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Still learning despite Ebola
Thanks to the Ministry of Education and World Vision, children across Sierra Leone are still able to learn despite lockdowns and quarantines. Radio lessons are broadcasting on 28 local stations across the country so that children like Rugi can keep up with their studies.
Faith leaders on the frontline of the Ebola crisis
Faith leaders across West Africa are using their unique position within communities to help stop the spread of Ebola.
Keeping the fighters safe
As healthworkers In Sierra Leone lead the fight against Ebola, they too are often succumbing to the virus. World Vision has already donated and distributed large quantities of protective gear and medical supplies, but as Allieu Bangura, World Vision Sierra Leone’s National Health Advisor, explains, more equipment is urgently needed.
November
View all the blogs from November 2014.
Meditations on a pumpkin
As World Vision’s A Night of Hope campaign draws to a close tomorrow evening Brand Marketing Manager Rowena Luis takes time to reflect.
World Vision in unprecedented DEC launch of Ebola Crisis Appeal
World Vision and 12 other leading UK aid agencies have announced today they will launch a historic appeal in a bid to halt the spread of Ebola in West Africa.
Director of Policy and Programming for World Vision UK
Ebola Crisis Update
Now that Sierra Leone is Ebola Free, we look back at the outbreak and ahead to what still needs to be done.
Ebola's children
Across Sierra Leone, the Ebola epidemic is affecting children in a number of ways. Children have been orphaned, some have contracted the virus, sadly some children have died from the disease. Children who have so far managed to escape direct contact with the virus have been victims of pervasive fear and no longer play with one another. Large public gatherings of any kind have been banned to help stop the spread of the disease, but this is hurting incomes and educations, and will soon begin to affect nutrition as well. In today’s blog, we tell the story of four children - Hawa, Salay, Marie and Christian – and how Ebola has affected each of them.
A new window into my sponsored child's world
In today’s blog, Marketing Coordinator Bekah writes about her excitement at logging into My Sponsorship for the first time, and how she feels it’s brought her even closer to her sponsored child Ly Meng.
Ethiopia - Antsokia Valley now a success story
Fifty-five year old Desta Beletew beams with happiness. Nine years ago his family only planted teff, an Ethiopian plant from which the popular injera bread is made. He is now a successful farmer after embracing World Vision’s clarion call to take up new agricultural practices.
Sara's Story
Sara grew up safe and secure in a middle class family in Damascus. As the fighting escalated, Sara and her family experienced the worst of human nature as homes were bombed, women kidnapped, and the air of her once quiet neighbourhood became filled with the sounds of guns and people dying. And then the violence finally reached her family.
World Vision UK’s A Night of Hope campaign is raising money
Living with the threat of Ebola
Zainab is a 12-year old secondary school student in eastern Sierra Leone. Although she and her family have so far remained healthy and safe from Ebola, the disease currently ravaging the country has infected her life in other ways.
On the edge of survival
Last year World Vision reached almost eight million people around the world who were struggling to feed themselves and their children. On World Food Day, 16 October, we are thinking of the people who are still struggling to make sure their children get the food they need to grow up healthy and happy.
Hani's Story
Hani is a beautiful eight-year old little boy. Like many children his age, he went to preschool, learned the alphabet and studied his numbers. That was until the bombs started exploding. Now, like many Syrian children his age, Hani is a refugee and has seen and experienced things that no child should. This is his story.
Justin Byworth to stand down as World Vision UK Chief Executive
Justin Byworth, chief executive of World Vision UK, is to step down from his post at the end of this year.
World Vision UK has grown its income from …
Leading her peers into the future
World Vision works in Myanmar and many other countries around the world on education and other crucial projects. For International Day of the Girl this Saturday we are celebrating girls like Pan, whose efforts are changing their communities and the futures of the girls and boys living there for the better.
Finding a different way to celebrate Halloween
This Halloween, join World Vision in turning a night of fear into a night of hope for Syrian children.
Displaced families in Iraq find refuge
Four months ago, Basma, 26, was working as a lawyer in a government directorate in Mosul, Iraq. She and her husband had bought property and were building a new house. But in August, they were forced to flee their hometown of Qaraqosh. With the spread of violent conflict, the town of 50,000 saw an exodus of families forced to leave their ancestral home and seek refuge in the Kurdish-controlled region of northern Iraq.
October
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Matthew's First Christmas
Nadene recently travelled to South Sudan and the overwhelmed Malakal Refugee Camp where she was heartbroken to hear the stories of people living there.
Media Consultant for World Vision UK Matthew sees his mother and runs towards