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Pray for Florida: As Hurricane Irma continues its destructive path, Florida is bracing for the worst. Pray for people evacuating and those already impacted in the Caribbean.

Prayers

Hurricane Irma: Pray for Florida, Caribbean

As Hurricane Irma continues its path of destruction, Florida is bracing for the worst. Pray for people evacuating and those already impacted in the Caribbean.

Disaster Relief
Dominican RepublicHaiti

Rescue workers evacuate people in the residential areas of Texas from floodwaters during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on August 29, 2017.

Prayers

Pray for Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, flooding

Hurricane Harvey caused record-breaking flooding across Texas. As families and communities recover, pray for Texas and the relief work.

Disaster Relief

In April, John Harris helped his wife, LaDell, down the steps in front of their home along the shores of the Neches River near Vidor, Texas. She had slipped and hurt her arm while waiting days for floodwaters to clear from the porch steps. Their home was nearly destroyed by 15-foot floodwaters during Hurricane Harvey in August 2017. World Vision and its local partner, Wings of Promise led by Pastor Skipper Sauls, helped the couple rebuild with new appliances, Sheetrock, furniture, insulation, light fixtures, and other materials. John and LaDell were able to enjoy their cozy rebuilt riverside home together for a few more months in 2018 before John lost his fight with cancer in August. “During the storm, we were sitting here, helpless,” LaDell says. “These people (Pastor Sauls, and other community members) have been our angels.”

From the Field

2017 humanitarian world news headlines

Humanitarian world news brings you a regularly updated selection of events and trends impacting people and the humanitarian community worldwide in 2017.

Disaster Relief

Millions of people face famine if the current hunger crisis in East Africa continues to worsen. Read their stories and learn how World Vision is responding.

Special Features

Facing famine: Battling hunger with hope in East Africa

JULY 12, 2017 — Millions of people face famine if the current hunger crisis in East Africa continues to worsen. Read their stories and learn how World Vision is responding.

Hunger News
KenyaEthiopiaSomaliaSouth Sudan

Humanitarian aid workers serve on the front lines of conflicts worldwide. In 2013, two World Vision aid workers paid the ultimate price in Darfur, Sudan.

From the Field

Darfur, Sudan: Fallen aid workers remembered

Humanitarian aid workers serve civilians on the front lines of conflicts around the world, and sometimes they pay the ultimate price. In 2013, two World Vision aid workers were killed in Darfur, Sudan.

Disaster Relief

From the Field

6 of the worst disasters in 2016

About 194 major natural disasters affected millions of people worldwide in 2016. Armed conflicts claimed tens of thousands of lives. This year saw a record 65.3 million people forcibly displaced.

Disaster Relief

From the Field

Fleeing Aleppo: Man recounts chaos leaving war-torn city

Shihab fled his home in eastern Aleppo, Syria, in the early hours Friday, Dec. 16. In the chaos, he managed to cram into an overcrowded bus leaving for safety in Idlib. Read his story.

Refugee Crisis
Syria

Water inundates Boudain, a community on La Gonâve island, one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Matthew on the island nation. Ivonne and her daughter Cindia, 8, walk toward their collapsed home. “I really do not know what I will do,” she says. World Vision supports 100 children in Boudain through sponsorship and is bringing relief supplies. (©2016 Claudia Martinez/World Vision)

From the Field

2016 humanitarian world news headlines

Humanitarian world news brings you a regularly updated selection of events and trends impacting people and the humanitarian community worldwide in 2016.

Disaster Relief

In hard-hit Portsmouth, Va., Hope Charitable Services, a World Vision partner, is delivering hurricane relief supplies from a World Vision warehouse. (©2016 Frank Allen)

From the Field

World Vision responds to Hurricane Matthew’s U.S. East Coast destruction

Hurricane Matthew blasted the U.S. East Coast, leaving more than 40 people dead and thousands of homes flooded and without power. World Vision is responding to the aftermath.