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Child refugees fleeing Venezuela

Is lending to refugees, emigrants, or asylum seekers a wise choice?

Edgar makes us think again about how we treat displaced people who turn up on our doorstep asking for help. By Edgar S. Martinez Refugees. Emigrants. Asylum seekers. There are more of them crossing borders today than ever before in history. On foot, by boat, in trucks.

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World Vision’s socio-economic program in Turkey supports Syrian women integrate in the society

In the attempt to mitigate the economic downturn of the pandemic in Turkey, 50 Syrian refugee and Turkish...

Wednesday, September 15, 2021 - 07:37

Meet Lubna*, a Syrian refugee woman with dreams of a better future

In the attempt to mitigate the economic downturn of the pandemic in Turkey, 50 Syrian refugee and...

Wednesday, September 15, 2021 - 07:13

World Vision’s Socio-Economic Empowerment Project Gives Hope to Syrian Refugees in Turkey

“With the aim to help Syrian refugee women and host communities acquire new skills, World Vision partnered...

Wednesday, September 15, 2021 - 06:54

IGAM staff assisting Syrian refugee woman

Info Hub Turkey - A Safe Space for All

Together with our local partners, the International Blue Crescent Relief Development Foundation (IBC) and the Research Centre on...

Monday, September 13, 2021 - 14:09

World Vision improving resilience and livelihood of refugee families in Adjumani district.

Savings groups give refugees the power of choice

World Vision-empowered savings groups are actively minimising the number of women who are vulnerable due to poverty...

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 12:26

World Vision improving resilience and livelihood of refugee families in Adjumani district.

World Vision farming classes transform refugees into serial entrepreneurs

Equipped with farming knowledge and skills and supported with vegetable seeds of tomatoes, green pepper and cassava...

Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 10:08

World Vision Ugandan with support of Australian people are helping refugees to be self-reliant.

Thank you for your gift: East or west, home is best

Cizarina is among more than 215,000 South Sudanese refugees living in Adjumani district in Uganda. Most of them...

Thursday, August 26, 2021 - 09:35

Meet Hiba, the Pianist

Thanks to Aktion Deutschland Hilft and World Vision donors in both Hong Kong and Korea, thousands of...

Wednesday, August 25, 2021 - 20:03

Capacities of faith-based partners in Jordan are built through a World Vision project

Thanks to generous funds by the Visser family, World Vision has worked closely with faith-based organisations such...

Wednesday, August 25, 2021 - 19:53

World Vision partners with faith-based organisations in Jordan to support refugees and vulnerable youth

World Vision has partnered with two faith-based organisations in Jordan: Messengers of Peace and the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate...

Wednesday, August 25, 2021 - 19:43

Heart rending stories of child abuse survivors

Violence against children continues to rise at unacceptable rates in refugee settlements, with girls at increased risk...

Friday, August 20, 2021 - 11:57

Bidibidi settlement in the eyes of World Vision staff five years later

In August this year, the home to more than 270,000 refugees mostly from South Sudan will mark...

Wednesday, August 18, 2021 - 10:10

Strong women leaders rise from South Sudan’s Makpandu Refugee Camp

Flora Naripi’s life has gone through drastic changes in 2013 beyond the simple life she had in the...

Tuesday, August 17, 2021 - 15:40

Komakech Ronald Mandela: A nutrition advocate and a humanitarian

I dream of a South Sudan free from malnutrition, see our children attain their full potential without...

Sunday, August 15, 2021 - 21:21

Pastors inspire children and families to keep hope alive in refugee camps

Pastors inspire children and families to keep hope alive in refugee camps

By Sarah Ooko, World Vision Senior Communications and Media Officer, Kenya Mariam’s home is an oasis of...

Wednesday, August 11, 2021 - 19:36

Reaching Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

Sathi, a humanitarian worker and interperter in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh shares briefly about her work, what motivates her...

Monday, August 9, 2021 - 14:30

Family portrait

Water for everything, water for everyone.

While water occupies 71% of the globe, many communities find it very challenging to access one of...

Thursday, August 5, 2021 - 08:14

disinfection kits distribution

Purifying their environment.

In a tented informal settlement, where a huge number of Syrian refugees reside in the middle of...

Thursday, August 5, 2021 - 07:49

Syrian refugees sitting on a step

Battered by violence, isolated by COVID-19

Phiona gives four ways to avoid a crisis in the mental health of refugee and displaced children Raising...

Friday, July 9, 2021 - 09:14

Yahya*, Syrian beneficiary who benefitted from World Vision's project in Turkey

Syrian Refugee Finds Hope Through World Vision’s Project in Turkey

Turkey is hosting the largest refugee population globally. The number of registered Syrians has exceeded 3.6 million...

Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 15:42

Realization of fundamental rights of asylum-seekers, refugees, and stateless people in Georgia

It has been three years since World Vision Georgia started a project “Community Mobilization and Participation” which...

Thursday, July 1, 2021 - 17:07

Maria uses the bucket she received for cooking

Non-food relief items help ease Maria's burden

Since May 2019, the Maradi region has been experiencing an influx of refugees from northwestern Nigeria. They are...

Friday, June 25, 2021 - 10:16

Adamou in the latrine equipped with a chair

Disability-friendly latrines bring relief to the most vulnerable refugees

Adamou, 51, was a victim of attacks in his village in Nigeria. Unfortunately his leg was broken...

Friday, June 25, 2021 - 09:03

Sham and her book.

Closing the learning gap creates life-long opportunities!

Closing the learning gap for the most vulnerable students is the most powerful act for change. Ensuring...

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 12:32

Hundreds of Venezuelan migrants are stuck waiting at the border after Peru closed their border over COVID-19 concerns. The problem is straining the local economy and infrastructure and migrant and local families are becoming increasingly vulnerable.© World Vision / Chris Huber

How are refugees faring in the vaccine race? Not well

World Refugee Day: Amanda Rives Argeñal explains how refugees are invisible in the current COVID-19 vaccine roll-out. The...

Sunday, June 20, 2021 - 15:41