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Something miraculous at Christmas

The follow post was written by Narine Ohanyan, World Vision field communicator in Armenia. *     *     * Do you believe in miracles? For a mother in Armenia, something miraculous is happening at Christmas. “I love the ornaments and the lights. I love to stare at them,” says 4-year-old Narek Qotanjyan. Coming from a child in the United States, this statement wouldn’t be so surprising. However, Narek lives in Armenia with a disability....
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Covering Somalia: Are we doing enough?

Over the weekend, I read a memoir of the life of Ahmed Ali Haile, a great Somali whom I was blessed to meet earlier at Daystar University in Kenya, where I attended my undergraduate studies. Haile taught a course I took on understanding Islam — a course that would positively influence my relations with the Somalis with whom I work. In his memoir, Haile narrates his experience of famine in 1965, as a 12-year-old boy in central Somalia. His family and community had coping mechanisms that they practiced. But the continued conflict there has clearly cut off this pattern — and the consequences are devastating. Since I started working for World Vision three years ago, I have met many malnourished...
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Fullness of life: A new father’s story

Editor’s note: In honor of Father’s Day, Pato Isquierdo, a communications officer in Ecuador (pictured above with his wife, Karly, and son, Matias), shares with us how becoming a new father has changed his perspective and lent new meaning to his work with World Vision. The bus was already entering Quito, Ecuador, at 9 p.m. I was fully loaded with cameras, a laptop, and back pain. But it was OK — I was finally arriving home. It was my first trip to a World Vision development community since I became a father. I just needed to get home and rest for the next day. But while riding the bus home, I found a whole new level of understanding of the...
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