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Geelong Cats boast Australia’s most generous footy supporters

Friday, June 21, 2019

World Vision launches new ‘Generosity Ladder’ in lead-up to tax time Their team is already leading the footy ladder and now Cats supporters are kicking goals in another prestigious new scoreboard that ranks the most generous AFL fans.

Media Releases, Transforming lives, Poverty, Famine, Refugees, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia

World Vision farewells Chief Advocate, Tim Costello

Friday, June 7, 2019

One of the country’s most loved social justice advocates is stepping down after 15 years serving Australia’s largest humanitarian organisation, World Vision Australia. ​

Media Releases, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Carribean, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia

World Vision Australia CEO Claire Rogers responds to federal election result ​

Sunday, May 19, 2019

The CEO of Australia’s largest NGO, World Vision, has this morning written to Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, to congratulate him on the Federal Coalition’s victory at the 2019 federal election. ​

Media Releases, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Carribean, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia

Northwestern Syria on verge of worst crisis since the start of the conflict

Thursday, May 16, 2019

An escalation of violence in Idlib, North West Syria, may lead to the worst humanitarian crisis in Syria’s 8-year conflict.

Media Releases, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Syria

Media Statement - World Vision responds to Four Corners

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

World Vision Australia CEO Claire Rogers has expressed deep concern at revelations by ABC’s Four Corners that children as young as 10 are being detained in adult watch houses in deplorable circumstances in Queensland.

Media Releases, Indigenous Australians, Asia and the Pacific

World Vision welcomes ALP commitment to increase aid funding

Friday, May 10, 2019

World Vision Australia today welcomed the Australian Labor Party’s commitment to invest more in Australian aid if elected in the upcoming federal election.

Media Releases, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Carribean, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia

Children vulnerable in post-Cyclone Fani devastation

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Humanitarian agencies are rushing to provide much-needed emergency relief to vulnerable children and families, who have survived the worst storm to hit the Indian subcontinent in 20 years.

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific

World Vision warns millions of children at risk from Cyclone Fani

Thursday, May 2, 2019

World Vison is ready to respond to Cyclone Fani which continues to intensify, threatening millions of families and their children in Bangladesh and India.

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific

Aid agencies on standby as second cyclone bears down on Mozambique

Friday, April 26, 2019

Aid agencies in Mozambique, including World Vision, are on stand-by to respond to a potentially lethal cyclone – the second to hit the country in two months.

Media Releases, Africa

A tale of two scoreboards – how Australia’s aid spend is at odds with our generosity

Thursday, April 11, 2019

The nation has retained its a shameful position on an international scoreboard due to the decimation of the aid budget, in a move blatantly out of step with the generosity of Australians.

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific