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Charlotte's Journey with Grow it, Cook it, Share it

Get started with your Grow it, Cook it and Share it journey with our Fundraising Specialist Charlotte!
crops that will help combat malnutrition. Our Fundraising Specialist Charlotte is

Failure of South Sudan Peace Talks Raises Risk of Famine

With more than 1.3 million people displaced and half of them are children, the situation in South Sudan is getting worse every day. The postponement of the peace talk means higher risk of famine, higher risk of children being used as child soldiers, and higher price tag to deal with this disaster.
million children being at risk of severe malnutrition. Every delay means higher risk of

World Refugee Day: "Millions Need Assistance"

Today is world refugee day - a day where we are reminded of the cruel reality and hardship refugees face on a daily basis. Fleeing from violence with often nothing but clothes on the backs, families share their sense of powerlessness.
food to prevent starvation and worsening malnutrition

Ten Million Trees: World Vision at BBC Gardeners' World Live

The second in a trilogy of blog posts from award-winning garden designer John Warland about the second in a trilogy of gardens depicting the recovery in Ethiopia following the 1984 famine and how World Vision helped it happen.
offer a diversity of diet crucial to good nutrition through the nuts and berries they produce

Ten Million Trees: World Vision at BBC Gardeners' World Live

The second in a trilogy of blog posts from award-winning garden designer John Warland about the second in a trilogy of gardens depicting the recovery in Ethiopia following the 1984 famine and how World Vision helped it happen.

First Steps In Ethiopia

The Antsokia Valley in Ethiopia was one of the worst-affected areas of the 1984 famine. Today it's green, beautiful and lush with crops. World Vision never would have started our work in Ethiopia, however, were it not for this one man.

Urgent help needed for South Sudan to avert catastrophe

The dire conditions of hungry children in South Sudan will get unimaginably worse unless urgent measures are taken to reverse a rapidly deteriorating situation, a new report warns today. Governments meet in Oslo tomorrow to discuss pledging funds to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.
nutrition supplements for

Ethiopia, 1984: "We were all waiting for our deaths."

Ansha was just 10-years-old when the 1984 famine swept across her area. Now aged 40, she vividly describes her struggle to survive, her nightmares from her childhood and how World Vision has helped to transform her life to what it is today.

How Does Living Below The Line Impact Every Part Of Our Lives?

World Vision Ambassador, Sue Tinney, reveals in her Live Below The Line diary just how hard it really is to live on less than £1 a day for food, as millions of people around the world do every single day.

The Danger Zone For Child Malnutrition

At 14 months old and weighing less than 12ilbs, Jalrotchen registered as severely malnourished. Although 20% of the world's children under five are malnourished, that number always rises in the wake of natural disasters, which is why World Vision's work on child nutrition following Typhoon Haiyan is so vital.
Health and Nutrition … the danger zone for child malnutrition. The measuring tape has been designed to … child malnutrition. Jalrotchen was 14 months and only 5.3kgs

DR Congo

violence and malnutrition. Approximately

Lebanon

Somalia

healthcare for children with acute malnutrition. Of those children … quality and affordable primary healthcare. Nutrition projects aim to reduce undernourishment in

Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza

You helped us raise over £290,000 for the Gaza Crisis Appeal.
on prenatal care and childhood health and nutrition Community Action Groups have been

Angola

nutrition education and HIV and AIDS awareness. … we are improving the nutrition of Angola’s … screening of the under fives to check for malnutrition and providing food supplements as needed.

Sudan

World Vision welcomes Asda and P&G’s Safe Drinking Water Programme

Global humanitarian charity World Vision today welcomes British supermarket Asda and consumer goods company P&G’s effort to bring 75 million days’ worth of clean drinking water to communities in the developing world.
the number of child deaths and malnutrition

Life Alongside World Vision

Rosmery grew up in a Bolivian ADP and now, thanks to help from World Vision, is studying at university in Italy on a full scholarship. In this post she tells us what life is like growing up in a community supported by World Vision sponsors.
World Vision supported the health and nutrition training I got through my school. I was also … communities to teach others about health and nutrition and to make sure that mothers were following

What is an ADP?

You may know that sponsoring a child supports their whole community. You may know that your child lives in one of our Area Development Programmes. But what exactly is an ADP and how does your support help?
live below the poverty line. Child malnutrition is a real … food security and nutrition One of the major problems rural … soil barely produces anything. Child malnutrition rates remain high throughout the country.

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
a commitment to work together to improve nutrition for hundreds of millions of people around … Vision is committed to improving nutrition for the world’s hungriest