Author: Partner Media Outlet

Story by Vincent Matinde  A Compassion UK Trustee has come to the defence of child sponsorship prevalent in many Christian organizations following a recent announcement by ActionAid that it will rethink its child sponsorship programmes that have been running since 1972. In a LinkedIn post, Dr. Richmond Wandera, a Compassion beneficiary himself, offers a contrasting view based on personal experience. While Wandera acknowledged the risks of Western-centred models that ActionAid and other organisations want to move away from, he argues that child sponsorship can create a regenerative cycle of change when genuinely community-led. Wandera draws on his own childhood to challenge the…