Child Sponsorship

Han Dijsselbloem, Plan InternationalJustin Fugle, Plan InternationalUwe Gneiting, Syracuse University, USAHarwood Lockton, Avondale and Pacific Adventist University, Papua New GuineaManohar Pawar, Charles Sturt University, AustraliaCéline Gustavson, Save the ChildrenEarl Moran, Save the ChildrenBrett Pierce, World Vision InternationalChristabel Kalaiselvi, World Vision IndiaAlistair Sim, Compassion InternationalMark Peters, Compassion InternationalJim Cook, Children InternationalDamon Guinn, Children InternationalAnthony Sell, Baptist World Aid AustraliaFelicity Wever, Baptist World Aid AustraliaAnthony Ware, Deakin University, AustraliaDavid P. King, Memphis Theological Seminary, USAFrances Rabbitts, University of Exeter, UKRachel Tallon, Victoria University, Australia?

• 1. Introduction to Key Issues in Child Sponsorship; Brad Watson and Matthew Clarke 2. Origins of Child Sponsorship: Save the Children Fund in the 1920s; Brad Watson 3. A typology of Child Sponsorship Activity; Brad Watson 4. Issues in Historic Child Sponsorship; Brad Watson, Harwood Lockton and Manohar Pawar 5. Excellence or Exit: Transforming Save the Children's Child Sponsorship Programming; Amy Jo Dowd, Céline Gustavson and Earl Moran 6. Child sponsorship and rights-based interventions at Plan: Tensions and synergies; Han Dijsselbloem, Justin Fugle and Uwe Gneiting 7. World Vision – Moving sponsorship along the development continuum; Brett Pierce and Christabel Kalaiselvi 8. Holistic Child Development through sponsorship and church partnership; Alistair T R Sim and Mark Peters 9. Children at the Centre: Children International, child sponsorship and community empowerment in underserved areas; Jim Cook and Damon Guinn 10. Baptist World Aid: Transition to a Child Centred Community Development Approach; Anthony Sell and Felicity Wever 11. Through the Eyes of the Sponsored; Anthony Ware and Brad Watson 12. World Vision, Organizational Identity, and the Evolution of Child Sponsorship; David King 13. Give and take? Child sponsors and the ethics of giving; Frances Rabbitts 14. Child Sponsorship as Development Education in the Northern Classroom; Rachel Tallon 15. Child Sponsorship: A Path to its Future; Matthew Clarke and Brad Watson

"I commend this book as being foundational for a considered discussion by scholars and practitioners of what CS has been in the past, continues to be today, and can be tomorrow." - Jayakumar Christain,Director of World Vision India.