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In Romania, Christmas is a sacred day — and a reminder of how even communism’s stranglehold cannot outlaw faith in many peoples’ hearts.
Voices

Since communism’s fall, Christmas in Romania is joyful

  • Christian Faith Stories
  • Romania
When she was 11, Kendall Ciesemier started a nonprofit,
Change Makers

Perfect in weakness: Kids Caring 4 Kids touches thousands of lives

  • Charitable Giving
Children in Colomi, Bolivia, gather for more than just fun and games in a World Vision program designed to help them overcome poverty, malnutrition and a stark future. (©2014 World Vision/photo by Gary Fong/Genesis Photos)
From the Field

Playtime with Paolo: Former Boy Scout is changing children’s lives

  • Child Sponsorship
  • Bolivia
Now a pastor in Bangkok, a former sponsored child learned through his sponsor that it doesn’t take wealth to help others.
From the Field

Thai pastor passes on his sponsor’s ‘spirit of giving’

  • Child Sponsorship
  • Thailand
For Thanksgiving and the day after, Black Friday, World Vision president Rich Stearns reflects on his recent trip to Bangladesh, where he shared his first Thanksgiving meal with a teacher of the children of brothel workers.
Voices

Give thanks: Thanksgiving and Black Friday

  • Blog
  • Bangladesh
It was on a Youth for Christ trip to China in 1947 that the seeds for World Vision were planted.
Voices

A personal passion for Christ

  • Christian Faith Stories
When you follow your God-given passion, there’s no telling the adventure you’ll have.
Voices

Serving with your God-given passion

  • Christian Faith Stories
Team World Vision was launched in 2003 by two men who never met — that’s the beauty of how God works.
Change Makers

How God used two unlikely athletes to inspire a movement

  • Clean Water Stories
For a group of New Jersey children, the goal was to give one cow, but they filled an entire stable instead.
Change Makers

Cheerful givers: New Jersey children ‘didn’t want to put God in a box’

  • Charitable Giving
In the seven years since a Minnesota church answered God's call to help communities in rural Mozambique, 3,400 children have been sponsored.
Change Makers

A Minnesota church answers God’s call to help Mozambique communities

  • Child Sponsorship
  • MozambiqueUnited States
Hunger forced Cossy, 18 months, to eat the bitter tasting, watery wild root in Zambia.
Special Features

7 hungry places

  • Hunger News
  • BurundiAfghanistanGuatemalaMalawiTimor-LesteZambia
Two pilots for the World Vision relief operation during the 1984 Ethiopian hunger crisis share the story of flying a BBC film crew that told the story of human suffering to the world.
From the Field

30 years later, World Vision pilots talk of Ethiopia famine, BBC’s famous report

  • Hunger News
  • Ethiopia
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