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Seeing real success in Tanzanian ADPs
Katie, Sponsor Visits Manager for World Vision UK, reflects on the time she spent visiting projects in Tanzania
highlight the 40 children most vulnerable to malnutrition. With training from World
Linda Barker visits Cambodia
TV presenter Linda Barker has just joined World Vision as a celebrity ambassador, and recently visited some of our projects in Cambodia. Here she shares her reflections on the trip.…
Dying for children - motherhood in South Sudan
For most women, the birth of a child is a happy event, but for many women in South Sudan it can be life-threatening. In a region blighted by civil war, proper medical provision for mothers can be problematic. We met Irma, a nurse on a maternity ward who sees daily the difficulties faced by young mothers such as Nyanut and Nyankiir.
for women in South Sudan. The high levels of malnutrition in the country also increase the danger for
World Vision reveals alarming rates of malnutrition among mothers in South Sudan
As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, World Vision reveals that in the country that has the highest rate of maternal mortality.
but the malnutrition rate among pregnant women and breastfeeding …
Family greenhouses in Bolivia make all the difference
Malnutrition is one of the biggest problems facing sponsorship communities in Bolivia. However, with your help families have built greenhouses where they can now grow vegetables their parents never even knew the name for. Children now eat a variety of vegetables, and they don’t get sick anymore. Getting their five a day has made all the difference.
Malnutrition is one of the biggest problems facing
World Vision reaches ½ million people with aid in South Sudan
World Vision's relief effort include food rations, providing seeds, fishing nets, water, sanitation, hygiene services and more.
such as the diagnosis and treatment of malnutrition and food and seed distribution and supplying
Let’s Make 2015 a Year of Action for Children
Today marks the launch of Action 2015, a campaign to bring the world together to create the post Millennium Development Goals. World Vision is working to help children around the world achieve their full potential and make sure that they are well represented in the new sustainable development framework. External Relations Manager Geeta writes that her New Year's resolution is to raise her voice and let our leaders know they have the gift to make 2015 a year of action for children. They must act.
improving healthcare Eliminate hunger and malnutrition Address peace and stability in fragile and
What happens when the rice runs out?
For families who have managed to remain unaffected by Ebola in West Africa, another crisis is now looming – hunger.
After a traumatic year, the children of Gaza look to 2015
The children of Gaza have suffered so much this year, but with the help of shelters and child-friendly spaces, they've been trying to piece their lives back together. We spoke to them about their wishes and hopes for the coming year.
What do children in South Sudan eat for breakfast?
Next Monday marks one year since the fighting in South Sudan resumed. The worst fighting came on Boxing Day, when families fled the cosy aftermath of Christmas celebrations for makeshift refugee camps. Intermittent fighting and displacement have disrupted the planting and harvesting cycle, and as fields lie fallow and farmers are scared away, the spectre of hunger looms. Inspired by the recent New York Times piece What Kids Around the World Eat for Breakfast, we asked, what do children in South Sudan eat for breakfast?
New Deal: View from Somalia
Ibrahim Eid is a both a farmer and a pastoralist as well as being chairman of his local village in south central Somalia.
New Report: The Plight of Central African Republic's Children
Children are paying the price of violent conflict in CAR that is denying them their most basic rights to food, education, health & security.
children suffer from malnutrition and …
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.
hunger and malnutrition loom in the new year.
On the edge of survival
Last year World Vision reached almost eight million people around the world who were struggling to feed themselves and their children. On World Food Day, 16 October, we are thinking of the people who are still struggling to make sure their children get the food they need to grow up healthy and happy.
development have been severely affected by malnutrition. The twins have been suffering bouts of …
New report challenges thinking on food assistance to hungry
Food assistance alone is not sufficient to achieve a hunger-free world.
aims to rid the world of hunger and child malnutrition. Among its goals is to dramatically increase
South Sudan escapes official famine, but even without a name hunger still kills
South Sudan's food insecurity hasn't worsened to the point of famine, but situation is still very dire.
acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 per
Planning for our children’s future
Geeta Bandi-Philips, World Vision UK's External Relations Manager reflects on the Post 2015 policy debates, and how World Vision can help shape the conversation to achieve the best future possible for the world's children.
healthcare and eliminating hunger and malnutrition. Address peace and stability in fragile and
More Cash Needed as Famine Looms in South Sudan
One hundred days after an international donor conference was held to raise money to bring aid to South Sudan, the country urgently requires still more cash as it hovers on the brink of famine.
of children are at risk of dying from malnutrition. These children cannot wait. Do we have to …
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.
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.
malnourished and in a normal year acute malnutrition can impact one in five