As Baton Rouge families continue cleaning up their homes and assessing losses after August’s massive flood, local churches and aid groups are filling the gap for many with relief supplies.
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Child mortality: Top causes, best solutions
While the number of preventable child deaths has dropped dramatically, child mortality is still a problem. A few simple solutions can save even more lives.
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2015 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 2015.
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From heartbreak to hope: 65 years of disaster response
Starting in 1950 with the Korean War, World Vision has responded to the most urgent disasters and humanitarian crises around the world, providing immediate aid.
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Former child migrant: ‘That could have been me’
Former Vietnam migrant Dr. Vinh Chung reacts to the Syrian refugee crisis and the searing photo of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi: “The body of the lifeless toddler, face down, washed up on the beach is really chilling to me — because that could have been me.”
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World Vision supports firefighters, families affected by Washington state wildfires
World Vision distributed relief supplies to support workers fighting wildfires and families affected throughout central and northeastern Washington.
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TBT: Operation Babylift in Vietnam rescues orphans
In 1975, World Vision’s Operation Babylift evacuated 27 Vietnamese and 20 Cambodian orphans to the U.S. due to deteriorating conditions in Southeast Asia.
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30 years later, World Vision pilots talk of Ethiopia famine, BBC’s famous report
Two pilots for the World Vision relief operation during the 1980s Ethiopian famine share the story of flying a BBC film crew to the crisis zone.
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The longevity of World Vision water wells
A new scientific study by the UNC Water Institute shows that World Vision water wells continue to flow for decades. But not because the wells function better. They keep flowing for so much longer than usual because World Vision teaches the people who need that water how to repair broken wells!
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The 1,000th well in Mali marks a clean-water milestone
Villagers celebrated as World Vision’s 1,000th successful borehole drilled in Mali since 2003 brought clean water to the rural village of Yaran.