20182018 ANNUAL REPORT WORLDANNUAL VISION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, REPORT INC., PHILIPPINES EDITORIAL ADVISORS Rommel V. Fuerte Executive Director Xenia R. Legaspi Director, Operations Vanessa G. Retuerma Director, Strategy Management and Quality Assurance Jun N. Godornes Director, Resource Development Socorro S. Acedera Director, Finance Genesis Jeff D. Lamigo Manager, Public Relations and Communications Content Contributors: Nikka Almazan, Lanelyn Carrillo, Evangeline Caseres, Dexter Gamboa, Nina Gavino, Lara Gonzales, Mong Jimenez, Joy Maluyo, Rafael Quimel, Leovy Ramirez, Reynald Ramirez, Laila Soliven, Phim Soriano, Margaux Tan and Krizia Vega Art Direction and Layout: Margaux Tan © World Vision Development Foundation 2018 All rights reserved. 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TABLE OF CONTENTS 5 How We Improved Lives in 2018 6 Message from the Chairperson 7 Message from the Executive Director 8 History 10 Where We Serve 11 Educating Children for Life 12 Protecting Children from Harm 13 Keeping Children Healthy 14 Building Sustainable Communities 15 Responding to Disasters 16 Promoting Spiritual Nurture for Filipino Children 18 Engaging the Public 20 Corporate Partnerships 21 Grants and Special Projects 22 Where Our Resources Go 23 Board of Trustees 24 Leadership Team 25 Partners and Affiliations HOW WE IMPROVED LIVES IN 2018 Reach by Sector MORE THAN Education with Child 55,226 Protection CHILDREN Health and 16,941 Nutrition CHILDREN 7,473 MILLION2.92.9 Economic CHILDREN Development 73,902 CHILDREN ADULTS reached through programs, emergency 189,099 Disaster Risk response and advocacy initiatives CHILDREN Reduction and from 2016 to 2018 224,001 Management ADULTS 5 Message from the Chairperson Once in a while, we get the opportunity to experience moments that inspire and challenge us to dream bigger and do better. For World Vision founder Rev. Bob Pierce, it was CHIEF JUSTICE REYNATO S. PUNO (ret.) when he met a child named White Jade, who moved him to Chairperson, Board of Trustees begin the Child Sponsorship Program. World Vision Development Foundation, Inc. A similar opportunity came when I visited a World Vision area programme in Malabon. I met Christina, whose family By being one with like-minded organizations, local subsists from the hazardous charcoal-making business. government units, community leaders, and donors, we are Unfazed by hardship and poverty, Christina strives to be an able to empower children to use their own voice to speak achiever in school as she aspires to be a tourism manager about child-related issues, to inspire and learn from children one day. like themselves, and to challenge their communities to take action. For instance, activities like the National Consultation I believe World Vision’s ministry for children is all about with Children and Youth on Disaster Risk Reduction and the creating such moments not only for the children and families National Children’s Solutions Summit on Combating Online we work with, but also for the people who have partnered Sexual Exploitation of Children allowed child leaders from and worked alongside us. Together, we create and build across the country to confidently craft child-led solutions opportunities to make a better world for children. That is and recommendations addressing disaster risk reduction and the essence when we claim that we are #OneForChildren. online sexual exploitation of children. From 2016 to 2018, World Vision has reached more than In the following pages, you will encounter stories about 2.9 million children through our advocacy work, technical children – as also told by children themselves. As you read programs, sponsorship, and emergency response initiatives through the pages, I hope you will also find inspiration, just in the Philippines. This may seem like a simple statistic on as I did when I met Christina and her family. As you browse paper, but in reality it translates to millions of children who through this report, may the joy of experiencing God’s love are now closer to living life in all its fullness. and hope speak to you and bless you in boundless ways. 6 Message from the Executive Director Let me begin by saying thank you, especially to our partners and donors, for another year of successful collaborations for the benefit of children. Your steadfast support helped us serve thousands of Filipino children, especially those living in vulnerable and hard-to-reach areas in the country. ROMMEL V. FUERTE From 2016 to 2018, we proudly made a difference in the Executive Director lives of 2.9 million Filipino children through our child- World Vision Development Foundation, Inc. focused and community-based programs and advocacy initiatives. With your help, we are now inch-closer to our end OSEC, and we believe that by building partnerships for goal of reaching 3 million children by 2020. Praise be to our children, integrated with championing digital innovation for amazing God! education, we will have a better chance of protecting them against all types of harm. Our goal for education is to help As a testament of our commitment to serve and work children have increased learning outcomes by ensuring that alongside children, families, and communities, World Vision they complete formal and non-formal learning programs, faithfully carried on programs and trainings to effectively and that community mechanisms effectively support their equip families with practical and sustainable life skills. Some development. For health and nutrition, we want to help of these include giving literacy support, strengthening child children become well-nourished by providing households protection mechanisms, providing nutrition counseling, access to adequate nutritious food, and supporting improved conducting financial management trainings, and teaching child care, sanitation, and hygiene practices. Moving forward, disaster risk preparedness measures. We have also seen World Vision shifts its gear towards implementing new much improvement in the lives of people recovering from and robust approaches that will best adapt to the changing major emergency responses like the Typhoon Mangkhut landscape and trends in alleviating poverty and injustice response, the Marawi response, and the Mayon Volcano concerning children. response. We hope that you continue to support us in this journey to Part of our commitment also entailed looking into help more communities and children to live full and better emerging advocacy issues like the prevalence of Online lives. With God’s provision and divine guidance, we can Get Sexual Exploitation of Children (OSEC), and the continuing There, Together! We are, indeed, #OneForChildren. challenge to improve the quality of health and literacy among children and the youth. Truly, it takes a world to Thank you very much! 7 HISTORY 1947 orphanage in the island province of Guimaras. Members gave In 1947, American missionary Dr. Robert “Bob” William musical instruments and textbooks for children. Alongside Pierce travelled to China and Korea to document the massive this, Olga Roberston or “Mommy Olga,” with the help of suffering caused by the war. An encounter with a child Bob Pierce, started a prison ministry in the New Bilibid named White Jade, a battered child, became a turning point. Prison in Manila. Olga was a young missionary supported Moved by compassion, Pierce offered his last five dollars and by World Vision who regularly visited local prisons to share pledged to send the same amount every month to provide God’s hope to the prisoners. Three years later, World Vision for White Jade’s needs. Pierce knew in his heart that there established the Mercyville Orphanage in South Cotabato. were many other children like White Jade who needed help. This gave birth to Pierce’s idea of Child Sponsorship as a way 1970s of helping thousands of children in the long term. World Vision saw its efforts in providing food relief and health Inspired by his prayer, “Let my heart be broken by the things interventions to children caught in the conflict in Mindanao. that break the heart of God,” Dr. Pierce eventually led the The support included resettlement and development projects. founding of the child-focused agency World Vision in 1950, with Child Sponsorship as its flagship program to respond to 1976 the thousands of orphans left by the Korean War. A new branch in Cebu assisted over 100 families in the Visayas Through the years, World Vision expanded its work for and Mindanao. children all over Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. 1983 World Vision launched the Development Assisting Center 1957 (DAC), a community-based approach that aimed to empower World Vision’s work began in the Philippines through its initial poor families by helping them manage their own development. assistance to 300 children in the Good Shepherd’s Fold, an Interventions and strategies were based on the actual needs of the community. 1987 Major reorganization was instituted involving transfer of central coordination to the World Vision Asia-Regional Office and testing a partnership relationship with Economic Development Foundation