Each spring, people from all over the world participate in World Vision’s Global 6K. Their goal? To raise funds for access to clean water. Learn about how a grandmother and granddaughter have bonded over doing the 6K and fundraising together.
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Sammie’s story: Making the world a better place
Sammie, a girl from New Jersey, learned at school that many people around the world lack enough food and access to clean water. She wanted to help, and her father found a way through World Vision’s Gift Catalog. With money she raised through a lemonade and cookie stand, she was able to purchase the gift of 10 goats to help equip families to overcome poverty.
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Students fundraise for Ukraine through World Vision’s Ignite program
Young people have witnessed compelling footage of the war in Ukraine, including heartbreaking images of refugees and displaced families. Moved to act out their faith, students at Christian schools have raised more than $80,000 to provide Ukraine relief through World Vision’s Ignite program, a partnership that helps schools engage students and shape them into global leaders with a biblical worldview. Park Street School in Boston, Massachusetts, raised more than $16,000 through a walkathon after students, faculty, and staff established the “Children Helping Children” Ukraine Fund.
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Devotion: 3 stories of God’s joy for all people
This Christmas, we reflect on how the joy Jesus ushered into the world with His birth means good news for the world’s most vulnerable people, many of whom are being empowered out of poverty through World Vision’s work.
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Choose joy: These artisan-made gifts give back
This Christmas, the World Vision Gift Catalog includes new artisan-crafted celebrity gift options. Read the stories behind the fair-trade artisans around the world who create these unique handcrafted gifts.
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Stir your faith: 6 ways to put faith into action
Explore six themes from Acts 2 that marked early church Christians. Let God’s words build your trust in His promises — and stir you and your family to take faith-filled action through spiritual disciplines.
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Walking the Global 6K in honor of my son
A World Vision staff member shares her story of walking World Vision’s Global 6K for Water in honor of the son she lost, so that mothers around the world might not suffer that same kind of grief.
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Student sees his teacher — a Team World Vision runner — as a hero
A Team World Vision runner shares about the impact that training and running to raise funds for clean water have had both in her own life and in the lives of her students. They were all changed by the experience.
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Walking in the shoes of those without clean water
Two high school friends first sell their own baked goods, then run, to fundraise for clean water through World Vision’s Global 6K for Water.
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More than capable through Women of Vision
Catherine Armstrong’s desire to seek God led her to Women of Vison. From feeling empowered to empowering others, Catherine has experienced God in new ways.