World Vision
This is the blog of World Vision, an international development and advocacy organisation based in the United States. The organisation works with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice and in times of crisis also responds to natural and man-made humanitarian disasters.
Tough times for those displaced by Nargis
Author: World Vision
Hla looks downcast when talking about her plans for her future and her soon-to-be-born baby. She and her husband lost their home when Cyclone Nargis slammed into Myanmar in May - the worst disaster in the country's history. The couple have moved in with Hla's brother in Hlaing Tharyar, on the outskirts of Yangon, which was not as badly affected by Nargis. But work is scarce here. ...
Author: World Vision
Hla looks downcast when talking about her plans for her future and her soon-to-be-born baby. She and her husband lost their home when Cyclone Nargis slammed into Myanmar in May - the worst disaster in the country's history. The couple have moved in with Hla's brother in Hlaing Tharyar, on the outskirts of Yangon, which was not as badly affected by Nargis. But work is scarce here. ...
'Fish in the forest': Rising seas push PNG coast dwellers inland
Author: World Vision
Tristan Clements, a New Zealander, has worked for World Vision in humanitarian and emergency affairs in Chad, Niger and Sudan. Currently he manages World Vision's relief responses in the Pacific, including Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
Home is a powerful concept for the people of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Riven by steep-sided, impenetrable valleys and scattered island groups, 800 ethnic groups - and as many languages - have developed largely in isolation from one another, and their identity is pervasively rooted in their own parcel of territory.
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Author: World Vision
Tristan Clements, a New Zealander, has worked for World Vision in humanitarian and emergency affairs in Chad, Niger and Sudan. Currently he manages World Vision's relief responses in the Pacific, including Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
Home is a powerful concept for the people of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Riven by steep-sided, impenetrable valleys and scattered island groups, 800 ethnic groups - and as many languages - have developed largely in isolation from one another, and their identity is pervasively rooted in their own parcel of territory.
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Floods and food: Bihar meets the global economy
Author: World Vision
Written by Kit Shangpliang, World Vision India Communications Coordinator, with Ratan Kumar. Kit's job has taken him to the frontline of many breaking emergencies, from the Gujurat earthquake in 1999 through to the Asia tsunami and the Kashmir earthquake. In a relief camp, a little girl bites a tender guava and a small boy cleans up a bowl of flat rice - food aid is reaching the people of flooded Bihar. ...
Author: World Vision
Written by Kit Shangpliang, World Vision India Communications Coordinator, with Ratan Kumar. Kit's job has taken him to the frontline of many breaking emergencies, from the Gujurat earthquake in 1999 through to the Asia tsunami and the Kashmir earthquake. In a relief camp, a little girl bites a tender guava and a small boy cleans up a bowl of flat rice - food aid is reaching the people of flooded Bihar. ...
