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All around the world boys and girls learn teamwork, coordination, and endurance by playing the world’s most popular sport — the game we in the U.S. call soccer and the rest of the world calls football.

Photos: Kids play football around the world

All around the world, boys and girls play the world’s most popular sport — the game we in the U.S. call soccer and the rest of the world calls football.

Charitable Giving

Dear Water: How does clean water change lives? These girls wrote a poem to tell you just how life-giving and transformative it can be.

From the Field

Video: Schoolgirls share their poem ‘Dear Water’

How does clean water change lives? These girls wrote a poem to tell you just how life-giving and transformative it can be.

Clean Water
Kenya

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami pounded Banda Aceh city on Indonesia’s Sumatra island. After the waves subsided, people scavenged for usable items in the rubble. The tsunami, caused by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off the Sumatra coast, was the deadliest in recorded history.

From the Field

2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: Facts, FAQs, and how to help

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the deadliest disasters in modern history, was caused by a massive undersea earthquake. Nearly 230,000 people died, and millions more lost everything. World Vision raised more than $350 million and mounted the largest disaster response in its history, providing relief and rehabilitation in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, India, and Myanmar over 10 years.

Disaster Relief
IndonesiaIndiaMyanmarSri LankaThailand

In Zambia, 7-year-old sponsored child Steven no longer suffers from malaria now that his family has mosquito nets. (©2014 World Vision/photo by Jon Warren)

From the Field

Malaria: Facts, FAQs, and how to help

Half of the world’s population is at risk of life-threatening malaria, yet there are simple, effective ways to prevent and treat this deadly mosquito-borne disease.

Health

Sept. 28 earthquake and tsunami in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. “Many houses are damaged and bodies are buried under the ruins of the house,” says World Vision volunteer Makmur, after surveying the post-earthquake scene in Silae district of Palu, in Central Sulawesi.

From the Field

2018 Indonesia quakes and tsunamis: Facts, FAQs, and how to help

More than 400 people are reported dead after a tsunami struck western Java and southern Sumatra islands on Dec. 22. World Vision is providing emergency assistance.

Disaster Relief
Indonesia

Refugees from Myanmar walk among a landscape of makeshift shelters and tents in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. The refugee crisis in Bangladesh is one of the worst disasters of 2018.

From the Field

7 of the worst disasters of 2018

As these seven of the worst disasters of 2018 show us, children and families around the world experienced tremendous pain and suffering this past year. But there remains a glimmer of light in each of them. Hope has not been snuffed out.

Disaster Relief
BangladeshDemocratic Republic of the CongoIndonesiaMyanmarSyriaMiddle East

2015 Nepal earthquake in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Search and rescue workers look for victims amid the rubble of collapsed buildings. The quake also caused landslides and avalanches in the Himalaya Mountains.

From the Field

Earthquakes and tsunamis: Facts, FAQs, and how to help

Earthquakes and tsunamis — often caused by earthquakes — are among the most damaging and deadly disasters, yet they are part of the natural process that builds the Earth’s landscapes. Learn about earthquake hazards and how to be prepared.

Disaster Relief

The DRC conflict threatens the lives of more than 7 million children affected by fighting, hunger, diseases, and poverty.

From the Field

DRC conflict: Facts, FAQs, and how to help

Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) threatens the lives of more than 7 million children affected by fighting, hunger, diseases, and poverty.

Disaster Relief
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Hope shines a light in the darkness. It’s infectious, even healing. But what is there to be hopeful for? Let’s look at the year ahead with 19 reasons to have hope in 2019 — and how to pray them into reality.

Change Makers

19 reasons to have hope in 2019

Hope shines a light in the darkness. It’s infectious, even healing. But what is there to be hopeful for? Let’s look at the year ahead with 19 reasons to have hope in 2019 — and how to pray them into reality.