New Internationalist: The people, the ideas, the action in the fight for world development.

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No. 111 May 1982


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PLEASE DO NOT SPONSOR THIS CHILD
Child sponsorship is now a major fund raising method in the West. Peter Stalker argues that there are better ways to help.

Helping children. The facts

Mountains of paper
Derek Williams
explains the practicalities of international correspondence.

The $25 sandman
Wayne Ellwood
talks to the founder of 'Sleeping Children Around the World'.

Homes away from home
Heidi Knott
looks at the results of sponsorship through Indian hostels.

Success story
The story of one child who 'escaped'

The way to help
Alternatives to sponsorship

Chimbote's safety net
Peter Stalker reports from a 'sponsored' fishing port in Peru.

Climbing Jacob's ladder
Graham Hancock
examines Action Aid community development in Kenya.

Tabanna Waladan
A cartoon, drawn by Clive Offley, of a fictitious Kuwaiti organisation.

The cocker spaniel and the T-shirt
Ruth Hoover Seitz
talks to a World Vision family in the Philippines.

Brief encounter
Jean Moir visits the child she is sponsoring in India.

A life in the balance
The pressures on a child in an Indian village.

Ideas for action

Reviews: New books and classicsCountry profile: Upper VoltaCover photograph: Unknown


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