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NFL player Kelvin Beachum, Jr. plays American football (Fútbol Americano) with students from World Vision's Agua Blanca project and peer-to-peer tutoring program in San Juan, Honduras.

Voices

Kelvin Beachum Jr. on faith, family, and football

NFL player Kelvin Beachum Jr. reflects on his priorities in life and his passion for servanthood — specifically ending hunger.

Hunger

Christian Kayombo shows off his current cassava crop. © 2016 World Vision/photo by Silas Urio

A better breed of cassava improves livelihoods in Tanzania

The Kayombo family was just barely getting by as cassava farmers, but a successful livelihoods project changed everything. Read their story.

Hunger
Tanzania

As participants in World Vision's KidREACH program, these kids have learned to cultivate fruits and vegetables, which helps them improve their diet and even provides modest income for the program through the sale of produce.

Thanksgiving: Kids give thanks for vegetables

KidREACH — a World Vision afterschool, tutoring, and mentoring program — teaches kids about healthy eating and how to cultivate fruits and vegetables. Learn how the kids at Mount Vernon Elementary School in Brownton, West Virginia, are reading, writing, and gardening.

U.S. Work

Nyahok, 11, cares for younger children in the camp for internally displaced people where she lives near Juba.

From the Field

South Sudan’s fifth birthday marred by conflict and hunger

At the fifth anniversary of South Sudan’s independence, conflict continues and the nation is experiencing the highest rate of hunger of its short history.

Disaster Relief
EthiopiaKenyaSouth SudanUganda

3-year-old girl, severely malnourished, South Sudan

Medicine and nutrition training saves lives in South Sudan

In South Sudan this year, nearly a quarter-million children under age 5 will suffer from severe acute malnutrition. World Vision is there helping.

Health
South Sudan

Who’s that girl? The story behind our Christmas Gift Catalog ‘cover girl’

Chania, 6, is the girl you see on the cover of the 2015 World Vision Christmas Gift Catalog. Her family doesn’t have an easy life, but they have big dreams.

Hunger
Burundi

World Vision photographer Eugene Lee captures the smiles of a Nicaraguan girl who proves that with the right help, malnourished children can get their health back.

From the Field

Life frames: Nicole from Nicaraguara

World Vision photographer Eugene Lee captures how, with the right help, malnutrition can turn into a bright smile.

Hunger
Nicaragua

In a recent opinion piece in Christianity Today, World Vision U.S. President Richard Stearns shares his thoughts about fighting extreme poverty.

Voices

The future of fighting extreme poverty

In a recent opinion piece in Christianity Today, World Vision U.S. President Richard Stearns writes: “After a generation of massive global progress, aid and mission efforts are pointing the same direction.”