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Indonesia tsunami: The children who have lost everything
Wednesday 10, Oct, 2018Ten-year-old Olivia lost everything she owned during the Indonesia earthquake and tsunami - including her favourite toy.
Indonesia tsunami: Aid worker's diary of desperation and hope
Friday 05, Oct, 2018"Living in a disaster-prone country like Indonesia, I’m not a stranger to scenes of grief, but the devastation brought by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Palu was unbearable to fathom."
Back to school: From binding books to reading them
Thursday 30, Aug, 2018Day in and day out, 12-year-old Mohsin would work 10-hour shifts hauling around huge piles of books, desperate to know what was written inside of them.
Tania's story: Head of the family but still a child
Wednesday 29, Aug, 2018Instead of going to school, Tania spent many of her days peeling piles of icy shrimp - squatting for eight-hour shifts at a local fish depot.
Child sponsorship in Albania: Flavio and Amy's story
Saturday 21, Jul, 2018After two years of sponsoring and exchanging letters with Flavio, now 11 years old, in Albania, Amy decided to meet him and his family for the first time.
Advocating for a world where no girls are victims of child marriage
Tuesday 26, Jun, 2018Meghla escaped child marriage when she was 13 and has been working to change attitudes in her community ever since.
Children born of rape in war: Jacob's story
Tuesday 19, Jun, 2018Jacob is 17 years old. He should be enjoying school and thinking about his future, but instead his short life has been marred by struggle.
Meet the girls using football to challenge gender stereotypes
Thursday 14, Jun, 2018As the World Cup gets underway, we visit a group of girls in South Sudan using the beautiful game to make a difference.
The only ring on young girls' minds should be from the school bell
Tuesday 12, Jun, 2018Every year, 15 million girls under the age of 18 are married - but how can we stop it? It takes a world.
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The UK must redouble its efforts to end South Sudan's child soldier crisis
Thursday 12, Jul, 2018International children’s charity, World Vision has urged the UK government to redouble its efforts to support peace in South Sudan and end its child soldier crisis.
Nearly one million people displaced by violence in Ethiopia face disease and hunger
Wednesday 04, Jul, 2018Nearly one million people displaced by ethnic violence in Ethiopia are in desperate need of aid, World Vision UK warns today.
Girls Not Brides: Ending child marriage for good
Thursday 28, Jun, 2018This week, the Girls Not Brides conference was held in Malaysia, the largest ever meeting of advocates committed to ending child marriage.
Monsoon rains trigger landslides, wreak havoc for refugees in Cox’s Bazar
Tuesday 12, Jun, 2018Torrential downpours have triggered flooding and landslides in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, damaging hundreds of refugee shelters and killing several people including a toddler, accord…
World Vision UK welcomes call to give DFID greater oversight of UK aid
Tuesday 05, Jun, 2018World Vision UK urges Theresa May’s government to ensure aid money is used wisely and effectively, and that aid is only spent through departments that meet the same high standards …
Guatemala volcano: World Vision mobilises staff as strongest eruption in a century kills dozens
Monday 04, Jun, 2018World Vision has mobilised its rapid response teams to assess the extent of yesterday’s deadly volcanic eruption in Guatemala as the aid agency gears to provide urgent assistance t…
Two thirds of UK adults do not see benefits of the Church, new report finds
Thursday 31, May, 2018Commissioned by children’s charity World Vision UK in partnership with research firm Barna Global, The UK Church In Action gives credence to the perceived diminishing influence of …
Over one million people at risk as floods devastate East Africa
Friday 18, May, 2018Hundreds of thousands of children are at risk of malnutrition, disease and even death due to major flooding across East Africa, World Vision warned today.
Meghan Markle helped bring clean water to almost 60,000 Rwandans
Wednesday 16, May, 2018Almost 60,000 people in Rwanda now have access to clean water thanks to Meghan Markle’s support, World Vision said today.
World Vision UK’s Board appoints Richard Izard as new Chair
Monday 14, May, 2018World Vision UK’s Board appoints Richard Izard as new Chair
Modern slavery commitment: “Do not forget children in emergencies”, World Vision urges UK government
Wednesday 18, Apr, 2018World Vision UK responds to the latest commitment by the UK government to help eradicate modern slavery in the Commonwealth.
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Tuesday 17, Apr, 2018Funding crisis pushes millions of Congolese people to tipping point
Friday 13, Apr, 2018Millions of people caught up in a humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo risk rising levels of hunger, death and disease due to a lack of aid funding.
UK should lead the international community in driving greater spending to protect children
Thursday 12, Apr, 2018The UK must do more to protect children as less than £1 per child globally is spent to prevent violence, World Vision warns following Penny Mordaunt's statement on UK aid.
World Vision UK launches 2017 Impact Report as charity launches two aid delivery mechanisms
Wednesday 11, Apr, 2018International children’s charity, World Vision UK has today published a new report detailing the impact of its work in 2017.
Latest From our Blog
What Our Kids Need: Blogger Stories
Tuesday 04, Apr, 2017At the start of the year we asked to bloggers write about what their children last needed and what this meant to them. We were delighted with the inspirational posts that came bac…
Caring for children in conflict: Child's play
Monday 03, Apr, 2017All children love to play, whether at home or away. Children in the Lake Chad Basin are no different.
Fighting tuberculosis in drought-stricken Somalia
Friday 24, Mar, 2017While Somalia is struggling with an on-setting famine, the country is, at the same time, fighting another silent killer: Tuberculosis. 8-year-old Molit and his brother Ali are bein…
The hopes and dreams of four orphaned children in India
Thursday 23, Mar, 2017We spoke to four orphaned children in India, currently hoping to be sponsored, to hear their hopes and dreams for the future. Read their stories.
First faces of famine in Somalia
Wednesday 15, Mar, 2017Muhammad is severely malnourished. You can see something is wrong the moment you meet him. But it’s quickly confirmed by the World Vision doctors who have set up a mobile heath uni…
11 things you can do right now to help end violence against children
Thursday 09, Mar, 2017World Vision’s campaign ‘It takes a world to end violence against children’ was named because no one individual, group or organisation can solve this problem alone.
The power of a sewing machine
Wednesday 08, Mar, 2017Roji, in Bangladesh, turned her family’s life around when she enrolled herself in tailoring training and became the main source of income for her family. Her children are now well …
Jerome Flynn faces the reality of violence against children in Myanmar
Sunday 05, Mar, 2017World Vision UK ambassador, Jerome Flynn, visited Myanmar to see our work and support the campaign #ItTakesAWorld to end violence against children. He met with street children, vic…
Sharmin’s story: educating girls to overcome poverty
Wednesday 01, Mar, 201717-year-old Sharmin, from Bangladesh, dropped out of school after completing grade 4 to support her family, selling food on the roadside with her mother. This reality is all too of…
Children of the Lake Chad Basin: The vulnerable, looking after the vulnerable
Friday 24, Feb, 2017In crisis, children regularly miss out on opportunities. They are forced to drop out of school, thrown out of home, and find themselves struggling in ways they had never imagined.
World Vision provides life-saving intervention as Somalia is on the brink of famine
Wednesday 22, Feb, 2017Somalia’s landscape has progressively turned drier and dustier over the past months, and with no rain in sight for the second year, rivers have dried up across the country and plan…
“Today I’m saying goodbye to the agony of diarrhoea”
Friday 17, Feb, 2017For Amanuel, 12, from Ethiopia, clean water means everything. Since World Vision installed a new water pipe in his village, he hasn’t stopped telling everyone how happy he is.
"No more living in darkness" Stopping child marriage through education in Bangladesh
Sunday 05, Feb, 2017When Meghla joined our child rights information sessions she gained the knowledge and confidence to speak up to her family and express her unhappiness with marrying young. Fortunat…
The power of the Super Tortilla
Friday 27, Jan, 2017We're fighting malnutrition with a new way of thinking about cooking; the super tortilla. Instead of making regular tortillas from corn alone, parents add vegetables such as coyote…
A view from the other side : refugees in the West
Sunday 15, Jan, 2017As the Pope dedicates today to remembering the many children and families fleeing conflict and seeking safety around the world, our Senior Child Rights Policy Advisor Erica Hall wr…
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