Child Sponsorship

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction to Key Issues in Child Sponsorship

   • Brad Watson, Matthew Clarke

   Pages 1-17

3. Origins of Child Sponsorship: Save the Children Fund in the 1920s

   • Brad Watson

   Pages 18-40

4. A Typology of Child Sponsorship Activity

   • Brad Watson

   Pages 41-65

5. Issues in Historic Child Sponsorship

   • Brad Watson, Harwood Lockton, Manohar Pawar

   Pages 66-95

6. Excellence or Exit: Transforming Save the Children’s Child Sponsorship Programming

   • Amy Jo Dowd, Céline Gustavson, Earl Moran

   Pages 96-112

7. Child Sponsorship and Rights-Based Interventions at Plan: Tensions and Synergies

   • Han Dijsselbloem, Justin Fugle, Uwe Gneiting

   Pages 113-138

8. World Vision — Moving Sponsorship Along the Development Continuum

   • Brett Pierce, Christabel Kalaiselvi

   Pages 139-162

9. Compassion International: Holistic Child Development through Sponsorship and Church Partnership

   • Alistair T. R. Sim, Mark Peters

   Pages 163-190

10. Children at the Centre: Children International, Child Sponsorship and Community Empowerment in Underserved Areas

    • Jim Cook, Damon Guinn

    Pages 191-213

11. Baptist World Aid: Transition to a Child Centred Community Development Approach

    • Anthony Sell, Felicity Wever

    Pages 214-235

12. Through the Eyes of the Sponsored

    • Brad Watson, Anthony Ware

    Pages 236-259

13. World Vision, Organizational Identity and the Evolution of Child Sponsorship

    • David King

    Pages 260-279

14. Give and Take? Child Sponsors and the Ethics of Giving

    • Frances Rabbitts

    Pages 280-296

15. Child Sponsorship as Development Education in the Northern Classroom

    • Rachel Tallon, Brad Watson

    Pages 297-316

16. Child Sponsorship: A Path to its Future

    • Matthew Clarke, Brad Watson

    Pages 317-336

17. Back Matter

    Pages 337-347

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This book reviews the remarkable growth, diversity and challenges of child sponsorship. It features the latest progress in child sponsorship practice and necessary tensions experienced by some organisations as they seek to maximise impact.

• Child sponsorship
• development history
• development communications
• NGOs
• fundraising
• humanitarian industry
• sustainability
• policy making
• poverty
• child development
• children
• development
• education
• empowerment
• ethics
• intervention

"I commend this book as being foundational for a considered discussion by scholars and practitioners of what CS has been in the past, continues to be today, and can be tomorrow." - Jayakumar Christain,

Director of World Vision India.

• Avondale College of Higher Education, Australia

  Brad Watson

• Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Australia

  Matthew Clarke

Han Dijsselbloem, Plan International Justin Fugle, Plan International Uwe Gneiting, Syracuse University, USA Harwood Lockton, Avondale and Pacific Adventist University, Papua New Guinea Manohar Pawar, Charles Sturt University, Australia Céline Gustavson, Save the Children Earl Moran, Save the Children Brett Pierce, World Vision International Christabel Kalaiselvi, World Vision India Alistair Sim, Compassion International Mark Peters, Compassion International Jim Cook, Children International Damon Guinn, Children International Anthony Sell, Baptist World Aid Australia Felicity Wever, Baptist World Aid Australia Anthony Ware, Deakin University, Australia David P. King, Memphis Theological Seminary, USA Frances Rabbitts, University of Exeter, UK Rachel Tallon, Victoria University, Australia ?

Policies and ethics