World Vision Shifts the Focus of its Development Efforts From Silos to Support and Gets Everyone Working Together to Engage Donors in Saving the World’s Children

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

“Now, sure enough, when you look at annual progress reports, they are written from the child’s perspective,” Tandon says. “The child is saying, ‘Yes, I’m going to school. This is what’s happening in my class … this is what’s happening in my community. A well was dug; I don’t have to walk three miles to get water. I can get water right away … No children were able to get health care in my community, and now we have a local nurse and we have a school teacher, etc.’