As South Sudanese refugees arrive in Uganda, they reach a new, unwanted home — but life in these homes hacked from the Ugandan bush is the best option they have.
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Voices
Podcast with blogger Kristen Howerton (Rage Against the Minivan)
This podcast, listen to an interview with Kristen Howerton, a popular blogger who has been operating Rage Against the Minivan since 2006. She recently traveled with World Vision to Iraq and Lebanon and was generous enough to be interviewed, ironically, in the back of a minivan.
Voices
Podcast with Pastor Dave Schmidgall from National Community Church
This podcast we talk with Pastor Dave Schmidgall from National Community Church in Washington, D.C. about meeting Syrian refugees in Lebanon and how to put your faith in action here at home.
Prayers
Hope in hard places: Pray for South Sudan
Join us in praying over the people of South Sudan, where armed conflict and food shortages make it very difficult to live right now.
Voices
Podcast with Hillsong United
This month we talk with JD and Dylon Thomas from Hillsong United about refugees, life on the road, and their new album, “Wonder.”
Voices
World Refugee Day: Moses misses his father
Nearly 10,000 refugee children have crossed from South Sudan into Uganda without their parents. Meet Moses, one of these unaccompanied children who now must wear the shoes of a father for his sisters. Learn how this responsibility weighs on him and how World Vision is helping to look after them.
Change Makers
Game of Thrones actor meets South Sudanese refugees
Liam Cunningham traveled to Uganda in May to see World Vision’s work with the fastest-growing refugee crisis worldwide — South Sudan.
Voices
Facing responsibility: The face of a refugee child
In 2013, World Vision President Rich Stearns met 10-year-old Haya in Jordan. The song she sang to him that day became a pivotal moment in his life: “Do you ever think of the children of Syria?” Hear from Rich about the impact of that moment, and three and a half years later, join us in reconnecting with Haya.
From the Field
Syrian refugee children use art to express pain and loss
In a Child-Friendly Space in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, young Syrian refugees use art to express their feelings of loss and hope.
Change Makers
From Syria to Seattle: When worlds collide
They did not know each other, but simultaneously, their lives were plunging into an abyss. Seattle software programmer Cari Conklin was on a collision course with the Alhamdens, one of the millions of Syrian families caught in the crossfire of Syria’s civil war.