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.

Due to hunger, malnutrition, and a lack of basic medicine, millions of children will ‘Never Never’ grow old either. Many will never even see their 5th birthday due to diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria, all of which are easy to treat with the right care. Support World Vision’s ground breaking work on the front line of the world’s poorest countries, and help millions of children reach their full potential both physically and mentally.

> > Click here for When I Grow Up Campaign

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.

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World Vision UK is asking for your help and support 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.

Children in developed countries have the chance to dream about a real future when they grow up, whether it is to be a doctor, a footballer, or even an astronaut! Yet many children in poverty stricken countries never get the chance to live their dreams. In South Sudan, a 15 year old girl has a higher chance of dying in child birth than completing school, so the chances of reaching their full potential is bleak.

Simply click on the link below to add your name to ask the British government how they plan to reduce malnutrition and give all children across the globe a better chance in life. Let them have a chance to dream of what they can be when they grow up…

> > Click here to sign World Vision petition

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

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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.

South Sudan is now one of the world’s poorest countries, and its people are badly in need of the basics that we take for granted -

• Education
• Healthcare
• Clean Water
• Food

With less than half of South Sudan’s children attending school, the future looks bleak for the new countries long term stability and survival. Plus with a possible food crisis looming, the people of South Sudan are badly in need of our support.

World Vision UK’s Director of Policy and Programmes, David Thomson, said -

From more than 20 years of working with and talking with children in this country, we know that their hopes and fears reflect the needs of the nation.

You can help World Vision UK ensure that there is continual support for this new country by clicking on the link below and adding your name to the email to Minister for Africa, Henry Bellingham, and help the South Sudanese people into their brave new world.

> > Click here to sign letter to Minister for Africa

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

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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 Country Director, George Githae, said -

Our mission is to strive for children’s’ welfare by helping them go to school, which is the reason why we are here today to hand over the school to you. We knew that there was no school in this area and later realised that children needed to be saved from walking long distances to school.

This new school showed the children’s charity commitment to ensuring that all youngsters have equal access to education as well as the basic human rights of clean water and medicine. With the school in place, it is now up to the children to take care of their school and utilise the benefits to realise their full academic potential.

World Vision has been working in Rwanda since 1976, providing sustainable solutions for families who live in poverty. A great way to help World Vision is to sponsor a child, with nearly 50,000 young people across the globe signed up to this programme already. Your donations can help give hope to a child where there is none.

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

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World Vision charity officials are still on the front line dealing with the chaos caused by tornadoes 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.

Whilst most Americans were enjoying their bank holiday weekend in honour of Memorial Day, World Vision’s response teams were tirelessly working across five states in response to the mass destruction the tornadoes were leaving in their wake. They have now had to relocate their second Mobile Distribution Centre to Joplin, Missouri, who have already confirmed 139 deaths with further fatalities expected.

The 53ft trailer contain a massive amount of disaster relief packs which include personal hygiene kits and cleaning supplies. The initial trailer was deployed to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where last month alone it served more than 4,000 tornado survivors.

World Vision’s domestic emergency response director, Phyllis Freeman, said -

We’ve been working around the clock in Tuscaloosa all month and the common request we get from survivors is to remind people not to forget what’s happened to them. We’ve had back-to-back tornadoes devastate families and children all across this country but we refuse to let any survivor fall through the cracks.

World Vision is appealing for $5 million to help fund its recovery and rebuilding response across five states. With President Obama due to visit many of the tornado stricken towns, hopeful this will remind not just Americans, but the whole world that those affected will require sustained global support in order to rebuild their lives from the devastation that surrounds them.

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

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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.

Head of emergencies at World Vision UK, Mark Bulpitt, said -

While the vast majority of refugees have headed to Liberia, we must not forget the thousands who have fled the other direction into Ghana. The United Nations and authorities there are busy assessing the situation. World Vision is working alongside them, in a co-ordinated effort, to make sure children and their families get the support they need.

World Vision teams are now set up in Ghana to hand out a wide range of life saving mosquito nets, water containers, cooking equipment and waterproof sheets to protect those displaced from the harsh elements. The main focus of attention is being focused on the Ampaim Settlement Camp in the western region, which is already home to more than 2,000 refugees.

During the four month violent stand off, people have been crossing the border into Ghana to escape the endless fighting that has followed the disputed presidential election. Hopefully the violence will end soon, but until peace has been found, World Vision frontline representatives will be on hand to deal with the displaced.

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

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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.

Not content with mere death and destruction, the tsunami also threatened to cause a nuclear catastrophe after heavily damaging the nuclear power plant near the city of Fukashima, which suffered from the shut down of multiple reactor cooling systems resulting in the threat of meltdown.

Fortunately after a week of uncertainty and tremendous concern fears of a nuclear catastrophe are subsiding, however Prime Minister Naoto Kan said “In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan.”

If you would like to make a donation you can help by purchasing a Charity Gift T-shirt from Good Ink Clothing, which will donate 100% of the profits made directly to World Vision or other agencies involved in the relief work.

It’s a great way to help out with the relief effort, so make sure you take a look at their site, and make a donation today

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The World Vision charity is deeply concerned that infant children affected by the flooding in Pakistan are struggling to survive without immediate aid. Now in the 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 risk to disease and malnutrition.

Canadian World Vision spokesperson, Dave Toycen, said -

The need in Pakistan is immediate and everywhere. While there are huge challenges to delivering aid – including the physical challenge of trying to access hard-hit areas – children’s lives are at stake. After three or four weeks in a traumatic situation, without proper food and clean drinking water, little ones are especially vulnerable to common diseases that can kill. Families are in worse shape than they were two weeks ago.

Flooding has swept away many roads and bridges, making access to the hardest hit areas bordering on impossible. Lack of sanitation and clean water is causing outbreaks of diarrhoea and cholera, with children wearing the same muddy clothes for days on end now starting to develop skin diseases.

World Vision plan to set up 20 child-friendly spaces to provide safe, comfortable areas for them to interact whilst receiving support and medical assistance. With more than 18 million people have been affected by the floods, now is the time for the people of the world to stand up and be counted and help the people of Pakistan rebuild their lives after this terrible tragedy.

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

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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, the World Vision childrens charity 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.

With the U.N. review in September just around the corner, now is the time for Deputy PM Nick Clegg to stand up and make a stand for the voices of the people of Britain. Now is the time to takes decisive action and ‘Finish the Job’, helping save the lives of up to 6 million children each year.

> > Click here to email your local MP and ‘Finish the Job’

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

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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 the childrens charity are working to help improve the health of the locals community who live in this impoverished area.

Whilst in India, Carrie will be talking to a local women’s self help group, who have created the opportunity to start small businesses in the area to provide for their children. Carrie will also be watching a local street theatre group who highlight the important health message that need to be conveyed to the locals. Many children in the area are facing severe health problems, with malnutrition causing at least one third of child deaths in the area. Ms. Grant will also be meeting with the staff and patients at the only community health centre in the area, which has to serve an unbelievable 78,000 people!

Carrie said -

I’m very excited to be visiting Vaishali. It’s a fairly new project for World Vision, so it’ll be interesting to see how things are taking off. I know World Vision grounds its work in grassroots cooperation and I’m a great believer in community – it’ll be good to meet the people and learn how the local experts are moving forward day to day.

Carrie, who is best known for her work on talent shows such as Fame Academy and Pop Idol, will be presenting a new World Vision event called ‘Girls Night Out’. These events, which start in the Autumn, are a new initiative to entertain whilst sharing stories about World Vision’s partnerships with women who live in developing countries.

The first Girls Night Out will take place at St Mary’s Church in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, on Friday 10th September 2010, with further dates around the country to follow.

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

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