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  • 26 Mar 2009
    G20 must not pursue ‘piecemeal’ financial regulation says charity

    A charity is urging G20 leaders to ensure that issues that matter to the world’s poorest countries are not sidelined when they meet in London next week.

  • 25 Mar 2009
    A Mother's Day tale from Democratic Republic of Congo

    Sixteen-year-old Esther* is a new mother – her daughter, Emma, is one week old. Esther and Emma live in a makeshift camp for people uprooted by the long-running conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. For women and girls living here, motherhood often results not from the wish to build a family, nor from intimacy, but from rape.

  • 13 Feb 2009
    24 hour famine begins to help sex workers in India

    Charity World Vision launches its 24 hour famine today, aimed at raising funds to help children and others in the commercial sex trade.

  • 3 Feb 2009
    World Vision distributes aid in Gaza, fears for children

    More than 9,000 people will benefit from World Vision relief trucked into Gaza over the weekend, the aid agency’s first to get into the territory since the recent conflict began.

  • 27 Nov 2008
    Abuse and exploitation of boys still 'largely ignored' says charity

    The world is still “largely silent and unresponsive” to the needs of boys as both victims and survivors of sexual abuse, according to humanitarian agency, World Vision.

  • 16 Jun 2008
    Ideas for World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

    Land degradation intensifies agricultural economic losses, disorganizes local and regional food markets, and causes social and political instability. To combat it there is an increasing push towards sustainable agriculture - the ability of a farm to produce food indefinitely, without causing irreversible damage to ecosystem health. And now there are lots of creative ways you can help support this work from giving a can of worms to a Bolivian farmer through to helping create a farming conservation plot in Zimbabwe.

  • 23 May 2008
    Evangelicals urged to continue support for relief work in China and Myanmar

    Evangelical Christians have been urged to keep up their efforts to support relief work in the areas of China and Myanmar ravaged by recent natural disasters. The comments came yesterday from the Director of the Evangelical Alliance.

  • 22 May 2008
    World Vision prioritises needs of children following China quake

    Christian development agency World Vision says that it is prioritising children in the aftermath of the earthquake in China. More than 4.8 million people were made homeless after the earthquake destroyed homes and flattened schools.

  • 24 Apr 2008
    World Vision launches Child Sponsorship campaign

    The international relief and development agency World Vision has launched its two-week child sponsorship campaign with the support of Spice Girl and mum of one, Emma Bunton, appealing to people in the UK.

  • 23 Apr 2008
    Christian agency warns of instability in Haiti as food prices rise

    The agency is providing relief to hungry children and families affected by the crisis and is preparing to increase its response. Rising global prices for food and fuel have hammered Haiti, which survives largely on imported goods.