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An army that marches on its knees

  • Christian Faith Stories
Former child soldiers getting vocational training. ©2013 Kayla Robertson for World Vision UK.
From the Field

Child soldier prevention law: Partial enforcement lets some offending countries off the hook

  • Child Protection Stories
Sept. 22 marks 67 years since World Vision was founded by Bob Pierce in 1950. But without these smiling faces, our birthday would be meaningless.
From the Field

World Vision celebrates its birthday with help from kids worldwide

  • Child Sponsorship
Dozens of Bru tribe families in India have homes of their own, thanks to the economic empowerment program “Land for the Landless” project.
Voices

Economic empowerment gives hope to India’s Bru tribe

  • Economic Empowerment
Voices

Kony, child soldiers, and remembering Margaret

  • Child Sponsorship
  • Uganda
A UNC Water Institute study shows that World Vision water wells continue to flow for decades because World Vision teaches people how to repair broken wells!
Voices

The longevity of World Vision water wells

  • Blog
  • Ghana
A new innovative approach to farming in Tanzania is freeing communities from the grip of poverty faster than anything that’s been done before.
Voices

Pursuing the best: Innovation revolutionizes farming in Africa

  • Economic Empowerment
  • Tanzania
Through student innovations and school support, a World Vision-funded lunch program became an award-winning farm, with endless learning and income prospects.
From the Field

Thai students’ innovations reap ripe rewards

  • Education
  • Thailand
Success for an accountant in Zambia began with child sponsorship when he was a boy, one of the first children sponsored in his village.
From the Field

Success for a Zambian accountant began with sponsorship

  • Child Sponsorship
  • Zambia
Human trafficking is a sleek, contemporary term for the selling of one human being by another for the purpose of forced labor or sex.
Voices

World Vision helps trafficking victims rebuild their lives

  • Child Protection Stories
  • Myanmar
A Cambodian street boy once trapped in a world of addiction has discovered a whole new world of freedom and hope and is helping other children find it too.
Voices

Cambodian boy finds freedom from addiction

  • Child Protection Stories
  • Cambodia
Six-year-old Salma and her family walked for eight days before they arrived in Dahuk, Iraq. They're living in a shelter made of cardboard and blankets on the grass next to a service station. (©2014 Meg Sattler/World Vision)
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Pray for the children and families of Iraq

  • Christian Faith Stories
  • Iraq
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