World Vision is reaching hundreds of desperate families in the worst flood-affected areas of the eastern state of Bihar, India, with essential food and emergency supplies.
World Vision relief and assessment staff are heading to flood-affected areas of northern Vietnam amidst fears of further flash floods or landslides. Photo: Reuters 2008
To celebrate World Breast Feeding Week Aug 1-7, World Vision International Nepal urged female policy-makers to become part of the campaign to promote universal breast-feeding.
Three
months after Cyclone Nargis hit the Ayeyarwady Delta and Yangon
Division in Myanmar, World Vision has established its largest-ever
number of children’s programmes in a single country.
World Vision has provided 150 pre-fab buildings for community shelters in quake-affected areas. They have helped children like Su Jie to begin feeling safer and happier about their lives.
VisionFund Cambodia recently celebrated its 2007 growth with the announcement that it was able to impact more than 200,000 children in its fourth year of operation.
World
Vision India and partner NalandaWay observed World Day against Child
Labour in June with an art exhibition representing child labourers'
experiences through the tools of their trades.
India: Parents search for missing children among raging flood waters Two young boys, Pappu and Deepak who were working in a sweet factory, are missing after flood waters from the Kosi River ravaged their community, including the factory they were working in. The boys have been missing for a week now and their parents say they are starting to lose hope.
