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Samantha Gash starts run across India

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Australian ultra-marathon runner Samantha Gash has started her grueling world record run across India today as she seeks to cross 3,800 km from desert to the wettest place on earth and raise money for World Vision projects in India.

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific, India

Millennial Myth Busting: Young Aussies are Hungry for Change

Friday, July 29, 2016

A survey of teenagers has debunked the myth of the millennial “me” generation with 80 per cent of young people believing that helping others in an important part of who they are

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific, 40 Hour Famine, 40HF, Drought, India

Death toll rises, millions affected by monsoon floods

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

World Vision is responding to devastating floods in India and Myanmar that have left a trail of destruction, with scores of people killed, an estimated 8 million people affected and tens of thousands of children in need of urgent support.

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific, Anthea Spinks, Flood, India, Myanmar

Australians can give the gift of letting kids be kids this Christmas

Monday, December 1, 2014

This Christmas, World Vision is encouraging Australians to help protect vulnerable children from poverty and exploitation so they can enjoy the freedom all children should enjoy – of just being kids.

Media Releases, Child labour, Human trafficking, Forced and early marriage, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Carribean, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Child Labour, Child Slavery, Forced Marriage, Humanitarian, India, Indonesia, Philanthropy, South Sudan, Syria

Call to kick child labour out of soccer balls

Friday, June 11, 2010

Australia’s largest aid agency today called on big sporting companies to continue the fight to eradicate child labour in India and Pakistan’s soccer ball manufacturing industry.

Media Releases, Child labour, Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Child Labour, FIFA, India, Pakistan

The poor in India pay the cost of climate change

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The poor in India are already suffering from the effects of climate change due to decades of industrial development according to World Vision India’s national director, Dr Jayakumar Christian who is in Australia this week.

Climate change, Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, Climate Change, Food Security, India