World Vision launches appeal to help Myanmar cyclone victims

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

World Vision has today launched a major appeal to provide emergency relief to millions of people displaced and homeless after Cyclone Nargis slammed into Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta region on 2 May.

Media Releases, Emergencies, Asia and the Pacific, Cyclone Nargis, Disaster relief, Myanmar

Global food price increase forces major humanitarian organisation to cut 1.5 million beneficiaries from its food aid programme

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

One the world’s largest humanitarian organisations has announced it can no longer provide food to 1.5 million of the 7.5 million poor it fed last year.

Media Releases, Famine, Asia and the Pacific, Disaster relief, Famine, Foreign Aid, Nutrition, World Food Crises

Labor’s Google tax can pave the way for fairer system

Wednesday, March 2, 2005

World Vision Chief Executive, Tim Costello has welcomed Labor’s plan to crack down on companies such as Google that deliberately shrink their Australian tax bill by ‘shifting’ profits offshore, as an important first step to creating a fairer, more equitable tax system.

Media Releases, Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, Australian Government, Australian Taxation Office, Google, Tim Costello