News & Stories

Health worker screens a child for malnutrition in South Darfur, Sudan.
From the Field

Child mortality: Top causes, best solutions

Change Makers

John C. Maxwell partners with World Vision

What if the best New Year's resolution you can make is about someone else? This 12-step guide from blogger Rachel Teodoro outlines monthly fun and creative ways that will help you build a deep relationship with the child you sponsor throughout the year!
Voices

12 steps to a deeper relationship with your sponsored child

Pray with us for refugees and those affected by the violence in Syria, which has displaced millions of families and killed innocent children.
From the Field

Top humanitarian crises of 2015

2015 Nepal earthquake in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Search and rescue workers look for victims amid the rubble of collapsed buildings. The quake also caused landslides and avalanches in the Himalaya Mountains.
From the Field

2015 humanitarian world news headlines

Alima, a nurse, checks 3-year-old Ebola orphan Samuel Batty’s temperature. The boy is one of about 3,500 Ebola orphans in Sierra Leone who have lost one or both parents to Ebola, according to a recent World Bank report. The fight against Ebola is not over. Orphans still need care and responders still need resources to quell the few new cases cropping up week to week and rid the disease from Sierra Leone. (©2015 Sahr Ngaujah/World Vision)
From the Field

Hope for Ebola orphans in Sierra Leone

©2015 Annila Harris | World Vision
From the Field

6 of the worst disasters in 2015

During the Christmas season and beyond, to truly love those in need is to receive the divine gift that allows us to work together and find lasting solutions to poverty.
Voices

Christmas in Appalachia: Loving people who struggle in poverty

Collins Kaumba, a World Vision staff member in Zambia, says a doctor gave him the gift of life. At Christmas, this compels him to wonder what he has done for others.
Voices

What Christmas means to me: A recommitment to service

As the world embraces the warmth of Christmas, millions of refugee children are left in the cold. Our empathy and care are what these children need.
Voices

Christmas means empathy

The sacrifice of Mary’s baby inspires Marilee Pierce Dunker, daughter of World Vision’s founder, to pray for Syrian refugee children.
Voices

A baby changes everything

World Vision's photographers captured thousands of moments in 2015. Here are their best photos — and the stories behind them.
From the Field

Life frames: Our favorite photos of 2015