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Happy Cheru, wearing a World Vision Global 6K tee-shirt, fills her glass at the water point at her home, and takes a drink of clean water. Cheru, 6, benefits from a 16-kilometer, gravity-fed World Vision pipeline that brings clean water to her community. Along with other children, she used to walk 6 kilometers daily to carry water to school and home. Now the pipeline brings water to both places.
From the Field

How’d they do that: Transforming lives like Cheru’s through clean water

  • Clean Water Stories
  • Kenya
Even at 5 years old, Cheru Lotuliapus not only understood the struggle for clean water, she lived it. Now, blessings overflow along with the water 6-year-old Cheru collects from the tap near her home in West Pokot, Kenya.
Special Features

Cheru’s Kenyan community is awash in hope after receiving clean water

  • Clean Water Stories
  • Kenya
Today marks seven years since the Syrian refugee crisis began. With reports of the war in Syria almost over and after seven years of hearing about and caring about this crisis, does it still matter? Compassionate voices come together with a resounding yes.
Voices

8 reasons why the Syrian refugee crisis still matters after 8 years

  • Blog
  • SyriaMiddle East
When you walk or run the Global 6K for Water, you provide life-changing clean water to one person! You can create even more impact by becoming a host site and gathering friends and family to walk and run with you. Check out what people like you have to say about how easy and impactful it is to host the Global 6K for Water.
Change Makers

Families, churches, schools, businesses rally for clean water as 6K host sites

  • Clean Water Stories
A local water crisis in a small Kansas town sparked a teacher’s interest in bringing her community together as a World Vision Global 6K for Water host site.
Change Makers

Kansas school unites community as Global 6K for Water host site

  • Clean Water Stories
As we begin Lent this year, pastor Greg Holder reflects on World Vision’s Matthew 25 Challenge and how it helped his church make God’s love an action.
Voices

Matthew 25 Challenge: The beauty of the incarnation

  • Blog
In 2017, Wendy Eckman ran the Seattle Rock n Roll marathon as part of Team World Vision to raise money for clean water in Africa. She ran in between her chemo appointments and finished strong!
Change Makers

Beating cancer while running a marathon

  • Clean Water Stories
Old black and white images of adults with children wearing winter coats.
Voices

The story of White Jade: The girl who inspired World Vision’s child sponsorship

  • Child Sponsorship
  • China
Nearly 3.5 million children and youth participate in World Vision discipleship and values education to strengthen their faith, their relationships, and their sense of self-worth.
From the Field

5 ways we help children experience the love of God

  • Christian Faith Stories
Hurricane Florence didn’t dampen the spirits of Child Ambassador Randi Jo Rooks and her family. In fact, she found that sponsoring children through World Vision allowed her family to let go of material goods long before Hurricane Florence forced them to let go.
Change Makers

How God and a hurricane sent an American family on a new journey

  • Child Sponsorship
Jhalak, left, reads with his sister at the reading corner his family created in their home in Nepal. Reading corners are part of the literacy program World Vision created to increase literacy rates in Nepal.
From the Field

Literacy rates are improving in Nepal

  • Education
  • Nepal
Sunset over tent settlement in Lebanon.
Special Features

Love breaks through in Lebanon

  • Christian Faith Stories
  • LebanonSyriaMiddle East
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