World Vision Singapore has launched a public fundraising appeal today, pledging S$150,000 to support the most urgent needs of children and families impacted by the escalating conflict in Lebanon. World Vision has been working in Lebanon for over 45 years and will be adapting and scaling up our emergency response as the situation evolves, targeting areas of greatest need and maintaining a focus on children. We are providing emergency essentials including food, clean water, hygiene kits, baby kits, mattresses, and winter clothes, as well as creating safe spaces to provide psychosocial support to traumatized children.  

On World Humanitarian Day on August 19, World Vision is calling on leaders to do much more to protect the work of aid workers who are being killed and injured in increasing numbers, and who are prevented from delivering assistance to those caught in conflict.

Calling all young changemakers 13 years and above! World Vision Singapore's annual 30 Hour Famine returns on 18 and 19 May 2024, at Fort Canning Park. This year's transformative event, themed "Hunger Trials," is an immersive experience aimed to raise awareness about the challenging realities faced by vulnerable children battling hunger and poverty due to conflict and climate disasters.

World Vision Singapore commits to raise a total of $230,000 to provide aid to vulnerable children and families experiencing acute food insecurity in these three countries: Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Myanmar. Targets to reach a total of more than 30,000 people including over 21,000 children in the three countries with the funds raised.

A price shocks report released today by World Vision reveals that for the most vulnerable, food prices are still higher than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic. Analysis of food prices from September 2023 shows that a food basket that would cost 1.5 hours of work in Australia, Ireland, or Singapore would take the average worker 36 days to earn the money to purchase in Burundi and 25 days in the Central African Republic. 

Targets to enable 50 children in out-of-home care with special learning needs to have access to learning support programmes

This crisis in Sudan, the newest large-scale conflict in the region, is now into its third month and has led to more than two million people being internally displaced. More than 600,000 have fled to neighboring countries including South Sudan, Chad, Ethiopia and Egypt. The failure of ceasefires to hold indicates that this conflict could go on for some time and innocent civilians will suffer the most.

World Vision Singapore announced today that Ms Lilian Chung will be stepping down as National Director, effective 1 July 2023. Mr Benjamin Tan will take over as the CEO for World Vision International’s Singapore branch office.

The death toll continues to rise hour by hour and has now sadly climbed above 21,000 in both Syria and Türkiye. As the international effort gathers pace in Türkiye, Syria is significantly underserved and remains a serious concern. World Vision has worked rapidly to assess the needs to already-displaced children and communities in the wake of the earthquake and are scaling up our emergency response.