World Vision UK is calling on all political parties to ensure that extreme poverty remains a priority on their agenda as they canvas for votes with the election just around the corner. World Vision is asking their supporters to use this opportunity to help persuade your local parliamentary candidates that child health is an issue that the UK public cares deeply about.

The last general election was 5 years ago, and since then people have written to MP’s to speak against injustice, and asked the government to take action towards ending global poverty. Nearly 9million children die ever year across the globe before their 5th birthday, with many of the deaths caused by completely preventable causes such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria.

World Vision is joining with a coalition of other charities to ensure that international development and extreme poverty remain a priority for all political parties. When talking about a wide range of domestic issues, it is important that local candidates understand that there is much to do across the world and this must not be forgotten. World Vision are asking you to use the help persuade your local candidates and their parties that child health is an issue across the globe, not just in the UK.

The bigger fight must continue…

> > Click here to register to take part and Vote Global

Help World Vision by sponsoring a child

The World Vision Sponsor a Child programme is a great way to give a needy child a real chance of escaping poverty. As part of a long-term program, your continued support enables World Vision to use your donations to build sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there.

You can provide a child with a better future for just 60p a day – giving them a real chance of escaping poverty. You get to see and feel the difference your support makes directly, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.

> > Click here to sponsor a child with World Vision UK

World Vision charity workers are currently on the ground trying to help the estimated 2 million people whose lives have been devastated by the earthquake and tsunami that hit Chile’s coastal towns. The devastation, which brought down buildings and killed hundreds of people, has left many people homeless and without food and shelter.

The World Vision distribution team was on the ground within 48 hours, handing out blankets and water containers to earthquake survivors. Having worked in Chile for 30 years already, World Vision is gearing itself up one of the biggest relief efforts the country has ever seen.

With relief supplies already in the capital of Santiago, with more water tanks, purification tablets, cooking items, hygiene kits, blankets are being transported from regional hubs to families in and around the devastation.

By making a donating you will be helping to provide funds to aid World Vision’s emergency response in Chile, allowing them to respond swiftly to help the poor people who’s lives have come crashing around them due to this terrible disaster.

> > Click here to make a donation to World Vision in Chile

Help World Vision by sponsoring a child

The World Vision Sponsor a Child programme is a great way to give a needy child a real chance of escaping poverty. As part of a long-term program, your continued support enables World Vision to use your donations to build sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there.

You can provide a child with a better future for just 60p a day – giving them a real chance of escaping poverty. You get to see and feel the difference your support makes directly, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.

> > Click here to sponsor a child with World Vision UK

Hollywood actor Hugh Jackman is making an appeal in aid of the Haiti earthquake sufferers for World Vision UK. The charity is currently working tirelessly on the ground in Haiti to help the 250,000 people whose lives have been devastated by the tragedy. With many people losing their families, homes and livelihoods, there is a desperate need for food, water, shelter and healthcare.

With the full impact of the earthquake still being assessed, now is the time to make a donation and help those who greatly need improved hygiene and sanitation conditions after being displaced by this terrible disaster. If you donate -

• £14 could provide meals for three families
• £25 could provide hygiene kits for four families
• £52 could provide a family with temporary shelter
• £80 could provide meals for 20 families

The need is both urgent and great, and your support is vital to help the people of Haiti come to terms with this terrible situation and turn their lives around. This will not happen overnight, but with your help, World Vision can continue to work on the frontline and provide the neccessary assistance that is required during this time of hardship and uncertainty.

> > Click here to make a donation to the World Vision Haiti Appeal

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The World Vision charity is still continuing to distribute relief supplies in Haiti, even though a number of big aftershocks have hit Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital. After last weeks magnitude-7 earthquake, World Vision were straight on the scene to give out food, blankets, water containers and hygiene kits to thousands of Haitians.

So far, World Vision has reached 10,000 people with aid relief, with distributions continuing to local hospitals and medical clinics to help treat quake victims. World Vision is also helping to prepare and distribute hot meals to earthquake survivors with the assistance of local restaurants, with further airlifts carrying crucial aid due to arrive this week. So far World Vision have -

• Distributed emergency items around Haiti
• Provided medical supplies to 11 hospitals and health centres
• Supplied food and water to an orphanage of 150 children
• Deployed volunteers to provide assistance at local clinics
• Flown two planes of supplies to Port-au-Prince and Santo Domingo

World Vision UK Chief Executive, Justin Byworth, said -

The extreme poverty in Haiti already makes children extremely vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, and unregulated adoptions could open the door to child traffickers. Children should not be leaving Haiti at this stage except with surviving family members or if adoptions already in process have full required legal documents. We are concerned not only about premature overseas adoption but also about children increasingly being sent unaccompanied to the Dominican Republic.

World Vision is calling for as much help as possible to try and help the people of Haiti at this impossibly difficult time. By making a donation to World Vision, you will be helping to raise the funds to provide those most devastated by the earthquake with the food, water and medical assistance they require at this terrible time.

> > Click here to make a donation to World Vision’s Haiti Appeal

World Vision UK supporters and campaigners were commended by Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Thanks to the tireless work to support children’s health across the globe, the Prime Minster was quick to thank all World Vision supporters for their efforts in keeping various cases at the forefront of people’s consciousness.

In the summer, 5,600 postcards were sent to Downing Street as World Vision staff presented their arguments to government officials  face to face. Thanks to these important meetings, the UK government announced that six countries would be supported towards free health care for children and their mothers.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in a letter to World Vision -

I wanted to thank you for your campaigning work with World Vision ahead of yesterday’s health event at the UN.I believe the event was a turning point. As a result of your campaigning six countries announced major steps towards free health care. In all, well over 10 million people will gain access to free health care for the first time as a result of this event. Your campaign has already made a difference.

This continues on World Vision’s success at helping convince the UN to cancel some of the world’s poorest countries debts, alongside winning a pledge to make HIV treatment available to all. Both of these cases were vital in not only giving the common people a voice, but also changing the lives of millions of children.

There is still so much more that can be done though, as the money pledged for health care across the globe is still much lower than what is required. Thanks to the donations and regular action of the general public, the World Vision childrens charity will continue to keep applying the necessary pressure to help deliver the money and support needed to prevent child deaths across the globe.

Help World Vision by sponsoring a child

The World Vision Sponsor a Child programme is a great way to give a needy child a real chance of escaping poverty. As part of a long-term program, your continued support enables World Vision to use your donations to build sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there.

You can provide a child with a better future for just 60p a day – giving them a real chance of escaping poverty. You get to see and feel the difference your support makes directly, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.

> > Click here to sponsor a child with World Vision UK

World Vision UK launched their latest month long campaign in Scotland yesterday in an effort to persuade the people of Scotland to sponsor 1,000 children in the month of September. The campaign, backed by Scottish TV presenter Carol Smillie, who agreed to lend a hand when she found out about the great work World Vision is doing to reduce child poverty in developing countries.

Children in vulnerable countries lack even the most basic staples that we take for granted, like clean drinking water, food medication and education. Let’s hope the people of Scotland can live up to their reputation of being one of the most generous, giving nations on the planet and help Carol and the World Vision campaign to sponsor 1,000 children in a month.

Help World Vision by sponsoring a child

The World Vision Sponsor a Child programme is a great way to give a needy child a real chance of escaping poverty. As part of a long-term program, your continued support enables World Vision use your donations to build sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there.

You can provide a child with a better future for just 60p a day – giving them a real chance of escaping poverty.

You get to see and feel the difference your support makes directly, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.

> > Click here to sponsor a child with World Vision UK

Denise Robertson the agony aunt from ITV’s This Morning has done a series of reports from Uganda and I managed to catch the last one having come across it on my sky+. Denise had sponsored a child with World Vision and she’d returned to see how her  sponsored child had progressed since she first started sponsoring her in 2004. Seeing the two young boys, who like many African children, have been orphaned by AIDS really brought it home to me, that if we donate a little bit of money each month, it can make a huge difference in developing countries.

In the UK we’ve always got something to complain about whether it’s the state of our schools, health service or MPs expenses claims. When you compare it to an African family’s daily struggle for food and water, and witnessing whole communities being ripped apart by AIDS, you suddenly get a wake-up call. It’s good to see that charities like World Vision are doing such a great job helping communities break out of these vicious circles of poverty.

Help World Vision by sponsoring a child

The World Vision Sponsor a Child programme is a great way to give a needy child a real chance of escaping poverty. As part of a long-term program, your continued support enables World Vision to use your donations to build sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there.

You can provide a child with a better future for just 60p a day – giving them a real chance of escaping poverty.

You get to see and feel the difference your support makes directly, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.

> > Click here to sponsor a child with World Vision UK

World Vision UK plans to crown the city of Liverpool as the UK’s ‘Capital of Generosity’, with plans to sign up 500 sponsors in 500 hours. World Vision is challenging Scousers to earn the title by sponsoring a child in Banja, an impoverished area in the North-West of Ethiopia. The people of Liverpool will then be able to support long-term development and a lasting difference to children, their families and communities in the area.

The campaign kicks is supported by regional press, and radio will be featured heavily on local stations Radio City and City Talk. The on-air campaign will also be heavily supported online at Radio City’s website, which will feature articles and a count down on how many sponsors have been signed up. Liverpudlians are renowned for their friendly, warm-hearted nature and genorosity, and World Vision plan to put this to the test.

World Vision’s Matt Wenham, said -

Liverpool is a city that is well-known and highly respected all around the world. Once at the helm of Britain’s maritime superpower, it was Liverpool that reached out to link Britain to countries around the world.Now we’re asking for the people of Liverpool to reach out again, this time to children and families in Ethiopia.

Help World Vision by sponsoring a child

The World Vision Sponsor a Child programme is a great way to give a needy child a real chance of escaping poverty. As part of a long-term program, your continued support enables World Vision to use your donations to build sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there.

You can provide a child with a better future for just 60p a day – giving them a real chance of escaping poverty. You get to see and feel the difference your support makes directly, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.

> > Click here to sponsor a child with World Vision UK

With nearly 10 million children dying before their fifth birthday through preventable illnesses like measles and diarrhoea, World Vision UK is calling on the G8 to address the economic and financial crisis which are causing these deaths across the globe. A decade ago, world leaders laid out plans to cut the death rate among children under 5 by two thirds by 2015. Yet even now, with only six years left to reach that target, there are still parts of Africa that are not even a tenth of the way to reaching that goal.

With the leaders of the G8 meeting in Naples, Italy this month, World Vision is inviting you to join them in calling for the promises of 10 years ago to be kept and the necessary steps to tackle this health crisis upheld. However, with the current global economic crisis there is the distinct possibility that the G8 could limit the support for aid, which would hit the world’s poorest countries the hardest. Figures have already suggested that nearly 3 million additional children could die by 2015 as a result of the financial crisis and the rising cost of food.

The G8 members now have a vital role to play in protecting those most likely to be effected by the global financial crisis. To financially fulfill the promises made a decade ago, the G8 would need to prioritise just 2% of the current domestic economic stimulus packages on aid to support child health. This small percentage would have a real impact in preventing illness and death of millions of the world’s poorest children.

With the majority of deaths caused by diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria which can be prevented through access to basic antibiotics and immunisation, World Vision are asking you to reach out and send a message to Gordon Brown to invest in the global health of the world. In the last 7 years alone, the number of children dying under 5 years old has been reduced by 2 million thanks to the increase in aid for basic health services by 70%. It is time for the world leaders to act now and make a stand to make the promises of 10 years ago come true.

> > Click here to ‘Send a Message’ to Gordon Brown with World Vision UK

Help World Vision by sponsoring a child

The World Vision Sponsor a Child programme is a great way to give a needy child a real chance of escaping poverty. As part of a long-term program, your continued support enables World Vision to use your donations to build sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there.

You can provide a child with a better future for just 60p a day – giving them a real chance of escaping poverty.

You get to see and feel the difference your support makes directly, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.

> > Click here to sponsor a child with World Vision UK

The World Vision charity is launching their ‘Week for Children’ on Monday 8th June 2009. Every day on FIVE news, World Vision will be shining the spotlight on their projects in Zambia whilst trying to attact 5,000 new child sponsors. World Vision’s celebrity ambassadors will be fronting the campaign, calling on the people of the UK to join forces with World Vision and take up the challenge to sponsor a child.

Sponsoring a child -

• only costs 60p a day
• will change a life forever
• allows you to watch them develop

World Vision has just commissioned a report which compares the average spend per child aged from birth to age 5 in the UK and in the developing world. These hard hitting figures are designed to show the viewer that child sponsorship is a valid way of tackling child poverty and working towards reducing the number of avoidable deaths of children under five.

Help World Vision by sponsoring a child

The World Vision Sponsor a Child programme is a great way to give a needy child a real chance of escaping poverty. As part of a long-term program, your continued support enables World Vision use your donations to build sustainable communities in partnership with the people who live there.

You can provide a child with a better future for just 60p a day – giving them a real chance of escaping poverty.

You get to see and feel the difference your support makes directly, through the eyes of your sponsored child and their regular letters and photographs.

> > Click here to sponsor a child with World Vision UK