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Remembering Mother Teresa: Inspiration as a teenager in Kolkata

On the eve of Mother Teresa’s canonisation, World Vision’s Tracy Shields reflects on how her own experiences in Kolkata and with this amazing lady, helped inspire her to do the work she does today...
It was Kolkata where I first saw abject poverty and understood that for so many in this … I spoke to Amos about the shocking levels of poverty I … Mother Teresa had felt that same sense of poverty in the

Challenges in Niger | preserving childhood through sponsorship

World Vision Niger's Associate Director writes about the ongoing challenges faced by the people of Niger, and describes how sponsors and donors are helping create the ripples of change that will preserve childhoods.
consider themselves unable to escape from poverty. It’s our job to provide them with the means

Going for gold: Sports and sponsorship changing lives in Bangladesh

Giving girls access to sport is a great way of building confidence and a sense of empowerment. With the help of a World Vision football project, 14-year-old sponsored child Kolpona has hit the ground running, winning trophies and medals and dreaming of becoming a world-class footballer. Despite living in a poor community in central Bangladesh, Kolpona is optimistic about her future and sees new opportunities emerging…
of the population live below the poverty line

When tragedy struck Justine and her children, hope was almost lost

and her children Can you imagine poverty so … poverty can overwhelm their families very suddenly.

World Vision International CEO issues statement on arrest of Gaza official

Statement by Kevin Jenkins, President and CEO of World Vision International, on Mohammad El Halabi's arrest.
families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice around the world. World … work on important issues of injustice and poverty affecting billions of children around the

Statement on World Vision's Staff Arrest

On June 15th, 2016, Mohammad El Halabi, the manager of operations for World Vision in Gaza, was arrested on his way home from routine meetings.
families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. World Vision serves all

May - the young footballer | A rising female star in Myanmar

13-year-old May was introduced to football at age nine – little did she know that she would be enrolled in an academy and winning prizes for her regional team just a few years later! Living in an impoverished community in Myanmar, World Vision supports May’s family by helping them with school materials, rice and mosquito nets.

Seeing the fruits of sponsorship in Uganda

Seeing gorillas, hippos and elephants in their natural habitat was special, but for Lady Louisa Gordon Lennox and her family, the high point of a recent safari in Uganda was meeting Teopista, the teenager they sponsor through World Vision UK.
have a life of endless child bearing and poverty. All of these issues are of direct … education is in helping a family out of poverty by creating the possibility for an

How bicycles have rescued girls in Zimbabwe

Our Saramine Mukute was excited to be visiting Zimbabwe. Not just because she grew up in such a beautiful country, but because of the challenge that lay ahead of her - she was going to see how World Vision is helping thousands of girls in rural Zimbabwe access education and it involved a bicycle ride…

A burden no more | Preventing child marriage in Bangladesh

After overcoming epilepsy and avoiding an arranged marriage when she was just 14, Sonia is determined to work for World Vision one day. Now 22, Sonia credits the NGO with supporting her and her family while she was young. This is her story...
and further poverty.

Tanzania - Unexpected Riches amid the struggle

Nigel and Sue Hodder, lovely World Vision child sponsors, recently visited the Kilimatinde project in Tanzania – a community facing poverty but so rich in character. Nigel shares their experience with us.
a community facing poverty but so rich in character. Below Nigel shares

Statement in response to the escalating violence in South Sudan

Heavy fighting is rocking the capital, Juba, following a flare-up in escalating violence that coincided with world's newest nation marking its fifth year of independence.

South Sudan’s independence anniversary marred by fresh fighting

World Vision staff are hunkered down in the Juba headquarters following an outbreak of armed fighting within the capital. At one stage shooting took place in the streets outside the World Vision compound.
poverty and displacement that is the result of this

Child labour and how child sponsorship is helping

Child labour is a fact of life for millions of children around the world. You can help us continue to tackle child labour by sponsoring a child today.

World Refugee Day: Africa reels under refugee crisis as World Vision warns that closure of Dadaab camp will trigger new migrants wave

Shutting the world’s largest refugee camp could unleash a new wave of human migration across North Africa and Europe, according to World Vision UK.

Who knows best what children and communities in poverty need? Try asking them!

Caught up in the ambition to do good, and the rush to deliver programmes under tight timelines, international development NGOs run the risk of failing to listen to the very people they are trying to help. By listening, regularly and carefully, to the children and communities we're supporting, we are finding that we can achieve even greater change…
the project. As Farah Mohamed of Health Poverty Action in

Mina’s Dream | Child labour in Bangladesh

At just 12 years old, Mina has concerns that far exceed her years. Her hands are scarred and continually sore because of her job breaking bricks, and she only eats two small meals a day. However, one of our projects in Bangladesh is giving her hope that she can follow her dream of becoming a Police Officer.
and I would like to get rid of the poverty that persists in my

Restoring hope | Getting children to school in Albania

Twelve-year-old Emanuel's transport to school was withdrawn due to lack of funding, and so he had a long trip to class and back every day, even in severely bad weather. He was often ill due to this, until we were able to intervene and make it easier for Emanuel, and hundreds of children like him, to get to school again..

Coming full circle | Hope in a time of hunger in Malawi

Like many children in Malawi, Leonard and his family are feeling the effects of drought and hunger. At just 13-years-old, he’s missed school to help his family grow and cultivate the food they need to survive, despite harsh conditions. “I cannot leave my mother to do all this work alone,” he says. Since World Vision began delivering food aid in his area, he hasn’t missed a day of school...

Off to work, age 12: Child labour in Bangladesh

Bithi has already been a worker for three years and her situation is not unique; she is one of four million Bangladeshi children that are currently employed. With her ‘broken heart’, she longs to be at school with girls her own age, but she already feels it is too late.
never be able to afford. Crippling poverty and a sick father has forced Bithi’s family