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Wednesday 25, Mar, 2020Isabel Gomes, World Vision's Global Director of Humanitarian Operations, shares how World Vision is responding to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Friday 20, Mar, 2020World Vision's Humanitarian Health, Nutrition and WASH Director examines the impact coronavirus could have on the global refugee population.
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Thursday 19, Mar, 2020World Vision's national director in the Philppines examines what the coronavirus pandemic means for the world's poorest communities, what we can do to slow it down and how we can support health workers, communities, families and children.
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Coronavirus: World Vision welcomes UN’s global response plan
Wednesday 25, Mar, 2020World Vision welcomes the UN’s COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response plan, launched today (March 25).
Coronavirus: World Vision urges UK churches to unite for National Day of Prayer and Action
Wednesday 18, Mar, 2020World Vision UK is urging churches across the country to unite for a National Day of Prayer and Action in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Coronavirus: World must unite to focus on the most vulnerable as pandemic declared
Wednesday 11, Mar, 2020A united global effort is needed to help prevent COVID-19 from having a massive destructive impact on the lives of child refugees, migrants and the very poor, warns aid agency, Wor…
Coronavirus: World Vision urges UK government to reveal aid plans for possible global outbreak
Friday 06, Mar, 2020World Vision warns that coronavirus could travel through poorer regions of the world which lack strong health structures to contain it.
New analysis reveals scale of destruction and displacement in Idlib
Wednesday 04, Mar, 2020New satellite imagery and analysis by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Save the Children and World Vision show how children are experiencing unbearable suffering.
Hundreds of thousands in northwest Syria caught in humanitarian catastrophe, aid agencies warn
Wednesday 05, Feb, 2020As hostilities continue to escalate in northwest Syria, eight aid agencies are today making an urgent call for an immediate ceasefire.
World Vision joins 2,000 campaigners demanding world leaders tackle the emergency facing people and planet
Thursday 30, Jan, 2020In a dramatic act of global unity, 2000 campaigners and public figures from over 140 countries are backing an open letter signed by 20 world-leading activists.
Tim Pilkington to step down as World Vision UK CEO
Monday 27, Jan, 2020Tim Pilkington is to step down as World Vision UK CEO on 1 March after five years at the helm of the charity.
World Vision UK hosts Milton Keynes hustings to highlight global impact of aid
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World Vision statement on Ebola aid workers killed in DRC
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Aid agencies evacuate Ebola and measles hotspots as violence flares in DRC
Monday 25, Nov, 2019A sudden surge in violence in the DRC has forced aid agencies to suspend work, putting lives at risk as the fight against Ebola and measles is undermined.
World Vision welcomes repatriation of British orphans in Syria
Thursday 21, Nov, 2019World Vision welcomes reports of the repatriation from Syria of three orphaned British children. Innocent victims of war should not be punished for the actions of their parents.
General Election 2019: 3 calls for the ‘most important election for a generation’
Friday 15, Nov, 2019All parliamentary candidates should sign up to keep Britain as an outward-looking country committed to helping the world’s most vulnerable communities, World Vision urges today.
UK students come together to fight world hunger
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Ending Child Marriage
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