World Vision UK podcasts: Recent Episodes
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BBC Radio Devon featured Royal Navy commander Charles Crichton OBE on it’s Pause for Thought slot. He and his wife are lifelong sponsors, and attended a special event to celebrate World Vision at Exeter Cathedral.
International children’s charity World Vision UK’s award-winning ‘Journey of Hope’ exhibition is now welcoming visitors in Tunbridge Wells’ Royal Victoria Place Shopping Centre. Allie Sesay speaks to KMFM about life in Sierra Leone for vulnerable children, and how you can support World Vision's work.
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World Vision's Sarah Pickwick highlights the dangers children caught up in humanitarian crises face when they are taken out of school. #education #school #child marriage #child soldiers #BBC Radio 4 #humanitarian #war #conflict #hunger #famine
World Vision Nepal director, Liz Satow talks about how World Vision supports earthquake survivors #World Vision #Nepal #Aid #earthquakes #
World Vision Brussels' Executive Director, Justin Byworth, discusses the crisis in Syria, and the devastating effect it is having on children.
Johan Eldebo, Senior Humanitarian Policy Advisor for World Vision discusses the crisis in South Sudan and the global scurge of child soldiers.
World Vision's child rights advisor, Erica Hall, talks to TWR about the plight of child soldiers #Childsoldiers #Red Hand Day #Forcedwives #exploitation #sexualviolence #stigma
More than a million people in #Haiti are affected by the #HurricaneMatthew and are in a very dire need of life saving supplies including clean water.
WorldVision is coordinating with the humanitarian community and starting distribution of emergency supplies in affected communities.
John Hasse, national director of the aid group World Vision in Haiti, estimated “thousands of houses destroyed or damaged” in the areas hardest hit.
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Every three seconds a girl under the age of eighteen is married somewhere in the world. Forced marriage is one of the biggest abuses of girls today, and on this episode
The garden’s creator and multiple-award-winning designer John Warland said: “We are ecstatic to have been recognized for our efforts with this prize. This garden tells some significant and pertinent messages about the state of the world and how we can all help improve the lives of the vulnerable."
Heavy fighting has taken place across South Sudan's capital Juba this evening with World Vision staff reporting incidents of intense gunfire. The new fighting comes just before South Sudan marks its fifth independence anniversary on Saturday.
World Vision UK's Johan Eldebo discusses the impact of Chilcot report on World Vision work.
World Vision's Humanitarian Grants Technical Director Julian Srodecki speaks to BBC 5 Live's Rhod Sharp on how day one of the summit has gone so far.
International children’s charity World Vision UK is urging council authorities across Scotland to ‘pull out all the stops’ in finding homes for unaccompanied refugee children from Europe.
The call comes after a YouGov poll of British adults for the charity reveals that, of those in Scotland, most are supportive of refugee children in the UK.
The World Vision UK survey finds overwhelming public backing in Scotland for the government’s change of heart. Of those in Scotland, 59% support the decision to take more lone refugee children from Europe, compared to 31% who oppose it. Opinion is almost evenly split across Britain, with 43% of adults supporting allowing in unaccompanied refugee children, compared to 41% opposed.
Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a low-cost land restoration technique used to combat poverty and hunger amongst poor subsistence farmers by increasing food and timber production and resilience to climate extremes.
World Vision is calling for more money to tackle food shortages across the region, amid concern 33,000 children in Zimbabwe need urgent treatment for "severe acute malnutrition".
The organisation's workers claim a drought induced by the El Nino weather phenomena has hit the country particularly badly.
World Vision has called for more funding to address food shortages across Southern Africa as the government of Zimbabwe announced that more than a third of the country's population need food aid as people struggle with the worst drought for two decades.
Post London Donor Conference, World Vision's Patricia tells BBC Three Counties why funding is key in helping Syria's neighbouring countries.
World Vision UK's Erica Hall speaks with BBC 5 live of how while it's encouraging that laws are keeping up with technology like webcam abuse, we suspect that this is only the tip of the iceberg with many cases still undetected.
Hunger in Angola is on the rise, as the country is affected by its worst drought since 1978. With the race on to help malnourished children in the region, medical centres are struggling to cope with the added strain.
Justin Byworth, Chief Executive of World Vision UK, reflects on a week of highs and lows in Afghanistan - from witnessing doctors battling in vain to save the life of a newly-born boy, to scenes of happiness in the countryside where a proud headteacher told of the hopes and dreams of her students.
Caroline Preston, World Vision Operations Director in Indonesia describes the moment the earthquake hit and how our team on the ground is responding.
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