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“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.
World Vision's Syria Crisis Response Advocacy Director Fran Charles …
Sponsor An Orphan
Orphan sponsorship is the most effective and rewarding way to help orphans in need. Sponsor an orphan child to make a lasting difference in that child's life forever.
Our children and climate change
In early December, World Leaders descend on Paris for CoP21 - a global summit on climate change, where they hope to agree on a new path towards tackling its effects on some of the world's poorest people. Resilience Manager Maggie Ibrahim, explains the new direction World Vision wants to see...
to combating the effects through advocacy and tree planting in deforested areas of his
Tackling Child Marriage on International Children’s Day
Rob Henderson reflects on a stark reality for millions of girls and boys across the world who fall prey to early marriage, some having children while just children themselves. He looks at the role of World Vision workshops, that are helping children like 16-year-old Nilanjona escape from early marriage so that she can stay in education and makes choices for herself…
Advocacy Officer This time next year I’ll be a
Twelve short months - Refugees and the Syria crisis
When the UN meets to agree the new Sustainable Development Goals next week, World Vision's Rob Henderson reflects on our collective need to go further this time if we really want the world to move forward in the next fifteen years. With Syria being the humanitarian crisis of our time, our response will define a generation.
Advocacy and Public Affairs …
Engaging youth for change
Ahead of the DFID summit on the Sustainable Development Goals this weekend, Child Rights Policy Officer Madeleine Askham explains how workshops helping youth to recognise barriers that are holding them back, can become key drivers that challenge inequality and lack of opportunity.
PM’s announcement on accepting Syrian refugees: World Vision commends UK’s commitment and urges European leaders to be resolute and decisive.
PM’s announcement on accepting Syrian refugees: World Vision commends UK’s commitment and urges European leaders to be resolute and decisive.
World Vision Brussels Director of Advocacy.
Action 2015 | Fighting for an end to child marriage
Senior Child Rights Programme Adviser Tracy Shields reflects on the tragedy of child marriage prior to her visit to Malawi - where 50% of girls under 18 fall prey to the practice. However, a worldwide remedy may come in the form of the Sustainable Development Goals and the pledge to 'eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage' by 2030.
Talking with a former child soldier in CAR
Public Affairs and Government Relations Officer Sarah has been working on the SDGs for the past year. This summer she visited the conflict torn Central African Republic, and met a former child soldier named Francis. Francis' experiences symbolise the main failings of the MDGs, and what we need to do better over the next 15 years.
Meeting with Alice and Alfred | FGM and teen pregnancy during Ebola
World Vision's Zena John met with Alice and Alfred during the 2014 London Girls Summit. Alice and Alfred are teenagers from a district in the southern province of Sierra Leone where World Vision has worked for years, and they are passionate about seeing real change in their community.
through the lobbying and advocacy work of the Kids Clubs …
A girl named hope
A decade of conflict in the Eastern DRC, has killed millions and devastated the lives of many through violence, disease and poverty. Living through this uncertainty, a young girl called Esperance is working with local communities to combat sexual and gender based violence.
Esperance got started with local advocacy though our child …
Meeting the President
Paul Elliston, Regional Manager for Latin America, recently spent two weeks in Honduras, speaking to families and finding out how they are benefiting from child sponsorship. He was lucky enough to meet Duvin - an astonishing young woman who devoted most of her time working for change and development in her country.
The haves and have-nots of childhood
Geeta Bandi-Phillips reflects on how issues her community faced in her childhood are still to be addressed today. She calls on governments and the private sector to do more to address food and nutrition around the world using the sustainable development goals.
World Vision says final MDGs report confirms worst fears
Children and their families in fragile states largely did not benefit from the 15 year global initiative to reduce poverty.
Advocacy Manager for Pacific Timor Leste
We Have Hope
Angela from Watye Ki Gen (We Have Hope) in northern Uganda, works with children whose mothers are former child captives of the Lord Resistance Army. ‘I want to judge and make sure justice is served,’ says Thomas, the son of a survivor of sexual violence, who was abused after being kidnapped. In this blog, Angela reflects on the progress of Watye Ki Gen since last years Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, and the work that still needs to be done.
A view from the summit
Ahead of the G7 summit in Berlin, WV's Rob Henderson reflects on Britain's position in the world and how World Vision had made a real difference in the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone.
Advocacy Officer for World Vision UK In April I
World Vision is responding to a powerful 7.9 earthquake
World Vision is responding to a powerful 7.9 earthquake that struck Nepal early Saturday morning.
East Asia Regional Director of Advocacy and Justice for Children.
‘Political solution is the only option for Syria’, says World Vision
‘Political solution the only option for Syria’, says World Vision, on eve of Syria Donor conference in Kuwait.
development and advocacy organisation World Vision has issued an
Aid agencies give UN Security Council a 'fail grade' on Syria
World Vision along with 20 NGOs criticised UNSC powers for failing to alleviate the suffering of civilians in Syria.
Advocacy Director World Vision’s Syria Response.
Exhausted endurance - Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Rob Henderson first visited Lebanon in 2013 amid rumblings that the country, already playing host to half a million Syrian refugees, was at bursting point. Despite the hard realities of daily life, Rob still managed to find stories of hope. However, when he returned to Lebanon a year later on secondment, that hope was greatly eroded.
Advocacy Officer When I remember the build up to my