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Four years after joyously celebrating its independence, South Sudan has plunged into violence.
Special Features

South Sudan’s tattered dreams

  • Refugee Crisis
  • South Sudan
©2015 Laura Reinhardt | World Vision. Trafficking survivor gets job training in Cambodia.
From the Field

Child trafficking survivor begins new life at trauma recovery center

  • Child Protection Stories
  • Cambodia
A skeptic in Texas was inspired to sponsor a child. Years later, she had a ‘divine appointment’ in Uganda, making her a believer in child sponsorship forever.
Voices

Sponsoring a child turns skeptic into a believer

  • Child Sponsorship
Does child sponsorship really work? Wouldn’t it be more efficient to not focus on individual children? Marilee Pierce Dunker finds answers in surprising places.
Voices

World Vision child sponsorship works

  • Child Sponsorship
How do you change the world for girls in Bangladesh? Sponsorship is a big part of the answer, combatting poverty’s effects by enabling children to pursue education.
From the Field

Sponsorship’s lasting impact on urban families in Bangladesh

  • Child Sponsorship
  • Bangladesh
Despite continued heartbreak in the most difficult places, the past few decades have shown incredible progress in the fight against extreme poverty.
Voices

In the Dominican Republic, good news on extreme poverty

  • Blog
  • Dominican Republic
Little girl now healthy, eating
From the Field

Killing worms, gaining weight

  • Health
  • Myanmar
Voices

Rainbows and water in Zambia

  • Blog
  • Zambia
Children running in a group down a dirt road.
From the Field

Campaign For Every Child: Finishing the race

  • Charitable Giving
From the Field

Scenes of everyday life in rural Bolivia

  • Child Sponsorship
  • Bolivia
Follow the evolution of child sponsorship at World Vision from caring for orphans in the 1950s to transforming whole communities today.
From the Field

Evolution of child sponsorship through the years

  • Child Sponsorship
Our team recently traveled to South Sudan, where they met a family of four siblings, orphaned and displaced by war, having recently lost their mother.
Voices

Our mother died because she ran too slow

  • Blog
  • South Sudan
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