World Vision’s tsunami response in Thailand helped more than 50,000 people across five provinces. In an ongoing effort to tackle poverty and enhance children’s well-being in tsunami-affected areas, World Vision is implementing new development programmes assisting around 4,000 children and their families.

Thousands of ordinary people in Africa sacrifice their meagre resources to make the world a better place in the face of HIV and AIDS. World Vision highlights the outstanding stories of these otherwise unheralded heroes and heroines. PDF: 5.91 Mb

Many reports have been written about life in the hamlets, villages, displacement and refugee camps in Africa. Those reports are incomplete without these two words: child deaths.

Thirteen schools in nine villages in western Georgia’s Imereti region have joined an education project established by World Vision. (On the World Vision Middle East / East Europe website)

Rural communities in Baidoa District, Somalia have improved their children's health through localised nutrition solutions with the support of World Vision.

Ten years after AgroInvest dispersed its first loan in Montenegro, the World Vision-affiliated microfinance institution is now providing services to more than 40,000 clients across Serbia and Montenegro with a focus on improving the lives of the rural poor.

Eight-year-old Amal Mohamoud Nour and other students are used to studying under trees instead of in classrooms. Despite the trees' shade, the scorching sun makes difficult to concentrate and occasionally, lessons are interrupted by roaming animals. All this is starting to change with help from World Vision.

See photos from the harvest in communities that World Vision is helping in Uganda (on the World Vision Africa website).

Change takes time. In one village in India, a family rejoices in the modest changes that World Vision has brought so far, but much more needs to be done.

“At first we had our apprehensions as to World Vision’s intentions. A Christian organisation trying to work in majority Buddhist communities will normally raise questions. But gradually, we came to understand their honest intentions to help,” 49-year old Kluam Chupang remembers with a smile.

Ratnabhon Sanesomsri, now 16, used knowledge about HIV that she learned from a youth group partnered with World Vision to help her family come to terms with her uncle's illness. Click to view this story on World Vision's Asia/Pacific site.

To help the government’s campaign against drug addiction in Thailand's Wang Wiset district, World Vision trains youth leaders and supports awareness-raising meetings and trainings, athletic competitions and other activities.