Best-selling author Debbie Macomber has written hundreds of stories. Today, she is the main character. The supporting characters of this story are a Microsoft VP, World Vision, and the girls of a school in Kenya. Read her story!
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Education
From the Field
Campaign For Every Child: Finishing the race
In 2010, we embarked on a mission unlike any we’d undertaken before. In the midst of the worst economic crisis of our day, we launched World Vision’s Campaign For Every Child. Our audacious goal was to raise $500 million and change the lives of 20 million people worldwide. We felt God calling us to make this bold move — and many of you felt the same call.
From the Field
Breaking barriers: Overcoming Ebola’s impact on education in Sierra Leone
When the World Health Organization declared the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak an “international health concern,” Sierra Leone closed schools, disrupting the education of about 1.7 million children. It would take nine months for schools to reopen.
From the Field
Literacy Boost program encourages a love of reading
In Malawi, World Vision supports a community through the Literacy Boost program, which provides training and books that cultivate a love of reading.
From the Field
Thai students’ innovations reap ripe rewards
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
When hunger, poverty undermine education for children
Poverty often keeps children like 11-year-old Kham out of school. He used to skip school to look for food, and he was embarrassed about his dirty clothes.
Prayers
Pray through the day
Aug. 1, 2014 — Knowing how to pray for young people in poverty isn’t always easy. Here’s a way you and your child can use daily activities to learn about and pray for children around the world.
From the Field
Sponsor changes the heart, mind of sponsored child
When she was a child, World Vision sponsorship set a Thai woman on the path to improving her life, her family’s well-being, and the health in her community.
From the Field
Former sponsored child in Mozambique teaches farming best practices
The son of subsistence farmers, a former sponsored child in Mozambique now teaches his community to grow crops for better nutrition.
Voices
A child marriage: Betrothed before birth
The documentary Girl Rising aims to ignite a movement to educate girls around the world. Millions of girls, like Jenneh in Sierra Leone, face barriers like child marriage to their education. This is Jenneh’s story.