INVEST IN U.S. FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
US foreign assistance accounts for less than 1 percent of the federal budget—yet this small amount enables the United States to work through trusted partners, including faith-based organizations such as World Vision, to implement programs that bring hope, opportunity, and improved well-being for children and families in the world's toughest places.
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![Chan ai, 10 Year’s old girl (curly black hair), sponsored child from Tma Pouk Area Programme, Cambodia.
Chan ai registered in World Vision sponsorship programme. The programme contributed to improving the well-being of children through engaging and partnering with relevant partners in the programme area. Children increased their interest and enjoyment in reading through the participation in the curriculum of reading camps in their villages.
World Vision and the community have built a library at school, and the library is well-equipped with facilities and creates a happy environment for children in school. Chan ai and other children enjoy reading at reading camp and library, especially playing the playground with their friends.
Chan ai said “Now I have many books for reading in the library and I could play with my friend at school.”](https://worldvisionadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/W055-0498-032-scaled.jpg)
![Mother and baby waiting for immunisations at Kyikube Health Center IV, Hoima. World Vision is increasing support for health care in Hoima District, Uganda.](https://worldvisionadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/foreignaid1.jpg)
![Nine-year-old Joyce Moono proudly displays some of the greens that her family grows in their beautiful garden.
Milton Mudenda, age 40, is struggling to provide for his family this year because of drought in southern Zambia. He lost money on maize, his usual cash crop. Even though he carried buckets of water to keep the crop alive, it wilted and died before it got chest-high. “We just pray to God that he will give us the means to eat,” says Milton. His other main concern is paying for school fees for his three oldest children.
Milton belongs to a savings group, one of many World Vision organized in Moyo Area Program. He took out a loan to pay school fees for his eldest daughter, Fidus, when she was sent home from school.
“We have a few chickens, but no goats or cows. If we receive goats from World Vision, that will be a great help to us,” Milton says. They are on the list to receive goats from World Vision’s animal-give-back program and hope to receive goats in about a month.
“When we get goats, I will herd them, and I will keep them out of the garden. I like goats and I know how to do this,” says Milton’s daughter, Joyce, a 9-year-old sponsored child.
This year, because of drought, their garden is more important to Milton’s family than ever before. “The best income we have now is gardening,” he says.
Milton is a model farmer who trains others in high-yield agriculture that causes minimal disturbance to the soil. He received training from World Vision in 2011 and has farmed this way ever since. Milton was chosen by World Vision to be trained in a conservation farming method called Farming God’s Way, which comes from sponsorship under World Vision Zambia’s Sustainable Enterprises and Economic Development (SEED) program.
“One difference with this method is you don’t have to clean the field, you just clear where you plant,” Milton says. There are rocks and grasses between his wide rows of tomatoes and greens. These serve as](https://worldvisionadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/D485-1072-252-scaled.jpg)
US foreign assistance encompasses global health, child protection, food assistance, gender equality, education, economic development, water, sanitation & hygiene, and humanitarian response—all while partnering with communities and countries to build self-reliance. With funding allocated annually by Congress, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) provides grants to trusted implementing partners like World Vision. These grants complement existing development activities and increase our overall impact—putting our collective goals of eliminating extreme poverty and achieving holistic child wellbeing within reach.
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To name just a few successes: In the past ten years, USAID's maternal and child health efforts have helped save the lives of more than 9.3 million children and 340,000 women (USAID). The number of children in hazardous labor has fallen by 94 million (Dept of Labor). Literacy rates are up 33 percent worldwide in the last 25 years, and primary school enrollment has tripled in that period (USAID).
US foreign assistance strengthens trade partnerships and attracts new consumers around the world for US goods and products. In fact, 43 of the top 50 consumer nations of US agricultural products were once foreign aid recipients (USAID), and 11 of our top 15 trade partners today are former recipients of US foreign aid (AMFAR).
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Explainers
Foreign Assistance Leave Behind // Webinar: Understanding US Foreign Assistance //
PPT Slides from Understanding US Foreign Assistance Webinar // Video: A Faith-Rooted Response
Nobo Jatra: A Foreign Assistance Success Story
New Beginnings in Bangladesh Leave Behind // Shabitri's Story // Monmohini's Story //
Video: World Vision US President Edgar Sandoval visits Nobo Jatra
DREAMS in Uganda: A Foreign Assistance Success Story
Achieving Her DREAMS Leave Behind // Veronica's Story // Ejang's Story //
Video: Stories from DREAMS
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