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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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Struggle for children who fled Aleppo ‘just beginning’, warn aid workers
Thursday 22, Dec, 2016A ‘crisis within a crisis’ is unfolding in the countryside outside Aleppo as thousands who fled the city now face increasingly dire conditions.
The mobile game app feeding thousands of child refugees now looks to donate all proceeds to World Vision on #CharityTuesday
Monday 12, Dec, 2016Makers of the popular mobile gaming app, Bloky Line, which has helped feed over a thousand vulnerable children have now pledged to donate all revenue generated from downloads tomor…
World Vision partners, Wahana Visi Indonesia arrive in Aceh today to assess earthquake damage
Thursday 08, Dec, 2016102 casualties have been reported form the 6.5 magnitude earthquake that hit Pide Jaya, Banda Aceh at 05.03 am yesterday. A tsunami hit the province in 2004, however this is the fi…
World Vision laments world leaders’ failure to enact UN resolution on Aleppo
Tuesday 06, Dec, 2016International children’s charity, World Vision has lamented the failure by world leaders to agree on a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have paved way for a seven-day tr…
9.2 million people require urgent humanitarian support as West African conflict intensifies
Tuesday 29, Nov, 2016World Vision is urging the international community to respond to the worsening humanitarian crisis caused by fighting in the Lake Chad Basin of West Africa, as latest figures show …
Aleppo: 100,000 children in Aleppo need urgent aid
Tuesday 29, Nov, 2016World Vision is preparing to distribute much-needed medical supplies in eastern Aleppo, as the city endures another round of heavy fighting. Thousands have fled, with a quarter of …
Catholic priest transforms church into refugee sanctuary, as World Vision scales up support for South Sudan
Friday 18, Nov, 2016Catholic priest transforms church into refugee sanctuary, as World Vision scales up support for South Sudan
13,000 former child soldiers in the Central African Republic pin their hopes on Brussels conference
Wednesday 16, Nov, 2016World Vision is urging global leaders meeting in Brussels tomorrow (Thursday, 17 November 2016) to secure the future of thousands of children forced to take up arms on behalf of mi…
Mosul Children Arrive at Camps Terrified | World Vision UK
Wednesday 02, Nov, 2016World Vision staff say that children are arriving at camps too petrified to speak after fleeing the conflict in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Find out more here.
World Vision works with app developers so that you can play a part in the fight against poverty
Tuesday 01, Nov, 2016We are partnering with game development studio David and Goliath Games to pioneer a new approach to mobile gaming that empowers gamers to help fight poverty simply by having fun.
Mosul: World Vision sets up child protection centres at newly established refugee camp
Monday 24, Oct, 2016
World Vision braced for massive wave of families fleeing Mosul
Monday 17, Oct, 2016World Vision has expressed deep concerns for the welfare and safety of children and families in the Iraqi city of Mosul as fierce fighting began on Monday.
Game of Thrones star and World Vision supporter surprises Syrian refugee in Germany
Friday 14, Oct, 2016Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to Hussam, a teenage Syrian refugee, now living in Germany.
World Vision scales up plans to set up protection centres for children in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew
Friday 14, Oct, 2016International children’s charity World Vision is scaling up efforts to establish safe spaces to help children come to terms with loss in hurricane-ravaged Haiti.
World Vision launches Haiti Hurricane Appeal as storm leaves over four million children at risk and 300 dead
Friday 07, Oct, 2016World Vision launches Haiti Hurricane Appeal as storm leaves over four million children at risk and 300 dead
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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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