446 days ago From NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth   View Archived Article

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - And it is with that mindset that the North Texas employees and volunteers for World Vision International are hard at work gathering and preparing supplies for victims of disaster, like the recent tornados that have ripped through the Midwest. ...

467 days ago From Dominican Today   View Archived Article

SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - 10.2 percent of the Dominican population goes hungry, according to the Global Hunger Index disclosed yesterday by World Vision, whose figures rank the country among the nations with the worse conditions, surpassed only by Haiti. ...

482 days ago From Malaya   View Archived Article

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - World Vision's 12-hour Famine youth campaign aims to generate a nation of givers by making them empathize and advocate against extreme hunger caused by poverty that other children in the country experience every day. In the Philippines, the Famin ...

487 days ago From Ahwatukee Foothills News   View Archived Article

PHOENIX, ARIZONA - For a social responsibility project, two brothers at Ambassador Academy raised money for an organization called World Vision, which sends livestock to families in third world countries. Eliseo and Jorge Cesin collected $135 that, donated to World ...

626 days ago From Times of India   View Archived Article

NEW DELHI, INDIA - Jackman and his wife Deborra Lee Furness are ambassadors for World Vision Australia and they have filmed a video appeal calling for relief effort donations. "World Vision is supporting long-term programmes such as drought tolerant crops, ...

630 days ago From Voxy   View Archived Article

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - At 8am Wednesday morning supporters and donors of World Vision New Zealand will help launch a national social media campaign encouraging other Kiwis to join thousands of other people worldwide working to end the famine in East Africa. ...

635 days ago From Viet Nam News   View Archived Article

HA NOI, VIETNAM - HA NOI =97 A global campaign, called Child Health Now, was launched by World Vision International in Viet Nam on Wednesday in northern Hung Yen Province with a call to improve children's health and nutrition. The one-week campaign will focus its ...

638 days ago From Birmingham Mail   View Archived Article

BIRMINGHAM, U K - Stella Salt, from Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, started sponsoring Millicent Lilian in 2001 through international charity World Vision. The aim was to help improve Millicent and her community access education, clean water, healthcare and other essential ...

675 days ago From Southeast Missourian   View Archived Article

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI - "I suppose it all started when our family decided to sponsor a little girl through World Vision," Anderson said. "She was a little girl named Seba, and she was important in a number of ways. We sponsored her for a couple of dollars a m ...

675 days ago From Basingstoke Gazette   View Archived Article

BASINGSTOKE, U K - The couple, who make the donations through World Vision, were invited by the charity to make the special trip to Kisumu, Kenya, during which they met the teenager (right). Mr Goddard, 59, said: =93We met Linet and her mother and chatted for a couple ...

696 days ago From Ghana   View Archived Article

ACCRA, GHANA - World Vision International has been commended for contributing to combat desertification at the Talensi-Nabdam District of the Upper East Region. The Upper East Deputy Regional Minister, Mrs Lucy Awuni, made the commendation during an open Day on ...

698 days ago From GhanaWeb   View Archived Article

YAMERIGA, GHANA - Yameriga (U/E), June 23, GNA - World Vision International has been commended for contributing to combat desertification at the Talensi-Nabdam District of the Upper East Region. The Upper East Deputy Regional Minister, Mrs. Lucy Awuni, ...

730 days ago From The Prairie Star   View Archived Article

GREAT FALLS, MONTANA - What would the original Calamity Jane - the Montana and Wyoming frontiers woman ... proud of Russell's vision and efforts in animal production and charity. ...

758 days ago From The Daily Yomiuri   View Archived Article

TOKYO, JAPAN - More than 1200 written and video messages, drawings and paper cranes from 22 countries, mostly in the developing world, were collected by the nonprofit organization World Vision International and sent to the group's Tokyo-based NPO, World Vision ...

760 days ago From Reuters AlertNet   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The result of this interaction was called 'The Charity Centre' and the Easter ... charity, preserving traditions, ecology and promoting the communities in ...

762 days ago From SOS Children   View Archived Article

LONDON, U K - Sixty per cent of the chocolate in UK shops is produced using cocoa beans from Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Last year, posing as cocoa dealers, a BBC team found a significant chunk of the chocolate sold in the UK is produced by children as young as eig ...

768 days ago From Coast Reporter   View Archived Article

SECHELT, CANADA - ... Croatia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, ... =93I am hoping to raise 56 cents per kilometre ridden for a charity event I ...

773 days ago From The Chronicle Journal   View Archived Article

THUNDER BAY, CANADA - Students at Hammarskjold and Churchill High Schools held their annual 30-Hour Famine to support World Vision's efforts to stamp out poverty and hunger in developing countries. Their was a slight difference in their approaches. Hammarskjold had mo ...

783 days ago From KCRA Sacramento   View Archived Article

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - The proceeds will go to World Vision International and Covenant World Relief. Mikuni's owner Taro Arai has family and friends in Japan, and since he can't ...

796 days ago From The Christian Post (Singapore)   View Archived Article

SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE - Operation Blessing is attempting to supply the many feeding centres that have been set up for disaster survivors in the region with water, food and other supplies. On Wednesday, a two-man team from the humanitarian organisation brought food and water ...