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Aid

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.

 

AIDS - see HIV and AIDS






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Child Labour

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




Child Rights

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.

 

Child Trafficking

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).

 

 

Children of war - see War

               


Countries
                                                                                  

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.






Debt

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




Development

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.




Disease
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.



Emergency Relief

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.


Environment

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.






40 Hour Famine 2006

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




Food Security

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





Gender

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






Health

See also DISEASE

 

HIV and AIDS

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

.Website    www.who.int The World Health Organisation

 

Human trafficking

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.


Hunger

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



Immunisation

Topic Sheet    "Immunisation"  World Vision immunisation programmes against the six killer diseases: measles, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, TB and diphtheria.






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Landmines

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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Population

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.




Poverty

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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Refugees

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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Technology

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.

 

Trade

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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War

Topic sheet   "Children of War"  How war affects children.

See also REFUGEES




Water

Topic Sheet    "Water" Discusses access to water and related health issues, and efforts to encourage wise water use.



Women

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.


World Vision

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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