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Urgent humanitarian crisis looms in East Africa
Friday, 24 March 2006, 2:24 pm | World Vision New Zealand
World Vision's communications director for East Africa, Nigel Marsh, says the Horn of Africa needs urgent help now. As the United Nations doubles its financial appeal for Somalia (21 March) to US$326m, Marsh emphasizes that although it is not an official ... More >>
HIV/AIDS team to visit NZ this week
Monday, 27 February 2006, 9:40 am | World Vision New Zealand
A high-powered team of HIV/AIDS experts are visiting New Zealand next week, keen to talk to Members of Parliament, aid officials and World Vision staff about the growing HIV/AIDS global pandemic and its potential impact in the Pacific. More >>
Students discover child labour doesn't work
Monday, 20 February 2006, 2:50 pm | World Vision New Zealand
Children bonded to work, in chains. Twelve-hour workdays, instead of school. These are concepts New Zealanders are unfamiliar with. But with World Vision's 40 Hour Famine fast approaching, students nationwide are getting a vivid education about ... More >>
Second crisis for Pakistan
Thursday, 3 November 2005, 3:07 pm | World Vision New Zealand
Following the UN's desperate pleas for help last week, the warnings of an impending second crisis in Pakistan are increasing. More >>
PNG aid worker to visit Wellington
Thursday, 3 November 2005, 11:19 am | World Vision New Zealand
Elias Nara, from Papua New Guinea, is in New Zealand on a two-week tour of the North Island and upper South Island. He will speak at approximately 24 meetings of World Vision supporters on his whistle-stop tour, with the intention of encouraging New ... More >>
Kiwi's protecting kids in earthquake zone
Tuesday, 25 October 2005, 4:32 pm | World Vision New Zealand
New Zealander Stephen Hooper has just returned from the devastated city of Ballakot to Mansehra in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, where World Vision has a base. Hooper, who is an experienced conflict mediator says, "I will never forget the first sights ... More >>
Death toll rises in Pakistan
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 5:03 pm | World Vision New Zealand
As officials set the death toll closer to 80,000 with more than 4.5 million affected by the Pakistan earthquake, aid agencies are desperately trying to provide tents for shelter. More >>
Kiwis get stuck in, in Mansehra
Tuesday, 18 October 2005, 4:43 pm | World Vision New Zealand
Two Kiwi aid workers are working side by side in Mansehra, in the mountainous region of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, and a third is due to join them on Saturday [October 22]. More >>
Award-winning photojournalist to visit NZ
Tuesday, 18 October 2005, 4:01 pm | World Vision New Zealand
Award winning photographer and writer, Canadian Philip Maher, is visiting New Zealand next week fresh from reporting on tsunami relief work in Indonesia. More >>
Pakistan response scaled up as winter sets in
Monday, 17 October 2005, 10:24 am | World Vision New Zealand
As the search for survivors is called off in quake-devastated Pakistan, fears are mounting for more than 2.5 million people exposed to the fast approaching, bitter Himalayan winter, already heralded by the increasingly cold nights. World Vision ... More >>
NZ Child Protection Expert Flies To Pakistan
Sunday, 16 October 2005, 4:54 pm | World Vision New Zealand
With thousands of people dead and missing, the tracking and tracing of children is becoming a key concern for aid agencies working in earthquake-struck Pakistan. International Child Protection expert, New Zealander Heather MacLeod is on her way to Pakistan ... More >>
NZ Child Protection Expert Flies To Pakistan
Friday, 14 October 2005, 1:57 pm | World Vision New Zealand
With thousands of people dead and missing, the tracking and tracing of children is becoming a key concern for aid agencies working in earthquake-struck Pakistan. International Child Protection expert, New Zealander Heather MacLeod is on her way ... More >>
Truckloads of aid getting through in Pakistan
Wednesday, 12 October 2005, 11:16 am | World Vision New Zealand
World Vision has sent truckloads of aid into northern areas of Pakistan, as further grim reports filter out from the area. The trucks contain thousands of blankets, tents and burial cloths – and cases of water – headed for Mansehra, a three-hour ... More >>
NZ Relief Worker on her way to Pakistan
Wednesday, 12 October 2005, 11:15 am | World Vision New Zealand
Kiwi aid worker, Judy Moore, who is something of a legend when it comes to relief work in disaster situations, is flying into Islamabad tonight. More >>
Grim Reports Back From Assessment Team
Tuesday, 11 October 2005, 11:14 am | World Vision New Zealand
World Vision has got grim reports back from its assessment team which traveled into the upper north of the North West Frontier Province and the Mansehra District, the area hardest hit by Saturday's earthquake in Pakistan. More >>
World Vision Responds to Devastating Earthquake
Monday, 10 October 2005, 10:03 am | World Vision New Zealand
World Vision, the international Christian humanitarian organisation, is sending assessment teams to three of the most severely damaged areas of Pakistan and India affected by today's earthquake. More >>
NZ sponsors assured Niger children safe
Friday, 7 October 2005, 9:27 am | World Vision New Zealand
New Zealand child sponsors will be relieved that their sponsored children are not suffering from the severe food crisis in Niger, says World Vision Niger's child sponsorship coordinator, Hannatou Hassane. Ms Hassane has just visited the most severely affected ... More >>
Entrepreneur for the poor to visit NZ
Thursday, 6 October 2005, 11:04 am | World Vision New Zealand
Dynamic entrepreneur Rommel Caringal is visiting New Zealand from Saturday 8 October - Friday 14 October, to inform New Zealand donors about the amazing growth of World Vision's micro-enterprise programme in Cambodia. More >>
NZ students return from Mongolia
Friday, 30 September 2005, 3:26 pm | World Vision New Zealand
Three New Zealand high school students return from Mongolia on Wednesday October 5, after 10 days on a Sanitarium-funded travelling scholarship visiting World Vision's work. More >>
Three NZ secondary students off to Mongolia
Thursday, 22 September 2005, 11:11 am | World Vision New Zealand
From left to right, Betheli Calvert, Chloe Murcott, Hyung Myung Kim, at the awards dinner when the scholarships were announced. More >>
