Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so. Annual Report 2011 Annual Report 2011 PB World Vision Singapore Oct 2010 - Sept 2011 ANNUAL REPORTWorld Vision 2011 Singapore 1 WORLD VISION World Vision is a Christian relief, Registered as a Charity under the Singapore development and advocacy organisation Charities’ Act Registration No. 0377. dedicated to working with children, families Incorporated under the laws of Monrovia, and communities worldwide to reach their California, USA with limited liability, the full potential by tackling the causes of Articles of Incorporation and bylaws being poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all its constitutive documents and registered people regardless of religion, race, ethnicity in Singapore on 6 August 1981 as a branch or gender. Our work extends to over 100 office of World Vision International under million people in nearly 100 countries. CONTENTS the Companies Act Registration UEN No:S81FC30ISE World Vision Singapore Chairman’s message 4 currently supports 17 Area Development Bankers Programmes (ADPs) in 15 countries: DBS Bank, Standard Chartered Building A Better World For Children Through: Lawyers • Bangladesh • Mongolia Community Development 6 Allen & Gledhill • Cambodia • Myanmar Children In Crisis Projects 10 Auditors • China • Philippines Lo Hock Ling & Co. Disaster Response 13 • Ethiopia • Sri Lanka Certified Public Accountants One Life Fund 18 • India • Thailand Singapore Advisory Council VisionFund 20 (with date of appointment) • Jerusalem/West Bank/Gaza • Vietnam • Laos • Zambia Watt Santatiwat (1 September 2006) • Lesotho Strategic Partnerships With: Andrew Goh, Chairman Individuals 22 (26 September 2003) Goodwill Ambassadors 24 Liew Heng San, Vice Chairman Volunteers 27 (26 September 2003) Companies 29 Choo Cheh Hoon (26 September 2003) Youth and Schools 32 Churches 35 Foo Pek Hong (3 August 2004) Diana Chandra Oh Financial Highlights 36 (3 August 2004) Tan Chee Koon Advisory Council 38 (3 August 2004) Who We Are 40 David Wong Cheong Fook (1 September 2006) How You Can Help 41 Annual Report 2011 Annual Report 2011 2 World Vision Singapore World Vision Singapore 3 CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE We live in a world of flux. In addition, you have also helped to prevent While the onset of some disasters are The world economy takes a dive overnight. the exploitation of children who are sudden and unpredictable, there are other Political structures are challenged. Weather homeless, abandoned, or roaming in unsafe emergencies that are chronic – like the food conditions have become increasingly erratic city corners. Through non-sponsorship crisis experienced in the Horn of Africa. By and destructive. projects such as our Street Children July the United Nations declared famine in Transformation Centre in Cambodia, Blue two regions in Somalia. Singaporeans heeded One thing remains sadly constant though Dragon Children’s Foundation in Vietnam the call to send urgently needed food aid – the ones who are most affected by these and Prince of Peace Children’s Home in to the starving, emaciated children and occurrences are the poorest of the poor. China, you provide a safe haven and refuge promptly contributed more than $432,790 in for another 10,859 otherwise vulnerable aid of 907,533 beneficiaries. But here at World Vision, we take heart children. that more than 13,103 child sponsors in We would like to thank our corporate, Singapore recognise that fact and partner Your contributions have also enabled us to school and media partners, and the us in transforming the lives of children born send nearly $1.7 million worth of food packs, government agencies that have supported into some of the neediest communities in the mosquito nets, medicine, winter jackets our work over the years. Your helping hand world through our flagship Child Sponsorship and more, to benefit millions of children has enabled us to focus on the goal of helping Programme. Through your partnership, we and their families through the annual Gift the world’s most vulnerable children, and to are able to improve living conditions in our Catalogue. meet our commitment to those we serve. 17 Area Development Programmes in 15 countries. We are also heartened by your outpouring In a world fraught with much conflict of support when safe havens are rattled by and suffering, your support has brought We are grateful for the child sponsors natural disasters and when humanitarian much-needed strength, joy and comfort in Singapore who have sown more than crises spiral out of control. to destitute children, women and the $8,506,586 into providing nutritious food, disenfranchised, so that regardless of where clean water, medical supplies and facilities, The 9.0 magnitude earthquake that triggered they are born, they can experience life in all education and training, supporting a total a 30-feet tsunami on March 11 shook its fullness. of 17,064 needy children. Through your northeastern Japan and shocked the world. contributions, we are able to help 21.7% Students, corporations, and Singaporeans more children than we did in FY2010. More from all walks of life lent their support to than 80 local supporters also joined us to those who had lost their loved ones, homes visit the projects that are being implemented and entire community in an instant. You in nine different countries. contributed almost $915,000 to enable the Dr Andrew Goh relief and recovery work that World Vision Chairman, Advisory Council Japan carried out to restore lives. World Vision Singapore Annual Report 2011 Annual Report 2011 4 World Vision Singapore World Vision Singapore 5 BANGLADESH PROJECT: Sunderban Area Development Programme COUNTRY: Bangladesh Sharifa Gazi, 13, currently attends Year 5 class In March 2011, “Now, we understand at Rupsha Government Primary School. It is a Sharifa’s mother, the importance of our blessing that she never fails to thank God for Mahinur, attended a children’s education every day. tailoring and dress- and the dignity of making training which being self-reliant. Recounting the past, Sharifa shares that a World Vision had Without World Vision terrible flood had forced her family out of their organised to promote giving us a hand-up, village into the slums of Khulna, Bangladesh’s self-employment we never could have third largest city. She remembers the big for women. After gotten out of our fire in the slum six years ago that destroyed successfully completing circumstance,” everything her family had owned. With a the 3-month course, Mahinur recalls with meager daily earning of just Taka 65 (about she received a sewing tears of joy in her eyes. SGD1) by her father, who was a labourer, machine and started Sharifa and her elder brother, Ariful, did not taking orders from her community. Sharifa’s even dare to dream about going to school. The father, Shafiqul, was also provided utensils and COMMUNITY grim reality that her parents could barely put tools to help him open a tea stall. Since then, one meal on the table remained numbing to the family’s income rose four-folds and it made Sharifa; in fact, there were countless occasions a huge difference to their lives. For one, they DEVELOPMENT where they had to get by without food, much now have three stable meals a day. In addition, Building a better world for children through less think about sending the children to school. they can afford to pay for the children’s Sharifa would roam the streets, scavenging for educational expenses and other essential Area Development Programmes food scraps and waste materials or begging household items. for money, until she was discovered by World When World Vision helps a child, the focus Through the ADPs, World Vision develops Initially, Mahinur was worried for her children, Vision staff. is always on helping the whole community. communities and helps needy children and especially for Sharifa, who has braved so many Area Development Programmes families gain self-sustainability by providing them disasters and poverty at her young age. She Now that she is enrolled at the primary school, (ADPs) ensure that the causes of poverty are with access to five basic necessities of life: is less worried now that she notices Sharifa Sharifa receives school uniforms, stationery, addressed at the root over a 10 to 15-year becoming more confident and bubbly and even 1. Food nutritious school lunch and even attends period. In this way, World Vision empowers voicing out her ambition to be a doctor. entire communities to help themselves. 2. Clean water various enrichment programmes such as basic The process is integrated and transparent, 3. Healthcare healthcare education. Ariful attends Year 7 at involving the villagers right from the moment 4. Education the same school and receives similar benefits as of the project’s inception. 5. Economic opportunities his sister. Annual Report 2011 Annual Report 2011 6 World Vision Singapore World Vision Singapore 7 CAMBODIA PROJECT: Vietnam Bohol Kirivong Area Development Programme Philippines Phu Cu & Tien Lu Cambodia Laos COUNTRY: Bati & Kirivong Cambodia Xieng Nguen Bo Kluea Noy Kanha is 9 years old and has participated to mobilise local resources and lead his fellow Thailand in World Vision’s Child Sponsorship villagers in development activities. China Programme for a few years. Noy lives with his Yongsheng father, mother and 4 other siblings in Srae Kaes Today, 63% of the households in the village Myanmar Chit Kyin Nar village in Kirivong, a mountainous district close have a latrine in their homes, including In to the Vietnam border. Thou’s. Eight pumping wells were also installed Sri Lanka Summer Island and renovated for the people to have safe India His father, In Thou, recalls the gripping fear access to clean water for drinking and bathing. Dhemaji that struck the entire village a few years The villagers, especially children in schools, Sunderban Mongolia Uvurkhangai ago when an alarming rate of children kept participate actively in hygiene and sanitation Bangladesh succumbing to diarrhoea and typhoid fever.