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  • World Vision
    • About us
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      • Who we are
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      • Where we work
    • Asia Pacific
      • Photo gallery: 2009, the year in pictures
      • Video: Closer than you think
  • Urgent issues
    • Children in crisis
      • Philippines: Breaking the silence
      • Cambodia: Youth call for action against child sexual exploitation
      • Nepal: Finding new love at school
      • Cambodia: Child labourer silences the crowd
      • Indonesia: Light in Surabaya's darkest places
      • Mongolia: Former tunnel girl says she's "lucky"
      • Philippines: Father breaks cycle of domestic violence
      • Philippines: World Vision vows to end violence against children
      • Video: Invisible children
      • Postcards from the front line
      • Video: Hello from Kenya, Africa
      • Video: Soursdey from Narak, Cambodia
      • Video: Sawasdee Kha from Fai, Thailand
      • Video: Sawasdee Kha from Jane, Thailand
      • Video: Soursdey from Kakda, Cambodia
      • Video: Hola from Colombia, Latin America
      • Cambodia: Ten thousand attend anti child sex tourism concert
      • Children in crisis: World Vision’s response
      • Video: Your right to love, freedom and protection
      • India: Exhibition uses tools of child labour
      • Sohail works to support his family
      • Photo gallery: Child labour in Asia
      • Cambodia: Concert for brick factory workers
      • Vanuatu: Literacy aims for generational change
      • Feature: Farm haven for abused children
      • India: Nursing degree for beedi girl
      • Feature: Scrap collector's happiest moment
      • Video: Should Ly Long work?
      • Cambodia: Child labourers take time off
      • Cambodia: Child labour concert
      • Timor-Leste: Boys carve a place in community
      • India: Report shows progress on child labour
      • Bangladesh: New year for child workers
      • Cambodia: protecting children
      • Thailand: Child beggars thrive on kindness
      • Bangladesh: Liton calls a railway station home
      • India: Factory no place for a child
      • Mongolia: Healing Gerlee
      • Children in crisis: Should children work?
      • Children in crisis: Violence against children
      • Children in crisis: What’s causing it?
      • Children in crisis: The plight of street children
      • Cambodia: "I could not leave - my mother needed the money for medication."
    • Child, maternal health and nutrition
      • Cambodia: A community transformed
      • India: Not another life
      • Philippines: Volunteer taskforces prevent tuberculosis
      • Photo gallery: World Health Day 2010
      • Papua New Guinea: Educated mothers fight TB
      • Nepal: Water draws villagers home
      • Photo gallery: Cambodia - World Water Day 2010
      • World Vision: Six million child lives a year could be saved with simple low-cost health measures
      • Bangladesh: Teaching mothers keeps children healthy
      • Philippines: 12 days to change a life
      • Thailand: TB volunteer strengthened by love
      • Nepal: Back to school for farmers
      • Sri Lanka: Beans help pay for school
      • Thailand: The school for "eggheads"
      • PD Hearth: "The proof is in the khichuri"
      • India: School or family, a parent's impossible choice
      • Timor-Leste: Baucau’s perfect baby
      • Philippines: Rice of gold in Surallah
      • Philippines: Nutrition knowledge saves a child
      • Sri Lanka: Families in famine through food costs
      • Indonesia: Not cows, say breastfed children
      • Nepal: Breastfeeding mothers "go for gold"
      • Indonesia: Carrots taste sweeter to Papua farmers
      • North Korea: Food project affected by restrictions
      • Mongolia: Surviving on one meal a day
      • Child health: Food costs hurt children in Asia Pacific
      • Video: Eating bark
      • Malnutrition "emergency" in East Nusa Tenggara
      • Myanmar: Remote communities receive food support
      • Papua New Guinea: World Vision gears up for World TB Day
      • Vietnam: Good knowledge means good childcare
      • Indonesia: Giving birth and raising healthier babies in Jakarta
      • Indonesia: Summing up nutrition success
      • Nepal: Homegrown tastes best in Kathmandu
      • India: Healthy start for Amit
      • Laos: Healthy children, happy families
      • Mongolia: Malnourished twins now healthy
      • Child health: World Vision’s response
      • Philippines: Children fight tuberculosis
      • Indonesia: Midwives go mobile
      • Laos: "Model mothers" train others
      • Child health: Nutrition and health
      • Bangladesh: Camp focuses on eye checks
    • Child rights and participation
      • Indonesia: Children fly kites of aspiration
      • India: Breaking down barriers to education
      • Nepal: Children's voice in a new constitution
      • Myanmar: Convention on the rights of the child
      • India: The impact of non-formal education centers
      • Cambodia: Khim understands the value of Education
      • Sri Lanka: Children with disabilities, no longer hidden away
      • Indonesia: Children’s day - a dreamland of child rights
      • Nepal: Thumbs up for child rights on National Children’s Day
      • Mongolia: Herder children go to Ger Kindergarten
      • Vietnam: Children question policymakers at national forum
      • Vietnam: Rural students deliver messages on goals for children
      • Indonesia: The maths class of Papua
      • Vietnam: Literacy changes lives forever
      • Indonesia: Let's Learn Together
      • Indonesia: Free birth certificates for Papuan children
      • Child Participation: Why should children be consulted?
      • Child Participation: Child participation means child protection
      • Child Participation: What's in the CRC?
      • Child Participation: Barriers to child protection
      • Child Participation: World Vision's response
      • Nepal: Dinesh finds his voice
      • Mongolia: "Children's Future Light" on disability
      • Indonesia: Children speak up for their rights
      • Indonesia: Youth against HIV and AIDS
      • Nepal: Government says yes to child rights
      • Indonesia: We can learn anywhere
      • Slideshow: School or marriage?
      • Nepal: Inequality, poverty keep girls from school
      • Millions participate in World's Biggest Lesson
      • Feature: Indian children use comics to talk child rights
      • Thailand: Youth journalists tell children's stories
      • Nepal: Children write their constitution
      • Timor-Leste: Youth celebrate day of Peace
      • Vietnam: Huy’s right to play and learn
      • Philippines: Tensions turn to hope
      • Vietnam: Steps forward for disability
      • Philippines: Assembly of Communities
      • Indonesia: Children write agenda for change
      • Papua New Guinea: Child rights celebrated
      • Cambodia: Creating A Safer World
    • Climate change
      • Indonesia: 7,200 trees planted in easternmost province of Papua
      • Climate Change: What's the situation?
      • Philippines: When disaster knocked on Amy's door
      • The world is changing: Planet Prepare
    • Conflict and peacebuilding
      • Video: Sri Lanka song for peace
      • Sri Lanka: Song for Peace - blending voices, bridging lives
      • Cambodia: Young people for peace
      • Video: Empowering children as peacebuilders, Philippines
      • Peacebuilding: Communities want peace
      • Peacebuilding: World Vision's response
      • Peacebuilding: Asia's hot spots
      • Peacebuilding: Growing up in fear
      • Sri Lanka: They say we are different
      • Sri Lanka: Termites come to the city
      • Philippines:Mindanaoan, minority and peacebuilder
      • Philippines: Violence forces children from home
      • Nepal: Peace treaty brings new opportunities
      • Philippines: The National Children’s Congress: Coming together for peace
      • Solomon Islands:The night the fear came
      • Indonesia: Hak Anak Indonesia!
      • Philippines: Children call for peace
      • Sri Lanka: Sports for Peace
    • Economic development
      • Thailand: Fam and her Arabica coffee
      • Video: Microenterprise in Mongolia
      • Mongolia: "Ground-hog" family have their day
      • Thailand: Resilience as fortunes change
      • India: Community micro-loans in action
      • Sri Lanka: Life through Taniya's eyes
      • Thailand: Housewives snack their way to success
      • Mongolia: Debt-free after eighteen years
      • Cambodia: VisionFund Cambodia celebrates growth
      • Cambodia: Students with disability enjoy reunion party
      • Timor-Leste: Quality goods win first prize at ASEAN Expo
      • Indonesia: Seaweed a saviour for farmers
      • Thailand: Barber school in session
      • Cambodia: Pig changes family fortunes
      • Cambodia: VisionFund profile
      • How does micro-finance work?
      • East Timor: Market control helps farming families
      • Liberate your latte: the Fair Trade movement in Asia
      • Economic Justice: our response
      • Trade or aid?
      • Vietnam: Small Loans Help Poor Woman Escape Poverty
      • Cambodia: Investing in Phally's Future
    • Gender
      • Bangladesh: The bright side of women's participation
      • Photo gallery: Women in Asia - bearing a disproportionate burden of poverty
      • Nepal: Education for girls
      • Bangladesh: The touch of a dream
      • Sri Lanka: Making every day Father's Day
      • Nepal: 'Chotti' tradition hurts children
      • Nepal: Women walk together for a cause
      • International Women's Day: The Asia Pacific perspective
      • Nepal: "It just keeps coming"
      • Gender: World Vision's response
      • Gender: Women's value
      • Gender: Education for all
      • Gender: Women as decision-makers
      • Gender: Why gender development is the key
      • Nepal: Girl leads village on anti-trafficking
      • Cambodia: Education for all, says Sreymom
      • Feature: A girl's dream for education
      • India: A chance for change in women’s status
      • Nepal: Sabbu finds her voice
      • Nepal: "Little doctors" fill the healthcare gap
      • India: Cows bring confidence to Maheshwari
      • India: Kalaivani, lucky to be alive
      • Bangladesh: Yesmin's clever choices
      • India: School out for Suman
    • HIV and AIDS
      • Photo gallery: Cambodia - Antenatal care reduces HIV infections
      • Nepal: Learning about HIV and AIDS in school
      • Photo gallery: One Life Evolution, Indonesia
      • Thailand: Her grandchildren call her "mother"
      • Cambodia: Awareness campaign on HIV and AIDS has educated Sopheara
      • Indonesia: Preventing HIV infections in children
      • India: Struggle for life a little easier
      • Thailand: Bringing an uncle home
      • Cambodia: HIV and AIDS gains understanding
      • Thailand: HIV stigma separates a family
      • Thailand: HIV teen looks forward to life
      • Video: Bhagyalakshmi's story, India
      • Cambodia: "Never give up, never forget" on HIV
      • Vietnam: Without stigma, an HIV orphan blossoms
      • Nepal: HIV and AIDS training for religious leaders
      • Video: Theara's story, Cambodia
      • Video: Chatri's story, Thailand
      • Vietnam: HIV-affected children address National Forum
      • India: Children script film on HIV discrimination
      • World AIDS Day 2007
      • Myanmar: New HIV and AIDS project commences
      • Thailand: Candles show compassion for HIV and AIDS
      • Cambodia: 11 year old shares HIV experiences
      • Indonesia: Indonesians urged to stop discriminating
      • Global vigil marks World AIDS Day by highlighting children orphaned by AIDS
      • Photo gallery: World AIDS Day 2007
      • Laos: "Friends tell friends" about HIV and AIDS
      • Sri Lanka: Children's view of ICAAP
      • Nepal: HIV and AIDS migrates to village
      • India: Children see dreams come true
      • Thailand: In love with life
      • Cambodia: Giving babies a chance for life
      • India: Lives changed by a song and dance
      • HIV and AIDS: World Vision's response
      • HIV and AIDS: Prevention, treatment and care save lives
      • Thailand: Sung talks sex to save lives
      • Papua New Guinea: Ruth and Kelly
      • Vietnam: Hairdresser, housewife and HIV/AIDS educator
      • HIV and AIDS: What's the situation?
      • Myanmar: "I felt like I'd been given a death sentence."
      • India: One in three million - Rani's story
    • Human trafficking
      • Cambodia: Youth advocate through art
      • Laos: Life of Noy after returning home
      • Laos: Trafficked for a cell phone
      • Trafficking: Shift the spotlight away from sex
      • Video: Casino boys
      • Video: Migrant labourers
      • Video: Scrap collectors
      • Video: Grandmother
      • Cambodia: Vulnerable lives along the border
      • Thailand: Landmark decision for truck survivors
      • Cambodia: Nary and the Windblowers
      • Video: Nary and the windblowers
      • Cambodia: The bet of a lifetime
      • Video: Som Hope Bai
      • Video: Mekong Youth Forum 2007
      • Children recognised in anti-trafficking policy
      • Focus: Sex tourists in South East Asia
      • Photo gallery: Trafficking in Asia
      • Children's voices on trafficking
      • Vietnam: sex trade survivor addresses ASEAN
      • Cambodia: Community says no to slavery
      • Laos: Young people challenge the traffickers
      • Human Trafficking: Life after trafficking
      • Asia: Mekong Human Trafficking Strategy
      • Human Trafficking: World Vision's response
      • Human Trafficking: Who's vulnerable?
    • Urbanisation
      • Thailand: Partnership to reduce urban TB
      • Philippines: Never too young to save the environment
      • Urbanisation: World Vision’s Advocacy Recommendations
      • Urbanisation: World Vision's Response
      • Urbanisation: Mega Cities, Minor Cities
      • Urbanisation: New Communities
      • Urbanisation: Growing up in the City
      • Urbanisation: A Healthy City
      • Papua New Guinea: second chance for school
      • Sathyaveni, slum hero of Bangalore
      • Slumdog Millionaire: Don't forget the children
      • India: Race against time to re-enrol
      • Indonesia: City living a trap, says Peijem
      • Philippines: No longer illegal
      • Philippines: Typhoon sparks fire disaster in urban slum
      • Philippines: Room to move
      • Video: Imagine my city
      • Video: Imagine my city 2
      • Vietnam: Traffic safety for children
      • India: Bicycle man dreams of a greener city
      • Indonesia: Children Welcome Mobile Library
      • Philippines: Young Filipinos champion the environment
      • Feature: Pulling life in Kathmandu
      • Asia water crisis?
    • Education
      • Laos: Khaima faces the odds for better education
      • Vietnam: 1Goal calls for education for all
  • Emergencies
    • West Sumatra Earthquake 2009
      • Video: Kota Padang child friendly space
      • Blog: As Sumatra quake story fades remember this...
      • Blog: Wedding tents, paper airplanes bring joy to Indonesian quake-affected children
      • Blog: My first day in quake-affected Padang
      • Video: Indonesia quake appeal
      • Media Spokespersons
      • Indonesia: Padang Devastated by powerful aftershock
    • Typhoon Ketsana
      • Video: Philippines Typhoon Ketsana six months on
      • Vietnam: Phuong prepares for more frequent, more severe storms
      • Cambodia: Samneth, "I never wish to see a flood again"
      • Philippines: Cramped evacuation centre still 'home' to many
      • Laos: A new world for Sengthavy after Typhoon Ketsana
      • Philippines: Incoming typhoon hampers efforts to aid survivors of last storm
      • Vietnam: Disaster preparedness measures save Chi's life
      • Video: Philippines Typhoon Ketsana appeal
      • Philippines: Aid distributions continue in Manila area despite rains
      • Philippines: World Vision preparing for the worst as 'Super Typhoon Parma' bears down
      • Typhoon Ketsana: Aid workers scramble to assist storm victims across three countries
      • Video: Typhoon Ketsana airdrop
      • Vietnam: World Vision staff respond as eye of typhoon sweeps coast
      • Media Spokespersons
      • Philippines: World Vision aims to reach 100,000 people in flood-hit Manila
    • West Java Earthquake
      • Indonesia: Children in West Java quake zone receive psychosocial care
      • Video: West Java earthquake
      • Media Spokespersons
      • Indonesia: World Vision aid reaches West Java quake survivors
      • Indonesia: World Vision assesses quake damage
    • Cyclone Aila
      • Media Spokespersons
      • Bangladesh: Aila survivor plea - stronger shelter, better embankments
      • Bangladesh: Food aid begins to reach first of thousands of cyclone survivors
      • Bangladesh: World Vision responds as thousands hit by cyclonic storm surge
    • Asia Floods
      • Nepal: Returning home, more rain to come
      • Vietnam: Typhoon hits; preparation saves lives
      • Nepal: New floods hit Western Terai
      • India: Floods and food - Bihar meets the global economy
      • Nepal: Monsoon Diary
      • India: World Vision and local college prepare Bihar locals for life after the flood
      • India: Over 30,000 reached in Bihar, plans for more
      • Asia floods: Seeking higher ground in Bangladesh
      • Photo gallery: Asia floods response
      • Bangladesh: 2 million marooned by floods: World Vision responds
      • India: Looking for dry ground and a better life - Bihar Flood drives migration
      • India: Parents search for missing children among raging flood waters
      • India: Desperate flood families receive relief
      • Vietnam: Flash floods, landslides cut off villages
    • Philippines Typhoon Fengshen Response
      • Video: Responding to disasters
      • Photo gallery: Typhoon Fengshen response
      • Video: Typhoon Fengshen, Philippines
      • Beth becomes tower of strength amidst her own grief
      • WV Philippines launches relief operations in Iloilo
      • Philippines: Typhoon Fengshen directly impacts 9 WV ADPs
    • China Sichuan Earthquake Response
      • China: Healing children's hearts – Sichuan Earthquake two years on
      • China: Back at school, better than ever
      • China: World Vision takes part in one of history's largest housebuilding projects
      • Video: China quake one year on
      • Permanent homes brings warmth and hope in winter
      • House Subsidy Brings Warmth in Winter
      • Video: China quake - three-month journey and challenges ahead
      • Beyond the rubble: An aid worker’s diary of life after the Sichuan earthquake
      • China: Child Friendly Space better than home
      • Aid worker diary: helping children walk out of darkness and into happiness
      • Photo gallery: China quake, six months on
      • Video: Child friendly spaces in China
      • China: Steel classrooms and temporary shelter
      • China: Taiwan celebrity Wang Leehom visits quake site
      • China: World Vision signs MOU with government
      • China: Safety a priority for staff and survivors
      • China: Miracle of life
      • China quake: Homeless children require special protection
      • China: Nightmare of school tragedy
      • China: Supply trucks race against time
      • Thousands die in China earthquake
      • Earthquake aftermath: 10,000 Chinese survivors to receive aid
    • Myanmar cyclone response
      • Myanmar: Amid good news in Myanmar's Delta, challenges remain
      • Myanmar: Saving the lives of Nargis child survivors from diarrhoea
      • Video: Cyclone Nargis two years on
      • Myanmar: Water accessibility impacts Delta income generation
      • Myanmar: Cyclone resistant shelters bring relief to Bogale
      • Myanmar: Nway, one year on
      • Slideshow: My voice, my life
      • One year on: more than 300,000 Nargis survivors helped
      • Slideshow: Delta living
      • Myanmar six months-on: Nway's Story
      • Nargis three months on: 700,000 children still in need
      • Slideshow: Children of the Delta
      • Slideshow: Emergency supplies alleviate suffering in the Delta
      • Video: Myanmar, one month on
      • Myanmar: Cyclone survivors one month on
      • Myanmar: Staff comfort each other with stories
      • Video: Preparations for child-friendly space, Myanmar
      • Myanmar: Conference brings results
      • Myanmar: Rare chance for fun in Child-Friendly Space
      • Myanmar: Relief in Delta meets urgent needs
      • Myanmar: I want to go home, says Thant Zin
      • Myanmar: World Vision Plans To Aid Almost Half a Million Cyclone Survivors
      • Myanmar: Crisis in the Relief Camps
      • Myanmar: Nyo Mynt's story of loss and survival
      • Video: Tim Costello cisits Myanmar - part one
      • Video: Tim Costello visits Myanmar - part two
      • Video: Myanmar cyclone emergency appeal 2 - WVA
      • Video: Nargis Cyclone (Myanmar) World Vision
      • Video: Myanmar cyclone emergency appeal
      • Video: Myanmar Cyclone Crisis - World Vision Response
      • Maynmar: Relief operations in World Vision project areas
      • Myanmar: Assessment team discovers deadly impact of surge
      • Myanmar: Urgent needs direct our hands and hearts
      • Myanmar: A father too weak, a family goes hungry
      • Myanmar: In the eye of the storm
      • World Vision responds to deadly Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar
      • Media Spokespersons
    • China Snowstorm Relief
      • China snowstorms: An aid worker's journey into China's remote mountains
      • China: World Vision assists remote mountain villages in Yunnan
      • China: Multi-million dollar China response focuses on power
      • Photo gallery: China snowstorm
      • China: Quilt aid reaches snowed-in Chinese
      • Snow storms show no sign of easing up: World Vision China distributes quilts
    • Latest
      • China: World Vision steps up relief operations in flood-affected areas
      • China: Food remains urgent need of flood survivors
      • China: Millions affected as severe flooding hits southern provinces
      • Sri Lanka: World Vision responds as torrential rains displace thousands
      • Cambodia: World Vision assisting families from storm-affected villages
      • India and Bangladesh: World Vision assessing damage after violent storm leaves dozens dead
      • China: World Vision sending assessment team, hygiene items to Qinghai
      • China: A girl who holds her cup tightly
      • China: World Vision assesses water scarcity in drought-stricken southwest
      • China: Quilts rushed to blizzard-affected children
      • Mongolia: World Vision gears up to respond as cold snap wreaks havoc
      • India: Floods and drought setting back fight against poverty "by years"
      • Asia: Urgent help needed to prevent trauma among child survivors of disasters
      • Indonesia: World Vision gears up for aid response after 7.6 quake rocks Sumatra
      • Cambodia: Hygiene promotion prevents spread of disease in flood-stricken villages
      • Taiwan: First Lady Chow visits children affected by Typhoon Morakot
      • Nepal: World Vision responds to Diarrhoeal Outbreak
      • Taiwan: Run or die - one family's narrow escape
      • Taiwan: World Vision provides emergency assistance in wake of Typhoon Morakot
      • India: Drought puts 50 million at risk
      • Philippines: World Vision provides aid after Typhoon Morakot
      • Taiwan: World Vision reaches hundreds in the wake of Typhoon Morakot
      • Mongolia: World Vision assists with urban flood relief
      • China: Earthquake evacuees shelter in World Vision school
      • China: World Vision sends floods emergency assessment team
      • Philippines: Typhoon Kujira hits Bicol region
      • Philippines: "We are ready for anything."
      • Philippines: Flash floods hit Mindanao;World Vision to provide aid
      • Indonesia: World Vision distributes aid in hardest-hit quake areas
      • Indonesia: Strong earthquakes hit Papua - World Vision aid at the ready
      • Tidal surges lash Papua New Guinea, hundreds evacuate
      • Sri Lanka: Floods pose fresh challenges for people in troubled north
      • Vietnam: Preparing for the worst
      • Philippines: Bridging peace gap at child-friendly centres
      • Laos: Welcome relief for flooded villagers
      • Philippines: Aid, child-friendly spaces for Mindanao children
      • North Korea: Aid Agencies to Deliver U.S. Food Assistance to North Koreans
      • Aid worker diary: Solomons tsunami not forgotten
      • Taiwan: Understanding of refugees growing
      • India: Thousands struggle for food and shelter as flood waters recede
      • Vietnam: Flooding simulation helps communities prepare for disasters
      • Sri Lanka: Food an urgent need after flash floods strike the south
      • World Vision responds to Mongolia Snowstorm
      • Philippines: Leonila's plight ends as World Vision completes typhoon Durian shelter aid
      • Philippines: Mudslide buries Alma's modest home
      • The world is changing: Planet Prepare
      • India: Ravenous rats devour crops; threat of food crisis
      • Sri Lanka: Floods displace, damage World Vision programmes
      • Indonesia: Flood relief for washed-out villages
      • Philippines: One year on, Durian survivors remember
      • India: Villagers struggle towards recovery
      • North Korea: A family’s story of fear and survival
      • Indonesia: Quake survivors set to receive aid
      • Indonesia: Quake assessment underway
      • North Korea: Assessing the damage
      • North Korea: World Vision delivers essential medicines
      • Bangladesh: Scenes from a distribution
      • North Korea: Medicines desperately needed
      • India: Does urbanisation cause floods?
      • North Korea: First shipment of aid for flood victims
      • India: Pooja misses home and school
      • Bangladesh: Floods affect poorest communities
      • India: Battling the floods in Bihar
      • South Asia monsoons update
      • Bangladesh: Aid reaches flood victims
      • China: Sichuan deluge displaces over 100,000
      • India: Early warning systems installed
      • India: Heavy floods claim lives
      • China: Flood dangers continue
      • Bangladesh: Rain, mudslides, wreak havoc
      • Indonesia: One year on, community takes charge
      • Solomons: Frightened to go home
      • Media Spokespersons
      • Solomons: Miraculous escape
      • Solomons: Badly needed aid arrives
      • Solomons: Tsunami death toll rising
      • Indonesia: Clinics treat flood children
      • China: Rebuilding homes and courage
      • Indonesia: Flooding worsens, uncertainty looms
      • Indonesia: Floods devastate Jakarta
      • East Timor: Development programs reopen
      • Philippines: Bracing for Utor as aid arrives
      • Philippines: Assessment team arrives to chaos
      • Philippines: Aid teams head into typhoon zone
      • Indonesia: Floods not forgotten
      • China: Quilts, food, shelter for flood-affected villagers
      • East Timor: Relief priorities clear
      • Philippines: Mt Mayon protection
      • Indonesia: Relief extends by six months
      • Philippines: World Vision deploys relief as Mayon threatens
      • East Timor: Relief work in full swing
      • China: World Vision to assist 20,000 flood victims in southern China
      • Indonesia: quake property damage may be greater than Aceh tsunami
      • East Timor: Major relief effort under way
      • Indonesia: Aid and support worldwide for survivors of quake
      • Indonesia: World Vision reaches quake survivors
      • Philippines: Landslide survivors receive relief assistance
      • Relief operations under way in mudslide village
      • World Vision Relief Teams respond to Philippines mudslide disaster
      • Relief teams respond to Philippine mudslide disaster
    • Bangladesh Cyclone Response
      • Bangladesh: Saving lives before the storm hits
      • Bangladesh: A lesson in saving lives
      • Disaster update: Cyclone Sidr, Bangladesh
      • Bangladesh: Child Friendly Spaces After Cyclone Sidr
      • Bangladesh: Rebuilding starts in earnest
      • Bangladesh: Looking for answers in Sidr’s wake
      • Bangladesh: Report estimates 1.2 million houses destroyed
      • Bangladesh: Seven days’ worth of relief for worst affected
      • Staff Diary: Raphael Palma
      • Cyclone Sidr: A Child's Account
      • Bangladesh: Shelter a priority for World Vision response
      • Bangladesh: Homeless in programme areas by the thousands
      • Bangladesh: World Vision shelter cyclone victims
    • Asia Tsunami Response
      • Thailand: Long-term investment transforms children's lives
      • Slideshow: Aceh - five years on
      • Indonesia: Handicrafts business brings hope and new enterprise to Aceh community
      • Indonesia: Hope grows from a better school
      • Sri Lanka: Post-tsunami support helps Baby Tsunami start school
      • Media spokespersons
      • Indonesia: Tsunami survivors’ spirit for learning
      • Sri Lanka: Back on track with bicycles
      • Schools open in Aceh and Sri Lanka
      • World Vision tsunami study indicates recovery and renewed hope in Thailand
      • School rehabilitation gives tsunami-affected community new education opportunities
      • Interfaith partnership provides new school for young tsunami survivors
      • New schools emerge after fourth destruction
      • Tsunami recovery strengthened through community engagement tools
    • Sri Lanka conflict
      • Sri Lanka: One year after war – a haven for healing children
      • Sri Lanka: Returned fishermen rebuild their lives
      • Sri Lanka: World Vision gears for launch of rehabilitation programme in war-torn north
      • Sri Lanka: Impending monsoon and poor camp sanitation puts thousands at risk of disease
      • Sri Lanka: Influx of last conflict survivors could overwhelm stretched aid agencies
      • Sri Lanka: Four challenges as war ends
      • Sri Lanka: World Vision initiative helps 2000 displaced children get 'back to school'
      • Sri Lanka: "Help child survivors of war... Help heal my country"
      • Sri Lanka: "A living hell"
      • Sri Lanka: Thousands flee conflict zone; World Vision responding
      • Sri Lanka: World Vision's response to displacement
      • Media Spokespersons
      • Sri Lanka: Inside the camps, Batticaloa
      • Sri Lanka: Child victims of conflict
      • Sri Lanka: Away from the noise of the planes
      • Sri Lanka: Landslide leaves thousands homeless
      • Sri Lanka: Displaced families cut off
      • Sri Lanka: Displaced increasing
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