"Unpacking" KidzCase
KidzCase is World Vision Australia's response to what we have heard many of our child sponsors say - that making their own children part of the sponsorship experience is key to their decision to sponsor.
For many parents, sponsoring a child is a way to introduce their children to poverty and its surrounding issues. Being part of a sponsored child's life allows parents to practically demonstrate to their own children how they can make a difference in the world.
KidzCase has been designed to enhance the child sponsorship experience even further.
Through a fun, interactive website and a quarterly magazine, KidzCase offers primary school-aged children (ages 5-12) information and activities they can enjoy individually.
Through the Parents' Newsletter, published online quarterly, parents can keep up with the issues and topics being explored, and take advantage of the suggestions for family discussion.
KidzCase:
- regularly refreshes its content. Tied in with a new magazine, there will also be new games, videos and stories to explore the lives of children living in poor communities
- focuses on the lives of children living in the communities where World Vision works
- explores one development issue each quarter
- explores issues in age appropriate ways
- provides practical ways for the whole family to respond
- has both a fun AND educational focus.
Who KidzCase helps
The KidzCase experience has been designed to help your children better understand the lives of children in poor communities, through exploring what poverty is and what contributes to it.
It also aims to demonstrate just how their own sponsoring of a child makes a difference in the lives of children and communities where World Vision works.
And KidzCase isn't just for the kids! Both the website and magazine are crammed full of discussion points and activities to offer the whole family ways to talk about and engage with poverty and poverty-related issues.
Who can subscribe
In order to become a KidzCase subscriber, you must already be a World Vision Child Sponsor.
Find out more about World Vision Child Sponsorship.
What you will receive
KidzCase subscriptions are for 12 months. By subscribing, you will receive:
- Unlimited access to KidzCase online. Until early 2010, KidzCase online is offering open access to all, however, in early 2010, subscribers will be given usernames and passwords to access the subscriber-only area.
- KidzCase Parents' Newsletter. Published online quarterly, the Parents' Newsletter will be available online just before the release of the KidzCase magazine. Subscribers will be sent an email to alert them to the availability of the newsletter.
- The KidzCase Magazine, published quarterly and delivered via mail. One magazine per subscription.
- KidzCase Welcome Certificate, sent with your first magazine. These certificates can be personalised with the name of every child you nominate on the subscription form. You can nominate up to 6 children per subscription.
Kidzcase Magazine - Issue 2
Issue 2 of the KidzCase Magazine takes readers on an environmental adventure - through Ethiopia and Vietnam. Download it now, and see what your child can explore and learn.
KidzCase subscription offer
Subscribe before 25 February 2010 and pay just $30 for annual membership. This offer is also available at a World Vision shopping centre stand near you.