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 Topic Sheet "How World Vision Works: Relief and Rehabilitation". Looks at two of the most important aspects of World Vision's work: emergency relief and rehabilitation.
Topic Sheet "How World Vision Works: Development". Development is the core focus of World Vision's work. This topic sheet describes how World Vision partners with poor communities through Area Development Programmes.
Website www.dev-zone.org Dev-zone, the development resource centre in New Zealand, offers many useful resources and links.
Website www.nzaid.govt.nz The site for the New Zealand government's overseas aid and development programme.
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Topic Sheet
"Child Labour" Looks at issues of children working, and
exploitative child labour. Examines causes and what is being done to help.
Website www.globalmarch.org Global March Against Child Labour
Topic Sheet "Children's
Rights"
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, its impact, and
how World Vision is involved.
Topic Sheet "Trash
or Treasure" Overview of different forms of child exploitation:
child labour, children of war, street children, begging, bonded labour.
Website www.crin.org
Child Rights Information network.
Topic
Sheet "Child
Trafficking" What child traficking is, what causes it,
where it's happening, how it affects children and how to prevent it.
Topic Sheet "The Global SexTrade"
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, its impact, and
how World Vision is involved.
Website www.ecpat.net The ECPAT website (End Child Prostitution,
Pornography and Trafficking in Children for Sexual Purposes).
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Website www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
The Central Intelligence Agency of America has a factbook containing maps
and facts on countries around the world.
Website www.lonelyplanet.com
The Lonely Planet is a travel guide but does contain information about
various countries.
Topic Sheet "Debt:
Who pays the Price?" The human cost of the debt owed by governments in developing countries to Western banks.How the crisis came about, how it is being
tackled and what World Vision is doing about it.
Website www.debtlinks.org
Website www.debtaction.org.nz
Website www.jubilee2000uk.org
Topic Sheet "How World Vision Works: Development". Development is the core focus of World Vision's work. This topic sheet describes how World Vision partners with poor communities through Area Development Programmes.
Topic Sheet "Choosing Where We Work" Explains how World Vision decides where to start new projects.
Topic Sheet "Sustainable Technology" About the kind of technology that is appropriate for developing communities - technology that they can afford to maintain, replace and run,and that is environmentally friendly.
Website www.dev-zone.org Dev-zone, the development resource centre in New Zealand offers many useful resources and links.
Website www.nzaid.govt.nz The site for the New Zealand government's overseas aid and development programme.
see also HIV and AIDS
Topic Sheet "Immunisation" World Vision immunisation programmes against
the six killer diseases: measles, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, TB, diphtheria.
Website www.who.int
The World Health Organisation Site.
Website www.unicef.org
The United Nations Children's Fund.
Topic Sheet "How World Vision Works: Relief and Rehabilitation". Looks at what World Vision does in emergency situations, and the rehabilitation work that sometimes follows.
Website ReliefWeb News and information on disasters and other humanitarian emergencies.
Topic Sheet "Water"
Topic Sheet "Poverty
and the Environment" Introduces the ways that poor people are affected
by environmental damage, and may in turn have to exploit their environment
in order to survive. Includes examples of efforts to restore or improve
the environment.
Website
www.wri.org World Resources
Institute.
Topic
Sheet "Where
does your Famine money go?"
Profiles the projects and people who will benefit from this year's 40
Hour Famine.
Website www.famine.org.nz
Topic Sheet "Food
for the World" Food security: food production, food aid, food
distribution and food shortages. What World Vision is doing to contribute to
food security.
Website www.fao.org The
Food and Agriculture Organisation. The Global Information and Early Warning
System section (GIEWS) highlights which countries are facing food shortages.
See also HUNGER
Topic Sheet "Nurturing
Girls" Gender and development. The problems
faced by female children in the developing world. How development projects
that focus on the education and health of girls can affect whole communities.
See also WOMEN
See also DISEASE
Topic Sheet "HIV and AIDS" Looking at the problem of HIV Aids globally, who is affected, where and why, the impact and effects of the epidemic, and what responses are helpful
Website
www.unaids.org The
United Nations HIV and AIDS site
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www.who.int The World
Health Organisation
Topic Sheet "The Global Sex Trade" Human trafficking for commercial exploitation is one of the greatest human rights abuses of this century.
Website www.prb.org The
Population Reference Bureau (Washington DC) includes the latest world
population data sheet.
Topic Sheet "The World's Hungry Children" Statistics on hunger and
malnutrition, including statistics on infant mortality. Looks at causes,
what Governments are doing, what World Vision is doing.
See also FOOD SECURITY
Topic Sheet "Immunisation" World Vision immunisation programmes against
the six killer diseases: measles, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, TB and diphtheria.
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Topic Sheet "Children of War" The effects of war on children: landmines, amputees, child-headed households, psychological strain, shell shock, child soldiers, refugees, and what World Vision is doing to help.
Topic Sheet "Landmines" Focus on the dangers of landmines, history of the problem, and what can be done about it.
Website www.icbl.org
The site of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
Website www.minesactioncanada.com
Includes updates of countries signing the landmines ban treaty.
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Topic Sheet "Population
and Poverty". Overpopulation is not to blame for world poverty.
Looks at the reasons for large families, population growth rates, and World
Vision's position on family planning.
Website www.prb.org The
Population Reference Bureau (Washington DC) includes the latest world
population data sheet.
Website
www.worldbank.org
The World Bank offers data and statistics on poverty.
Topic Sheet " Poverty" What poverty is, the
causes of poverty, and some of the things that are being done about it.
Topic Sheet "Population and Poverty". Overpopulation is not to blame for world poverty. Looks at the reasons for large families, population growth rates, and World Vision's position on family planning.
Topic Sheet "Poverty and the Environment" Introduces the ways that poor people are affected by environmental damage, and may in turn have to exploit their environment in order to survive. Includes examples of efforts to restore or improve the environment.
Website www.undp.org The United Nations Development Programme site includes the annual Human Development Report, a useful source of statistics.
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Topic Sheet "Refugees
and displaced people" Who are refugees, where
they are from, who helps them. The phases of a refugee's experience and refugee relief operations.
Website
www.unhcr.ch
The United Nations agency for refugees site.
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Topic Sheet "Sustainable Technology" About the kind of technology that is appropriate for developing communities - technology that they can afford to maintain, replace and run, and that is environmentally friendly.
Topic Sheet "Trade: a way out of poverty?" How world trade agreements affect developing countries.
Website www.wto.org The World Trade Organization is the global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations.
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Topic sheet
"Children of War" How war affects children.
See also REFUGEES
Topic Sheet "Water" Discusses access to water and related health issues, and efforts to encourage wise water use.
Topic
Sheet "Nurturing
Girls" Gender and development. The problems faced by female
children in the developing world. How development projects that focus
on the education and health of girls can affect whole communities.
Website www.un.org/womenwatch The United Nations Internet gateway on the advancement and empowerment of women.
Topic
Sheet "About
World Vision" How World Vision began, the kind of work
we do, the countries we are working in, and answers to some commonly asked
questions.
Topic
Sheet
"How World Vision Works: Relief and Rehabilitation".
Looks at two of the most important aspects of World Vision's work: emergency
relief and rehabilitation.
Topic
Sheet "How
World Vision Works: Development". Development is the core focus
of World Vision's work. This topic sheet describes how World Vision
partners with poor communities through Area Development Programme
Topic
Sheet "Choosing
Where We Work" Explains how World Vision decides where
tostart new projects.
Website
www.wvi.org The World
Vision International site.
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