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Mothers coming together

As we approach six-months since the earthquake that shook Nepal, Media Specialist Carina Wint has spent a week in one of the hardest hit regions near Kathmandu, seeing how our work in the area has inspired a group of mothers to start their own centre - caring for orphaned and trafficked children.
They are taken to Kathmandu and then transported on to India and other countries. In times

The struggle for an education

In southern Lebanon, Syrian school-age children are struggling to get places at school due to overcrowding and a strain on resources. We met Baker, a 5-year-old Syrian refugee who was determined to go to a World Vision run Early Childhood Education Programme, in spite of his disability.
Baker told me that he wants to become a sports teacher when he grows up.

Visiting progress and inching closer to the end of Ebola in Sierra Leone

As Sierra Leone inches closer to the end of the recent Ebola outbreak that has claimed almost 4,000 lives, WVUK's Celebrity Media Specialist, Siân Merrylees, recently visited our projects there to see for herself how World Vision has helped.
you are required to wash your hands. At passport

Four years on, hope, patience and prayer are the greatest needs in South Sudan

One week after South Sudan celebrated four years of independence, Melany Markham visited to see what had changed. What she found were growing difficulties in reaching those in need, with large-scale movements of people and increasing dependency on aid.
While it impeded transport

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.
them wrong. We are trying to engage them in sport and jobs training to give them a sense of

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.
who was at a sporting event with Ms. Satow when the quake hit

Hilary's visit to Armenia

Hilary Spurrier visits Anahit in Armenia in 2014 with World Vision UK
in quite a poor state which had received sports equipment

Meeting Jalel

World Vision’s Rhonda Hirst visited Jalel - a 5 year-old child who saves the food he gets at school so that his family won't go hungry at home. She saw how the conflict in Syria had forced children like Jalel into a difficult and desperate position, but how remedial education classes were throwing him a lifeline and a future.
the cost of transport alone is a barrier for refugee families with

World Health Organisation praises World Vision's effort in Iraq

World Vision is praised for its move to provide mobile clinics for internally-displaced people in Iraq.
well as assisting with medical care and transportation. For more

World Vision distribution starts today in Tacloban

World Vision assessment teams are on the ground in Tacloban as we start distribution for 2,500 families.
many establishments are close and public transport is still limited. For more information

New Report: Fears about child safety are misplaced

New report reveals that while “out there” is still seen as the most dangerous place, children more at risk at home than anywhere
public transportation and other public places

Ethiopia and BandAid 30 years on

Tomorrow marks BandAid's 30 year anniversary of the 'Feed the World' recording. Last month, we arranged a trip for BBC reporter Mike Wooldridge to return to the Antsokia Valley in Ethiopia, the place where he and Michael Buerk traveled with World Vision 30 years ago. The dramatic broadcast and the suffering they brought into the spotlight inspired Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to record the original Band Aid single.
for Sport Aid in London with a million

Last visit to Namachete

For World Vision Campaigns Coordinator Rohena, managing project closure updates was personal as she was one of many sponsors who had to say goodbye to their sponsored children. However, before she said farewell, she visited Josephy in Malawi to see the changes brought about by 15 years of sponsorship.
it had once been a lifeline for transporting goods and allowing children to walk to

32 graves

Bruno Col is currently in Sierra Leone helping respond to the health crisis in the country. He was strongly moved when he attended an Ebola victim’s safe and dignified burial by a World Vision burial team.
and even the car used to transport the victim. I can feel the acidity of the

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.
Youth and Sports wanted to come up with a programme that

Famine Looms as Cholera Strikes the Children of South Sudan

Our CEO, Justin, was in South Sudan last week to see first-hand the wide-ranging and life-threatening effects of the conflict that has raged across the country. In his blog he reflects on the impact of conflict on children who should never have to experience the fear in which they live.
country with virtually no roads and most transport impossible through the

World Refugee Day: "Millions Need Assistance"

Today is world refugee day - a day where we are reminded of the cruel reality and hardship refugees face on a daily basis. Fleeing from violence with often nothing but clothes on the backs, families share their sense of powerlessness.
and play environment to children and sports

We're off to Wychwood Festival with Hope House

This weekend World Vision will be joining our friends at Wychwood Festival to help them celebrate their 10th birthday. We’ll be bringing a merry troupe of artists, events, experiences and our perpetual orange glow of hope for children who are living in the world’s hardest places.
and Sunday. Visitors to Calabash will be transported to Sierra Leone to hear remarkable and

First Steps In Ethiopia

The Antsokia Valley in Ethiopia was one of the worst-affected areas of the 1984 famine. Today it's green, beautiful and lush with crops. World Vision never would have started our work in Ethiopia, however, were it not for this one man.
far as I can see there is no means of transport. There are no roads. There is no airport.

Urgent help needed for South Sudan to avert catastrophe

The dire conditions of hungry children in South Sudan will get unimaginably worse unless urgent measures are taken to reverse a rapidly deteriorating situation, a new report warns today. Governments meet in Oslo tomorrow to discuss pledging funds to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.
dependent on costly air operations to transport supplies. … supplies along key transport routes.