How to celebrate your birthday with poor children?
It is a magnanimous gesture to help poor children on your birthday. There are plenty of NGOs that are actively working among the most vulnerable children, in the country. Numerous children in India are in need of an intervention. They need help not only with education but also with the issues they constantly battle. A birthday donation is the best thing that can happen to them.
World Vision India works among the most vulnerable children and their families in over 143 districts impacting around 26 lakh children and their families in over 6200 communities spread across 23 states and 3 union territories to address issues affecting children. The organisation reaches out children even in remote locations where dire issues such as child marriage is widely practised and challenging it would invite adverse reactions. However, World Vision India is a child-focused organisation and therefore focuses on the well-being of children, despite the opposition. On your birthday, sponsor a child through World Vision India.
Vinita was only 17 when her parents decided to get her married. She had always dreamed of attending college at Lalitpur, 30km from her village. Her parents didn’t share the same dream. Her mother never started school and her father dropped out in the 8th standard. Vinita was destined to follow her parents’ life: get married early and slog out in the paddy field all her life, like most folks from her village.
But destiny took a sharp turn. Instead of getting married Vinita went to Lucknow and attended Auxiliary Nurse and Midwife (ANM) course for two years. “Before the training, my parents were planning to get me married. I was 17 years of age then. At that time World Vision India staff talked to my parents and told them they would send me for a nurse training,” said Vinita.
Vinita was a sponsored child for 14 years. But those two years at Lucknow turned out to be the best years of her sponsorship. After completing her course, she came back to Lalitpur and started working in a children’s hospital.
Vinita’s heart is still at her village. She has always wanted to serve the people and be useful. She got the opportunity when she wasn’t expecting any and she wants to return the favour. “Today I have become a nurse. World Vision India has helped me a lot: spent a lot of money on my education and for that I’m very grateful. If World Vision India had not helped me I would not be here and my siblings would not have got this opportunity to study.”
In Lalitpur, many young women like Vinita are leading the way to self-reliance. If not for sponsorship and World Vision India, Vinita would not have been able to break-free from the patterns and traditions. She wouldn’t have been able to live her dreams. When you sponsor a child, you not only help poor children but also children like Vinita who are caught up in the patterns and traditions. To celebrate your birthday meaningfully, we encourage you to support a child in need. Visit worldvision.in and make a birthday donate online today
