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(…) to transcend economic disparity via personal relationships between individuals in "developed"
nations and the children they sponsor in "less-developed" nations(Erica Bornstein,2001:595)
(…) regular payments by sponsors, accompanied by the exchange of personal information,
characterise a fundraising phenomenon which currently links sponsors to more than eight million
children globally(Brad Watson & Matthew Clarke,2014:867)
A key feature of the early child sponsorship programme seems to have become lost, namely, that it
was designed for the short-term support of undernourished children, primarily within family or
institutional settings at times of chronic food shortages. (Brad Watson,2015:877)
Child sponsorship programs have been accused of representing children in the developing world
in a manner described as “development porn”.(…) In the context of globalization and continuing
humanitarian efforts, the portrayal of the “other” in marketing communications has
important(Robert Mittelman and Leighann C. Neilson,2011:370-371)
Child sponsorship programmes have long been criticised for their conceptual and programmatic
flaws. In response, organisations changed their programme designs to minimise negative side
effects, or even stopped providing direct support to individual children altogether.(Willem van
Eekelen,2013:468)
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△△△이 후원을 받고 있긴 하지만 약간 안정적인 후원처가 없었어요. 거기는 결연을 안 하거든요. 결연을 안
하고 사업으로 후원을 받고 있긴 하지만, 아직까지 약간 아까 말씀드린 것처럼 한국사람의 정서에 결
연 말고 사업을 후원한다는 것 자체가 약간 더 어려워서. 다른 나라에서 하는 사업을 이해시키
기가 생각보다 쉽지가 않아서. 그러다 보니까 안정적인 후원처가 많이 없고 그런 △△△ 뿐만 아니라 대부분의
작은 엔지오가 안정적인 후원처가
없을 경우에는 기금을 이제 끌어올 수 있는 데가 기업이
라든가 아니면 정부 사업을 한다거나 하는 거 거든요. 그래서 진짜 저희 봉사 프로그램 하는
거는 기업에서 하는 사회공헌이 거의 주를 이루었고 사업부서도 사업팀도 기업 사회공헌 기금으로 하는게 컸
고 정부 사업으로 하는 거, 이런 게 크니까 아무리
사업을 잘 끌어가도 결국에는 정부 색깔이
들어가야 되고 기업의 색깔이 들어가야 되거든요. 그러면 이제 그거에서 또 그럼 약간 우리 기
관 단체의 색깔을 못 낼 수도 있잖아요(…)
–INGO Staff B
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–INGO Staff A
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Community based
30 USD per month development
Child visit
programmes
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How does a Korean sponsor consider the supported child as his/her son or
daughter?
How is a child sponsorship program understood from the point of view of
sponsored children and from that of their parents?
Korean
Sponsors Interviews
-Sponsored Children
INGO -Korean Sponsors
(Staffs)
-International NGO Staffs
Sponsored Children’s
-Children’s Parents
Children Parents
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To know whether there is some emotional gap between sponsors and sponsored
children, when both sides understand the parent-and-child-like relationship
To catch the tension between sponsors and children, between sponsors and
children’s parents, or between NGO staffs and children’s parents
To show how international child sponsorship programs create emotional and
personal relationships dealing with the political issue of poverty, between
sponsors in “developed” nations and sponsored children in “less-developed”
nations
To argue that in some ways it is sidestepping more essential question of
structural violence and inequality in the global terrain
Brad Watson (2015). The origins of international child sponsorship. Development in Practice, 25:6. 867-879.
Brad Watson & Matthew Clarke (2014). Child Sponsorship : Exploring Pathways to a Brighter Future. Palgrave Macmillan Limited.
Erica Bornstein (2001). Child Sponsorship, Evangelism, and Belonging in the Work of World Vision Zimbabwe. American Ethnologist, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Aug.,
2001), pp. 595-622.
Erica Bornstein (2005). The Spirit of Development: Protestant NGOs, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
LIISA H. MALKKI (2015). The need to help: the domestic arts of international humanitarianism. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Robert Mittelman and Leighann C. Neilson (2011). Development porn? Child sponsorship advertisements in the 1970s. Journal of Historical Research in
Marketing, 3:3. 370-401.
Willem van Eekelen (2013). Revisiting child sponsorship programmes. Development in Practice, 23:4. 468-480.