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How is the global financial crisis affecting the world's poor?
Report: Effective aid: helping millions
Halving poverty by 2015: are Millennium Development Goals on track?
Poverty denies children their basic human rights
Tim Costello on the Millennium Development Goals
Faith without deeds is dead. Brooke Fraser's dedication to Albertine
The gift of caring: why sponsors matter to communities
Football and faith: A journey to South Africa
The miniature earth
Who is it happening to?
Children are learning their way to a brighter future in Shambarai
Melbourne Gospel Choir and Sons of Korah sing for a cause
Child Rescue: Sarath, 14-years-old
Sponsor visit: Meeting Mbali in South Africa
A day in the life: Myagmargarig in Mongolia
A day in the life: Halima in Tanzania
Sponsor visit: Meeting Geoffrey in Uganda
Fullness of life: a new father’s story
Sabaya has two fears
A day in the life: Vut in Vietnam
Former sponsored child: Matildah’s passion for child health in Zambia
Alphonsine: Behind the scenes
“Keep writing”: Angel tells his sponsor
Sponsoring a child creates magic in Sally's life
My visit to Ethiopia: when Julie met Workinesh
Information is power: A Ugandan perspective
My visit to Mongolia: when Kelly met Ranzemdamberel
Brazilian women and their solidarity dolls
My visit to Guatemala: when Marcus met Alexander
Behind the ad: Meet Nancy from Uganda
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Transforming lives in Area Development Programs
The challenge of being poor in Colombia
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Clean water means life in Shambarai
Award-winning Casting Crowns heading our way
Congratulations to our nine New York Marathon finishers!
Supporters ready to run New York City Marathon
Nobel Prize Winners: how empowering women makes a difference
After 15 years of change, Pilahuin prepares for the future
Matt Jacoby: Your money gets there
A day with Guha
What does a successful child sponsorship program look like?
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New Year, New Beginning!
Thank you World Vision volunteers!
Give gifts that mean more
What would Jesus do?
Say no to violence against women
Foreign Minister Rudd talks overseas aid, East Africa with World Vision
Foreign Minister Rudd visits World Vision headquarters
Helping those beyond our shores is good business
Jarrod McKenna joins World Vision
Churches connect with women through Girls Night Out
Aid budget commitment could save 200,000 lives
Introducing the Artists Associates
Celebrating 100 Years of International Women's Day
Launch of the Poverty and Justice Bibile
Hi5 in the Philippines
Putting children first in the highlands of Peru
Fish, ducks and vegies help Mary's family become self sufficient
There are solutions to HIV and AIDS in Uganda
Connecting Lives: experience the life of a child in Africa
Uganda story: Empowerment in Kammengo
Life-changing gifts spread Smiles around the world
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Climate Change
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Climate change is making us sick
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A need for climate solutions
Behaviour change: a climate change solution
Playing fair on climate change impacts
Tim Costello: climate change is our greatest challenge
Bio-fuels: Running on empty?
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Climate Change: The effects on children
Water warfare: fantasy or (potential) reality?
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What we consume makes a difference
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Checking the climate in Bonn
Blogging from Bonn
Desmond Tutu addresses a Copenhagen crowd
The Philippines: disasters, setbacks and results
Greener lives start here
In our neighbourhood: Bob McMullen MP on climate change
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Changing the climate conversation
Blogging from the Flower & Garden Show
Permaculture at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show
Offering a prayer for Copenhagen
World Vision ambassador Hugh Jackman at the UN
Thanks Australia: Youth Decide
From Twice As Green to One Earth
Working to address the consequences
Changing the climate for peace
Grassroots solutions are solutions
Explaining carbon offsets and how they can help
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Update: Tropical Storm Washi
Philippines: A safe place for children after typhoon Washi
Typhoon Washi devastates the Philippines
Update: Asia Floods
Update: World Vision works to help families affected by Cambodian floods
East Africa Emergency
Our Ambassadors Hugh Jackman & Deborra lee Furness discuss Government's Dollar-for-Dollar initiative with Tim Costello
Double your Donation to East Africa Appeal with Australian Government help
What is World Vision doing in the Horn of Africa?
East Africa: a heart-wrenching humanitarian crisis
Blog: Megan McGrath in Puntland, Somalia
Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness support World Vision’s East Africa Appeal
Tim Costello reports from Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp
Donations bring help and hope to families in East Africa
Can the African Union agree to save thousands of lives?
Water trucking allows drought-affected community in Kenya to stay put
What does it mean if the rains don’t come?
Photo Blog: Mel Doyle visits Dadaab
Blog: Mindy Mizell in Kenya
Photo Blog: A Photographer in Dadaab
Tim Costello at Dadaab: Good news in bad news story
Famine of 1984 does not match the drought I see now in Somalia
World Vision prepares to expand relief operations into west Somalia
Nourishment for Somalia’s desperately hungry children
Somalia: A woman having to give birth on top of truck moves me to tears
Community’s resilience proven in drought-affected Kenya
The real cost of water in Somalia
East Africa Emergency Video
Tipping Points and the Horn of Africa
East Africa’s worst drought in decades hits vulnerable children
Update: South Sudan Independence
Conflict worsens in South Sudan
Security, safe water & school top of children’s hopes for South Sudan
Video: Children's Hopes for a New Nation
Blog: Michael Arunga in Juba
Update: Niger Food Crisis
Update: Thailand Floods
Update: China Floods June 2011
World Vision provides relief to flood-affected families in China
World Vision to distribute relief items in flood-affected regions of China
Update: Myanmar Earthquake
Japan Earthquake & Tsunami 2011
Six Months On: Exceptional Recovery but Survivors and Local Economies Struggling
Six months after Japan’s tsunami, survivors are rebuilding communities and lives
Child-Friendly Space helps young tsunami survivors return to normal
World Vision helps rebuild and rebrand the local fishing industry
Japan: 83,000 assisted in three months since earthquake and tsunami
Thank you from the people of Japan
World Vision provides friendly spaces for children in Japan
Japan: Six Months after Tsunami: Communities Rebuilding Lives
Video: Japan Earthquake & Tsunami: 3 Months On
Japan: World Vision blankets bring warmth at evacuation centres
Blog: On the ground in Japan
World Vision's Chris Webster on ABC News24
Japan: Nappies bring relief for Kouka and her mother
Japan: A week since March 11, people who survived return to Arahama town
Japan Earthquake & Tsunami in pictures
Japan: Video update
Japan: Mr Muraoka, 60, shares his story of loss
Japan: Eyewitness to the disaster zone 'It was so quiet'
Praying for Japan
Video: Japan Disaster Update
World Vision assessment team arrives in earthquake-affected area
World Vision assessment team heads to earthquake-affected area
World Vision pre-positions relief supplies for Japan earthquake and tsunami
Haiti earthquake
Chickens offer food and income for families
A new home for the Polinus family
Haiti: Two Years On – Where to Now?
From heartbreak to hope in Haiti: Two years in photos
Blog: On the ground in Haiti
Healing Through Helping Jony Saint Louis’ compassion for quake survivors is motivated by personal loss.
Haiti: Getting people with a disability back into business
Haiti: One Year On – Much Achieved, Yet Still More to Do
Some Christmas cheer for children in Haiti’s camps
A place to call home, despite the challenges of rebuilding in Haiti
Cholera Cases Increase: World Vision continues response
Haiti: Cholera outbreak
Haiti 6-months later: Much has been done but road to recovery will take years
Haiti: My dream home
Haiti six months on: From rescue to recovery
A Call to Action: Haiti at 6 months
Haiti earthquake: As hurricane season approaches, storms could create ‘secondary disaster’
Haiti 3 months on – Thank you Australia
Haiti 3 months on: World Vision provides aid to around 1.8 million people
Haiti: Health emergency just beginning
Haiti: Children mourn the loss of their mother
Haiti: Rural communities risk chronic food, water shortages
Haiti: Thousands flee to La Gonave to seek food and shelter
Haiti: Education through entertainment
Haiti: Post January 12
World Vision provides maternity kits to ensure safe deliveries
Aid distribution in Haiti
Child Friendly Space restores hope in Haiti
One month on, Haiti’s homeless ask for protection against insecurity
Haiti: A nation in mourning
Haiti: Child Friendly Space provides return to normalcy for children
Haiti: Vulnerable must be first in line
Hugh Jackman speaks on Haiti
Haiti: World Vision to scale-up emergency response
Haiti: Orecchi’s story
Another earthquake strikes Haiti
Keep Haiti in your prayers
Haiti: A moment of joy
Relief supplies distributed to Haiti survivors
Aid delivery in Haiti
Haiti: Emergency relief distributed to thousands of survivors
Haiti: Children treated in makeshift hospitals
World Vision's Ruth Mlay in Haiti
Haiti update: Relief effort gathers pace
Prayer for Haiti
Haiti earthquake: Hope in the Heartache
World Vision delivering aid despite obstacles in Haiti
Haiti earthquake: Tweets from the Field
Update: Haiti earthquake
Devastation in Haiti
World Vision expresses concern about wellbeing of children in Haiti
Powerful earthquake strikes Haiti
Child sponsorship in Haiti
What do you really need to survive?
Crisis in Sudan - Darfur
World Vision to address critical aid gaps in Darfur camps
Humanitarian aid at risk in the Sudan
Australia has key role to play in stopping Darfur bloodshed
Humanitarian agencies warn Darfur reaching breaking point
New violence threates world's largest aid response
World Vision calls for help to alleviate the suffering
Food and relief items pre-positioned in lead up to Sudan referenda
Update: Sri Lanka Floods
Indonesia: Earthquake - West Sumatra
Update: Indonesia - Merapi Volcano
Emergency relief
What is this about?
World Humanitarian Day
Emergency Response: Judging the need
Pakistan earthquake 2005: a photo essay
Boxing Day 2004 Tsunami: a photo essay
Who is it happening to?
Emergencies and women: a set of unique challenges
3 month old baby now an orphan
August 2008: Two boys go missing in Indian floods
In Myanmar, lives are overturned - overnight
Child survivors in Myanmar
Their home away from home: Fu Jing and Chen Yan return
Guangyuan City residents rebuild
Why is it happening?
Child Friendly Spaces help children recover
How recovery happens
Where is it happening?
Australia must support eradication of life destroying bombs
I want to go home
Bangladesh prepares: a folksong for safety
Eastern Congo: A war on civilians
What is our response?
Thank you, for supporting our East Africa Emergency Appeal
Emergency Preparedness Fund Aids Asia Floods Survivors
China earthquake 2 years on: World Vision walks hand-in-hand with communities
Aid worker's diary
Two years on: In Myanmar, the road to recovery is long
Myanmar Cyclone 2 years on: Non-formal education springs hope
Myanmar - one year on
China's earthquake: Prepare, respond, rebuild
From despair to hope: China Earthquake one year on
A new wave of hope: Asian Tsunami Five Years On
How you can help
Past emergencies
Pakistan Floods
Pervwen’s Story: Why Pakistan’s Flood-Affected Mothers Need Help
Raheema’s Struggle – Pregnancy in a Flood Crisis
Flooding continues to cripple Southern Pakistan
Child malnutrition remains a major threat in Pakistan
Pakistan Floods: Communities still in crisis six months on
Blog: On the ground in Pakistan
Women and Infant Friendly Space helps and heals in Pakistan
World Vision Canada CEO Dave Toycen in Pakistan
Conny Lenneberg in Pakistan
Pakistan: Communities need to be rebuilt
“I have nothing left to me in the world”
Pakistan: World Vision responds to “almost incomprehensible” need
Pakistan: Relief scaled up as Ramadan fast begins
Pakistan: Renewed rain and floods hamper relief effort
Pakistan floods: Medical clinics bring relief to Lower Dir
Pakistan: A long road ahead for Nasreen
Pakistan floods appeal
Update: Philippines Typhoon Megi
Update: China floods
China floods: Food remains urgent need of flood survivors
China floods: Assessment team arrives in hard-hit flood area
Update: Qinghai, China Earthquake
China quake: World Vision distributes flour to 40,000 quake survivors
China quake: Relief materials arrive in Qinghai
Relief materials distributed to quake survivors in Qinghai, China
China quake: World Vision sending assessment team, hygiene items to Qinghai
Update: Chile earthquake
Chile earthquake: Child Friendly Space provides a sense of normalcy for children
Chile earthquake: A video update
Chile earthquake: World Vision works to rush relief to 25,000 survivors
Chile earthquake: World Vision begins relief efforts
Chile earthquake: World Vision prepares to respond
Update: Peru floods
Update: Volcano in the Philippines
Volcano threatening to erupt in the Philippines
Update: Earthquake in Sumatra
Indonesia: World Vision helps to ease the burden for Riza’s family
A Child Friendly Space in Indonesia
Three days in Padang: a blog
Padang, Indonesia: Rain won’t stop the relief
In Indonesia, World Vision calls for the prioritisation of children’s basic needs
World Vision aid arrives in Padang, Indonesia
Tim Costello in Padang, Indonesia
Indonesia update: More World Vision aid reaches Padang
Earthquake a double blow for Indonesia’s poor
Indonesia update: World Vision's relief aid reaches Padang
Indonesia update: World Vision relief convoy en route to Padang
Earthquake in Sumatra Indonesia
Indonesia update: Thousands feared dead as over 500 bodies recovered
Indonesia update: World Vision sends relief team; gears up for aid response
Update: Typhoons in the Philippines
Typhoon Ketsana One Year On
The Philippines: Typhoon survivors face long road to recovery
In the aftermath of Ketsana and Parma, World Vision prepares for Typhoon Lupid
The Philippines: Children’s health at risk in cramped evacuation centres
Two weeks on: World Vision continues to respond to Ketsana and Parma
The Philippines: Worst far from over as Typhoon Parma causes flooding and landslides
The Philippines: World Vision appeals for more funds to help the recovery of communities affected by Ketsana
The Philippines: World Vision to provide food aid in hard-hit Cagayan
The Philippines: World Vision aiding victims of Typhoon Parma
Philippines update: World Vision prepares for ‘Super Typhoon’
Philippines update: Concerns over disease outbreak
The Philippines: a second typhoon threatens flood survivors
Update: South India floods
South India floods: As flood water recedes, shelter remains top priority
India: Floods and drought threaten to undo years of development
Update: Emergencies in the Asia Pacific
Typhoon Ketsana - Vietnam images
Laos: Relief efforts stepped up as World Vision’s emergency response continues
Laos: Relief distribution to start for 3,500 people in hard-hit Nong District
Laos: Relief distribution underway following Typhoon Ketsana
Vietnam: World Vision aiming to reach 40,000 typhoon-affected families
Vietnam: Relief goods reach Typhoon-hit families
Update: Samoa earthquakes & tsunami
Update: Sri Lanka Crisis
Sri Lanka: Resettlement for displaced families finally gathers pace
Aid agencies urge strong action to prevent humanitarian catastrophe
Torrential rains worsen conditions for displaced families in Sri Lanka
Rebuilding efforts continue in Northern Sri Lanka
Impending monsoon and poor sanitation puts thousands at risk of disease
Aid agencies seek better access to displacement camps
Influx of last survivors of Sri Lankan conflict could overwhelm stretched aid agencies
As war ends, aid agency says four challenges face Sri Lanka
World Vision helps children get back to school in Sri Lanka's displacement camps
Overcrowding in camps a devastating toll children in Sri Lanka
Dire humanitarian needs in Sri Lanka following mass exodus from war zone
United Nations calls for 'humanitarian pause' in northern Sri Lanka conflict
Civilians remain trapped in Sri Lanka’s war zone
Humanitarian Community of Sri Lanka expresses grave concerns over plight of trapped civilians
Sri Lanka crisis: aid worker's account
Sri Lanka Crisis Appeal: World Vision’s Response
Sri Lanka Crisis Appeal: thousands in desperate need
Thousands flee conflict zone; World Vision responding
Update: Gaza crisis
Update: Crisis in Congo
Update: China earthquake
Typhoon Morakot
World Vision increases relief efforts in Taiwan
Indonesian earthquake, Java
Aid reaches more survivors; displaced people restless
World Vision aid reaches survivors of Indonesian earthquake
South Sudan
Thousands flee into southern Sudan as the LRA attacks villages
Crisis in Pakistan
Pakistan attack brutal and senseless
World Vision staff killed in Pakistan
Displaced begin to return home, World Vision continues to provide assistance
Lack of funding affecting Pakistan relief efforts
Crisis in Pakistan: World Vision’s Response
Hosts of Pakistan’s fleeing masses on brink of their own displacement
World Vision in Pakistan
As Pakistanis continue to flee the violence, Government & aid agencies respond
World Vision plans to support displaced in Pakistan
In Pakistan, host communities house hundreds of thousands
Pakistan: torn from home, school and friends
In Pakistan, poor communities offer ongoing compassion
Honduras
Brazil floods
West Africa floods
Cyclone Aila in India & Bangladesh
Zimbabwe crisis
China Earthquake
Myanmar Cyclone
Rebuilding resilient communities: Cyclone Nargis one year on
Bangladesh Cyclone
Mozambique Floods
East Timor Crisis
Pakistan Earthquake
Asia Tsunami Disaster
Food & Nutrition
What is this about?
Genetically Modified Food: an answer to food security?
Global trends, local emergencies
Tim Costello: the silent crisis in global food
Counting the cost of malnutrition
Rural communities in the Pacific show resilience
Who is it happening to?
Adults burdens weigh heavily on Pedro
Improving child nutrition in Nepal: Chutka and Sabina’s story
Abito’s story: just akar to eat, twice a day
When prices rise... families go hungry
Food aid a lifeline for Beauty and Belinda
Thank you from World Vision
Lily’s story: on the mountains of East Timor
A mother's torment
Food for thought: Food distribution in northern Uganda
Food aid helps create a brighter future for Laker
Why is it happening?
Hunger bites: What's the Global Food Crisis?
Where is it happening?
Hunger stalks children in Africa’s mountain kingdom
Lives saved through food aid
Walk in my shoes: Fiona Hamilton
Getting Gaza’s fishermen back on the water
Harvesting food, good health and so much more
Young Mongolian potato champ sets example for grown ups
Delivering Food Aid to Mozambique
Food costs bite in Asia
New crops boost child nutrition in East Timor
Beehives fly tucker to the table
Situation critical: Uganda
What is our response?
A big thank you to caring Aussies who bought World Vision Gifts
Thank you, 40 Hour Famine heroes!
Tim Costello combines two great passions through Team World Vision
Famine Villages bring together local communities
Aid gives Domingas the gift of time
Transformation in Zambia
Fighting hunger, now and in the future
Sponsored children and the Global Food Crisis
Food for Work programs unite communities in Laos
Sponsorship helps to meet food needs and rest
How your Smiles are helping
How you can help
Human Trafficking & Slavery
What is this about?
Report: Our Guilty Pleasure
Taking the sting out of stitching sports balls
Modern day slave trading
What exactly is child labour?
What is the real cost of chocolate?
Keep them safe from harm
A postcard from Narak: Cambodian peer educator
Human trafficking: A horrendous crime with no borders
Who is it happening to?
India trip inspires new Melbourne Gospel Choir CD
Mai escapes enslavement in Thailand
Former Child Soldiers: Hear from Paul and Grace
From Berwick to Nairobi and back
Sophea: an astonishing story of sexual slavery
Human Trafficking: Consider the Supply Chain
A postcard from Fai: Pattaya children at risk
A postcard from Africa: Children want exploitation to stop
Starting over: Shwe Ba is safe again
Why is it happening?
Lured into the sex trade
Roghini: a story of bonded labour
Why it must be done: children who need rescuing
A postcard from Jane: It helps if parents are open
What is our response?
What’s the real cost of your seafood feast this Christmas?
Defending the right to freedom
What’s in your stocking?
Churches fight trafficking and slavery on Abolitionist Sunday
Will your church join the next generation of Abolitionists?
10 things you need to know about labour trafficking
How to: Make your own ethical Easter eggs
What story are you buying into?
Young activists take a stand on human trafficking
Kicking child labour out of soccer balls
Don’t Trade Lives pauses action on Arnott’s
A glass and a half of hope
Mekong Youth Forum
Cambodia: being made a safer place for children
The 4P approach: an anti-trafficking initiative
Not in our neighbourhood!
Ethical consumerism: What's behind the label?
Bubbles of Nothing: Just say YES Big Chocolate
A postcard from Kakda: information and education are key
How you can help
Where is it happening?
Judd Field sings new tune after India visit
Your passage to India
Blog: India and human trafficking: a situation update
Breaking news: Green & Black's to go Fairtrade
Manoshy’s big day out
The Ranong Case: A tragic tale from the Thai-Myanmar border
Improving Incomes
What is this about?
Investing in women
Ending poverty: within Livingstone's sight
Who is it happening to?
Gardens bursting with life
New business in Bangladesh
Sponsorship made a difference: a mother's perspective
Abasafor's farm a family affair
James of all trades
Why is it happening?
In Kenya, resilience is essential
What is our response?
Students hatch chicks for Smiles Day 2011
A thank you smile from Edward and Loveness
Women ploughing new territory in Bangladesh
Cambodia: a revealing report
Indian fishing, post-Tsunami
Where is it happening?
Seeds of Hope: A journey with Hugh Jackman
Goats to cabbages: a business in Zambia
Sweet success in Bethlehem
Weaving: a micro-enterprise in Myanmar
John: a Ugandan carpenter
How you can help
Indigenous Australia
What informs our work?
Introducing Liz Mackinlay: General Manager for the Australia Program
Indigenous peoples of the developed world: a comparison
Creating a vision for community life
Who do we work with?
Safe and healthy futures for Indigenous children
Wild women from Wutunugurra
Epenarra artists make their Melbourne debut
The Epenarra art program continues to grow
Brighter futures for the children of East Pilbara
Preserving culture through play, early education in the Warlpiri
Where do we work?
Young Mob celebrate culture at two-day camp
Silk dyeing takes off in Wutunugurra
Epenarra Artists make big impact at International Women’s Day event
Artists create a home to call their own
Sydney's Young Mob Leadership Program
A place to paint
Taking a step forward for Indigenous home ownership
Land Valuers volunteer their expertise for the Mapoon Home Ownership Project
Sandra dreams of owning a home on her ancestors' land
What is our response?
Dancing down the line
Happy Australia Day 2012
World Vision in Willowra
Closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage
World Vision staff walk to highlight Sorry Day
NAIDOC Week - Change: the next step is ours
Happy Australia Day!
Why do we do this work?
Climate change: risks and opportunities for Indigenous Australia
How you can help
Maternal & Child Health
What is this about?
Fighting malaria in Tanzania
Rebecca Gibney goes inside Malawi’s hospitals
Afghanistan’s mothers and children face high mortality rates
Who is it happening to?
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: a dangerous cultural practice
Making healthcare accessible for Zambian mothers
Midwives needed in East Timor
Mothering in Jakarta's slums
Women working together: Tomaida's story
Queen's Speech
Why is it happening?
Education needed to improve lives
Mothers and children: learning in Laos
Raising a family in Kala Refugee Camp
The devastation of starvation: A nutritionist explains
Where is it happening?
Celebrating Mothers Everywhere
Mothers learning about childcare in Vietnam
Finding hope in Malawi: a personal journey
What is our response?
Help us deliver a Bundle of Joy
Commonwealth leaders urged to hit child hunger for six
Churches helping to end the Midwife Crisis!
Risking two lives : a local midwife speaks
Budget 2010 update: Increased spending on aid
Getting the community healthy in Uganda
Saving kids from malnutrition in Ethiopia
Taking healthcare to Tanzanians
Raising refugee families: A midwife’s story
Better at Banhine: Celeste gives birth in Mozambique
How you can help
Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
What is this about?
World Water Day: 2011
Srey Pich - Behind the ad
Simple solutions make a world of difference
No flush, no fuss: Are composting toilets the sanitation solution?
The 20 litre challenge: Suzy versus Anyaka
Our global challenge: How are we progressing on water and sanitation?
Who is it happening to?
Bangladesh: a tale of a community transformed
Why women and girls suffer most
A heavy burden to carry: girls, water and schooling
Why is it happening?
David Bridie and George Telek: A public health announcement (in pidgin)
Where is it happening?
Access to clean water: essential for women’s health and safety
Coming clean: Two water and sanitation projects
Clean water flowing in Indonesia
Water in an emergency: race against a ticking clock
What is our response?
Lifting the lid on life-saving toilets
United in scoring goals for World Vision
After a 40 year wait, clean water “blesses” Vanuatu communities
Toilets, wells and boreholes aid Zimbabwe’s most vulnerable
Scoring goals for water projects
Water Health Life
Water in an emergency: meeting basic needs
Can you live with dirty water?
Delivering water in Dol Dol: many hands make the difference in Kenya
Harriet's hygiene quest: healthy homes are happy ones
How you can help
Our work
Solutions
Sponsor a child
FAQs about child sponsorship
Child Rescue
World Vision Gifts
Don't Trade Lives
Downloads
Multiplying Gift Appeal
One Earth
SEE Solutions
Child Health Now
Child Health Now Communities
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Solutions
To address poverty and transform lives, World Vision has devised a number of solutions Australians can contribute to. Some solutions require financial contributions, while others ask that you take action in your home or community to foster change.
Sponsor a Child
Direct and positive action that really works.
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Saving children from immediate danger.
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Join the fight to end slavery.
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Your gift is multiplied 10 times to help save lives.
One Earth
Climate issues are poverty issues.
SEE Solutions
Social and economic empowerment projects.
Child Health Now
Campaigning for governments in both developed & developing countries to meet their commitment to MDG 4: to reduce child mortality by two-thirds.
40 Hour Famine
Get involved today!
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Positive action to close the gap.
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Make a positive impact on kids and families.
Kids Hope Aus.
Our mentoring program for Aussie kids.
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Our projects with corporate Australia that everyone can support.