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Freedom of imagination
At a Child-Friendly Space in Haiti, children draw and paint pictures themed ‘My hope for Haiti’ on the anniversary of the 2010 earthquake. (Meg Sattler/WV/2011) One of the many measures being planned...
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Child-Friendly Space opens in Japan
Editor’s note: In the aftermath of tragedy and disaster, World Vision uses Child-Friendly Spaces (CFS) to care for children by providing them with a safe place to learn, play and emotionally recover...
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Haiti will never be a lost cause
Last time I flew into Haiti, I was reading Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea.” I finished it just as the plane hit the tarmac of the broken-down Port-au-Prince airport. As I closed the book,...
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Crisis in Syria, part 3: Video and FAQs
The civil war in Syria has entered its third year, and the number of refugees fleeing the country has doubled in the past three months. Today’s post — the third in our series about the crisis — offers...
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The breadth of devastation: Sichuan earthquakes, 2008 and 2013
On May 12, 2008, I had plane tickets that less than three weeks later were to take me from Los Angeles to Hong Kong, and then on to Chengdu, China, the capital of Sichuan province in the southwestern...
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Syrian refugee crisis: Three things you should know
Joy Toose, social media manager for World Vision Australia, spent a month reporting from Lebanon about the Syrian refugees who fled there to escape violence in their home country. Today, she shares...
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Recovering childhood in a safe space
When Teerasak’s home in Thailand flooded, his world was turned upside-down. Now, at a World Vision Child-Friendly Space, he and 40 other children have found a place where they can learn, play, talk...
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