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Build a better South Sudan right from the start: Aid agencies

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Oxfam Australia and World Vision Australia today urged the Federal Government to support the recommendations of a new joint-agency report on South Sudan, to ensure the people of the world’s newest nation have a hopeful future.

Media Releases, Africa, Australian Government, Foreign Aid, International Development, Oxfam, Report, South Sudan

Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness urge Australians to dig deep for World Vision’s East Africa Appeal

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness today encouraged Australians to help those in urgent need of assistance in the Horn of Africa.

Media Releases, Emergencies, Africa, Deborra-Lee Furness, Disaster relief, Drought, East Africa, Famine, Hugh Jackman, Philanthropy, Tim Costello

African Union must show leadership before it's too late, says World Vision

Thursday, August 25, 2011

As the African Union meets in Ethiopia today for a pledging conference to tackle the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, aid agency World Vision said time was running out for hundreds of thousands of children across the region.

Media Releases, Emergencies, Africa, Africa, Disaster relief, Drought, Ethiopia, Famine, Foreign Aid, International Development

New psychological first aid guide to strengthen humanitarian relief

Friday, August 19, 2011

Today, on World Humanitarian Day, the World Health Organization (WHO), the War Trauma Foundation (WTF) and World Vision International (WVI) will release a new tool for aid workers called the Psychological First Aid Guide for Fieldworkers.

Media Releases, Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, Humanitarian, NGO, Psychological Aid, WHO, World Humanitarian Day

Australia’s youth go without to fight global hunger

Friday, August 19, 2011

This weekend more than 300,000 young Australians are giving up something important to them for 40 hours such as food, technology, and transport, to help fight world hunger and poverty.

Media Releases, Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, 40 Hour Famine, Disaster relief, East Africa, Philanthropy, Tim Costello, World Vision, Young People

Community stands strong as drought ravages the Horn of Africa

Thursday, August 11, 2011

As thousands of people flee drought and hunger in the Horn of Africa, one community in the north-east of Kenya has resisted the worst impacts of the food crisis thanks to a long-term agricultural training and irrigation program.

Media Releases, Emergencies, Africa, Disaster relief, Drought, East Africa, Famine, International Development, Kenya, Tim Costello

World Vision prepares to expand relief operations into west Somalia

Monday, August 8, 2011

More than 140,000 Somali refugees and internally displaced people situated in transit camps along the border in west Somalia are in need of urgent assistance, World Vision said today.

Media Releases, Emergencies, Africa, Disaster relief, East Africa, Famine, Somalia, Tim Costello

Australia’s youth preparing to fight global hunger

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

With less than one month to go before the 40 Hour Famine, more than 300,000 young people around the country are planning fundraising activities to fight world hunger and poverty.

Media Releases, Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, 40 Hour Famine, East Timor, Ethiopia, Famine, Foreign Aid, Kenya, Nepal, Philanthropy, Tanzania, Tim Costello, Young People

East Africa's worst drought in decades hits vulnerable children

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Increasingly severe malnutrition rates in the East African nations of Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and northern Tanzania have led Christian humanitarian and development agency World Vision to significantly scale up its response to the unfolding crisis.

Media Releases, Emergencies, Africa, Disaster relief, Drought, East Africa, Ethiopia, Famine, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Tim Costello

Security, safe water and school top of children’s hopes for South Sudan

Thursday, July 14, 2011

South Sudan's children retain their hopes despite very real challenges as their nation prepares to become the world’s newest country tomorrow, Saturday, 9 July.

Media Releases, Africa, Child Health, Famine, South Sudan