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Leading aid agencies: Australia must increase overall refugee intake

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

As the global refugee crisis continues to deepen, three leading aid agencies have joined forces to call on the Australian Government to extend its compassion for Syrian refugees to others, to ensure good intentions for one region don’t prolong suffering in other areas.

Media Releases, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Humanitarian, Refugees, Syria

World Vision urges Australian Government to increase refugee intake

Saturday, September 5, 2015

World Vision Australia has backed a call to urgently increase Australia’s humanitarian intake, as part of broader measures to support the largest movement of refugees globally since World War Two.

Media Releases, Emergencies, Syrian Refugee Crisis, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia

World Vision scales up response in Myanmar

Friday, August 14, 2015

As World Vision celebrates the 40th anniversary of the 40 Hour Famine, the humanitarian agency is scaling up its response to flooding in Myanmar amid fears of looming food shortages.

Media Releases, Anthea Spinks, Flood, Myanmar

World Vision thanks Australians for 40 years of giving up for global hunger

Monday, August 10, 2015

World Vision is celebrating 40 years of Australia’s iconic 40 Hour Famine and expects tens of thousands of young people to give up something important to them to help fight global hunger this weekend.

Media Releases, Transforming lives, Poverty, Famine, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Carribean, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, 40 Hour Famine

South Sudan’s children tell us: “We want to learn – even during war”

Thursday, August 6, 2015

LEADING humanitarian agencies have called for a greater commitment to education in war-torn South Sudan, in a report finding that since the outbreak of violence about 400,000 school-aged children have dropped out of school and 70 per cent of the schools in the conflict-affected states have closed.

Media Releases, Anthea Spinks, Education, South Sudan

Death toll rises, millions affected by monsoon floods

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

World Vision is responding to devastating floods in India and Myanmar that have left a trail of destruction, with scores of people killed, an estimated 8 million people affected and tens of thousands of children in need of urgent support.

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific, Anthea Spinks, Flood, India, Myanmar

Nepal earthquake survivors at risk of cholera outbreak, warns World Vision

Monday, July 20, 2015

Cholera rates in earthquake-affected Nepal are likely to spike sharply, putting children’s lives at risk, if urgent measures aren’t taken to reverse the escalating risk, aid agency World Vision said today.

Media Releases, Asia and the Pacific, Anthea Spinks, Cholera, Emergencies, Nepal earthquake

Australians mark 40 years of the 40 Hour Famine 14 to 16 August 2015

Friday, July 17, 2015

On the weekend of the 14 to 16 August, barley sugars will disappear from store shelves and tummies around the country will rumble as Australia does the 40 Hour Famine for the 40th time.

Media Releases, 40 Hour Famine, 40HF

World Vision warns final MDG report will confirm worst fears

Saturday, July 4, 2015

The final Millennium Development Goals (MDG) progress report (due 6 July) will confirm what many already know: children and their families in fragile states largely did not benefit from the 15 year global initiative to reduce poverty, aid agency World Vision revealed today.

Media Releases, Syrian Refugee Crisis, Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Millennium Development Goals

Funding cuts to hurt refugee children

Thursday, July 2, 2015

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced this week it was being forced to implement deeper cuts in food assistance for vulnerable Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan because of a severe lack of funding.

Media Releases, Syrian Refugee Crisis, Emergencies, Refugees, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Budget Cuts, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, World Food Program

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