Being Lebanese outside Lebanon
By Aline Rahbany, Technical Director, Urban Programming Two years ago, my husband and I packed up our lives...
Left out & Unaccounted for: How COVID-19 is exposing inequalities in cities
Aline Rahbany, Technical Director, Urban Programming, World Vision urges us to respond to the inequalities, inequities and...
World Vision at the World Urban Forum
More than a billion children live in cities today, with hundreds of millions of them living in...
Sowing peaceful parenting in a violent urban jungle
Five lessons about cutting the cycle of urban violence off at its root. Soyapango, population 290,000, is one...
A city for youth is a city for everyone
Beirut, the biggest and capital city of Lebanon, has been affected, like other parts of the country...
What does success look like in urban areas? Grandmothers practising martial arts, of course!
On my first visit to a vibrant city like Delhi I expected a few surprises, but a grandmother practicing martial arts with a baby in her arms wasn’t...
Cancun affirms civil society alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction
The 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction was held in Cancun, Mexico from 22-26 May. Silvia Novoa...
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...