News & Stories

High school art students learn about more than art in Anna Wadman’s class in Westlake Village, Calif. - they also learn about life.
From the Field

Art touches hearts as students ‘step outside of the bubble’

The story of Habtam in Ethiopia illustrates how girls in developing countries are often not valued — and how child sponsorship can help empower girls.
From the Field

Sponsorship: A safeguard against child marriage of girls

From the Field

Sponsor changes the heart, mind of sponsored child

Voices

Some people just shine

Nine-year-old Vasilica Cirebea and his family thrive on a remote and impoverished Transylvania mountainside, thanks to hard work and the generosity of a World Vision sponsor.
Special Features

Righting wrongs for Romania’s children

Dr. Paul Osteen meets Alice, a World Vision sponsored child, and her family in Butare, Rwanda.
Change Makers

Dr. Paul Osteen’s latest operation: ‘Elevate the poor out of poverty’

World Vision mobilizes various “actors” in the community to come together, work together, get equipped to do more, and learn to speak into the halls of power whether locally or nationally — and find their own voice.
Voices

Witnessing the ‘voiceless’ find their voice

Change Makers

Harlem Globetrotters begin new partnership with World Vision

From the Field

Ethiopia: Forest project gets U.N. carbon credits

Vinh was 3 years old when he escaped death in a small boat on the South China Sea. Now he’s working to help other children in dire circumstances.
Change Makers

Called to compassion: A boy who fled war now helps exploited children

Marilee Pierce Dunker shares stories from her trip to Taiwan, where her father supported missionary projects in the early 1950s.
Voices

Taiwan: 40 years later, a reunion of love

Syrian refugee children who attend Child-Friendly Spaces for play and socialization have more confidence about avoiding child trafficking and labor than their peers who do not, research shows.
From the Field

Child-Friendly Spaces help children hold on to their childhood