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A girl smiles as she labels her new school supplies. World Vision and volunteers distributed Yoobi school supplies kits to students in Kent, Wash. (©2015 World Vision, Chris Huber)

Back-to-school supplies power students, teachers for successful year

  • Education
Naomi walks through the wilderness to the place she used to collect water. Now she and her family enjoy access to clean water. (©2016 World Vision, Chris Huber)
From the Field

Clean water lifts mother’s spirit, family’s burden

  • Clean Water Stories
  • Kenya
Olympian cyclists Annette and Alex Edmondson ride bikes with World Vision sponsored child Vanessa and her youth group in Brazil.
From the Field

Olympians meet inspiring Brazilian ‘sister’

  • Child Sponsorship
  • Brazil
During the Olympics, we watch athletes who have dedicated their lives to their sport. Shouldn’t followers of Christ be as committed to their faith?
Voices

Becoming Olympians for Christ

  • Christian Faith Stories
Meeting the child they sponsor gave Olympians Ashton Eaton and Brianne Theisen-Eaton a deeper motivation to compete in the Olympic Games in Rio.
From the Field

Olympic couple finds purpose beyond gold medals

  • Christian Faith Stories
  • Kenya
Giduma taught his siblings to read. How? Reading Buddies, a World Vision program that trains children how to read with and teach other kids how to read.

Training children to teach others to read

  • Education
  • Ethiopia
Olympic medalists Ashton Eaton and Brianne Theisen-Eaton visited their sponsored child in Kenya and learned first-hand how World Vision sponsorship works.
Change Makers

6 things Ashton Eaton and Brianne Theisen-Eaton learned in Kenya

  • Child Sponsorship
Pyone is a survivor of human trafficking. After 4 years trapped in another country, today she is reunited with her family, working to support her daughter.
Voices

Lured into marriage: A survivor’s story of being trafficked

  • Blog
  • Myanmar
South Sudanese refugees in Uganda, children, hunger,

Fleeing conflict in South Sudan, refugees flood Uganda border

  • Christian Faith Stories
  • Uganda
How can we redefine
Voices

Teaching children empathy as a way to see and address poverty

  • Blog
Adelaine and Lukas studied about slavery in their homeschool history class. They wrote their members of Congress to urge them to consider legislation that addresses human trafficking, a modern form of slavery. After a family vacation to Washington, D.C., Representative Etsy says their visit to her office inspired her to back the anti-trafficking bill that is now law.
Change Makers

9 tips for raising courageous, world-changing kids

  • Christian Faith Stories
During the Ebola crisis in West Africa, Mollie Johanson donated profits from her Etsy shop to build 120 kits for World Vision caregivers.
Change Makers

Handmade from the heart: Fundraising to build Caregiver Kits

  • Charitable Giving
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