World Vision clarifies

Allow us to make a correction to a news story published on page 4 of The Jakarta Post of Feb. 2 under the title "Pope urges Catholics to help tsunami victims" as it contains some inaccurate information about our institution.

In paragraph 14 of the story it is written "... following a report on the adoption and religion conversion of 300 Acehnese children by World Vision, an international Christian organization ..." This is an erroneous statement because the institution reported to have adopted and converted the religion of these 300 children is not World Vision. In fact, we are opposed to this action. World Vision is not involved at all in the adoption and conversion activities and we feel seriously disadvantaged by this inaccurate reporting.

Until now World Vision has prioritized only the distribution of food and non-food aid, sanitation facilities, medicine and educational support for tsunami victims such as child-friendly spaces.

HENDRO SUWITO, Communications Manager, World Vision, Jakarta

Note: Thank you for your correction. The above paragraph should read "... following a report... by World Help..." We apologize for the unintentional mistake and for any inconvenience that it may have caused.

--Editor