When she was only 11, Kendall Ciesemier started a nonprofit to benefit children. She had no idea that 10 years later, her dream would touch thousands of lives.
News & Stories
World Vision Magazine
From the Field
Playtime with Paolo: Former Boy Scout is changing children’s lives
Through games, music and education, World Vision staff in Bolivia are equipping children to overcome poverty, malnutrition, and child labor.
From the Field
Thai pastor passes on his sponsor’s ‘spirit of giving’
Now a pastor in Bangkok, a former sponsored child in Thailand learned sacrificial giving from his sponsor, a San Francisco janitor.
Change Makers
How God used two unlikely athletes to inspire a movement
Team World Vision was launched back in 2003 by two men who had never even met before — that’s the beauty of how God works.
Change Makers
Cheerful givers: New Jersey children ‘didn’t want to put God in a box’
For a group of New Jersey children, the goal was to give one dairy cow, but they filled an entire stable instead.
Change Makers
A Minnesota church answers God’s call to help Mozambique communities
In the seven years since Eagle Brook Church answered God’s call to help communities in rural Mozambique, they have sponsored 3,400 children, supported thousands of pastors, drilled nearly 200 wells, and built dozens of schools
Special Features
7 hungry places
NOV. 1, 2014 — Around the globe, a quarter of children younger than 5 fail to grow because they do not have enough food to eat. Here are seven of those hungry places and how World Vision is helping to change that.
From the Field
30 years later, World Vision pilots talk of Ethiopia famine, BBC’s famous report
Two pilots for the World Vision relief operation during the 1980s Ethiopian famine share the story of flying a BBC film crew to the crisis zone.
Voices
An army that marches on its knees
There has never been a day that World Vision staff are not praying for direction, for provision, for healing, for forgiveness — and for mountains to move.
Voices
Kony, child soldiers, and remembering Margaret
Writer Kari Costanza recalls her trip to Gulu, Uganda, a place made infamous by Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army. It was also there that Margaret Alerotek, a World Vision communications staff member in Uganda, had taken her last meal.