World Vision History Archives

Thirty years ago, when famine in Ethiopia shocked the world, U2 lead singer Bono spent a month working with World Vision staff.

Voices

30 years ago, U2’s Bono visited Ethiopia ‘on the quiet’

Thirty years ago, when famine in Ethiopia shocked the world, U2 lead singer Bono spent a month working with World Vision staff.

Hunger News
Ethiopia

Since World Vision began in 1950, partnering with the local and global church has been at the core of our work around the world.

Change Makers

65 years: Engaging the body of Christ

Since World Vision began in 1950, partnering with the local and global church has been at the core of our work around the world.

Christian Faith Stories
AsiaEastern EuropeLatin America/CaribbeanMiddle EastUnited States

From Bob Pierce to Rich Stearns, World Vision U.S. presidents have sought the Lord’s leading and wielded their willingly broken hearts in the battle against poverty.

Change Makers

World Vision’s praying presidents

From Bob Pierce to Rich Stearns, World Vision U.S. presidents have sought the Lord’s leading and wielded their willingly broken hearts in the battle against poverty.

Christian Faith Stories

Voices

World Vision celebrates 65 years of partnering with the church

In 2015, World Vision celebrated its 65th anniversary. One man’s vision for missionary partnership became a worldwide partnership with one vision.

Christian Faith Stories

Does child sponsorship really work? Wouldn’t it be more efficient to not focus on individual children? Marilee Pierce Dunker finds answers in surprising places.

Voices

World Vision child sponsorship works

Does child sponsorship work? Wouldn’t it be more efficient to not focus on individual children? Marilee Pierce Dunker finds answers in surprising places.

Child Sponsorship

Children running in a group down a dirt road.

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.

Charitable Giving

Follow the evolution of child sponsorship at World Vision from caring for orphans in the 1950s to transforming whole communities today.

From the Field

Evolution of child sponsorship through the years

Follow the evolution of child sponsorship at World Vision from caring for orphans in the 1950s to transforming whole communities today.

Child Sponsorship

Child sponsors come from all walks of life, all 50 states, and all generations since World Vision’s early days in the 1950s. When and why they choose to sponsor vary as greatly as the people themselves. Read the stories of a few sponsors who have responded through the decades.

Change Makers

Faithfulness of child sponsors through the decades

Child sponsors come from all walks of life, all 50 states, and all generations since World Vision’s early days in the 1950s. When and why they choose to sponsor vary as greatly as the people themselves. Read the stories of a few sponsors who have responded through the decades.

Child Sponsorship

Back in 1975 in Operation Babylift, World Vision evacuated 27 Vietnamese and 20 Cambodian orphans to the United States due to deteriorating conditions in Southeast Asia.

From the Field

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.