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Ebola Crisis Update

Now that Sierra Leone is Ebola Free, we look back at the outbreak and ahead to what still needs to be done.
Sierra Leone has been declared Ebola Free by the World … No new cases of Ebola have been reported in Sierra Leone since January 2016. However even though

Ebola's children

Across Sierra Leone, the Ebola epidemic is affecting children in a number of ways. Children have been orphaned, some have contracted the virus, sadly some children have died from the disease. Children who have so far managed to escape direct contact with the virus have been victims of pervasive fear and no longer play with one another. Large public gatherings of any kind have been banned to help stop the spread of the disease, but this is hurting incomes and educations, and will soon begin to affect nutrition as well. In today’s blog, we tell the story of four children - Hawa, Salay, Marie and Christian – and how Ebola has affected each of them.
ostracised by their community. Across Sierra Leone and West … been working with faith communities across Sierra Leone to help correct prejudices and eliminate the

Light shining in the Darkness: an interfaith response to Ebola

Faith leaders in Sierra Leone – both Christian and Muslim – are raising awareness to fight the spread of Ebola.
Faith leaders in Sierra Leone … Liberia and Sierra Leone have been orphaned. … World Vision Sierra Leone. Through Channels of … WV Sierra Leone brought together a group of Muslim imams and

Ebola's frontline: Day in the life of medical worker in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, the situation is critical. Ebola has spread throughout the country and time is running out.
Sierra Leone is ready for another day to tackle the … World Vision is working in both Sierra Leone and Senegal to help tackle Ebola. For more

Living with the threat of Ebola

Zainab is a 12-year old secondary school student in eastern Sierra Leone. Although she and her family have so far remained healthy and safe from Ebola, the disease currently ravaging the country has infected her life in other ways.
old secondary school student in eastern Sierra Leone. Although she and her family have so far … is a sponsored child through World Vision Sierra Leone and is the president of her local

World leaders must act now before Ebola spirals out of control

As UK hosts Ebola conference, World Vision and partners welcome the strong commitment demonstrated by many Governments so far in responding to the crisis
shown by the UK Government in supporting Sierra Leone and in convening today’s conference in … development progress of Sierra Leone and other countries in the region. This is a

Ripples, and the beat of a butterfly's wings

Gavin Crowden, World Vision’s head of Policy and Public Affairs answers the question ‘What’s the point of Party Conferences anyway?’

How Local Advocacy Can Form A Global Agenda: Reflections From The Girl Summit Youth Delegates

Alice and Alfred flew in from Sierra Leone to take part in the Girl Summit to tackle the issues of FGM and early marriage. One month on from their visit, they both take time to reflect on the change they are helping enable from a local to a global level.
In July we invited two young people from Sierra Leone to come and share their views and … for their continual support to children in Sierra Leone and helping us to be part of this great

Mothers Are Strong And Resilient: Reflecting On Tackling Early Childhood Deaths

Sarah Morgan reflects on her work in the field helping children to survive to celebrate their fifth birthday as she plans to do exactly that with her own daughter back in the UK.
programmes in Sierra Leone. There I met community volunteers who were

Girl Summit 2014: Recap, Reflection & Conclusion

As the Girl Summit draws to a close, our Child Rights Programme Advisor Tracy Shields completes Part II of her summit reflection.
the two youth delegates from Sierra Leone that I spoke about in my last … to take what they have learned back to Sierra Leone. More

Girl Summit: Children Free From Fear of FGM and Early Marriage

Ahead of next week's Girl Summit our Child Rights Programme Advisor, Tracy Shields shares why she's raising not just her voice and our voice, but the voices of the children living in fear of FGM and early marriage.
live in Sierra Leone and for the last 2 ½ years have been

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.
Visitors to Calabash will be transported to Sierra Leone to hear remarkable and inspirational stories

New partnership launched to improve nutrition for millions

World Vision and HarvestPlus sign partnership to tackle hidden hunger by scaling up access to nutritious food crops
Ghana and Sierra Leone. The agreement was signed at the World

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Elizabeth McGovern Describes Seeing World Vision's Work in Sierra Leone

World Vision Artist Ambassador Elizabeth McGovern appears in the Sunday Telegraph describing the moment she first met the child she sponsors in Sierra Leone.
nervous as we approached the village in Sierra Leone where Jestina … way myself to some extent. But coming to Sierra Leone and seeing how amazingly

Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern speaks of 'gracious and humbling experience' of meeting sponsored child

Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern met the child she sponsored through World Vision for the first time this week
nervous as we approached the village in Sierra Leone where Jestina … Travelling on the ferry from the Sierra Leone … way myself to some extent. But coming to Sierra Leone and seeing how amazingly

Two Little Girls, Two Very Different Stories

Esther was married at just 11 years old. World Vision's Claire Bardell talks in this blog how reading Esther's story made her reflect on her own daughter's childhood, dreams and the life ahead of her.
dream of Prince Charming. Esther lives in Sierra Leone and Esther has already been married. She

Refugee crisis

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New global index exposes gaps in ‘health wealth’

A ‘devastating’ gap exists between the health rich and health poor in every country, contributing to the deaths of thousands of children every day, a report released this morning by World Vision finds.