World Vision Australia will join people and organisations around the world to celebrate the inaugural International Day of the Girl Child on Thursday 11 October 2012, which aims to raise awareness of gender inequalities between boys and girls.
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World Vision Australia chief executive Tim Costello has commended two young Australians for leading this weekend’s Global Citizen Festival in Central Park, New York
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Save the Children and World Vision are calling for urgent action to help avert the deaths of millions of undernourished children, 2.3 million of whom died in 2011 alone.
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World Vision today hosted the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who learned about the organisation’s work in Burns Creek, a troubled community on the outskirts of Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands.
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World Vision Australia congratulates the recipients of the inaugural All Children Reading literacy competition, which aims to improve the reading skills of children in developing nations.
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Hundreds of thousands of people in drought-hit Niger have been affected by floods, with homes washed away and the population at risk of waterborne diseases such as cholera.
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This weekend around 300,000 young Australians are taking part in the 40 Hour Famine making it one of Australia’s biggest youth events.
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World Vision is preparing relief aid for 50,000 people in the wake of deadly floods in the Philippines, while torrential rain continues to inundate the capital, Manila.
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Australians have never appeared as grumpy or as disillusioned as they do today, according to World Vision Australia chief executive Tim Costello.
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Thousands of cholera cases have been confirmed in parts of West Africa already suffering a food crisis, droughts, locusts, and conflict.
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