The lives of millions of children in the developing world could be saved if governments rebalance health spending to ensure provision of such low-cost, simple interventions as better nutrition and skilled birth attendants – that even the poorest countries could implement.

One month on from a series of natural disasters in South-East Asia, survivors are struggling to begin the long and difficult process of rebuilding their lives.

Poor and erratic rainfall has led to widespread crop failure, and the livelihoods of many affected families – who rely on the land for survival – are under threat.

Survivors of the recent back-to-back storms in the Philippines are braced for further disruption as yet another storm approaches. Typhoon Lupit is expected to make landfall in the north on Friday.

As floodwaters recede in southern India and displaced people begin returning to their villages, thousands are finding their homes destroyed and may be forced to abandon their villages and fields for good, says aid organisation World Vision.

The most recent massive quakes off the coasts of the Philippines and the Solomon Islands - coming on the back of a string of typhoons, floods, earthquakes and tsunamis - have shown how hundreds of millions of people living in the Asia Pacific are at risk from major catastrophes.

As schoolchildren in Indonesia's West Sumatra quake zone were called back to school today, aid group World Vision says these thousands of children affected by last week’s earthquake remain the disaster's most vulnerable survivors.

Child survivors of the recent disasters in Asia are at risk of long term psychological distress or trauma without urgent help, says a World Vision expert on children.

The recent series of disasters throughout Asia should be a wake-up call to the global community to fund efforts that reduce risk and save lives.

Canadian business leader Kevin Jenkins becomes the seventh president of World Vision International today, 1 October.

Relief workers in the Philippines have been battling through heavy rains in an attempt to reach those yet to receive any aid following the earlier Typhoon Ketsana.

The capital of West Sumatra was reeling in chaos late Thursday afternoon following a devastating 6.8 magnitude aftershock, one of many tremors to hit Indonesia in two days. World Vision Indonesia's relief team recently arrived in Padang, West Sumatra, to prepare the emergency response to support thousands of people impacted by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake shattering the area on Wednesday afternoon.

World Vision emergency response team members are trying to assess the damage to the western part of Sumatra following a 7.6 Richter scale quake.

Dean R. Hirsch, stepping down as president and CEO of World Vision International, will become the organisation’s global ambassador, beginning 1 October.

Humanitarian agency staff based in the path of massive typhoon Ketsana - which is now sweeping through central Vietnam - reported thousands of people have been evacuated to safety amidst reports of flooding.

Staff with the humanitarian agency have already been distributing relief packs by helicopter in partnership with the Philippine Coastguard.

The move to make the G20 the world’s leading economic body holds potential for broader coordination in the global fight against poverty and hunger, though it may also pose risks for achieving promises made by G8 leaders at previous summits, say aid policy experts at World Vision.

World leaders gathering at the United Nations and G20 meetings this week have a unique opportunity to help a billion people escape hunger, say aid policy experts at Christian humanitarian agency World Vision.

World Vision International is proud to announce the recipients of its inaugural Peace Prize as a part of the International Day of Peace, September 21, 2009.

Global leaders, meeting on Wednesday 23rd September, must bring an end to health care charges that lead to millions of babies and mums dying unnecessarily, says development agency World Vision.

The destruction caused by the 7.3 magnitude earthquake in West Java province on September 2 is much worse than earlier thought, according to World Vision's national director in Indonesia, Trihadi Saptoadi.

World Vision is sending 4,000 family kits to support earthquake survivors in the hardest-hit areas of Java, Indonesia.

World Vision's Katarina Hardono, close to the worst-hit area of the island, said people began running from buildings and diving to the ground for safety when the earthquake struck.

In the wake of torrential rain and destruction brought by Typhoon Morakot, World Vision Taiwan has assisted more than 4,000 people with urgently needed food, water and emergency supplies.

In the wake of Typhoon Morakot, aid organisation World Vision is providing food, clean water and cleaning materials to affected households in southern Taiwan.

World Vision provided food aid to displaced families in Zambales, a north-western region of the Philippines after a dike collapsed due to heavy rains aggravated by Typhoon Morakot.

Twelve months after the end of the Georgian Crisis, some 26,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) are yet to return home. The majority are now facing an uncertain future, living in government-built settlements, in rehabilitated buildings or with host families.

As the return of some 2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Pakistan's northwest region gains momentum, World Vision is underscoring both the right of the displaced to return voluntarily and the need for sustained security and safety in areas of return.

Key questions remain unanswered as to whether today’s announcement of US$20 billion over three years for food and agriculture will truly deliver for 1 billion people suffering from hunger.

A weak and ambiguous G8 communiqué on African aid means millions more children in developing countries face illness and death from preventable causes, Christian humanitarian agency World Vision said today.

"Aid organisations are providing food, water, shelter and healthcare to as many people as the challenging security and funding situation will allow. Some people are out of reach, others have not been able to escape because they are trapped or too poor to flee," writes aid worker Chris Webster.

Six months after a ceasefire was declared in the Gaza strip little has changed for fishermen who struggle to eke out a living because of official restrictions, the lack of equipment and a fear of attacks.

Women and girls in eastern Congo fear soldiers meant to protect them as much as they do other armed actors involved in the intractable and brutal conflict, according to a new community-based study by international relief and development agency World Vision.

The sordid and sensational topic of child sex trafficking remains one of the most discussed in the Asia-Pacific region, but many more forms of human trafficking fail to attract attention or action, according to a new review by international aid agency World Vision.

The World Health Organization’s call for pharmaceutical companies to donate or reduce costs of a future pandemic vaccine for poor countries that can least afford it is an important step in responding to the global threat and must be coupled with strengthening local health care in those countries.

World Vision is gravely concerned that impending monsoon rains and inadequate sanitation will place tens of thousands of people at risk from disease in displacement camps in northern Sri Lanka.

World Vision will be marking World Environment Day on 5 June with a celebration at the Humbo Farmers Managed Natural Regeneration Project site in Ethiopia.

Poor communities in Pakistan’s northwest are hosting up to two million people uprooted by recent violence in the region. These communities – already among the poorest in the world – may join those displaced in days as their assets are sold to help those in need, World Vision warns.

World Vision is focusing on providing clean water to the victims of Cyclone Aila, which roared through southern Bangladesh yesterday. World Vision programme staff in Khulna and Mongla said towns and farmland in the area bore the brunt of the cyclone, as waves as high as 13 feet rolled onto those coastal districts.

US$1 million is required daily to provide food and water to almost 300,000 conflict survivors who are housed in a string of camp settlements in northern Sri Lanka, says World Vision

While ongoing fighting and the plight of displaced people in camps across North West Pakistan continue to draw worldwide attention, dignified aid must be directed towards helping the hundreds of thousands of people displaced in “host communities” within the conflict zone.

What next? This is the critical question for the next phase of the humanitarian response in Sri Lanka as the land war with the Tamil Tigers comes to an end leaving almost a quarter of a million Tamils in displacement camps.

As the number of displaced civilians in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province continues to grow, World Vision is warning that the majority who fled their homes (85 per cent) are living in host communities where basic services like water, sanitation, health and education were already limited.

One year after Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar, international aid organisation World Vision says that much still needs to be accomplished to restore livelihoods, and the upcoming farming season is critical for the country’s continued recovery.