Tag Archives: Preventable causes

There are no words for the loss of the child

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Lindsey Minerva in Causes

Laurinda and Emelinda | World Vision Blog

My nephew, Archer Beeme, has a unique name because he has a unique story. A year before Archer was born, my sister miscarried. As I try and think of a sentence to elaborate on what she must have felt, I feel a lump forming in my throat and tears in my eyes. There are no words for the loss of a child....

‘If he survives’ — memories from Papua New Guinea

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Steve Reynolds in Causes, Stories

Tune in to your local ABC station on the evening of December 16 for a special edition of “20/20” with Diane Sawyer and ABC’s Million Moms campaign as they examine modern-day health issues for children and mothers. For more from the ABC Million Moms Challenge, “like” their page on Facebook. * * * As a photojournalist with World Vision through much of the 1980s and 1990s, I long ago lost count of the number of rural health clinics I have visited. The vacant looks on the faces of the mothers, too tired and stressed to focus; the babies in their arms, some crying softly, some shrieking in fear and discomfort; others — too many — lethargic and still, seemingly lifeless...

G20 outlook: Will food security agenda remain priority at Cannes summit?

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Adam Taylor in Advocacy

The following is an excerpt from Adam Taylor’s post on The Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Global Food for Thought Blog. * * * This weekend, American families will be preparing their Halloween costumes and loading up on last minute candy purchases. On Monday night, most American children will be walking the dark streets in ghoulish costumes and returning home happy with bags full of sweets. For the next few weeks they will consume way more than the minimum calories (1,500 Kcal per day for a child) needed for their development while an estimated one billion people will go to bed hungry....

The moral imperative of humanitarian aid

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Kent Hill, Senior Vice President, World Vision International Programs in Advocacy

The following commentary is based on remarks Mr. Hill presented on September 5 at a forum entitled “Reforming Aid, Transforming the World,” hosted by Global Washington at the University of Washington. For more information on Global Washington, visit: www.globalwa.org. “I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I’d like to feel that I’d done something to lessen that suffering.” —Robert F. Kennedy, in response to a question, a few weeks before his assassination, about how his obituary should read From books to blogs, it has become...

Bad news… good news

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Kelli Trujillo, REJECT APATHY in Partnerships

Sunday worship at Eglise de Dieu Nouvelle Alliance de Corail church in the Corail camp for Haiti earthquake victims. ©2010 Jon Warren/World Vision

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the first-ever issue of Reject Apathy. Earthquakes. Tsunamis. Nuclear disasters. Crazed dictators. War. Sex trafficking. Blood diamonds. Rape. Poverty. Racism. Disease. The stark reality of all the “bad news” in the world can leave you reeling. Like a high school physics equation with a minute amount of force working against a massive, immovable object, at times it can feel impossible to make a significant impact. But consider one more piece of bad news: According to World Vision, 24,000 children die each day around the world from preventable causes. Preventable causes. We may not be able to stop a tsunami, but we can prevent malaria deaths by providing inexpensive mosquito nets. We may not...