Monthly Archives: January 2013

The right to have a name

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Ernesto Nieto in Advocacy, Child Sponsorship

The national identity card is helping to ensure that children from the Miramar community in Peru have access to their fundamental rights — like medical care and community programs. Carmen shares how this piece of identification has changed her life — and the lives of her children....

Film Director Ditches Convention to tell Girls’ Stories

Posted on January 17, 2013 by James Addis in Advocacy

The director of a soon-to-be-released film charting the lives of girls struggling to get an education in some of the world’s toughest places deliberately abandoned the techniques of conventional documentary filmmaking. The film Girl Rising, whose narrators include Meryl Streep, Kerry Washington, and Selena Gomez, is due for theatrical release in March....

Aid worker’s diary: returning to Goma

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Aimee Manimani in Disaster Relief

During the recent conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, I was evacuated along with other World Vision colleagues to Gisenyi, Rwanda, a town a little more than a mile across the border. We were later allowed to return to Goma to help civilians who had been displaced. Rebels of the March 23 (M23) movement were in charge of the city, and thousands of people had lost their homes and sense of stability....

Haiti: Rebuilding what has been broken

Posted on January 12, 2013 by World Vision social media team in Disaster Relief

On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake shook Haiti and shaped a generation. While its duration was brief, the devastation it caused continues to affect the people of this small country — the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. Three years later, Haiti is still in repair, but not without hope....

Supporting teachers in Los Angeles

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Andrea Peer in Stories

Educating children must be a priority for helping build a better future. This is true in any part of the world — including our own nation. On December 6, World Vision staff drove a large trailer packed with essential educational supplies into the parking lot at Roosevelt High School in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. This mobile Teacher Resource Center is a new way World Vision is supporting teachers in under-resourced communities....