Picture: A World Vision worker at a child-friendly space in Haiti

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Eyewitness accounts from around the world are below, offering first-hand reports from the field.

World Vision has begun distributing emergency food supplies in Goma, reaching more than 36,000 displaced people in the first two days. Find out more online now. [read more]
Suzy Woodward writes about her visit to the south-east Asian country to meet her sponsored child... [read more]
Niger, one of the world’s poorest countries, is facing its worst food crisis in five years. World Vision’s Ann Birch gives a glimpse of Niger’s condition and what World Vision is doing to help... [read more]
World Vision worker Fiona Perry writes about a new mother's experience of childbirth in one of Haiti's camps for earthquake survivors... [read more]
While headlines report violence and observers speak of chaos in Haiti’s capital, I’m seeing another side to Port-au-Prince, writes World Vision worker Anna Ridout... [read more]
Haiti’s children separated from their families are at risk of abuse and exploitation, trafficking or losing their identities, writes World Vision worker Anna Ridout... [read more]
World Vision worker Jhonny Celicourt, 37, was at his desk when Haiti’s worst earthquake for 200 years struck. Here, Jhonny tells his harrowing story... [read more]
Chris Webster has travelled from the UK to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to help with World Vision's emergency response... [read more]
Kate Laburn-Peart is Head of Policy and Research at World Vision UK. She writes from the climate change summit in Copenhagen... [read more]
Chris Olver works as a videographer for World Vision. He is in Padang, Indonesia, to document the devastation caused by two earthquakes in October 2009... [read more]
Children who were only babies when I first set foot at Otash camp, Darfur, four years ago are now of school age. Unfortunately, most of them have yet to get the chance to go to school, writes Dan Teng'o... [read more]
Aid worker Chris Webster writes about the families uprooted by war... [read more]
“It will be easier to die than to ask families to leave,” says Rizwan, 59, who has taken more than 30 people fleeing fighting into his home in Pakistan... [read more]
If a non-event can be a highlight, then perhaps this was it. We drove to the perimeter of Gaza and gazed across the wall at what lay beyond. We couldn’t get in... [read more]
Jennifer Chiodo watched as a family's home was bulldozed to the ground in a Palestinian neighbourhood in east Jerusalem... [read more]
A group of bankers from Scotland visited a community in Niger they support through an employee partnership with World Vision... [read more]
World Vision's emergency officer Arthur Mist is in Darfur where a humanitarian emergency has killed up to 300,000 people in the last six years... [read more]
World Vision communications officer Reena Samuel shares her encounters with Pooja, an 11-year-old girl who spent most her life living in the streets of Mumbai... [read more]
Wah Eh Htoo, staff member of World Vision Myanmar, gives an eyewitness account of the devastating cyclone... [read more]
World Vision UK’s Economic Justice Policy Officer, Elena Chiarella, reflects on September’s global aid effectiveness forum in Ghana... [read more]
Although Tamuna was afraid to leave her husband behind when she fled Georgia’s recent conflict, she never imagined it would be the last time she would see him alive... [read more]
Tony Baldry visited a city settlement in Ethiopia's capital, where rural families have found a new kind of poverty... [read more]
Jeanette Holmstrom of World Vision reports on her visit to South Sudan, which is recovering from two decades of war that has cost two million deaths and displaced four million people. Today, many communities still fight over grazing land and water supply... [read more]
Volunteer Thia Sagherian walks through the streets of Beirut two days after the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah [read more]
Richard Rumsey of World Vision's Asia Pacific region reflects on the response to the Bangladesh cyclone in November 2007... [read more]
Communications officer Esther Williams visited schools in one of the poorest parts of India... [read more]
World Vision's Anna Ridout is in Gulu, northern Uganda, where she witnesses some of the effects of the 20 years of conflict... [read more]
PICTURE: Anna Ridout

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Anna Ridout recently returned from six months in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read her blogs from her time there below.

For six months now, I’ve been asking myself and others, what will end the cycle of war in east Democratic Republic of Congo? As I prepare to leave, I think I may have found the answer – education... [read more]
Five-year-old Deux-Anges' emergency malaria treatment cost her family a month's pay. She's been sick three times this year... [read more]
The bottom line, which should be making headlines, is there is no peace in east Democratic Republic of Congo... [read more]
In an area where gathering wood is a dangerous task, World Vision is helping to introduce fuel-efficient stoves, which lessen the frequency with which women must make the trek into the forest... [read more]
In Congo, the fighting may have stopped, but families have lost everything – their crops, cattle and possessions... [read more]
From sexual violence to celebration in eastern Congo... [read more]
Clarisse is 11 years old and she sells herself to men for sex for less than a dollar. A group formed by local youth is working to help children like Clarisse... [read more]
Anna writes about convincing a mother to seek help for her burned child... [read more]
From a distance, it’s easy to get very principled about the actions of armed groups. Here on the ground, you realise you have to balance that with a good measure of pragmatism... [read more]
Esther turned 16 recently. Her mind has been less on birthday celebrations than on the baby she is expecting. She is pregnant after being raped by armed militiamen... [read more]
Children uprooted by the war talk about their experiences... [read more]
The conflict in eastern DRC looks nothing like it did this time last week. I was at the hotel in Goma when the breakaway leaders of the main Tutsi rebel group came to announce the end of the war... [read more]
Every parent I talk to here in eastern Congo is struggling to feed their family... [read more]
People living in the camps of eastern Congo talk about their hopes for 2009... [read more]