article / December 15, 2016
Social cohesion, what do we know about it?
Urban environments are opportunities for growth and draw diverse groups from different backgrounds, however, this has the potential to lead to social fragmentation causing strained relations and possibly violence.
article / September 1, 2014
Baking for hope
A wonderful smell of fresh baked pastries pervaded the small clean house. A smell that takes you back to the smell of your mother’s backing and to precious childhood memories where you waited for your hot tasty pastry from your mother’s hand taken directly from the oven.
article / December 2, 2016
The Grand Bargain: will it all be over by Christmas?
As the year draws to a close it is natural to look back and reflect on what went well and what could have gone better.
article / April 13, 2010
Family dreads freezing winter as gas price increase takes its toll
“We can never afford to spend money on clothes for the children or any devices for the apartment. We hardly manage to cover gas, water and electricity fees and ensure nutrition for the children.
article / April 3, 2014
Rwanda: Lessons still unlearned
Next Monday marks 20 years since the Rwanda genocide began. In 1994, John Schenk was one of the first Western journalists to go into Rwanda and show the full extent of the horrors of the genocide.
article / March 10, 2014
And the winner is…
Written by Vu Quynh Lien - Micro Finance Unit Operations Officer
article / August 1, 2016
From the WHS to the General Assembly, what is changing for education in emergencies?
Now that the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) has come and gone, we can take a moment to reflect on what really just occurred.
article / May 30, 2008
Irrigation means food for children and hope for Yeghiazaryan family
The old children’s adage, “Rain, rain go away, come again another day’ is something you will never hear spoken in Tsaghkashen village nestled in the Gavar region of Armenia.
article / May 22, 2013
Donations spark hope, bring warmth
Through a donation of six pallets of goods from the corporate partners of World Vision United States, more than 1380 children and their families of Hotolisht commune, part of Librazhd area development programme, in southeast Albania, benefited from the gift of clothes (hats, t-shirts, gloves, jum
article / May 20, 2013
When God Visited Nyangoma
When Nyangoma Kisakyamukama, 18, got married in mid 2004, she thought her life was making a turn for the better. How wrong she was! One and a half years later, her husband had died of AIDS, leaving her infected with HIV, breastfeeding their first daughter and pregnant with another.