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We feature write-ups from supporters and staff who are hungry for change and want their voices to be heard.

A child earthquake survivor rebuilds her life through abaca farming

31 May 2022
Children in Disasters
Children of Climate Change

Hope can sprout amid the ruins. A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck Charice's community creating a disastrous havoc - flattening houses and destroying livelihoods. When she and family thought everything was lost, their abaca plantation helped them restore their lives. 

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Feeling the pulse of my children for signs of life - the heartbreaking reality of East Africa’s hunger crisis

26 May 2022
Children in Disasters
Hunger Crisis

A silent but deadly and urgent hunger crisis is unfolding in northern Kenya and across the East Africa Region. We often talk about this tragedy through data, but the heartbreaking reality is that every number is a person, and every statistic points to the impact on human life

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The choice no parent should have to make: which child will eat today?

26 May 2022
Children in Crisis
Hunger Crisis

If you were starving and you knew the sale of one of your children would prevent the rest of your children from dying, would you do it?

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The Ripple Effect of Child Sponsorship Helps Children Fleeing Ukraine

19 May 2022
Child Sponsorship Stories

Once a child enrolled in World Vision’s child sponsorship programme in Romania, 21-year-old Andreea is now giving back as a volunteer for World Vision where she is helping to give comfort and support to refugee children as they flee Ukraine.

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Crossing Borders with Ukrainian Refugees

14 May 2022
Children in Crisis

The grief and mourning that each and everyone carried on their shoulders were visible. As I walked alongside them I felt how utterly unfair life was: we were crossing the same border, but my situation was entirely different. I hold a passport that allows me to travel almost everywhere, I had a hotel reservation waiting for me in Poland, and once my deployment finished, I would fly safely back to my home base. They were marching into the unknown and faced having to process profound feelings of loss, whether of a loved one, of a homeland, of social status, of well-being, of a future.

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