Why children go hungry from a lack of clean water
If children are malnourished, a lack of food isn't always to blame, explains Jean-Baptiste Kamate.
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Would you take food away from a hungry child to feed a starving one?
Would you take food away from a hungry child to feed a starving one? Recently, Meghan Stanley had to grapple this ethical dilemma.
Six ways we are addressing climate change around the world
By Angeline Munzara and Yukiko Yamada Morovic
This article looks at six ways World Vision programmes are addressing climate change around the world.
How the world's most hungry children are paying for the Ukraine conflict
As the Ukraine conflict, climate shocks, and ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic interact to undermine food supplies and economies, the risk of famine continues to intensify for children and families worldwide. Andrew Morley explains.
Global inaction will mean death for Afghanistan's hungry children
World Vision Afghanistan's National Director Asuntha Charles gives insight into the desperate humanitarian crisis the country in the lead up to her intervention at the UN General Assembly's Special Roundtable on Preventing Famine and Fighting Food Insecurity.
Five surprising ways war can harm children
One of our humanitarian experts lays out some of the lesser-known dangers for children caught up in conflict.
There's no excuse, it's time to deliver on nutrition
Dan says there's no longer any reason for the world to not address malnutrition: the solutions are known and could save 3.7m lives.
HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE
Five things you may not know about humanitarians
By James East
James reflects on why we can and should better understand humanitarian workers - where they're from, why they do what they do, what they face and how they overcome it.
COVID-19
When someone's drowning you don't row away
By Jennifer Neelsen
As the most vulnerable children and families, especially in fragile contexts, suffer new surges of COVID-19, Jennifer says we must redouble efforts to fight the pandemic and its tragic aftershocks.
FAMINE
We told ourselves – We'd never let famine happen again
By Sheri Arnott
On the 10th anniversary of the Somalia Famine, Sheri Arnott asks: 'How did we get here again?'
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