WASHINGTON, D.C., April 4, 2018 – All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR GCD), Pearson, and Project Literacy today announced two winners of a global prize competition to spur innovation that optimizes the production process for children’s books, thereby reducing costs…
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Responding to the passage of the Fiscal Year 2018 omnibus appropriations bill, World Vision U.S. Vice President of Advocacy and Government Relations Robert Zachritz said: “World Vision appreciates that once again, Congress has rejected the Administration’s drastic cuts to foreign assistance. The Fiscal Year 2018…
World Vision commits to reach everyone, everywhere they work with clean water in Rwanda
March 22, 2018 (SEATTLE) –– In the first step of a bold vision to bring clean water to everyone, everywhere World Vision works by the year 2030, President Rich Stearns announced today that the organization will fulfill this commitment first in Rwanda— within…
NEW YORK (March 19, 2018) – On World Water Day, March 22, Grammy-winning international superstar and business entrepreneur Armando Christian Pérez, known by the stage name Pitbull, will be honored and address delegates about the global water crisis from the General Assembly Hall at…
Syria’s children ‘at risk of never fully recovering’, new study finds
A little girl peeks out of the doorway of her family’s tent. They live in an informal tented settlement (ITS) for Syrian refugees, near Zahle’ in Bekaa, Lebanon. Many of the children here attend a World Vision Child Friendly Space and Early Education Center.…
Washington, DC – As Secretary of State Rex Tillerson prepares to testify on the administration’s budget, a leading group of humanitarian, development and global health organizations are releasing new data that shows just how devastating these proposed cuts to the United States’ foreign aid budget would be to millions of people in the poorest countries.
Statement by World Vision President Richard Stearns Regarding the Death of Billy Graham
February 21, 2018 (Seattle) –– God’s greatest messenger of our time is silent today. Billy Graham’s death brings a significant sense of loss to people throughout the world. Believers and non-believers everywhere knew and admired him as a man of personal, professional and spiritual…
SEATTLE--(February 17, 2018) -- The earthquake in Haiti was a tragedy for the hundreds of thousands of children and their families who lost everything. The nation was already the poorest and most fragile in the hemisphere. It was a challenging time for aid workers who...
Syrian Refugees: Don’t Forget About Us
Highlights One Day’s Wages partnering with World Vision to raise $200,000 for refugees in the Middle East Campaign coincides with the 7-year anniversary of the Syrian civil war World Vision hosted One Day’s Wages founder Eugene Cho in Iraq and Lebanon to meet with...
Highlights At this a time of unprecedented global challenges United States global leadership has never been more important. ©2016 World Vision/photo by Chris Huber WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 12, 2018) — Leading humanitarian, development, and global health organizations call upon Congress to reject the Administration’s inadequate...