This Mother's Day, we salute the everyday heroes in our lives: Mothers. Find out how you can make Mother’s Day special for her, and extend the love to mothers and kids in warzones, as well as nurture your own kids into heroes for the less fortunate at our upcoming family event!

“As we enter the 8th year of this ruinous war in Syria, it is harrowing to hear of the alleged attacks in Douma,” says World Vision Syria Response Director, Wynn Flaten. Recent escalations in Eastern Ghouta and Douma have devastated families and children in Syria. Children are still trapped in Syria, exposed to violence and are at risk of severe injury. World Vision seeks your help to send aid to those still in Syria, as well as refugee children who have grown up in settlements around Syria. They still need your help. 

Catch a glimpse of the next generation of healthcare workers who will be part of the vision of universal health coverage.

As Syria’s complex and dire conflict rages into year eight, at what point will daily stress factors become too much for children, and have an irreversible impact on their long-term emotional and physical well-being?

World Vision spoke to more than 1,200 Syrian children, in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, to find out.

Easter is a celebration of new life made possible through Jesus Christ. It is the miracle that catapults our faith, giving us new meaning. But what comes next? How does Jesus call us to live in light of His sacrifice?

With daily challenges to peace, what can be done in conflict-ridden places? How can the next generation be peace loving and peace keepers? In this issue of Voices for Change, we bring you stories from Iraq, Kenya, the Philippines and more, of how World Vision is working to make peace a reality.

More than 622,000 people fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh when violence broke out in Myanmar Rakhine State. World Vision is distributing emergency food packages that have reached some 15,000 people in 3,000 vulnerable households since 24 September in Cox’s Bazar. Help us reach another 115,000 people with a two-week supply of emergency food aid. Help us to prevent worsening malnutrition among children.

As Dalits in rural Nepal, Samjhana and her family faced discrimination and limited opportunities in life as members from the lowest caste. They accepted that their fate was to be landless and till land in others’ fields for a living. One day, they received a goat and their life has never been the same!