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Australia helps to immunise poor kids against killer diseases

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

World Vision Australia today welcomed the Federal Government’s new commitment to immunising children living in poorer countries against killer diseases such as pneumonia and diarrhoea.

Media Releases, Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, Australian Government, Child Deaths, Immunisation, Maternal Health, Millennium Development Goals, Pneumonia, Tim Costello, United Nations

World Vision urges North and South Sudan to resolve differences ahead of 9 July independence

Thursday, June 9, 2011

With one month to go before South Sudan becomes the world’s newest independent nation, World Vision is hopeful that military clashes that have forced thousands of people to flee can be brought to an end to avert a larger humanitarian crisis.

Media Releases, Africa, Conflict, South Sudan, Sudan, United Nations

Aid budget commitment could save 200,000 lives

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

World Vision Australia today welcomed the Federal Government’s move to deliver its promises on overseas aid.

Media Releases, Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, Australian Government, Foreign Aid, Infant mortality, International Development, Maternal Health, Tim Costello

Exploitative child labour still taints Aussie Easter eggs

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

If Australian chocolate companies paid a small levy of 2 cents in every $10 of chocolate sales, exploitative child and trafficked labour in the cocoa industry could be abolished, says a new report released today by World Vision.

Media Releases, Child labour, Africa, Cadbury, Child Labour, Child Slavery, Chocolate, Cocoa Industry, Easter, Ferrero, Lindt, Mars, Nestle`, Tim Costello, West Africa

New report shows Aussie aid helps save millions of lives

Monday, April 11, 2011

Australian aid dollars have contributed to significant declines in child deaths, gains in school enrolments and the provision of clean water and sanitation for the world’s poorest people, says a new report released today by World Vision Australia.

Media Releases, Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, Australian Government, Child Deaths, Foreign Aid, International Development, Report, Tim Costello

World Vision launches appeal for unfolding humanitarian crisis in Japan

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

World Vision Australia today launched an appeal to assist more than half a million people displaced by the powerful 8.9 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan on Friday 11 March.

Media Releases, Emergencies, Asia and the Pacific, Disaster relief, Earthquake, Japan, Tim Costello, Tsunami

World Vision urges government to act on midwife crisis

Monday, March 7, 2011

On the eve of the centenary of International Women’s Day, Australia’s largest aid agency called on the Federal Government to help the thousands of women living in poor nations who die unnecessarily in child birth or during pregnancy each year.

Media Releases, Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, Australian Government, Foreign Aid, Infant mortality, International Women's Day, Maternal Health, Millennium Development Goals

Aboriginal art means business for Strong Women of Epenarra

Friday, March 4, 2011

The 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day will be celebrated at the Cessnock Regional Art Gallery in the Hunter Valley on 8 March with a visit from two women from Epenarra Artists, a remote Aboriginal art group in the Northern Territory.

Media Releases, Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, Aboriginal, Exhibition, Indigenous, International Women's Day

Christchurch in our thoughts and prayers

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

World Vision Australia CEO, Tim Costello said the Australian office was working closely with World Vision New Zealand to offer support following the Christchurch earthquake.

Media Releases, Emergencies, Asia and the Pacific, Christchurch Earthquake, Disaster relief, New Zealand, Tim Costello

ACT joins the vision in 2011

Thursday, January 27, 2011

The ACT has topped the list as Australia’s biggest giver amongst all the states and territories with 2.5 per cent of the population sponsoring a child through World Vision Australia.

Media Releases, Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, Child Sponsorship, Foreign Aid, Philanthropy, Tim Costello, World Vision

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