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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 >>
World Vision distributing aid in devastated Mozambique
Thursday, 28 March 2019, 3:34 pm | World Vision
World Vision is distributing life-saving aid to those affected by the recent cyclone and flooding in Mozambique. More >>
Wahana Visi Indonesia responds to earthquake and tsunami
Wednesday, 3 October 2018, 1:13 pm | World Vision
Four days after a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Indonesia, millions are growing desperate as they wait for aid. More >>
World Vision launches appeal for Indonesia Earthquake
Monday, 1 October 2018, 1:37 pm | World Vision
World Vision launches appeal for millions affected by Indonesia Earthquake, as it provides aid to survivors More >>
World Vision New Zealand Announces New CEO
Thursday, 8 February 2018, 1:54 pm | World Vision
World Vision New Zealand Announces New CEO Grant Bayldon has been announced as the new Chief Executive Officer of World Vision New Zealand. He replaces Chris Clarke, who finished at World Vision in July 2017 after seven years as CEO. Bayldon will ... More >>
Cyclone Donna: Flooding and evacuations as Port Vila is hit
Monday, 8 May 2017, 7:02 pm | World Vision
Strong winds and heavy rain is battering Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila, as Cyclone Donna intensifies, having been upgraded to a Category 5 cyclone today. World Vision reports that peri-urban communities have been flooded, resulting in evacuations. ... More >>
World Vision says refugee quota increase is a ‘small step’
Tuesday, 14 June 2016, 4:11 pm | World Vision
World Vision says the Government’s move to increase New Zealand’s refugee quota is a small step in the right direction, but more must be done given the unprecedented numbers of refugees and displaced people in the world today. More >>
Nepal Earthquake: Babies born in open air
Monday, 27 April 2015, 2:45 pm | World Vision
World Vision Communications Officer in Nepal Matt Darvas has told of seeing babies born in the open as health centres struggle with the immense need and dangerous aftershocks. More >>
