World Vision Romania was granted the “Special Award for Continuous Excellence” for its “I want to be in the ninth grade” scholarship project at the 7th annual Romanian PR Award ceremony in the capital Bucharest during Romanian Public Relations Week. World Vision’s partner public relations agency,...

Inside the Joret Asham’a community centre, a din of excitement, bargaining, and laughter fills the air as Fayda Abu Shakra, and dozens of women like her await the opening of the 1st Annual Southern Bethlehem Honey Festival.

With the support of World Vision’s Bethlehem Area Developme...

A volunteer group of professionals from PricewaterhouseCoopers traded their computers for work gloves recently in order to rehabilitate two kindergarten playgrounds, a football ground and medical unit in Romania’s Ialomita County.
The 122 volunteers from Bucharest spent a day working in Dridu...

World Vision Kosovo’s Kids for Peace project has received the first annual Peacebuilding Award by World Vision International for the unique provision of opportunities for multiethnic interaction among children and youth to help overcome decades of ethnic tension.

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Prominent media stakeholders from television stations, print and radio in Lebanon responded to World Vision’s invitation to join the fight against human trafficking during a media workshop held last Friday where they shared their frustration of lack of information and political will.

‘All children have equal rights’; a handbook for parents of children with disabilities has been launched in Bucharest by World Vision Romania, winning the support and praise of parents and the National Authority for the Protection of Child’s Rights (NAPCR).

Parents’ reaction to the ha...

The wait for their very own water supply is almost over for more than 100 Roma people in Constanta’s Cobadin community, where parents and children work for their neighbours just to obtain enough water to drink. The two wells being rebuilt by the Sunshine Cobadin Association with funding from World V...

More then 7,300 farmers in 22 villages across conflict affected areas of Georgia learnt about harvesting, storage, conservation and marketing with the help of training recently conducted by World Vision Georgia and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, financed by the Italian governm...

Ten years after AgroInvest dispersed its first loan in Montenegro, the World Vision and VisionFund*- affiliated microfinance institution is now providing services to more than 40,000 clients across Serbia and Montenegro with a focus on improving the lives of the rural poor.

Dozens of children in Sokolac, Krivaja, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina are enjoying the municipality’s one and only playground thanks to the initiative of a dedicated church leader and the support of World Vision.

A nation-wide ‘Choose for School’ initiative developed by the Romanian Orthodox Church and World Vision will help prevent and lower the school drop-out rate among some 10,000 children in Romania over the coming three years, heard participants at the recent 2nd National Congress for the Youth Bible C...

As the number of children born to HIV-positive mothers in the Russian Federation grows and HIV infection rapidly spreads from injecting drug users to the wider population, Russian officials have given special recognition to World Vision’s HIV prevention programme in the country.

Some 49 teenagers, among them youth living with HIV or young people from impoverished families in Constanta County in south-east Romania, recently took part in the third Art Summer Camp organised by World Vision on the Black Sea coast.

With posters, plays and pictures, about 200 Lebanese and Palestinian children celebrated tolerance and diversity at World Vision’s Arts for Peace Exhibition held recently at a centre 30 kilometres north of Beirut.

Call for an immediate opening of Gaza’s crossings -The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) Mr Maxwell Gaylard, together with the NGO Association for International Development Agencies (AIDA), today called for full and unrestricted access for spare par...