Monthly Archives: August 2011

Still in the blessing business

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Still in the blessing business | World Vision Blog
When I first laid eyes on Holt — a community just outside of Tuscaloosa, Ala. — just a few days after the April 27 tornado struck, what had once been a vibrant neighborhood now looked like a huge open field. It was a field filled with splintered wood, crumpled metal, broken glass, and shattered dreams. Families sorted through the ruins looking for anything they could salvage....
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#FamineNoMore toolbox

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#Faminenomore toolbox | World Vision Blog
Join World Vision’s global campaign to raise awareness about the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa — where hunger is stalking 12.4 million people — and tolerate “Famine No More.” (If you receive this post in an email reader, please click over to the World Vision blog to view all images/videos)...
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Horn of Africa crisis: 14 strategies to make an impact

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Horn of Africa crisis: Strategies to make an impact
(Editor’s note: In an international campaign to raise awareness about the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, World Vision offices around the world are coming together to tolerate #faminenomore. Will you join us?) Why help? Why raise awareness? What could I possibly do to make an impact for the 12.4 million affected by drought and famine in the Horn of Africa? [From the photo above] When the maize crop failed yet again this year, Hadija Hassan Abdi, 28, took her children and hitched rides for 8 days and nights until she reached the safety of Burtinle camp in Somalia. Along the way she begged for food for her children from strangers. She has been in the camp only...
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Bolivia in 100 words

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World Vision bloggers in Bolivia. ©2011 Matthew Paul Turner for World Vision
Before you read this, let me just say that 100 words does not do this post justice. Just 100 words will barely begin to describe the beauty of Bolivia and the warmth of its people. Just 100 words isn’t enough. But please, please take these 100 words to heart. Understand they represent a fraction of a deeper story we’re desperate to tell — a story about survival and faith, sacrifice and family, difference and commonality. I hope these 100 words paint for you a picture as vivid as the memories in our minds, and as resilient as the love in our hearts. This list was created out of the words from and expressions of the families and individuals we met,...
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The ‘salt’ in a modern-day Jericho

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The 'salt' in a modern-day Jericho | World Vision Blog
For five days, we listened as the women of the Congo shared with us the unspeakable horrors they had experienced — personal stories of abduction, rape, and mayhem at the hands of men who use violence against women as a weapon of war. But harder still for me to hear were their accounts of a second round of abuse at the hands of those from whom they should have expected comfort and compassion — parents who rejected their own daughters after they had been impregnated in violent attacks by local militias; in-laws who laid claim to land and possessions from widows forced to watch as their husbands were killed in front of them. More than a decade of fear and...
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