COVID-19 Status Update for Child Sponsors

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Child Sponsorship: Protecting Children's Health

[FINAL UPDATE: 19 JULY 2022]

Child sponsorship has made it possible for World Vision to respond almost immediately to the pandemic when it first hit the communities we work in, providing masks, and hygiene kits, educating sponsored children and their families as well as partnering with local authorities to best help the community cope.

As we now move into the new normal and begin our recovery from the pandemic, World Vision continues to educate and support the community, in partnership with local authorities, where appropriate.

After two years, this will be the final COVID-19 update from the communities, as cases continue to decrease, and they adapt to the new normal.
Sponsors may continue to correspond with your sponsored child (it is still recommended to do so via e-letters). Kindly do note that it may still require a longer duration to reach your sponsored child or to receive a reply from them due to ongoing local COVID-19 restrictions and/or postal service delays.

Ethiopia (Yaya Gulele)

Children have returned to school since November 2020 and while there are no reported COVID-19 cases in the community, children continue to adhere to the necessary preventive measures with close supervision from their teachers.

World Vision continues to support the children and community by:

  • Providing them with educational materials.
  • Supporting the necessary medical costs of children.
  • Conducting child monitoring.
  • Supporting the improvement of household incomes through vegetable production and the strengthening of saving groups.
Vietnam (Son Tra)

Life has returned back to normal and locals are only advised to wear a mask now. Schools have also resumed though children are on summer holidays now.

World Vision continues to provide support for children and the communities by:

  • Conducting child monitoring.  
  • Conducting training/projects for the most vulnerable children and families to help them improve household income.
Myanmar (Taikkyi)

Children have returned to school as cases in the country have been significantly decreasing and restrictions across the country have lifted.

World Vision continues to monitor the well-being of children and families in the community and is ready to provide any necessary and immediate support if needed. While the COVID-19 situation in the community remains stable, the increasing costs of goods and services coupled with the economic recession are causing further detriment.

The team is focused on helping children and families through by:

  • Providing food items to the most vulnerable families
  • Supporting income generation activities to help

Additionally, as local postal service remains disrupted, delays in receiving of correspondences will continue to be delayed.

Cambodia (Sambour)

Children have also returned to school as COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted in the community. But locals are still encouraged to adhere to the restrictions such as wearing masks, social distancing and handwashing.

World Vision continues to work to support the community by:

  • Raising awareness on COVID-19 prevention.
  • Working with local authorities and the District of Education to identify the most vulnerable children’s educational needs. 
  • Conducting child monitoring.
Mongolia (Selenge)

Children have returned to school as restrictions have been lifted with the decline in COVID-19 cases in the community.

World Vision continues to support children and the community by:

  • Conducting household visits for child monitoring.
  • Conducting training for children and adults.
  • Supporting children who are ill and families facing food insecurity with food supplies.
  • Providing psychosocial counselling for children, where required.
Cambodia (Kirivong)

Children have also returned to school as COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted in the community and life has returned back to usual for the community members.

World Vision continues to support the community by:

  • Responding and assisting children’s health and education needs.
  • Conducting child monitoring.
  • Supporting families to improve their income generation and strengthen food security.
Sri Lanka (Lindula)

COVID-19 restrictions in the country have been lifted, yet the community continues to adhere to the necessary preventive measures. While schools can reopen, allowing for hybrid learning for children in certain grades, due to the country’s current economic crisis and fuel shortage, schools have shut again.

In the midst of this, World Vision is supporting the community by:

  • Distributing 1,957 educational and learning materials to children in grade 5 to 9.
  • Engaged 95 children in the PD Hearth sessions, to raise awareness on improving their health and nutrition.
  • Supported 537 young children with additional nutritional meals 4 days a week.
  • Providing 177 dry-ration packs to selected most vulnerable families.

As the country continues to face the crisis where costs of essential food and non-food items have skyrocketed, there is a shortage of fuel, transportation and essential medication and medical equipment, World Vision plans to continue supporting the community by continuously engaging the most vulnerable families with dry ration packs, educational materials, nutritional cereals and livelihood assistance, among other planned interventions.

Jerusalem, West Bank (South Hebron)

COVID-19 restrictions in the country have lifted and life has returned to normal for children and families. Children have returned back to school and are now on summer vacation after completing their final exams.

World Vision continues to monitor children’s well-being in this time and will also be launching more interventions to empower and equip them with the necessary social and life skills, while creating a safe environment to express their feelings and opinions.

Bangladesh (Wazipur)

While cases in the country are increasing, the situation remains stable in rural areas, including the Wazirpur community.

Children have returned back to school while still observing the necessary COVID-19 restrictions including sanitization, wearing masks, social distancing and receiving the vaccines. World Vision continues to raise awareness on COVID-19 prevention and provide hygiene kits to families.

Philippines (Antique)

Schools are still adopting the distance-learning approach, with children learning from home. As the number of cases continues to decrease, schools are also gradually exploring the resumption of face-to-face classes.

As the community remains under high alert, due to low vaccination rates, World Vision continues to support children and families by:

  • Providing hygiene and food kits to affected families.
  • Facilitating school and hygiene kits to be distributed to children in August 2022.
  • Conducting face to face child monitoring while observing the necessary COVID-19 protocols.
  • Supporting government and rural health units as well as school partners with disinfectant kits.
Indonesia (Ende)

Children have returned back to school as cases have been reduced and restrictions lifted.

In this time of recovery, World Vision continues to help children and families by:

  • Providing training children and teachers on disaster preparedness.
  • Strengthening the capacity of support groups for mothers of children under five and health workers.
  • Supporting the construction of clean water networks.
  • Continued monitoring of children’s well-being.
  • Improving children’s nutrition and eliminating malnutrition through education.
Zambia (Musosolokwe)

Schools have remained open since 24 January 2022 as there are no reported cases within the community.

World Vision continues to support the children and families by:

  • Establishing more reading camps with more materials, increasing accessibility for more children.
  • Monitoring children’s well-being.
  • Collaborating with local and government partners to assist families, especially in areas of health and education.
Nepal (Sindhuli East)

COVID-19 restrictions in the community have lifted but children and families continue to wear masks, use sanitisers and adhere to the necessary safety measures when attending events in the community.

Children have also returned to school but are now on holiday. As the community gradually returns to the new normal, World Vision continues to:

  • Monitor the children’s health, education and well-being.
  • Provide economic support for the most vulnerable families affected by COVID-19.
  • Provide vocational training for 80 most vulnerable families to ensure their children will receive proper care, education and health services.
  • Offer critical health treatment and emergency support to the most vulnerable families.
China (Yangxian)

As the community has no COVID-19 cases, children have returned to classes as per usual. The World Vision team continues to support the children by:

  • Continuing education on COVID-19 prevention
  • Conducting child monitoring
  • Planning for supplies distribution