News & Stories

Aparna Sen shares how growing up in Calcutta shaped her desire to help girls in India get an education, and led her to sponsor a girl in India.
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Helping my homeland: Why I sponsor a girl in India

Children, many of them sponsored, play games and attend class at a school in India. World Vision provided the furniture for the school.
Special Features

From here to there

Rachel Held Evans saw how child sponsorship helps children and the entire community in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Special Features

Confessions of a child sponsorship skeptic

A former sponsored child, who at one time went days without food, completed her education and now provides for her mother and family.
From the Field

Former sponsored child in Eswatini graduates with distinction

Earth Day is a chance to look at how we can be a part of caring for God’s creation. Caring for the planet can benefit both people in need and the Earth.
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Caring for God’s creation on Earth Day

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What’s “good” about Good Friday?

If you give a pig, you can keep a family out of poverty. Read this inspiring story from the Kahi community of Rwanda to find out.
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A pig tale from Rwanda

Samuel is dedicated to improving the quality of life for vulnerable people … through clean water! Today he shares a story of success he witnessed in Zambia.
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Clean water is life: Improvements to wells in Zambia

In many parts of the world, frog meat is seen as a delicacy. In some areas where World Vision works, it is one of the only sources of protein within reach.
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Frog: The other, other white meat

Social justice is a term that often suffers from competing definitions and vastly different interpretations. Find out what social justice really means.
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What does social justice really mean?

Women of Vision: Dr. Leslie Parrott, author and family therapist, shares some of her personal experiences and why she believes in the collective power of women to create positive, lasting change in the world.
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Women of Vision: Change happens when women come together

Find out what four things Rich Stearns encourages pastors and churches to do to help address global poverty in tangible ways.
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4 things any church can do to address global poverty