204 days ago From All Africa   View Archived Article

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - As part of its numerous interventions to improve the quality of basic education in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region, World Vision Ghana, a Christian relief non-governmental organisation, with support from its partners, on Thursday ...

205 days ago From Sacramento Bee   View Archived Article

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - NEW YORK, Oct. 29, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- As hundreds of thousands of East Coast residents evacuate to seek shelter from Hurricane Sandy, the Christian humanitarian relief organization World Vision is scaling up its emergency response to provide ...

210 days ago From Awoko   View Archived Article

FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE - Over one hundred inhabitants of Sengama village in the Bonthe District have received Non-food Items from World Vision Sierra Leone after a recent flooding which destroyed their homes, livestock and crops, leaving many residents in abject poverty and ...

217 days ago From The Swazi Observer   View Archived Article

MBABANE, SWAZILAND - World Vision further donated 140 care-givers kits to the rural health motivators (RHMs) as well as clothes to some of the households affected by the storm. Mtsambama MP Mlamuli Dlamini extended his gratitude to World Vision for the support to the ...

217 days ago From Bethel Citizen   View Archived Article

BETHEL, MAINE - World Vision's 30-Hour Famine project helps young adults =93learn the truth about hunger, poverty, and injustice, then overcome it all with love,=94 according to the organization's website. =93This is an exciting venture for our kids,=94 said ...

230 days ago From The Herald | HeraldOnline.com   View Archived Article

ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA - CHICAGO, Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Team World Vision, a fundraising arm for international Christian charity World Vision, is bringing their largest number ever to the Bank of America Chicago Marathon this weekend in Chicago. Team World ...

238 days ago From All Africa   View Archived Article

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - World Vision Rwanda is set to launch a campaign named 'Child Health Now' (CHNC) aimed at ensuring that children experience life in its fullness. "This is World Vision's first global advocacy campaign focused on the reduction of preve ...

253 days ago From Reuters AlertNet   View Archived Article

LONDON, U K - Dallas, TX (September 6, 2012) =97 More than a week after Hurricane Isaac made landfall along the Gulf Coast, World Vision relief teams report they are struggling to keep up with the extreme demand for relief supplies from storm survivors. The Christ ...

269 days ago From KIRO Seattle   View Archived Article

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - Seattle basketball players in the NBA gave out hundreds of school backpacks for kids in need. The athletes teamed up with World Vision at the Red Apple Saturday afternoon in the Central District, and Minnesota Timberwolves players Will Conroy and ...

275 days ago From Market Watch   View Archived Article

WOODBRIDGE, NEW JERSEY - To meet the need teachers face, World Vision maintains seven Teacher Resource Centers in Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, Chicago, Dallas, Washington, D.C., and Appalachia. These resource centers serve schools that have a high rate of children on free ...

291 days ago From Market Watch   View Archived Article

WOODBRIDGE, NEW JERSEY - World Vision is teaming up with Oklahoma churches to deliver relief supplies to families and children impacted by sweeping wildfires. At the Christian organization's Domestic Disaster Headquarters in North Texas, pre-positioned supplies are being ...

317 days ago From Ventura County Star   View Archived Article

VENTURA, CALIFORNIA - Cathy Farwell of Westlake Village describes herself as a =93stay-at-home mom who never seems to stay at home.=94 ...

384 days ago From Huntersville Herald   View Archived Article

HUNTERSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA - St. Mark Catholic School eighth-graders Megan Jackson (left) and Katie Bruce participate in the World Vision 30 Hour Famine Tribe Games, a series of challenges that highlight the hardships faced by those living in impoverished communities . ...

406 days ago From NorthJersey.com   View Archived Article

WOODLAND PARK, NEW JERSEY - Westwood resident Scott Jough and his 13-year-old son, Peter, recently ran for World Vision, a nonprofit that, among other things, helps raise funds and awareness to help provide water in communities in Africa with no infrastructure; the money raised ...

413 days ago From Market Watch   View Archived Article

WOODBRIDGE, NEW JERSEY - As Texas residents reel from the more than a dozen tornadoes that ripped through Dallas and Tarrent counties, World Vision's emergency response team is preparing to rapidly distribute relief supplies, expecting the greatest needs to include basic ...

416 days ago From Patch.com   View Archived Article

WILLOW GROVE, PENNSYLVANIA - Montgomery County Community College students go without food in order to raise money for World Vision. ACE President Alysa Murray sells paper-chain links prior to MCCC's 30-Hour Famine event. Photo Courtesy of Montgomery County Community College ...

421 days ago From Auckland Stuff   View Archived Article

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - Ms Tagaloa says the sewing class also had a visit from World Vision where a representative spoke to them about the work the organisation carries out. She says the class settled on Africa because of the extreme poverty there. ...

422 days ago From Sierra Express Media   View Archived Article

FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE - There was a scene of extravaganza, cultural drumming and dancing, following the official handing over ceremony of facilities focused on the well-being of children by World Vision Sierra Leone to chiefdom administration, local councils and government ...

427 days ago From UGPulse.com   View Archived Article

KAMPALA, UGANDA - In a bid to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal four, World Vision has launched a campaign aimed at putting an end to preventable diseases that kill mothers and children. In a statement by World Vision, the preventable .. ...

428 days ago From Reuters AlertNet   View Archived Article

LONDON, U K - World Vision emergency staff is heading to affected areas to assess the damage and respond after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit Oaxaca, Mexico, located about 115 miles east of Acapulco, Mexico. World Vision has several programs in the area. ...