Marion McMillan

Marion McMillan
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Marion McMillan

Madonna sparked a huge outcry by adopting an African baby - but there is a less controversial way to support children in the developing world.

OK, HERE'S a puzzler.What do the following people have in common?Marion McMillan, aged 23, from Cambridge; Asalif Basazin, aged six, from Ethiopia; Mobarek Hosen, aged seven, from Bangladesh and myself, aged 37?

The answer is we all have seen the benefits of sponsoring a child in the developing world.Mobarek and Asalif are both sponsored children, Marion is a sponsor and I recently visited World Vision projects in Ethiopia to see first hand the work being done in the poorest countries in the world with money raised through child sponsorship.
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This is mainly what drew Marion to the charity "I have been aware of World Vision's work for a long time and first started supporting them when I was at school by taking part in their sponsored 24-hour famine," says Marion.

"When I started working I decided I wanted to give more regularly to a development charity and they came to mind.Having studied Third World development at university I feel strongly about supporting a charity whose work, vision and methods I really believe in and understand, and for me World Vision's work fulfils that."

Marion, who studied geography at St John's College and now works for a civil engineering consultancy in Fulbourn, sponsors Mobarek Hosen in Bangladesh.