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Two children sit on a pile of maize in Zambia.
From the Field

Thanksgiving: Celebrating abundant harvests around the world

  • Economic Empowerment
This Christmas season, see how you can give an entire wish list, the good kind of sweater, or the feeling of being safe. Here are 2018’s top five Christmas gifts that may surprise you!
Voices

Top 5 Christmas gifts that may surprise you (2018 edition)

  • Blog
The 1 millionth kit makes its journey in the San Francisco Bay area from 7-year-old Caroline at Menlo Church to 9-year-old Estefani at Familia Cristiana Verbo.
Change Makers

Menlo Church celebrates assembling the 1 millionth kit

  • Charitable Giving
Because of our community-focused solutions, for every child you help, four more children benefit, too. Debby and her friends are all benefiting thanks to the fact that she’s sponsored.
Special Features

More than enough: Child sponsorship inspires hope in Zambia

  • Child Sponsorship
  • Zambia
Ivy in Moyo, Zambia, was delighted to receive a World Vision Promise Pack, which contains school supplies, hygiene items, and an insect-repelling blanket.
From the Field

How’d they do that: Kits with care letters

  • Charitable Giving
  • Zambia
A World Vision staff member walks through a sunflower field with two brothers.
From the Field

Birthday parties leave lasting gifts in sponsorship communities

  • Child Sponsorship
  • Zambia
A pastor’s challenge inspires a Sunday school teacher and her students to give the gift of goats.
Change Makers

No goats, no glory: Sunday school students give the gift of goats

  • Charitable Giving
Marilee Pierce Decker shares her father’s thoughts on the word “crisis” and how to manage in times of fear.
Voices

Crisis is danger plus God’s opportunity

  • Christian Faith Stories
World Vision U.S. President-elect Edgar Sandoval poses with 8-year-old Faith, his World Vision sponsored child, in Kapululwe, Zambia.
Voices

Is Jesus at the center of your life?

  • Christian Faith Stories
Hurricane Michael, a Category-4 storm, laid waste to the Florida Panhandle when it made landfall on Oct. 10, 2018. Destroyed docks and damaged boats in Panama City, Fla., show the results of Hurricane Michael’s landfall in the Florida Panhandle.
From the Field

2018 Hurricane Michael: Facts, FAQs, and how to help

  • Disaster Relief
Jesse Klaasen, 16, worked on a farm during school breaks for three years to save up and purchase a home for a family in a developing country through the World Vision Gift Catalog.
Change Makers

A teenager gives his treasure to help a family from the Gift Catalog

  • Charitable Giving
Battery-powered Christmas lights hang on the house of a sponsored child in Zambia.
Voices

Santa Switch: Shine bright by ‘flipping the focus’ this Christmas

  • Christian Faith Stories
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