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From the Field

Hurricane Melissa: Facts, FAQs, and how to help

Hurricane Melissa carved a path of destruction across the Caribbean, causing fatalities, widespread flooding, and significant damage. The Category 5 storm made landfall in Jamaica on October 28, 2025, threatening millions across the region. Communities in the Bahamas, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Jamaica are now facing catastrophic flooding, landslides, and food insecurity. World Vision teams are on the ground in Haiti, helping families recover. In Jamaica, World Vision is coordinating hurricane disaster relief efforts through our local partnerships. Learn how you can support disaster relief efforts, and pray for those affected.

Phanet wears a light blue shirt stands smiling outside a school building with a red-tiled roof and yellow walls.
From the Field

Teaching where she once learned

Former sponsored child Phanet, 19, now teaches fifth grade in the same rural Cambodian classroom where she once studied. With support from World Vision’s sponsorship program, her family’s farm grew into a thriving business, and Phanet overcame challenges to pursue her education. Today, she is determined to pass on the gift of learning to the next generation, while continuing to dream herself.

A group of smiling children walk with a World Vision staff member wearing an orange vest on a dirt road.
From the Field

Winter 2025 magazine

As World Vision marks 75 years of walking alongside children and families, this digital magazine winter edition celebrates what God has done so far. You’ll meet children growing into their dreams, families planting seeds of change, and communities rising together. These stories honor God’s faithfulness and love that continues to reach across generations and around the world.

A man feeds a young girl sitting on her mother’s lap. She mimics his open mouth as a spoon comes her way, while surrounded by laughing community members outdoors.
Voices

From the World Vision U.S. president: 75 years of belief

World Vision President and CEO Edgar Sandoval Sr. reflects on feeding a malnourished child named Mone in Ethiopia and how moments like this reveal both the challenges families face and the power of faith in action. Marking World Vision’s 75th anniversary, he looks back on decades of God’s faithfulness, from war-torn Korea to today’s global crises, and shares a bold vision as we look toward the future.

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Voices

Remembering God’s faithfulness and trusting Him for the future

In this editor’s letter, we pause to remember how far God has brought us. Drawing from 1 Samuel 7, where Samuel sets up a stone of remembrance and calls it Ebenezer, this reflection marks World Vision’s 75th anniversary as a moment to look back with gratitude and forward with faith. The stories in this issue serve as our own “stone of help,” celebrating decades of God’s faithfulness through the stories of lives changed, including our own.

A man sits on a bed with his head bowed and hands clasped in prayer beside a table with family photos.
Change Makers

A foundation of faith

A Sunday school teacher’s gift and prayer to a young Bob Pierce sparked something that would one day reach across the world. That small act of faith led him to follow God’s call, planting the roots of World Vision and decades of global impact. Now, 75 years later, those seeds continue to grow, transforming lives and communities around the world.

A woman talks to a child next to a Christmas tree, below a ceiling hung with drying bunches of maize corn.
From the Field

The good mother

A Guatemalan family that once lived on a dirt floor and drank watery soup proves that hard work, child sponsorship, economic empowerment training, and World Vision Gift Catalog animals change lives.

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