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Child Sponsorship

Exploring Pathways to a Brighter Future

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Brad Watson

    1. Avondale College of Higher Education, Australia

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  2. Matthew Clarke

    1. Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Australia

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Reviews

"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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Avondale College of Higher Education, Australia

    Brad Watson

  • Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, Australia

    Matthew Clarke

About the editors

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 ?

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