Mabuhay from Bohol: A Journey of Resilience, Hope, and Possibility
This journey was more than just a visit, it was a powerful reminder that none of us chooses where we are born. While any one individual may feel their ability to create change is limited, collective action can make a meaningful difference.
A school meal stopped Faith from becoming a child bride
The drought had stretched on for too long. The ground was dry. The harvests failed. At home, there were days when there was nothing to eat. 15-year-old Faith would go to school on an empty stomach.
From A Broken Piece of Clay to Changed Lives
Dorothy Chong’s journey of Child Sponsorship began in 2010, inspired by a conviction to sponsor 100 children, she started small with two sponsored children through World Vision. Her story shows how small acts of generosity, faith, and humility can create lasting change and transform lives.
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Girls Protecting Girls: Simran's Story of Courage
With the beginning of World Vision’s work in Simran’s village, families started to recognise children’s importance. “People care about us now and they know that we are the future of our country,” says Simran, smiling. -
Sold and Exploited: Of Slavery and Abuse
"For the next three years, I was enslaved to this family. The Chinese couple married me to their son. But I wasn't treated as a wife and this was not a marriage," says Hnin. -
Cambodian Connections: An Eye-Opening Trip to Kirivong
"This is the first trip I came back from with zero souvenirs for anyone and nothing for myself, but I am certainly richer from the experience," says Su Lin, who recently visited her sponsored child in Kirivong, Cambodia. -
9-Year-Old Khatema Fights Against Her Own Child Marriage
What started as a normal day for Khatema, 9, joyfully playing in the village with her friends quickly turned into one of the worst days of her life. Her world and her dream of becoming a teacher came crashing down when her brother interrupted their game with a message: Their father had decided to marry her off. -
Sponsors' Reflections from #WVSPOP2019
As we celebrate our phase out in Uvurkhangai and hear powerful stories of transformation that has happened in the community, we asked sponsors to share their own personal sponsorship journies on social media. To make it even sweeter, we are giving sponsors who share their stories a chance to travel to Selenge, Mongolia with World Vision in 2020.
We are happy to see even more inspiring stories surfacing from this contest!
The contest closes on 30 June 2019. See how you can still participate with the details here. -
From being homeless, to being a sponsored child, and now an Anglican Archbishop: This is Jackson's story
His father died when he was young, and his mother and her three children were chased away from the family home by shrewd older brothers who understood the value of land. Jackson’s mother and her children became destitute. Through child sponsorship, his life was turned around. Today, he is the Archbishop of Kenya. -
How effective are World Vision's programmes?
In collaboration with leading market research companies, The Nielsen Company and IPSOS, we analysed over 250 programme reports covering a sample size of millions of people, and here are the results! -
A New Perspective from the Yaozhou Trip
"Indeed, this trip is an unique one, for it shows that people can be poor, not just in material terms," writes 12-year-old Megdelene, who visited Yaozhou, China, on a World Vision trip with her mother after her PSLE. She sponsored a child after the trip with the study awards she received. See what happened on the trip through her eyes! -
Concern for Children Rapidly Mounting as Cyclone Idai Devastation Emerges
Orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children are the top priority one week after Cyclone Idai tore through Mozambique. World Vision continues to rush aid workers into disaster-ravaged areas across southeast Africa to respond to the Cyclone Idai catastrophe, which has affected millions and left as many as 1,000 people dead in Mozambique.
