Community gift notifications

If you’d like to send a cash gift that directly benefits the community where the child you sponsor lives, then a community gift notification is the way to go.

The process works as follows:

• World Vision Ireland transfers the money to the country field office in the local currency.
• Our field office will get in touch with the ADP committee (made up of community members), advice them of the cash gift and ask them what they would like to buy with the money.
• The field office will then buy whatever the committee has requested e.g. school materials, bags of grain, household items (or sometimes they might want to save your donation to contribute to a larger item such as a water tank) and deliver it to them. 
• You will be notified of the gift and the committee will write to thank you for it.

These cash gifts should be sent to World Vision Ireland office and not the field offices (the reason for this is that we can transfer the money securely to the field office, in the local currency). Due to the great deal of legwork involved we ask that gift notifications are €100 or more and made payable to World Vision Ireland. Please include a note with your name and reference number on it.

Gift notifications cannot be made out directly to your sponsored child as this could cause friction with the community. A community gift also benefits the entire community including your sponsored child, his or her family, friends and neighbours. 

Please contact Sam in Customer Care Team on 1850 366 283 or ireland@wvi.org if you have any questions regarding community gift notifications.

Get Goat - Give Goat - The story of a community gift notification

Nathan lives in Lunyo, Uganda where World Vision Ireland supports 24,000 people. Many people here struggle due to economic hardship and the effects of HIV & AIDS which has left many families struggling as one-parent households, has left children orphaned or living with elderly grandparents. 

Nathan's Irish sponsor gave a community gift of €200 which bought 18 female goats that were given to 18 households in the area. The goats provide milk to improve nutrition and manure to help grow crops. The goats are bred and the initial households agree to give the first offspring to another family while other offspring remains with the family or can be sold.

But things don't stop there, Lunyo has established a committee which ensures that the Get Goat - Give Goat scheme continues, so the next 18 households again pass on the first offspring and so on. Also once a family has bred 5 or 6 goats they can exchange them for a cow and the goats are again given to families in need.  

The goats are already having a really big impact on Nathan's community - what a great gift!