World Vision UK is asking for your help and support in their latest charity campaign, ‘When I Grow Up’. The ethos of the scheme is based around the Peter Pan story, who lived in ‘Never Never’ Land’ where nobody ever grows old. This story can be translated to the plight of millions of children in developing countries across the world, but in their case, it’s anything but a fairytale.
World Vision is asking for your help and support for their latest campaign, ‘When I Grow Up’. With up 3.5 million children dying from under nutrition every year, children across the globe deserve a chance sow something more in their lives.
Last Saturday, 9th July 2011, Sudan, became two nations. One of Africa’s biggest countries now split into two, South Sudan desperately needs help in it’s quest to make a fresh start. With internal instability and serious poverty, the return of thousands of south Sudanese from the North is causing a great deal of stress on the new economy.
World Vision charity officials are pleased to announce the opening of a brand new, purpose built primary school in the Gatsibo District of Rwanda. The school, which cost 60 million Rwandan Francs (£600,000) will accommodate 981 pupils and provide a better platform for children to learn the basics that can be so difficult in a country this poor
World Vision charity officials are still on the frontline dealing with the chaos caused by tornados across mid west America, with 519 people killed already this year. This figure already equals the 1953 record number of fatalities in a year, and with a month still left to go in ‘tornado season’, further tragedy looms on the horizon.
World Vision UK are concerned that nearly 10,000 people will be displaced as violent clashes continue to flare up in the African country Ivory Coast. The fleeing thousands are heading east into Ghana, where World Vision representatives are on standby to aid the many families who are being forced from their country due to ongoing fighting.
As all of us know, approximately two weeks ago, on March 11th, a massive earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale ripped through the east coast of Japan, one of the five strongest quakes recorded since 1900.
Despite the strength of the earthquake, it was the resulting tsunami that caused the real devastation, with waves estimated as high as 15 meters (three stories). Whole towns have been swept away, with many thousands of people thought to have perished.
The World Vision charity is deeply concerned that infant children affected by the flooding in Pakistan are struggling to survive without immediate aid. Now into it’s second month since the flooding began, World Vision are desperately trying to reach all the mothers and babies that have been left homeless, and are now at high risk to disease and malnutrition.
World Vision UK is asking for your help in demanding U.N leaders ‘Finish the Job’. As part of their global ‘Child Health Now’ campaign, World Vision are calling on world leaders to stand by their stance to halve global poverty by 2015 and fulfil their promises towards achieving their Millennium Development Goals. These eight plans of action were set in place a decade ago, yet many of these goals are way off track, and unless drastic action is taken, will not be achieved.
Fame Academy and Pop Idol vocal coach to the stars Carrie Grant recently visiting a new community development project in India with World Vision UK. Ms. Grant will be visiting the Vaishali project in the North Eastern state of Bihar, where Carrie will see how World Vision are working to help improve the health of children who live in this impoverished community.
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