Due to fistula — an injury during childbirth that causes incontinence — Jennifer remained outside when she attended church, kneeling in the dirt to pray. Without improving health for women who don’t have proper care, issues like fistula can ruin their lives.
News & Stories
From the Field
When hunger, poverty undermine education for children
Poverty often keeps children like 11-year-old Kham out of school. He used to skip school to look for food, and he was embarrassed about his dirty clothes.
Voices
Right ideas at the right time are saving lives
World Vision is a fantastic place for innovation. When it’s done right, it can affect hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people.
Voices
The power of comfort in action
Marilee Pierce Dunker reflects on how we can comfort those in trouble with the comfort we receive from God. Find out the power of comfort in action.
Voices
From asthmatic couch potato to crazy runner
On his journey as a runner, Daniel says: “You’re not going to believe what happened to me after six weeks.” Read how God is using Daniel’s weakness to raise money for clean water in Africa!
Special Features
From dependence to dignity
AUG. 1, 2014, TANZANIA — Start with an unpredictable climate. Add a portion of destructive cultural values. Stir in some fear. The result: a recipe for ruin. But World Vision has figured out how to reverse the course, leading entire communities of hardworking, God-gifted people from dependence to dignity.
Prayers
Pray through the day
Aug. 1, 2014 — Knowing how to pray for young people in poverty isn’t always easy. Here’s a way you and your child can use daily activities to learn about and pray for children around the world.
From the Field
Ethiopia: Once a dust bowl, now a place of plenty
The hunger crisis of 30 years ago is remembered but unlikely to repeat in Ethiopia’s Antsokia Valley, thanks to effective development work and community engagement.
Voices
Olivia’s story: A Zambian sponsored child grows up
Marilee Pierce Dunker, daughter of World Vision’s founder, chronicles her visits over the years with her sponsored child, Olivia, in Zambia.
Change Makers
Texas bikers ride to provide children with clean water
Fort Worth Harley-Davidson store owners Mark and Jennifer Smith convinced a room full of Texan bikers to solve a problem most Americans couldn’t imagine.
Voices
Opening our hearts to the little children
Reflecting on the humanitarian crisis of vulnerable children along the U. S. border, Rich Stearns — president of World Vision U.S. — writes that, following Jesus, “the best solutions come from a compassionate heart.”
From the Field
A lesson from the 1980s Ethiopia famine: First, we pray
David Ward led the team that set up World Vision feeding centers across Ethiopia during the 1980s famine. He shares the story of the massive relief and rehabilitation program’s improbable beginning.
