World News & Stories

It's been one year since violence erupted in Sudan and led to a devastating displacement crisis. Learn all about what's been happening in the region since then.

Lesly Michaud, Program Director of World Vision Haiti shares more about the humanitarian crisis in the country.

The Ring of Fire follows the Pacific coast in a horseshoe shape. Its earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis contribute to dire poverty in poor regions.

Earthquake rocks Morocco; thousands feared dead and injured

What is emergency and disaster relief? For families facing catastrophes of all kinds—whether natural or manmade—such assistance can mean the difference between life and death. It’s help that’s quick to the scene to meet children’s immediate needs so they can survive and recover.  

Women are often left behind in disaster responses. Here’s how gender equality can be at the centre of earthquake recovery in Turkiye and Syria.

Learn more about key facts, causes and effects of climate change, and ongoing solutions to climate crisis.

Learn what is happening in Sudan, how children are being affected, and what World Vision is doing.

From mental health to child protection, here is why the Türkiye-Syria earthquakes are a crisis on top of another crisis.

Education is under crisis for over 200 million children globally. Michael Messenger talks with Yasmine Sheref, director of the UN’s Education Cannot Wait.

Climate refugees – or climate migrants – grow in number each year. While we all experience the effects of climate change, some groups suffer disproportionately. These include women and children in the most vulnerable regions in the world. Here’s how to help.

What does it mean to give mental health support during a conflict? Michael Messenger speaks with Melinda, an emergency psychologist on the border of Romania.

‘Humanitarian aid’ or ‘humanitarian assistance’ is emergency help for people in some of the world’s most desperate situations. Learn how you can support relief efforts.

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake has devastated southwestern Haiti. The disaster exacerbates the extreme poverty and political instability that the Haitian people have sustained for decades.

Political unrest, hyperinflation, and lack of access to basic goods and services has forced 5.6 million Venezuelans from their homes. That’s more than the number of refugees who have fled the decade-long Syrian civil war. And the migration shows no signs of stopping. 

In a matter of hours, refugee families watched their makeshift homes go up in flames – remnants of what they had built since being forced to flee their homes four years earlier.

The second wave in India is a sign that the pandemic battleground is shifting primarily to developing countries.

Tony Rinaudo, World Vision’s chief climate action advisor, sees the hunger crisis unfolding in East Africa as a chance to implement long-term environmental solutions that could eliminate famine completely.

The impacts of climate change in vulnerable communities around the world are driving children like Cavo to seek sex work and other degrading work to survive.

COVID-19, conflict and climate change has pushed more than 7 million people across six countries in East Africa to the very edge of starvation.