When Typhoon Molave struck in Vietnam, the floods swept away nine-year-old Trân’s home and destroyed her family’s farm – their only source of income. Life got a lot harder for her family who was already below the poverty line. Through the emergency relief response, her family received essentials such as rice, cooking oil, school supplies, warm clothes, and some shelter repair kits to reconstruct their home.

Abaca farming is helping to preserve forest areas and at the same time provide income to families. When World Vision distributed 10,000 hills of tissue-cultured Abaca, farmers in Allan's community started planting Abaca and are now seeing the environment and lives thrive. 

Parents like Johura in urban poor communities in the cities Maniknagar and Dhalpur are supported to better provide for their families. From pulling rickshaws, selling vegetables or clothes to tailoring, they are empowered to pursue their small businesses and to live in dignity. 

Mark Mitchell (Technical Director, Emergency Logistics and Prepositioning, World Vision) makes his way to Romania to manage the emergency logistics and shares his experiences on the ground over the next three months. 

Your sponsorship experience is key, and World Vision continues to work to improve your experience as child sponsors – from understanding how to communicate with your sponsored child(ren) to receiving quicker updates about your sponsored child(ren) and their community!  

Violence is a daily reality for1.7 billion of the world’s children and COVID-19 is fanning the flames. Right now, our work to protect children from violence matters more than ever. Here are five ways that child sponsors like you are helping to keep kids safe.

“Mama told me about the poor and I felt sad because they don’t have nice clothes and food. They have patches on their clothes and no money.” 

“I did not even know [the] ABCDs back then, but now I know,” shared Suresh. With his newly developed skills, Suresh’s outlook on education and life has changed drastically as well. 

COVID-19 is a pandemic that was brought upon us without any warning, and many livelihoods have been disrupted, be it being retrenched, closing down of workplaces or facing deaths of family members. The lives of Asia’s most vulnerable children have been affected drastically as well, some not even having food or clean water to survive on. This is much more than a health crisis. It is a humanitarian crisis.