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20 March 2006
What a difference
Though Surekha is only 12, she knows all about development. And so she should – she is a leader in the child forum in her village
Child forums are held in all the villages of World Vision’s Dahod Area Development Programme, and the leaders are selected by the children themselves.
In the forums children get to have their say about the improvements World Vision is facilitating their village to achieve. Although the forums are not limited to sponsored children, they are a place where the children can talk about sponsorship too.
It is an honour for someone as young as Surekha to be chosen by her peers to be a child leader. Surekha takes her job very seriously and does so with humility, not boasting about her position. She knows where all the other sponsored children live in her village and reads the annual progress reports sent to sponsors.
Surekha is aware of the benefits World Vision’s child sponsorship has brought to her village. She can explain that her village now has lift irrigation systems and hand pumps, horticulture and sports materials, especially her favourite – skipping ropes.
To look around Surekha’s village, one can instantly see the difference World Vision has made here. There’s a lot of building going on in the village, a sign of prosperity and also of permanence. People are no longer having to migrate each year to find work; they’ve got plenty of work at home in the fields, and they’ve got money now to spend on their houses.
Beyond the bounds of the village there is dry barren desert, but inside it is green. There are a huge variety of crops grown: roses, lilies, ginger, cabbages and all sorts of fruit trees. One beautiful side effect of the irrigation projects is that the dams and lakes are attracting migratory birds, which never used to come. The beauty of the white herons adds to the lush greenery of the environment.
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