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Thanksgiving: Celebrating abundant harvests around the world
As we celebrate Thanksgiving, also give thanks for the Lord’s blessings in the lives of farmers World Vision partners with around the world.
More than enough: Child sponsorship inspires hope in Zambia
OCT. 18, 2018, ZAMBIA — Because of World Vision’s community-focused solutions, for every child you help, four more children benefit, too. Debby and her friends are all benefiting thanks to the fact that she’s sponsored.
In God’s economy, people are ‘priceless’
World Vision U.S. president Rich Stearns, who is retiring at the end of September, reflects on his time leading World Vision and how Jesus proved how priceless all people are to God, which changes everything.
A tapestry of hope in Rwanda
AUGUST 2, 2018, RWANDA — Families once displaced during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide now thrive and seek to share their good fortune with refugees, displaced people, and people in need.
How’d they do that: Drip irrigation
World Vision teaches farmers how to use readily available materials to create a homemade bottle drip irrigation system. Try this in your own garden!
Child sponsorship and animals change lives in Bangladesh
Sonali’s family in Bangladesh went from shunned to shining as a result of World Vision child sponsorship and Gift Catalog goats and chickens.
In the kitchen: Fried plantains recipe
Throughout Latin America, one staple food is plantains. World Vision uses plantains in nutrition training with parents. Try this fried plantains recipe!
National Farmer’s Day: From Iowa to Zimbabwe
Having grown up on a family farm in Iowa, our expert Dan Norell reflects on his work today supporting rural farmers in Zimbabwe for National Farmer’s Day.
Defying La Bestia, ‘The Beast’
Crushed by natural disasters, poverty, and violence, many Hondurans are making the dangerous, desperate trek north using a network of freight trains to find opportunity. Find out how World Vision is creating ways to give young people and their families a reason to stay — and flourish — in the country they love.