Ensuring vulnerable children and families, especially those in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region, have access to life-saving prevention and treatment is at the top of World Vision’s agenda during the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, July 18-23.

Six months after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, World Vision says much has been done to help the people of Haiti, but the road to lasting recovery will take many years. As aid groups transition from relief to recovery efforts, providing sturdy, safe shelter to survivors is one of the most pressing and complex challenges now facing aid workers. With hurricane season already underway, better shelter is also one of the most urgent needs for families.

Niger is facing the worst food shortage in five years. World Vision's team in Niger is responding to the growing crisis.

The success of the G20 can’t be measured by only economic indicators, which are meaningless unless human lives are saved and vulnerable families’ well-being improved.

With the G20 summit opening today in Toronto, World Vision is calling upon emerging economies within the G20 to be accountable for prioritising their own child and maternal health progress—while all G20 nations should provide their fair share of funding and leadership within their respective regions.

Today’s G8 announcement means more children will reach their fifth birthdays... But tomorrow begins the fight for the millions left behind.

Last year, the G8 pledged US$20 billion through 2012 to fund hunger alleviation programmes, yet no mechanism exists to track the disbursement of the funds.

Mass flooding in China has affected some 30 million people across 10 provinces of south China with more heavy rains predicted, as World Vision moves to respond to the monsoon onslaught.

World Vision is at the G8 summit in force—in Huntsville, Toronto and the International Media Centre—making a final plea to eight of the world’s most powerful leaders to meet their promises to end needless childhood deaths.

As the 2010 FIFA World Cup commences in South Africa on 11 June 2010, World Vision is calling for the protection of children who will be vulnerable and at risk during the soccer competition and beyond.

Child-focused development and relief organisation World Vision International officially opened its executive office for global operations in Stockley Park, Uxbridge, south-west London, today (11.30am BST, Thursday 10th June, 2010).

A new United Nations initiative designed to improve global maternal, newborn and child health is a welcome development but neglects to address some important action points, according to World Vision, the world’s largest international humanitarian organisation focusing on the well-being of children.

World Vision is currently responding to needs in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador.

World Vision, the international Christian relief agency, is concerned that the upcoming hurricane season in Haiti could create a secondary disaster for Haitians and urges the Government of Haiti and the international community to include disaster risk reduction activities in its long-term rebuilding plans.

A team of World Vision aid workers has arrived in China's quake-stricken Qinghai Province after 30 hours' travel by road.

Aid group World Vision is dispatching a team of three aid workers from Beijing and other parts of China to quake-stricken Qinghai Province. The team, invited by the government to participate in assessments of the damage, will take with them a limited amount of hygiene items as they seek to assess the full scope of needs. Access into hard-hit Yushu County from the provincial capital will be a key challenge for the aid workers, all veterans of China's devastating earthquake in Sichuan two years ago.

Three months after the earthquake in Haiti, international relief agency World Vision has provided aid to around 1.8 million people, bringing much-needed aid to affected families throughout the capital city.

As the countdown to the rainy season in Haiti gathers momentum, humanitarian agency World Vision is warning that children may miss out on access to medical care when they need it the most.

During the rampage on World Vision’s office in Pakistan, the extremists shouted, “Why are you doing this job?” before orphaning the children of staff and of the communities of dedicated parents and staff who worked there. We cannot say what drove the attackers. But we can provide an answer to their question about our own motivation.

A seventh member of World Vision staff working for children and displaced communities in North Western Pakistan has succumbed to injuries following Wednesday's devastating attack at the Oghi office in Mansehra district.

World Vision today is mourning the brutal and senseless deaths of six members of our staff in the Mansehra District of Pakistan after an unprovoked attack by gunmen.

World Vision today opened a new children’s centre in Dichato, Chile, which was devastated by last’s week’s deadly earthquake and tsunamis.

World Vision staff began distributing food and relief supplies yesterday in towns hard-hit by Saturday’s 8.8 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunamis.

World Vision warns Haiti’s rural communities are at risk for chronic food and water shortages as the burden to care for the displaced grows. Families in these communities are struggling to cope with the influx of people seeking refuge from the destruction in the capital city.

Whole towns are “completely destroyed”, reports World Vision, following assessments of the humanitarian needs in outlying areas. World Vision is working to distribute relief items to 25,000 survivors, but faces logistical challenges as roads remain impassable.

World Vision began distributing hundreds of blankets and some water containers to Santiago's earthquake survivors over the weekend as it prepared to start an extensive response in the hardest hit areas south of the capital.

World Vision is preparing to respond to the massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Chile, getting ready to transport emergency relief supplies and to send more staff to support the relief response.

Haiti’s homeless are in need of protection and shelter says humanitarian agency World Vision after a new survey finds that more than half of respondents said they are living in exposed shelter and reported security concerns, including fear of robbery and rape.

Four weeks after the catastrophic quake, Haiti's survivors need more than ongoing physical relief such as food and shelter, World Vision said.

As hurricane season approaches earthquake-ravaged Haiti, World Vision is moving to provide shelter for children and families in Port-au-Prince.

World Vision will join seven other aid agencies tomorrow to begin a massive distribution of food provided by the World Food Programme.

As emergency distributions of food and relief supplies continue, early signs of normalcy are beginning to emerge and aid groups are solidifying relief plans and looking toward long-term rebuilding.

The potential death toll and high visibility of Haiti’s deadly earthquake has sparked comparisons to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. However, aid group World Vision sees more differences than similarities and cites the complexity of disaster response in urban settings as a critical complicating factor.

Today World Vision opened two children’s centres at the San Jose Recovery Centre and the Good Samaritan Hospital at the Dominican Republic border town of Jimani.

A number of strong aftershocks have hit the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, but World Vision is continuing to distribute relief supplies to those affected by last week’s magnitude 7 earthquake.

International relief and development agency World Vision acknowledges the generous impulse to help Haitian children displaced by last week’s massive earthquake by rushing adoptions of children who seem to have been orphaned in the disaster. However, the agency warns that this may lead to adoptions that inadvertently separate families or risk a lapse in child protection, with unintended consequences.

World Vision is running a clinic/triage center in Jimani, Dominican Republic, where many quake survivors have fled. More than 300 people have visited the clinic. Many are children separated from their families. Arrivals in critical condition are being evacuated by helicopter to Santo Domingo.

World Vision rushed immediate supplies of food, water and children’s multi-vitamins to an orphanage in Delmas, Port-au-Prince, after its directors appealed for assistance.

World Vision distributed clothes, hygiene kits, dried biscuits and bottled water to 750 homeless families in Canape Vert and Petionville, Port-au-Prince, over the weekend.

An airlift of 18 metric tonnes of emergency supplies arrived in Port-au-Prince Friday night from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver, USA, and a second flight is planned for the weekend.

World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents.

World Vision commenced emergency relief operations in Port-au-Prince with distributions of essential medical supplies to city hospitals. The distributions began on Wednesday, the day after the quake, and continued on Thursday, despite World Vision’s own offices suffering heavy quake damage, the worst to hit Haiti in 200 years.

The closure of Port-au-Prince’s airport today threw up yet another obstacle for relief workers serving thousands of the estimated 3 million Haitians affected by Tuesday’s massive 7.0 earthquake. Leading agency World Vision warns that water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources are critically low and that the closure will only delay life-saving supplies to the quake’s survivors.

World Vision is rushing 18 metric tonnes of life-saving supplies from its warehouse in Denver, USA to the island nation of Haiti, which was hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake Tuesday.

World Vision plans to begin assessing damage and preparing a relief response today after the major earthquake that hit Haiti Tuesday. The agency has worked in Haiti for 30 years and has some 370 staff in country.

A powerful earthquake of 7.3 magnitude has today struck southern Haiti, rocking the capital Port-au-Prince.

Five years ago, on the morning of 26th December 2004, a massive undersea earthquake triggered a series of tsunamis that charged across the Indian ocean. The surging waves hit the shores of a dozen countries. Around 230,000 people lost their lives in the disaster.

The Government of Sri Lanka this week lifted all restrictions on the freedom of movement of the people held in displacement camps in the north of the country, signaling an important victory in the advocacy efforts of the humanitarian community.

World Vision joins the thousands of people in rejoicing with former sponsored child Efren Peñaflorida and the Dynamic Teen Company for winning the CNN Hero of the Year Award.

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.

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.

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.