The BBC has a report under the title ‘Is child sponsorship ethical?’ highlighting Wydick, Glewwe & Rutledge’s recent study in the JPE on the effects of child sponsorship, specifically through Compassion International, on adult outcomes.
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The Ethics of Child Sponsorship
Author: Web Team Posted: 15th May, 2013
Category: Child Sponsorship No Comments
Steve Holmes is a Baptist minister, presently employed to teach theology in St Mary’s College, St Andrews, Scotland. This article was first published on Steve’s blog, you can read it here.
Vicky Beeching reflects on the BBC’s child sponsorship article
Author: Vicky Beeching Posted: 10th May, 2013
Category: Child Sponsorship 6 Comments
Today the BBC featured the work of Compassion, after seminal new research was published by Dr Bruce Wydick and the University of San Francisco. See the BBC article here - it’s fantastic. They ask “Is child sponsorship ethical?” – a question that many have pondered over the years.
When Minette met Mihret
Author: Web Team Posted: 30th April, 2013
Category: Project Visits 10 Comments
Before the day I met my sponsored child Mihret, I knew little about her circumstances and I was unsure what to expect. We had only exchanged a few letters and after witnessing the reality of poverty in Ethiopia, I dreaded facing the possibility that her story might be the same as so many of the other children we had met in Addis Ababa – one of abandonment, hunger, disease and hopelessness.
“Let the little children come to me”
Author: Emma Hay Posted: 31st March, 2013
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At Easter we celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Across the globe children in Compassion projects will hear how much God loves each of them, and what Jesus’ sacrifice means for them.
In my own words: Radhika
Author: Becca Stanley Posted: 5th March, 2013
Category: Child Sponsorship 2 Comments
My name is Radhika. My father abandoned me when I was a year old. My mother got married a second time and since then she has never bothered about me at all. My second dad won’t accept another man’s child as his child. All this upsets me very much.
