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India’s Second Wave Shows The Global Fight Against COVID-19 Is Far From Won

Thursday, 29 April 2021, 10:29 am | World Vision

As India’s COVID-19 daily infection rates reach devastating levels, international aid agency World Vision has warned that the world is nowhere near defeating this virus and some nations are yet to face their worst days. Andrew Morley, World Vision ... More >>

Billions Of Dollars Of NZ Imports Linked To Modern Slavery

Thursday, 29 April 2021, 7:01 am | World Vision

More than three billion dollars’ worth of imports that could be linked to modern slavery are brought into New Zealand every year according to new research by World Vision. Every household spends on average 34 dollars a week on goods that are associated ... More >>

Aid Organisations Call On Governments To Give A Single Day’s Military Spending To Fight Hunger

Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 10:41 am | World Vision

Only 26 hours of global military spending is enough to cover the $5.5 billion needed to help those most at risk A year on since the UN warned of “ famines of biblical proportions ”, rich donors have funded just 5 per cent of the UN’s annual food ... More >>

A Year On,COVID-19Could WipeOut 20 Years Progress Against PovertyAnd Disease

Thursday, 11 March 2021, 5:44 am | World Vision

As the world focuses on COVID, vaccination rates for other deadly diseases significantly drop for first time in years The number ofthose in extreme poverty is increasing for first time in 20 years - 150 millionmore in 2021 COVID-19could reverse20 ... More >>

World Vision’s Biggest Response Ever Reaches 60 Million People

Monday, 1 March 2021, 11:11 am | World Vision

World Vision has reached 60 million people with COVI-19 aid, as it continues the biggest humanitarian response in its history. The aid agency is responding in 70 countries and eventually aims to reach more than 70 million people, including those ... More >>

World Vision Challenges The World To Distribute Vaccine Fairly

Wednesday, 20 January 2021, 10:16 am | World Vision

World Vision says the world faces a challenge to avoid the “catastrophic moral failure” described by the head of the World Health Organisation, regarding the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has issued dire warnings ... More >>

Children Left Out Of Crucial Climate Summit

Wednesday, 9 December 2020, 3:58 pm | World Vision

Young people like Greta Thunberg have been pivotal in sparking a climate action revolution, but others like her risk being left out of the UN’s headline climate crisis meeting in Glasgow next year. World Vision has today warned that no under ... More >>

World Vision Calls On World Leaders To Commit Vaccine To The Most Vulnerable

Tuesday, 10 November 2020, 10:35 am | World Vision

World Vision welcomes the announcement that an effective vaccine could soon be available and calls on global leaders to that any vaccine rollout reaches the most vulnerable people around the globe. News of the development of a COVID-19 vaccine willbring ... More >>

COVID-19 Could Force More Than 19 Million People Into Famine

Thursday, 15 October 2020, 8:36 am | World Vision

World Vision today warned that more than 19 million people are at risk of famine in 12 of the world’s most fragile countries due to a deadly mix of conflict, the economic impacts of COVID-19 and climate-related natural disasters. The NGO fears ... More >>

COVID-19 Poses Unprecedented Threat To Fight Against Poverty

Monday, 14 September 2020, 4:21 pm | World Vision

As the United Nations General Assembly prepares to meet, World Vision is warning that the UN’s decades of work fighting poverty could be reversed by COVID-19. The percentage of the world’s population living in extreme poverty decreased from 36 ... More >>

Majority Believe Their Governments Should Pay More To Fight COVID-19 Overseas

Sunday, 30 August 2020, 7:04 pm | World Vision

80% of people surveyed in major donor countries believe life won’t return to normal until COVID-19 is under control everywhere. 60% want their governments to increase foreign aid, to fight COVID-19 in other countries. Research from international aid ... More >>

Three Years In To Rohingya Refugee Crisis, Funding Cuts Threaten Lives

Tuesday, 25 August 2020, 4:10 pm | World Vision

860,000 Rohingya refugees – more than half of them children - mark three years living in camps Heading into Year 4, child protection must remain central to the response Sustained international funding is needed for life-saving aid, and to support ... More >>

World Vision Ship Brings COVID-19 Aid To Remote Amazonian Communities

Tuesday, 18 August 2020, 7:48 am | World Vision

Some of the most remote communities in the Amazon region in Brazil have receive medical attention, hygiene supplies and education to prevent COVID-19, from a hospital-ship operated by World Vision and the Presbyterian Church of Manaus. The “Solidarity More >>

A Catastrophe For Children: Millions Of Children Hungry As COVID-19 Cuts Incomes

Wednesday, 8 July 2020, 9:41 am | World Vision

A report released today by aid agency World Vision has laid out some dramatic impacts felt by the poorest children in the world because of the COVID-19 pandemic. More >>

Millions At Risk As India And Bangladesh Brace For Cyclone Amphan

Wednesday, 20 May 2020, 11:16 am | World Vision

Cyclone Amphan, one of the most powerful storms to hit the Bay of Bengal in decades, is bearing down on a region already battling to contain COVID-19, threatening efforts to curb the virus and potentially destroying the lives and homes of millions of children ... More >>

Tens of millions at risk from severe Cyclone Fani

Saturday, 4 May 2019, 12:15 pm | World Vision

World Vison is ready to respond to Cyclone Fani (pronounced Foni) which continues to intensify, threatening millions of families and their children in India and Bangladesh. More >>

World Vision responds to devastating floods

Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 10:03 am | World Vision

More than a week after Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe the scale of the devastation is only now becoming clear. Half a million people are homeless in Mozambique and tens of thousands more in Malawi and Zimbabwe. Life-saving aid ... More >>