It was the best moment of the day. Not the warm smiles and waves of the villagers, not the sound and sight of sparkling, precious water hitting the waiting buckets, not even the laughs of children seeing how my camera worked. [read more]

International children’s charity World Vision today warns how our modern living is fuelling many forms of child exploitation. The report - Small World, Big Responsibility - highlights ways in which people across the UK are – often unknowingly - complicit in today’s global trade in children. [read more]

World Vision has started distributing water purifiers in some of the areas hit by heavy rains and storms in Mozambique this past week, amid fears of a cholera outbreak [read more]

The Chief Executive of World Vision UK says aid agencies must ramp up their efforts to tackle growing food shortages in Niger, after meeting scores of families affected by the crisis. [read more]

Families devastated by Typhoon Washi in the Philippines are facing a growing struggle to find clean water for their children. [read more]

December 18, 2011, Cagayan de Oro City, the Philippines--As search and rescue efforts shift to relief assistance for the survivors of Mindanao's devastating flooding, World Vision's relief manager in Mindanao, John Salva, said today that water, ready-to-eat food and hygiene kits remain the most urgent needs for affected families. [read more]

Cagayan de Oro City, the Philippines--World Vision aid workers assisting survivors in the flooded communities of Southern Philippines described a scene of widespread devastation and grief today, after nearly 200 have been left dead and more missing after Tropical Storm Washi's landfall. [read more]

At one time Sierra Leone had the worst rate of maternal mortality in the world. [read more]

Representatives from more than 90 countries are gathering to discuss Afghanistan’s future. The Bonn Conference, which begins next week, is a real chance to put concrete steps forward in how to secure long-term peace and development in Afghanistan, as international troops prepare to withdraw by 2014. [read more]

The World Aids Day 2011 global theme is “Getting to Zero — Zero New Infections; Zero Discrimination; and Zero AIDS-related Deaths.” [read more]

The Chancellor’s Autumn Satement is a further acknowledgement of the critical role aid plays in improving the lives of the world’s poor. [read more]

Voting is under way across the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the country’s second elections since independence in 1960. [read more]

This World AIDS Day, World Vision is continuing to call for universal access to services to be available to ensure that no child is born with HIV... [read more]

World Vision is supporting hospitals "overwhelmed" with injured people following a stampede at a festival in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh... [read more]

Child Health Now, World Vision’s first global advocacy campaign, celebrates its first birthday today! [read more]

Three months after Pakistan's worst ever flooding, World Vision UK’s Tennille Bergin is in the country to find out more about the situation and World Vision’s response, and she’s vlogging about her experiences on Facebook... [read more]

The worst of Hurricane Tomas has passed through Haiti, where World Vision's earthquake relief and cholera responses were already underway... [read more]

World Vision has distributed relief items in seven evacuation centres in Indonesia following a week of volcanic activity at Mount Merapi in Java... [read more]

World Vision is responding with medical support after an outbreak of cholera in central Haiti... [read more]