What are the different ways to sponsor a child for hunger?
                     What are the different ways to
sponsor a child for hunger?
SAVE MALNOURISHED CHILDREN
• According to the ‘State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, 2020 report’, 189.2 million people are 
undernourished in India. Help World Vision India save malnourished children and donate online to sponsor 
a child. Here’s a story from the field about Avinash, a formerly malnourished child who is now perfectly 
healthy!
• Hale and hearty, three-year-old Avinash runs cheerfully around the lush greenery surrounding his small 
one-room house in Lowairpoa, Assam. When he was 18 months old, Avinash would hardly sit up, crawl or 
even attempt to walk. In a health screening conducted during that time, it was found that he weighed only 
8.5 kilograms and his Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) reading was 11.4 cm, indicating he was 
severely malnourished and at a serious health risk. The Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre was focused to 
save malnourished children and so took immediate action. If you donate online and sponsor a child, you 
too can help out!
• Avinash was then referred to the NRC in the district and World Vision India provided the family with a Food 
Basket to ensure the child had an immediate proper intake of food. Along with the food basket, World 
Vision India’s local health volunteer assisted the family with saplings to cultivate a kitchen garden outside 
their home. The volunteer also began training Surobi on cooking nutritious food. This was part of World 
Vision’s mission to save malnourished children.
SPONSOR A CHILD
• In March 2020, when India went into a national lockdown due to the 
COVID-19 pandemic, Surobi, Avinash’s mother, was instantly grateful 
for the kitchen garden that she had just started cultivating before the 
lockdown began. Because of a consistent intake of nutritious food for 
Avinash from October 2019 through the lockdown, his weight 
increased to 13.5 kilograms and his MUAC reading also increased to 
15.8 cm, indicating normal health by May 2020. The unprecedented 
pandemic and lockdown in India since March 2020 brought all activity 
to a halt and affected life for all. For poor and vulnerable families, the 
lockdown meant no work, no wages and in turn, no food. Amidst this 
growing food security crisis in India, we observed a renewed 
appreciation for kitchen gardens among needy families. These 
gardens have been invaluable during these trying times for several of 
them. The gardens have helped us save malnourished children, while 
raising their standard of living as well. We urge you to sponsor a child
 and donate online for their better future.
DONATE ONLINE
• Even for Rima Begum from Assam, the kitchen garden that her family was assisted with just before the 
lockdown, worked as a charm. When the lockdown began, her husband, who works as a daily wage 
laborer, could not find any work and earn an income for the family.
• Thankfully, Rima’s kitchen garden grew to full maturity and provided them with fresh vegetables. With the 
money they earned from selling the extra vegetables, they purchased eggs, fish and edible oil, which also 
helped improve their child’s nutritional status.
• Rima went two steps further and helped other poor families in her community with the surplus vegetables 
that she grew in her garden to help save malnourished children. She now encourages other families to 
also cultivate this nutrition garden outside or near their homes. When you sponsor a child and 
donate online, their families benefit too.
World Vision India assisted and trained 18,929 such 
families to set up and nurture Kitchen Gardens across 
59 districts from October 2018 to September 2020. 
These mortality among these families when the 
threat had heightened during the pandemic. 
However, through these kitchen gardens, World Vision 
was able to save malnourished children. To learn 
more about how to sponsor a child, visit World Vision 
India’s website and donate online!
Join us.  Together for children. For change. For life.