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Bullet-ridden schools lie abandoned in reclaimed cities across Iraq

As the battle to retake Mosul continues, urgent action is needed to allow children to resume their education.

9.2 million people require urgent humanitarian support as West African conflict intensifies

World Vision is urging the international community to respond to the worsening humanitarian crisis caused by fighting in the Lake Chad Basin of West Africa, as latest figures show that over 21 million people are facing food shortages.
facilities have been reported in camps where refugees and internally displaced people fleeing the … internally displaced people and refugees in the affected regions of Chad and

Emmanuel, the 11-year-old South Sudan presidential hopeful

11-year-old Emmanuel wants to be the president of South Sudan. The reason, he tells me, is “to bring peace to my country.”
in South Sudan and over one million are refugees in neighbouring countries. In the

Mosul Children Arrive at Camps Terrified | World Vision UK

World Vision staff say that children are arriving at camps too petrified to speak after fleeing the conflict in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Find out more here.
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Carrying the burden | Syrian refugee seeks safety in Lebanon; now trapped in child labour

Khalid fled the Syrian conflict, only to become trapped in child labour in Lebanon. How can you help Syria’s child refugees feel safe again?
mean adult refugees can’t work anyway. So Khalid and his … change. We're working in Lebanon both with refugees from the Syrian

Mosul: World Vision sets up child protection centres at newly established refugee camp

up centres for the protection of child refugees fleeing fighting in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

Game of Thrones star and World Vision supporter surprises Syrian refugee in Germany

Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham on Tuesday paid a surprise visit to Hussam, a teenage Syrian refugee, now living in Germany.
5 million refugees has been

Mary's night of fear turns to peace | A child’s story from South Sudan to Ugandan refugee camp

Mary tells her courageous story of fleeing South Sudan’s violent conflict. And how World Vision’s helping her to have hope for the future.
and her family now live in a settlement for refugees in Uganda. The area is … school for one year. It was a school for refugees and they helped us get to know our new

Celebrity Supporters

We’re very grateful to have the support of several famous faces to promote the work we’re doing throughout the world.
2015 to see our emergency response work with refugees struggling through Europe. She visited a … where she helped distribute food packages to refugees on buses and visited our Child Friendly

Share my life: two brothers from South Sudan

Recently we met with two brothers from South Sudan; ten-year-old Choul and eight-year-old Rewgok. After fleeing the Unity State and seeking refuge in Juba, all the brothers want is for their parents to join them, and for their safety to be guaranteed.
as the UN discusses refugees and

World Vision calls the attack a turning point in the war and says ceasefire has achieved nothing

World Vision has expressed shock at an airstrike that hit an aid convoy in Syria, reportedly leaving 12 dead. The UN says 18 trucks were hit on their way to deliver aid to 78,000 people.

Remembering the faces behind the numbers | UN Refugee Summit September 2016

Today, as the UN discusses refugees and migrants and President Obama hosts world leaders for a discussion of the refugee crisis, humanitarian policy advisor Johan Eldebo writes about some of the children we work with whose lives have been completely transformed by these issues.
had already spent years as refugees in neighbouring countries close to Syria. … Square this morning as a tribute to the refugees who have lost their lives in search of

Truck with 3D image of child refugees brings stark reality of crisis to London

A truck bearing a 3D image of asylum-seeking children, will this morning (Monday 19 September 2016), drive across London to highlight the strife and challenges that child refugees are facing around the world.
the strife and challenges that child refugees are facing around the world. Commissioned … Refugees … Refugees and Migrants Summit … refugees and refugee charities is designed to raise

A little red love heart on the front door

10-year-old Rama fled Syria with her mother and two sisters when a neighbours house was bombed near Aleppo. Now living in a centre for women and children in Turkey, Rama remembers the things she misses about Syria, her dreams and her wishes for the future...

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.
significant numbers of refugees have clustered in the southern region of

Challenges for refugee mothers at Ugandan settlement

Kiden is a young refugee woman, currently expecting her seventh child. Early July 2016, she fled to Uganda with her family to seek refuge following the wave of conflict that destroyed their home in Juba. Life at a refugee settlement in Uganda hasn't been much better, and provides the family with new challenges to overcome.
Kiden is just one of thousands of refugees without shelter in the new Bididbidi refugee … South Sudanese refugees have been transferred from settlements in

Providing aid, while depending on it: Meet Johnson - both a humanitarian and an IDP

Johnson Kuithoy is both an aid worker and an internally displaced person (IDP) living in a camp. A South Sudanese man in his thirties, he has dedicated his life to providing relief, while he and his family likewise depend on it. Today, on World Humanitarian Day, heroes like Johnson are celebrated…

Soccer for Syrians: Bringing football to the children of Azraq

Simple things like giving children a safe place to run around and express themselves makes a huge amount of difference to refugees living far from home. From the exhilaration of scoring a goal and working as a team, to the comfort of finding emotional support, children and staff share the ways they’re benefitting from the football pitches we’ve built in Jordan’s Azraq refugee camp…
makes a huge amount of difference to refugees living far from home. From the exhilaration … a beautiful thing that there are Syrian refugees in the Olympics. It’s good that people still

Russia/Syria plan for humanitarian corridors 'deeply flawed'

World Vision today joins a global push for a two-day 'humanitarian pause' in the battle for Aleppo. In all, 34 international bodies are calling for a 48 hour cease-fire that would allow civilians to leave the besieged city and let aid through.
Oxfam 21. Physicians for Human Rights 22. Refugees International 23. Relief

Five Voices | Perspectives from South Sudan

Yesterday, on July 9, Juba’s hot and dusty roads were filled with people from across the country commemorating five years since South Sudan declared its independence. We took some time beforehand to speak to children and parents about how the last few years have shaped the country and the lives of its people...
and I go to school here. The school is for refugees and it’s in my own language