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Fastest Paralympian on the planet donates prize money to help disabled children in SE Asia
Ahead of this month’s IPC Athletics World Championships, the world’s fastest Paralympian has handed over some of his prize winnings to a project in Myanmar that helps disabled children in the South-East Asian country achieve their sporting dreams.
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We are Living Stories
Steve is our Children's Communication Specialist, working with children in our projects around the world, to support them in developing their communication skills. In this blog, Steve shares some of the stories, directly from the children of Bangladesh along with pictures drawn by them:
World Vision UK Everyone is a storyteller and has an …
World Vision sends taskforce to Gansu earthquake
World Vision, the international children’s charity, has sent an emergency task force to China’s north-west Gansu province after two powerful earthquakes struck yesterday morning, claiming at least 50 lives.
Supporters tackled the highest peak in the Atlas Mountains and raised over £7,000 for World Vision
Matrix & Rhetorik Solutions are two incredibly committed and inspiring organisations who sponsor through World Vision. They recently raised over £7,000 for us and we wanted to find out what inspired them. In this blog, David Young, the Marketing Director of the company talks about their involvement with World Vision.
Children 'scared for the future' as Syria crisis takes toll on neighbouring countries
Communities in Lebanon are at 'breaking point' as refugees fleeing deadly violence in neighbouring Syria continue to pour into the country - putting children further at risk, aid agency World Vision warns today.
July
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World Vision welcomes £50m UK support to Lebanon as refugee numbers soar
Today the UK’s Secretary of State for International Development announced that that the UK will allocate £50 million to help both Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Lebanese people affected by the crisis.
World Vision Partnership
World Vision UK is part of the World Vision partnership which works in close to 100 countries.
World Vision UK is part of the World Vision partnership
What do healthcare and education look like in Uganda?
Two of our wonderful sponsors, Chris and Jon, recently visited Uganda and they have written a couple of blogs to share their experiences with you. In their first blog today, Chris tells us about a health clinic she had special interest in as a retired nurse and then Jon tells us about the impact World Vision has had (and is having) on two primary schools in the area.
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Oli Nicholls: Why I wrote my award-winning song
We love sharing good news on the blog, so when we heard that our friend Oli Nicholls, the singer songwriter behind World Vision Artists One Step Lantern, had won a competition over the weekend we jumped at the chance to have him share his thoughts on being honoured for his faith, dedication and talent.
Buddying up for an Albanian visit
World Vision child sponsor, Chris, shares her story from Albania about our first ever combined sponsor visit where she met her sponsored child, Elvana, and saw some of the inspiring work World Vision have been doing.
World Vision UK put me in touch with Anne and our plans
Our message has been heard, now it's time to do the work
Our colleague from the DRC, Aimee Manimani, shares what your support and the IF campaign has achieved and why the race to end hunger isn’t over yet.
lucky enough to find myself in London with World Vision UK for this campaign to share these
Basic nutrition efforts risk being ‘sidelined’ in war-torn countries
Major progress in tackling child malnutrition in some of the world’s toughest countries could be thrown into jeopardy because military and security funding is taking precedence over basic child nutrition, the IF Coalition warns today.
from aid agency World Vision UK produced on behalf of the IF
June
Read our new stories from June 2013.
Miriam's Paradise: a small tent in Lebanon
For World Refugee Day our colleague, Joy Toose, from World Vision Australia - currently seconded to Lebanon - shares the moving story of Miriam and her 3 grandchildren living on the kindness of strangers.
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Small Farmers and the Fair Distribution of Land
Angel, a farmer from Honduras, tells us what it's like to try to survive without enough land to grow enough food for his family. The G8 can change this IF they want to.