Editing World Vision International (section)

===Accusations of misrepresentation===

Some donors to World Vision's [[child sponsorship|Sponsor a Child]]-type fundraising have reported feeling misled by the group's use of such funding for community rather than individual-specific projects.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/world/middleeast/worldvision-palestinians-sponsor-a-child.html|title=A World Vision Donor Sponsored a Boy. The Outcome Was a Mystery to Both.|date=August 3, 2016|author=Diaa Hadid|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 2, 2016}}</ref> In a 2008 report on [[Food security in Ethiopia|famine in Ethiopia]], reporter Andrew Geoghegan, from Australian TV programme [[Foreign Correspondent (TV series)|''Foreign Correspondent'']], visited his 14-year-old sponsor child. The girl has "been part of a World Vision program all her life" yet says (in translated subtitle) "Until recently, I didn't know I had a sponsor." And when asked about her knowledge of World Vision sponsorship says, "Last time they gave me this jacket and a pen." Geoghegan was disconcerted to find that despite being "told by World Vision that [the girl] was learning English at school, and was improving&nbsp;... she speaks no English at all".<ref name=abc.net.au-foreign-2008-s2423906>[http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/people/geoghegan_andrew.htm Geoghegan, Andrew] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221092246/http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/people/geoghegan_andrew.htm |date=February 21, 2009 }} "[http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2008/s2423906.htm Ethiopia – The Endless Famine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907130651/http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2008/s2423906.htm |date=September 7, 2011 }}", ''[[Foreign Correspondent (TV series)|Foreign Correspondent]]'', November 25, 2008, series 18, episode 22, 2008 [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]].</ref>

In response, World Vision stated that "it unapologetically takes a community-based approach to development", in which the money is not directly provided to the family of the sponsored child.<ref name=ABCWVresponse/> The organization argued that the "direct benefit" approach would result in jealousy among other community members without children and would not work.<ref name=ABCWVresponse>Costello, Tim (2008). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20081208114321/http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/World_Vision_Response.htm World Vision response to Foreign Correspondent story from Ethiopia broadcast on 25 November 2008]". ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''. Archived from [http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/World_Vision_Response.htm the original] on December 8, 2008.</ref> ''Foreign Correspondent'' replied to World Vision concerning child sponsorship, showing contradictions between the organization's literature that creates the impression that donated money goes directly to the sponsor child and evidence of cases where supposedly sponsored children received little if any benefit.<ref>ABC Material's Foreign Correspondent, [http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/World_Vision_FCPResponse.htm Foreign Correspondent story from Ethiopia broadcast] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002093538/http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/World_Vision_FCPResponse.htm |date=October 2, 2009 }}, broadcast on November 25, 2010, Australian Broadcasting Corporation.</ref>