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Kony, child soldiers, and remembering Margaret

  • Child Sponsorship
  • Uganda
A UNC Water Institute study shows that World Vision water wells continue to flow for decades because World Vision teaches people how to repair broken wells!
Voices

The longevity of World Vision water wells

  • Blog
  • Ghana
A new innovative approach to farming in Tanzania is freeing communities from the grip of poverty faster than anything that’s been done before.
Voices

Pursuing the best: Innovation revolutionizes farming in Africa

  • Economic Empowerment
  • Tanzania
Through student innovations and school support, a World Vision-funded lunch program became an award-winning farm, with endless learning and income prospects.
From the Field

Thai students’ innovations reap ripe rewards

  • Education
  • Thailand
Success for an accountant in Zambia began with child sponsorship when he was a boy, one of the first children sponsored in his village.
From the Field

Success for a Zambian accountant began with sponsorship

  • Child Sponsorship
  • Zambia
Human trafficking is a sleek, contemporary term for the selling of one human being by another for the purpose of forced labor or sex.
Voices

World Vision helps trafficking victims rebuild their lives

  • Child Protection Stories
  • Myanmar
A Cambodian street boy once trapped in a world of addiction has discovered a whole new world of freedom and hope and is helping other children find it too.
Voices

Cambodian boy finds freedom from addiction

  • Child Protection Stories
  • Cambodia
Six-year-old Salma and her family walked for eight days before they arrived in Dahuk, Iraq. They're living in a shelter made of cardboard and blankets on the grass next to a service station. (©2014 Meg Sattler/World Vision)
Prayers

Pray for the children and families of Iraq

  • Christian Faith Stories
  • Iraq
Due to fistula — an injury during childbirth that causes incontinence — Jennifer remained outside when she attended church, kneeling in the dirt to pray. Without improving health for women who don't have proper care, issues like fistula can ruin their lives.
Voices

Better health for women just like Jennifer

  • Blog
  • Uganda
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From the Field

When hunger, poverty undermine education for children

  • Education
  • Laos
World Vision is a fantastic place for innovation. When it’s done right, it can affect hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people.
Voices

Right ideas at the right time are saving lives

  • Health
  • Zambia
Marilee Pierce Dunker reflects on how we can comfort those in trouble with the comfort we receive from God. Find out the power of comfort in action.
Voices

The power of comfort in action

  • Child Sponsorship
  • Thailand
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