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| The harsh reality of an ordinary village w... It has always been a hard thing to be a woman in a remote Armenian village. Village women have many duties to accomplish, some of which would be totally foreign to women living in cities. Anahit, who works as a nurse in the Yaghdan village kindergarten in Lori Region, talks about what lies on her sh...  | |
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| Playground honours memory of 'champion for... A playground nestled in the “Mirko Tomic” primary school in Obrez village, central Serbia is not only special for the joy it is bringing to children’s lives, but because it was established in memory of former Child Protection Specialist, Carol Toms, who died suddenly on 8 February 2008. | |
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| Another day in Gaza - Lifting of the siege... September 21 marks International Peace Day. Recently World Vision’s Director for Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza witnessed ordinary life in Gaza, so far from the ideals of International Peace Day.
Gaza,1.5 million people crammed into an urban island pock marked by bullets and bombs. Where ... | |
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| Palestinians live on the street while Isra... “Have you eaten? We’re all eating lunch now and there’s some if you are hungry.” Those were Maher Hannoun’s first words to us as we approached the street corner in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem where he and his family have been living for more than a week after being evicted from their home by Israe... | |
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| Two million Pakistanis long for home Chris Webster is a communications specialist with World Vision's Global Rapid Response Team. He has just returned from working in Pakistan's Swat valley and recounts how displaced persons he spoke to long for home....
It is good to be home. After just a month away it’s so good to see ... | |
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| World Vision builds relationship with peac... Anti-Trafficking Regional Coordinator, Matthew Stephens, travelled to Austria in mid-May to represent World Vision at a NATO training for its Peace Support Operations (PSO) to raise awareness among officers and non-commissioned officers (NCOs) on trafficking as a human rights violation, their role i... | |
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| Hospitality that hurts Chris Webster is a communications specialist with World Vision's Global Rapid Response Team. He is in Pakistan’s northwest, where some of the poorest communities on earth are opening their doors to more than two million people fleeing fighting across Swat Valley.... | |
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| The other front line in Pakistan: How the ... My colleagues recently told me about an extraordinary woman they had been training to advocate for the women and children in her community. When I went to meet her, and she told me her story, I realized that she is on the front-line in the true battle for Pakistan's future. She is fighting for the e... | |
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| Access to Gaza calls for bridges of reconc... Michael French is the Director of Advocacy for World Vision UK. He visited World Vision's work in the Palestinian Territory and Israel from March 19-26, 2009.
If a non-event can be a highlight, then perhaps this was it. We drove to the perimeter of Gaza and gazed across the wall at wh... | |
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| Reflections: 3 months after Gaza war Mohammad El Halabi is a Palestinian living in North Gaza with his wife and children. He is World Vision’s Area Development Programme Manager for North Gaza.
What I remember going back to the start of the conflict in Gaza three months ago were the children crying, including my s... | |
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| Social worker cares about the chidren in h... Mihaela Ciobanu, a very special Romanian social worker joined World Vision Romania six years ago. All this time she has proved over and over again how much she cares for the children in her village and its entire community. Relentless and passionate about her work, Mihaela resents the hours that she... | |
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| A diary from Gaza... Judy Moore of World Vision's Global Rapid Response Team recounts her recent experience in Gaza where she spent 29 January through 1 February assessing the impact of the recent incursion there on World Vision’s work, registered children and beneficiary families for the emergency relief and early reco... | |
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| Armenian community revives ancient Church ... Areg Manucharyan, 13, knows the Varaga Monastery like the back of his hand. Walking to the monastery, lighting a candle, and then staying there for hours has been one of Areg’s favourite pastimes since early childhood. | |
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| Speechless after witnessing a home demolit... What do you say to the man who just watched his family’s home destroyed by bulldozers sent by Israeli security forces? Looking into his face just moments after the dust settled I glimpsed his pain and devastation. “Asfe (Sorry)” felt so inadequate as I looked into his heartbroken eyes, which retur... | |
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| ‘Small journalists’ learn about the big wo... By Cristina Samson
Music and journalism were on the agenda for 30 children who participated in a World Vision Summer School in southern Romania recently.
The event gathered 20 children from rural schools that are creating school newspapers and 10 children who are member... | |
