
We are responsive
World Vision in Nepal
World Vision (WV) first started its development initiatives in Nepal in 1982 by donating funds to local groups for building hospitals and providing health care. In response to the 1988 earthquake, WV supported local non-governmental organisations in providing assistance to quake victims. Likewise, in 1993, WV helped flood victims through local partners. WV formally started its long-term development work in Nepal after signing both general and project agreement with the Social Welfare Council in 2001. Over the past eight years, WV has funded community development and currently WV is operational in 12 districts of Nepal; namely, Bhaktapur, Doti, Rupandehi, Jumla, Kathmandu, Kaski, Kailali, Lamjung, Lalitpur, Morang, Sunsari and Udayapur.
In July 2009, World Vision International Nepal (WVIN) introduced two news Area Development Programmes (ADPs) pilot testing the Integrated Programme Model (IPM) with Udayapur IPM (WV Taiwan Funded) and Doti IPM (WV Japan funded). Udayapur lies in the eastern hill adjoining Sunsari ADP and Doti lies in the northern hills adjoining far west Kailali ADP.
At present, WVIN puts a special focus on Early Childhood Care and Development, Community Health (water and sanitation), Education, Livelihoods support, HIV and AIDS, Leadership and Local Governance in community development along with advocacy and relief programmes in 12 districts across Nepal.
Area Development Programme (ADP)
Child focused Area Development Programme (ADP) is our primary approach to carry out the transformational development in the community where we work. ADP is a long term development programme (10 to 15 years) in which World Vision works with the poor and its partners in specific, defined, targeted geographical locations to address micro and macro poverty issues in the areas of Community Health focusing on Water and Sanitation, Education, Early Childhood Care and Development, Emergency Relief and Disaster Mitigation, Livelihoods and HIV and AIDS initiatives.
Transformational Development
Development in World Vision is defined as transformational development and encompasses five domains of change; well-being of children, their families and communities; empowered children to be agents of transformation; transformed relationships; interdependent and empowered communities; and transformed systems and structures. In World Vision’s understanding, transformational development seeks to restore and enable wholeness of life with dignity, justice, peace, and hope for all girls, boys, women, men, households and their communities. Transformational development also promotes change and growth within an organisation. Recognising that girls and women are often marginalised in the development process, transformational development highlights and addresses the situation and potential of women and girls, and strengthen families and communities to intentionally empower girls and women in Nepal.
Advocacy
Advocacy is one of the main ways of bringing about changes in unjust policies, systems and structures. World Vision International Nepal seeks to engage in advocacy campaigns at local and national levels on the themes and issues impacting children. We seek to link advocacy to the key development sectors we are involved in. We aim to join like-minded organisations while running advocacy campaigns.
Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs
World Vision is one of the largest relief organisations and we have extensive experience in carrying out relief operations around the world during major disasters. In Nepal, World Vision has established relationships with various governmental, non-governmental and multilateral agencies for rapid emergency response.
Sponsorship in Nepal
Sponsorship is a way to enable vulnerable children to have access to basic services such as health and education. Using the child as a link, sponsorship builds relationship between individual sponsor and the child’s community in our Area Development Programme. The sponsor contributes a fixed amount every month towards the child, which forms the main resource base for funding long-term development programmes in the community.
By the end of 2008, 23,866 children were registered as sponsored children and WVIN regularly monitored their health and education status as well as other children in the community. Funds from sponsorship supported a wide range of development activities that benefited children, their families and the communities they live in. Children from marginalized and economically deprived group were taken into the sponsorship programme through a transparent identifying process involving local community committees.
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