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On wings like eagles: A Mongolia boxing program lets children soar

  • Child Protection Stories
  • Mongolia
A girl smiles as she labels her new school supplies. World Vision and volunteers distributed Yoobi school supplies kits to students in Kent, Wash. (©2015 World Vision, Chris Huber)

Back-to-school supplies power students, teachers for successful year

  • Education
Naomi walks through the wilderness to the place she used to collect water. Now she and her family enjoy access to clean water. (©2016 World Vision, Chris Huber)
From the Field

Clean water lifts mother’s spirit, family’s burden

  • Clean Water Stories
  • Kenya
Olympian cyclists Annette and Alex Edmondson ride bikes with World Vision sponsored child Vanessa and her youth group in Brazil.
From the Field

Olympians meet inspiring Brazilian ‘sister’

  • Child Sponsorship
  • Brazil
During the Olympics, we watch athletes who have dedicated their lives to their sport. Shouldn’t followers of Christ be as committed to their faith?
Voices

Becoming Olympians for Christ

  • Christian Faith Stories
Meeting the child they sponsor gave Olympians Ashton Eaton and Brianne Theisen-Eaton a deeper motivation to compete in the Olympic Games in Rio.
From the Field

Olympic couple finds purpose beyond gold medals

  • Christian Faith Stories
  • Kenya
Giduma taught his siblings to read. How? Reading Buddies, a World Vision program that trains children how to read with and teach other kids how to read.

Training children to teach others to read

  • Education
  • Ethiopia
Olympic medalists Ashton Eaton and Brianne Theisen-Eaton visited their sponsored child in Kenya and learned first-hand how World Vision sponsorship works.
Change Makers

6 things Ashton Eaton and Brianne Theisen-Eaton learned in Kenya

  • Child Sponsorship
Pyone is a survivor of human trafficking. After 4 years trapped in another country, today she is reunited with her family, working to support her daughter.
Voices

Lured into marriage: A survivor’s story of being trafficked

  • Blog
  • Myanmar
South Sudanese refugees in Uganda, children, hunger,

Fleeing conflict in South Sudan, refugees flood Uganda border

  • Christian Faith Stories
  • Uganda
How can we redefine
Voices

Teaching children empathy as a way to see and address poverty

  • Blog
Adelaine and Lukas studied about slavery in their homeschool history class. They wrote their members of Congress to urge them to consider legislation that addresses human trafficking, a modern form of slavery. After a family vacation to Washington, D.C., Representative Etsy says their visit to her office inspired her to back the anti-trafficking bill that is now law.
Change Makers

9 tips for raising courageous, world-changing kids

  • Christian Faith Stories
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