Is that the ideal success story for World Vision, or is that like a worst-case scenario?
We run into children like Chafuli all the time. The children of the world in poverty are in crisis. They’re ravaged by malaria, they’re ravaged by water-borne diseases from unsafe water, they’re ravaged by hunger, they’re exploited, they’re trafficked, they’re put into bonded labor. The children of the world have a pretty rough go of it right now, especially the children of the 3 billion poor in the world. If I had to estimate, there’s probably a billion children in the world that are severely at risk because of all of these factors. At World Vision, our slogan is building a better world for children. Our focus when we go into communities is how do we make life better for these children, how do we make sure they have better access to nutrition, to health care, to clean water, to education, to economic opportunity. It’s like a canary in the coal mine: If the children are doing badly, the community is probably doing badly. If the children are doing well, the community is probably doing w
