Press releases

  • Asian Disasters a ‘60-Day Wake-up Call’ to World Leaders

    Release of World Vision report on Disaster Risk Reduction is calling on developed countries to honour existing pledges and commit to significant new funding

    The typhoons and floods that have devastated parts of Asia are a “60-day wake-up call” to world leaders convening in Copenhagen in December to devise a global strategy addressing climate change, according to World Vision one ...

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  • World Vision responds to disaster-stricken Asia Pacific region

    International aid agency World Vision is providing aid and emergency relief to more than 200,000 people throughout the Asia Pacific region following the devastating natural disasters that have struck since the weekend.

    The unprecedented series of earthquakes, tsunami, typhoons and floods, are affecting millions of people in the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Samoa. While these disasters are stretched across the ...

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