1.0World Vision Advocacyhttps://www.worldvisionadvocacy.orgKatie Taylorhttps://www.worldvisionadvocacy.org/author/kataylor/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="UNLQy9x5YG"><a href="https://www.worldvisionadvocacy.org/2019/04/16/what-does-faith-rooted-advocacy-look-like/d485-1004-373-jpg_998467/">D485-1004-373.jpg_998467</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.worldvisionadvocacy.org/2019/04/16/what-does-faith-rooted-advocacy-look-like/d485-1004-373-jpg_998467/embed/#?secret=UNLQy9x5YG" width="600" height="338" title="“D485-1004-373.jpg_998467” — World Vision Advocacy" data-secret="UNLQy9x5YG" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://live-advocacy.d2.worldvision.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/D485-1004-373.jpg_998467.jpg800534Debby, 7, plays with her friend, Beatrice. Summary: Debby and her family are the central figures in the WVUS story that includes sponsorship, the Christmas gift catalog, and the WVI Global Power Claim that because of our community-focused solutions, for every child you help, 4 more children benefit, too.  The family lives in Moyo AP in southern Zambia: start date October 1, 2009. Debby’s family consists of her father, Obby Kachepo, 52, her mother, Melecy Sibinga, 38, and five siblings—three brothers still live at home. Her brothers are Bini, 15, Bani, 12, and Addy, 10.  Life used to be challenging in southern Zambia, says Debby’s father, Obby, speaking in Tonga: “We never had resources. We never had knowledge in the way World Vision has brought knowledge about life now. We lived more or less like animals. We never had a toilet. You would cover a long distance and you were drawing from a shallow water and streams, which was dirty water. Death was very common in those days. People were dying from preventable diseases.” Obby’s older sister died of cholera. The family’s six-year-old boy died of diarrhea.  In 2013, things changed, he says. “God answered our prayers through World Vision.” Obby became a caregiver and today looks after 120 sponsored children. The goats came in 2013 as part of the Animal Give-Back program. The family received five—one male and four females. “The breed which World Vision brought was a different breed,” he says. “They were big goats. The cross breeding made our traditional goats bigger. They make more money.” The life of the family has completely turned around.  Today they live in a sturdy home with a tin roof, instead of a grass-thatched roof that leaked. Obby says the WVI Global Power Claim is true. “A lot of children who are not sponsored benefit from the children who are sponsored. One borehole drilled in the village is not only for the sponsored children, but all the non-sponsored children draw water fr