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during the weekends. I have found a local church to be part

World Vision campaigners in final push to ensure Britain fulfils its pledge on life-saving aid for the poor

Geeta Bandi-Phillips, World Vision UK Policy Manager, tells us why we’re so grateful for your support on the Enough Food for Everyone IF campaign.

Desperate civilians flee the escalating conflict in Mali.

As the British Government announces a further detachment of technical military personnel to Mali amid continued fighting in the North and West of the country, World Vision has called on foreign secretary William Hague to help ensure safe passage for fleeing refugees.
churches and mosques. Advice includes warning

Getting in a flap about alternative Christmas gifts

World Vision Ambassador Andrea Sims gives us the low-down on her brilliant and unique way to peak the interest of her parishioners (and the whole town of Swadlincote) in our Must Have Gifts catalogue.
I was told about how a youth group at a church in … idea of using the porch of the town centre church as a venue for the shed and seeing as that … fill the porch with chickens so we began the Church Chicken Challenge asking all of our local

“We told her the bombing was balloons popping” – A Mother’s Heartbreak in Lebanon

Our CEO, Justin Byworth, is in Lebanon trying to understand what life is like for the thousands of refugees fleeing from the conflict in Syria.
at coffee after church or at the supermarket checkout. It is the

A Very Personal Perspective on the DR Congo Crisis

By Aimee Manimani, WV DRC Communications Officer
like any normal day. We went to the 9.00AM church service and only half of the congregation

Albania, Land of Eagles (and Bright Young Kids)

Kath Parker, a World Vision Child Sponsor, meets her sponsored child Ermelinda in Albania.
had previously been taught in the local church. The boys on the school council proudly

Photo Blog – Children protecting communities against natural disasters

Today is International Disaster Risk Reduction Day, and here at World Vision we have been teaching children around the world about the importance of knowing what to do when disaster strikes. Here is a snapshot of what children are learning from World Vision, from Mongolia to Haiti and beyond.
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Dancing, Mud Huts and Dreams in Malawi

Lisa Blunt, a World Vision Child sponsor, blogs about her recent trip to Malawi and all of the sights, sounds, smells and feelings that came with it.
do it. This month my hope to meet one of my church’s sponsored … the girl my church has sponsored for

Duchess to meet campaigner tackling domestic violence in Solomon Islands

Women in the Solomon Islands suffer some of the highest rates of domestic violence in the world. Two out of three women aged 15-49 who have ever been in a relationship, reporting experiencing physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner. That is 64 per cent.
Coordinator. Koisau works with trusted church leaders on the islands to try to change

A Fond Farewell With a Hope to Return

James Butler, a World Vision child sponsor, describes the elation, the heartbreak and all emotions in between as he says goodbye to South Africa.
Five years ago they were meeting in a ruined church with no

A School Visit and a Farewell in Zimbabwe

In her 4th blog World Vision Sponsor Samantha talks about visiting the school that her sponsored children attend.
a child called Beauty who is sponsored by a church where some friends of ours attend. This was … We had been given gifts for Beauty from the church and it was now time to give them over.

Elephants, Geckos and Rough Roads in Zimbabwe

Samantha shares Days 2 to 4 of her trip to Zimbabwe.
Stony Stratford Community Church and Southwood

Lopez Lomong: I did not know it at the time – but my childhood had just ended

Lopez Lomong, who was kidnapped from a Sudanese village aged just six, will run the 5,000m for Team USA at the London 2012 Olympics. This is just part of his story.
had never expected to see soldiers invade a church service. The soldiers continued running … me past the giant tree at the front of our church and toward the trucks.

Lopez Lomong: he ran for his life, now he’s running in the Olympics

Lopez Lomong, who was kidnapped from a Sudanese village aged just six, will run the 5,000m for Team USA at the London 2012 Olympics. This is just part of his story.
with other children from my Sudanese village church to serve as a child soldier. My subsequent

Meeting My Sponsored Child in Sierra Leone

Mia grew up in Sierra Leone, but now lives in London. In this blog she talks about the emotional experience of returning to her homeland to visit her sponsored child.
which was actually based in a church built more than a hundred years ago. We

Ethiopia