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Summer 2018 reading list - books to read and movies to watch
Change Makers

Your 2018 summer reading list

Water inundates Boudain, a community on La Gonâve island, one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Matthew on the island nation. Ivonne and her daughter Cindia, 8, walk toward their collapsed home. “I really do not know what I will do,” she says. World Vision supports 100 children in Boudain through sponsorship and is bringing relief supplies. (©2016 Claudia Martinez/World Vision)
From the Field

2016 Hurricane Matthew: Facts, FAQs, and how to help

Twenty-four years after the genocide in Rwanda, children like Julius — a top student in his school — continue to die from poverty and lack of clean water. As Rich Stearns wraps up his tenure as World Vision U.S. president, he is dedicated to ending this needless loss of life in Rwanda and around the world.
Voices

A life and death story of clean water in Rwanda

A woman using a cane walks through a park next to her friend and a World Vision staff member walking his bike.
Change Makers

Global 6K for Water: ‘If she can do it, you can totally do it’

When you walk for clean water with World Vision’s Global 6K for Water, you help lay a foundation for fighting injustice all around the world. Here are three ways that access to clean water impacts other social issues.
Voices

Clean water: Pouring a foundation for social justice

Pray for West Africa: Pray for political and economic stability, maternal and child health, and sponsored children.
Prayers

Covering the world in prayer: Pray for West Africa

Pray for Mongolia: parents struggle to provide for their families, children long for a good education, and youth try to cope with the effects of abuse and broken families.
Prayers

Hope in hard places: Pray for Mongolia

Athletes research the best running shoes to enhance their performance. But in many places, children walk for water, to school, and play in bare feet or terrible shoes.
Voices

The worst running shoes you’d never want to wear

Pray for South Asia: for the church in India, for a decline in child marriage in Bangladesh, for child well-being in Nepal, and for continued post-conflict restoration in Sri Lanka.
Prayers

Covering the world in prayer: Pray for South Asia

Pray for marginalized Romanian children and families, for economic and educational opportunities, for spiritual awakening, and for children with disabilities.
Prayers

Wrapping children in prayer: Romania

Young girl walking among destroyed home after tornado in Oklahoma.
Prayers

Covering the world in prayer: Pray for North America

Do you only show up for others when you feel like it? God asks us to say yes and put our faith in action even when it isn’t easy to believe. Explore what happens when you take a step forward in faith … and let your heart catch up.
Voices

Faith in action: We run so we can believe