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Worst Drought In 40 Years Leaves Millions Lacking Food And Water In Kenya

Kenya’s worst drought in 40 years has left 4.1 million people facing a shortage of food and water as farmers struggle to adapt to changing climate and weather patterns.

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‘This could get worse really fast:’ Non-profit asks for donations to help Ukraine

The fluid situation in Ukraine is not lost on Edgar Sandoval, the CEO for World Vision, a global nonprofit organization.

“This could get worse really fast,” he said.

RELEVANT MAGAZINE

The Ukraine War is Causing a Hunger Crisis in Africa

“The world is experiencing its worst hunger crisis of modern time,” Edgar Sandoval Sr., president and CEO of World Vision, told RELEVANT. “There are 49 million worldwide on the brink of starvation, and half of those are children.”

World Vision is the largest distributor of World Food Program aid. We spoke to Sandoval just after he returned from Kenya seeing the…

THE CHRISTIAN POST

As millions face global hunger crisis, World Vision seeks $2 billion for the food insecure

Fresh off a recent trip to Kenya where he visited several food insecure communities, Edgar Sandoval Sr., president and CEO of World Vision USA, recalled how the pandemic, compounded by the war in Ukraine, climate shocks and inflation, has turned the once looming hunger crisis into a present danger for nearly 4 million people in the East African nation and millions of others around the globe.

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‘Life-saving’ peanut paste unlikely victim of Ukraine war

Under an acacia tree in Kenya’s drought-ravaged north, malnourished infants feed on sticky mouthfuls of a nutrient-dense peanut paste long used to prevent child starvation in disasters across the globe.

This wonder food can mean the difference between life and death for a child in hard-hit Marsabit, where aid workers say young children are perishing in…

FOREIGN POLICY

Fostering Resilience in Central America

In the face of deteriorating political, socio-economic, and environmental conditions, hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing northern Central American countries. Recognizing the urgency and complexity of this evolving crisis, and the need for innovative and collaborative solutions, FP has partnered with World Vision and the World Bank on a first-of-its-kind simulation focused on resilience. Tune in…

RELIGION NEWS SERVICE

World Vision faces pandemic’s ‘perfect storm,’ seeks to meet US, global needs

‘There’s a real threat that 30 years of progress in our fight against extreme poverty could be reversed,’ World Vision US President Edgar Sandoval Sr. said. In Senegal, Christian relief staffers worked with Sunday school and Quran teachers to reduce stigmas about COVID-19 as they distributed masks.

LEAD LIKE IT MATTERS TO GOD PODCAST

Edgar Sandoval: Perseverance, Lead Like It Matters to God podcast, March 30th, 2021

“I put so much value on perseverance as a leadership trait because achieving breakthrough outcomes is not easy. In fact, giving up early when things are not going well is a constant temptation.”

Edgar Sandoval understands perseverance better than most. Arriving in

THE DANIELLE STRICKLAND PODCAST

The Right Side Up with Edgar Sandoval and Victor Doungel

S006 E007 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” Matthew 5:8 What does being pure in heart mean to you? President and CEO of World Vision USA EdgarSandoval asks Victor Doungel, a young man with cerebral palsy, what it means to be pure…

TAGLINE PODCAST

How ‘Like a Girl’ Broke the Internet, Won the Super Bowl, and Changed P&G Forever

Commercials on the Super Bowl often go viral. But in 2015, it went the other way, as a viral spot from YouTube stormed halftime of the big game, extending its already impressive reach and inspiring the culture to dismantle a phrase that was literal evidence of girls’ confidence drop at puberty.

FOX BUSINESS

2020 was a year filled with painful numbers. Here are a few that might renew your faith in humanity

Here are a few of the numbers from 2020 that I find most encouraging. It’s a year that was filled with heartbreaking numbers that could easily rob us of hope.

First of course is the tragic toll of lives lost to COVID-19 – each more

THE CHRISTIAN POST

Heard of the COVID-19 parable?

A man was traveling alone on a dirt road when he was attacked by a gang of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him, took his belongings and left him in the ditch, clinging to life. Over the course of time, three travelers, also journeying down the same path, see the naked, bloodied victim on the side of the road. Only one stops to help.

THE CHRISTIAN POST

COVID-19 threatens to shrink our spirits, emotions. Fight back

Like many people, COVID-19 has shrunk my life down to the walls of my home. As the president of World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization that works in nearly 100 countries including in the Unites States, normally I’m on the move. Most months I log thousands of miles traveling around the U.S. and to some of the most remote corners of

Refugees

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Don’t cut the precious lifeline of U.S. foreign aid to Syria

Imagine being uprooted, under fire, on the run for more than nine years. You and your family becoming dreadfully accustomed to the earsplitting whine of incoming airstrikes. Being all too used to grabbing only what you can carry and fleeing for your life. Becoming a grim expert on catching a few hours of sleep in a makeshift tent or outside.

Child choosing sponsor

VOX

A US charity tries something new: letting poor kids choose their donors instead

For decades, Western sponsors picked foreign kids to help. What if kids picked them instead?

World Vision, a Christian charity based in Seattle, is one of the largest nonprofits working in global health and development, with more than

RELIGION NEWS SERVICE

P&G Alum Flips Script For Children’s Sponsorship Challenge

For years, children’s charities relied on a standard gimmick: letting Americans choose a child to sponsor for a set monthly donation.

World Vision, a global humanitarian organization based in Federal Way, Washington, is rewriting that approach. Instead, it’s taking a page from

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FOREIGN POLICY

Fostering Resilience in Central America

RELIGION NEWS SERVICE

World Vision faces pandemic’s ‘perfect storm,’ seeks to meet US, global needs

LEAD LIKE IT MATTERS TO GOD PODCAST

Edgar Sandoval: Perseverance, Lead Like It Matters to God podcast, March 30th, 2021

Refugees

THE CHRISTIAN POST

Don’t cut the precious lifeline of U.S. foreign aid to Syria

THE CHRISTIAN POST

Heard of the COVID-19 parable?

THE DANIELLE STRICKLAND PODCAST

The Right Side Up with Edgar Sandoval and Victor Doungel

TAGLINE PODCAST

How ‘Like a Girl’ Broke the Internet, Won the Super Bowl, and Changed P&G Forever

FOX

2020 was a year filled with painful numbers. Here are a few that might renew your faith in humanity

Child choosing sponsor

VOX

A U.S. charity tries something new, letting poor kids choose their sponsors instead

THE CHRISTIAN POST

COVID-19 threatens to shrink our spirits, emotions. Fight back

RELIGION NEWS SERVICE

P&G Alum Flips Script For Children’s Sponsorship Challenge

Edgar

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