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Finding Peace

Children have a way of finding their own peace and, almost every day for the last two years, brothers Phouch and Liev have found theirs on the football pitch. But no amount of football can change the fact that they live in circumstances that no children should have to endure. Two years since arriving at the UN protected camp in South Sudan, we find out how they’ve coped.

Freezing in the cold

Sitting in the middle of an empty field near the border-crossing between Serbia and Croatia, Rima, a Syrian refugee is in tears as she describes how she felt when her eight-year-old daughter Aya begged her to let her die. Brenda Yu hears her story...
said … said Aya. It broke my heart to hear Aya’s

Happiness

Salah is 12-years-old and lives in Lebanon with his family as a refugee. Back in Syria he went to school, the family had a car, and lived in a house. Now, traumatised by the conflict and sights he saw, the Child Friendly Space in his informal settlement is the only place he feels safe.
saw people laid on the ground and planes bombing and

A dream of education

16-year-old Lima faced a difficult decision when her father fell ill; either go to school, or start working to support her family. Feeling like she should choose the latter, it wasn’t until a World Vision education project came to her area of Bangladesh, that she could once again pursue her dream of becoming an engineer.
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Relief as convoys reach besieged Syrian town

World Vision and other NGOs urged for a complete end to the six-month siege and a guaranteed of aid and humanitarian services.
While international aid agencies expressed relief that aid convoys … not a permanent solution. International aid agencies working in Syria today expressed

Staying warm in Nepal

As winter descends on Nepal, World Vision was on hand to distribute winter and baby kits - containing warm clothes, blankets and hats, to young mothers feeling the ongoing effects of the earthquake recovery. In Sindupalchowk, one of the worst affected areas near Kathmandu, mothers with young children were grateful for the much-needed warm clothes and the reassurance they provide.

“Sieges like Madaya hinder our ability to help Syrian refugees”, warns World Vision

Sieges like #Madaya remain "one of most critical issues in #Syria hindering our ability to help", warns World Vision.
due to restrictions and refusals to allow aid into these towns and … effective humanitarian access of impartial aid agencies to all parts of … attacks on aid workers and humanitarian convoys must

Most important New Year’s Resolutions

World Vision meets with Ibrahim, Isa & their 8-month-old baby Lubab. Recalling the events that drove them to flee Syria, Ibrahim and Isa discuss their journey to Serbia and their wish for baby Lubab to grow up free from fear.
just the responsibility of governments and aid agencies

World Vision joins call for Britain to accept child refugees

World Vision UK has backed calls for Britain to accept 3,000 unaccompanied children who have fled the Syria Crisis, and are now heading through Europe.

Too cold to get out of bed

With winter approaching, many of the families who escaped fighting in Iraq, now find themselves sheltering in unfinished buildings at the Syrian border. We met siblings Hareman and Manaa who are trying to make the best of a desperate situation by keeping warm and playing with the other children staying nearby.

The untold story

Melany Markham reflects on the difficulties faced by communicators working in South Sudan, when trying to tell the story of thousands of children facing a humanitarian catastrophe. From constraints on taking photographs, to tackling the huge distances between camps, the challenges are numerous but mask an important story that needs to be told.
are some of the difficulties that foreign aid workers in South Sudan have to face every

Climate change negotiation moves us in the right direction but more work must continue, World Vision warns

World Vision's Chris Armitage addresses a COP21 session on Agriculture
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One good thing

World Vision Communicator Melany Markham tells us the story of Nyahok – an eleven-year old girl, who currently lives in a camp in South Sudan. Unlike 85% of girls across the country, Nyahok goes to school and her education will set her apart in a country where only one in six women can read and write.
preventing aid agencies from reaching the vast numbers of … wooden poles and tarpaulin donated by an aid organisation. No more than 10 metres … sufficient food aid to feed everyone at the camp.

The life of a young refugee girl in Diffa

Martha looks like any other 17-year-old girl, but her life has been far from ordinary. Having fled her home in northern Nigeria, Martha found herself in a refugee camp in the Diffa region of Niger. Initially separated from her parents, it's taken a while for Martha to adjust to life in the camp. But with no school, no safe water points, and no immediate access to health facilities, the camp is unable to offer children like Martha the opportunities they had before...

Fear of the dragon's tail

In Cambodia, the threat of tropical cyclones and huge downpours are very real for local communities. Not only does bad weather damage houses and submerge rice fields, it forces people to swim to higher ground. Along the border, children and families often have to cross into Vietnam to reach safety. But through a World Vision initiative, houses are now being built on higher ground and community groups are giving children like Phan and Srey the tools to stay safe when the floodwaters come.
Children from Phnom Penh would be afraid of … and keep first aid kits and other

When all help appears lost

Zahra knows all about how devastating AIDs can be, having lost both parents to the disease. When she began to feel ill, she discovered she was also HIV positive. She describes how it feels to live with the disease, and how she’s thankful for the support she gets from her grandmother and World Vision.
knows all about how devastating AIDs can … HIV and AIDs has taken its toll on the local

#COP21: World Vision warns of global hunger as charity participates at two key discussions

World Vision warns of a “looming silent crisis” due to the El Niño effect coupled with the impact climate change.

What happens when girls flee conflict zones

World Vision Communicator, Patricia Mouamar, reports on the dangers facing many refugee girls fleeing conflict zones, and reflects on her own experiences growing up in 1980s Lebanon. She meets some of the Syrian refugee girls, whose lives were being stunted by early marriage and child labour.

The future in the eyes of Lema

Lara Ghaoui, Emergency Programme Officer, recently travelled to Central African Republic to see how conflict was affecting our projects there. She met Lema, a proud father who works in our office there, and was left speechless when he told her about how he escaped the fighting.
and then said the one thing that left me speechless.

Quality assist from Premier League sees World Vision score with football training camp for refugee children in Jordan

World Vision has partnered with the Premier League and the Asian Football Development Project to deliver a training course in Azraq Refugee Camp.
Football Association and a variety of aid organisations working in Azraq camp.