TY - JOUR
T1 - Impacts of child sponsorship communications
T2 - Findings from World Vision programmes
AU - Feeny, Simon
AU - Clarke, Matthew
AU - Westhorp, Gill
AU - Jennings, Michael
AU - Donohue, Cara
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by World Vision International.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Child sponsorship programmes often seek to establish a personal relationship between a sponsor and child through the exchange of letters, photos, and sometimes gifts. This paper examines the impact of these activities using data from communities supported by World Vision in Georgia, Ethiopia, Peru, Senegal, and Sri Lanka. Findings indicate that some types of communications were associated with higher levels of psychosocial wellbeing. While findings varied across country, survey data for sponsored and non-sponsored children provided evidence of jealously, although on average, it was weak. Findings from interviews indicated that some non-sponsored children and families experienced jealousy more intensely.
AB - Child sponsorship programmes often seek to establish a personal relationship between a sponsor and child through the exchange of letters, photos, and sometimes gifts. This paper examines the impact of these activities using data from communities supported by World Vision in Georgia, Ethiopia, Peru, Senegal, and Sri Lanka. Findings indicate that some types of communications were associated with higher levels of psychosocial wellbeing. While findings varied across country, survey data for sponsored and non-sponsored children provided evidence of jealously, although on average, it was weak. Findings from interviews indicated that some non-sponsored children and families experienced jealousy more intensely.
KW - child sponsorship
KW - jealousy
KW - NGOs
KW - psychosocial impacts
KW - World Vision
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85124162692&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09614524.2021.2018403
DO - 10.1080/09614524.2021.2018403
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85124162692
SN - 0961-4524
VL - 33
SP - 280
EP - 290
JO - Development in Practice
JF - Development in Practice
IS - 3
ER -