By Shirley T. Kimmayong, World Vision

More than 240 people have died since Typhoon Ketsana's flood waters and 110 kph winds tore through Manila Saturday. 7-year-old Jabez Gonzaga and his family were a few of the lucky ones.

"The floodwater was so high. I was so afraid. I was crying,"...

By Dan Kelly, World Vision

Today marks the first World Humanitarian Day, a day established by the United Nations to recognize the ongoing work and challenges facing humanitarian staff and to pay tribute to aid workers who have lost their lives responding to emergencies and promoting the humanitarian cause.

A weak and ambiguous G8 communiqué on African aid means millions more children in developing countries face illness and death from preventable causes.

Today's communiqué from the G8 leaders contains neither an acknowledgement they are off track on fulfilling their aid pledges, nor any concrete plans to get them...

By Patrick Watt

The 2009 G8 summit in early July will take place in the midst of one of the deepest economic downturns of recent decades, and at a moment of flux in the international system. The London summit of the G20 heads of state in April and the challenges...

By Sue Mbaya and Memory Mushawenyoka

NAIROBI--When I was asked recently to reflect on this year's Day of the African Child as a policy advisor and a humanitarian advocate, my thoughts turned to the millions of young people across the continent who are working hard alongside their supporters to ensure...

I had traveled to Cambodia's "wild west" border town of Poipet, in search of a story about human trafficking.

It was certainly the edgiest assignment I'd ever undertaken with World Vision. Everyone knew that trafficking was rife, yet nobody wanted to talk to us about it.

"There are no...

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By Chris Webster

ISLAMABAD -- Poor communities in Pakistan's northwest are hosting up to two million people uprooted by recent violence in the region.

Aid agency World Vision warns these communities - already among the poorest in the world - may join those...

By Dr. Mesfin Teklu

Are global health officials on the verge of ignoring a key lesson of the H1N1 flu outbreak at the same time it dominates their discussion at the World Health Assembly in Geneva? While the potential pandemic requires urgent attention at this year's abbreviated forum, missing the...

Temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, overcrowding, inadequate toilets and a lack of electricity make refugee camps in and around the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in Pakistan "intolerable," according to relief workers for the international aid agency, World Vision.

"Many children and their families have walked for days to reach...

By Sue Mbaya

Today is World Malaria Day. and more than sixty years ago some Americans might have marked the day by being sick -- perhaps very sick. Malaria causes high fevers, sweating and chills, and even brain damage and death. But malaria was eradicated in North America by 1950....

By Sue Mbaya

I spent last week in Zimbabwe, a nation that has lost so much ground from a humanitarian perspective and yet still has so much potential. I saw real signs of hope during my visit. There were media reports of various delegations visiting to assess the country's progress....