Shelter is the priority for people now in Haiti
2012
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David Cameron must use this year’s G8 summit to rally world leaders to take firm action as a food crisis looms in West Africa, World Vision UK urged today. [read more]
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World Vision is pleased the Government is keeping its promise to the world’s poorest people by spending 0.7% of national income on aid by 2013. [read more]
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Get the latest updates from the World Vision UK blog here [read more]
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In day 2 of Justin Byworth’s Afghanistan travel blog sees life & death & shows just how important mother & baby charities here really are. [read more]
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Former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, has today been convicted of recruiting child soldiers to fight a civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone which claimed 50,000 lives. [read more]
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A shortfall in aid donations needed to help millions of people suffering in the Sahel food crisis could mean cutbacks & millions left to go hungry. [read more]
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After the recent earthquake in Indonesia & tsunami warnings, World Vision staff in the affected areas are on stand by. As always World Vision works to keep children safe in particular. [read more]
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The ECOWAS decision will have dire humanitarian implications & put more pressure on communities already struggling with a refugee crisis. [read more]
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The lives of hundreds of thousands of malnourished children and pastoralists are at stake if political talks between an ECOWAS delegation of regional African heads and leaders of the Mali military coup do not guarantee that the aid pipeline stays open, warns International aid agency World Vision. [read more]
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Scrapping the UK 0.7% aid target on gross national income for international aid could cost millions of lives. More news from World Vision. [read more]
2011
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Six months on from Pakistan’s devastating floods, high rates of malnutrition pose an ongoing danger to the country’s children, says World Vision... [read more]
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As the numbers affected by Sri Lanka’s floods rise to more than one million, World Vision is distributing emergency relief to thousands of people in the worst-hit areas... [read more]
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As the one-year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake approaches, World Vision calls for an "unflagging commitment” to the people of Haiti as the nation continues to rebuild... [read more]
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This Sunday, 9 January, millions of Sudanese will go to the polls to determine the future of Africa’s largest country. [read more]
2010
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Sierra Leone is rolling out an ambitious programme to reduce the vast number of people in the country still dying from malaria... [read more]
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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]
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World Vision is supporting hospitals "overwhelmed" with injured people following a stampede at a festival in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh... [read more]
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Child Health Now, World Vision’s first global advocacy campaign, celebrates its first birthday today! [read more]
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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]
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The worst of Hurricane Tomas has passed through Haiti, where World Vision's earthquake relief and cholera responses were already underway... [read more]
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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]
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World Vision is responding with medical support after an outbreak of cholera in central Haiti... [read more]
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Holding firm on its commitment to overseas aid for the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people is the right thing for the UK Government to do, World Vision UK's Chief Executive Justin Byworth said today... [read more]