In addition to working with disadvantaged and disaster- stricken communities around the globe, World Vision seeks to inform and educate the public about its work and invite them to participate in it.

Here is a selection of materials produced by World Vision. Some of these materials are by regional and country offices, and you can find more by navigating through the World Vision network of sites.

Aid

• "How World Vision Works: Relief and Rehabilitation".  Looks at two of the most important aspects of World Vision's work: emergency relief and rehabilitation.
• "How World Vision Works: Development". Development is the core focus of World Vision's work.  This describes how World Vision partners with poor communities through Area Development Programmes.
• www.dev-zone.org  Dev-zone, the development resource centre in New Zealand, offers many useful resources and links.
• www.nzaid.govt.nz  The site for the New Zealand government's overseas aid and development programme.

AIDS - see HIV and AIDS

Child Labour

• "Child Labour" Looks at issues of children working, and exploitative child labour. Examines causes and what is being done to help.
• www.globalmarch.org  Global March Against Child Labour

Child Rights

• "Children's Rights" The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, its impact, and how World Vision is involved.
• "Trash or Treasure" Overview of different forms of child exploitation: child labour, children of war, street children, begging, bonded labour.
• www.crin.org Child Rights Information network.

Child Trafficking

• "Child Trafficking"  What child traficking is, what causes it, where it's happening, how it affects children and how to prevent it.
• "The Global SexTrade" The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, its impact, and how World Vision is involved.
• www.ecpat.net The ECPAT website (End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking in Children for Sexual Purposes).

Children of war - see War

Countries

• 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.

Debt

• "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.
• www.debtlinks.org
• www.debtaction.org.nz
• www.jubilee2000uk.org

Development

• "How World Vision Works: Development". Development is the core focus of World Vision's work.  This describes how World Vision partners with poor communities through Area Development Programmes.
• "Choosing Where We Work"  Explains how World Vision decides where to start new projects.
•   "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.
• www.dev-zone.org   Dev-zone, the development resource centre in New Zealand offers many useful resources and links.
• www.nzaid.govt.nz  The site for the New Zealand government's overseas aid and development programme.

Disease - (see also HIV and AIDS)

• "Immunisation" World Vision immunisation programmes against the six killer diseases: measles, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, TB, diphtheria.
• www.who.int The World Health Organisation Site.
• www.unicef.org The United Nations Children's Fund.

Emergency Relief

• "How World Vision Works: Relief and Rehabilitation". Looks at what World Vision does in emergency situations, and the rehabilitation work that sometimes follows.
• ReliefWeb  News and information on disasters and other humanitarian emergencies.

Environment

• "Water"
• "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.
• www.wri.org World Resources Institute.

40 Hour Famine

• www.famine.org.nz

Food Security

• "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.
• 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

• "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

• "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
• www.unaids.org The United Nations HIV and AIDS site
• www.who.int The World Health Organisation

Human trafficking

• "The Global Sex Trade" Human trafficking for commercial exploitation is one of the greatest human rights abuses of this century.
• www.prb.org The Population Reference Bureau (Washington DC) includes the latest world population data sheet.

Hunger

• "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 Secruity

Immunisation

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

Landmines

• "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.
• "Landmines" Focus on the dangers of landmines, history of the problem, and what can be done about it.
• www.icbl.org The site of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
• www.minesactioncanada.com Includes updates of countries signing the landmines ban treaty.

Population

• "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.
• www.prb.org The Population Reference Bureau (Washington DC) includes the latest world population data sheet.

Poverty

• www.worldbank.org The World Bank offers data and statistics on poverty.
• " Poverty" What poverty is, the causes of poverty, and some of the things that are being done about it.
• "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.
• "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.
• www.undp.org The United Nations Development Programme site includes the annual Human Development Report, a useful source of statistics.

Refugees

• "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.
• www.unhcr.ch The United Nations agency for refugees site.

Technology

•   "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

• "Trade: a way out of poverty?" How world trade agreements affect developing countries.
• www.wto.org   The World Trade Organization is the global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations.

War

• "Children of War"  How war affects children.
• See also Refugees

Water

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

Women

• "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.
• www.un.org/womenwatch The United Nations Internet gateway on the advancement and empowerment of women.

World Vision

• "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.
• "How World Vision Works: Relief and Rehabilitation". Looks at two of the most important aspects of World Vision's work emergency relief and rehabilitation.
• "How World Vision Works: Development". Development is the core focus of World Vision's work. This describes how World Vision partners with poor communities through Area Development Programme
• "Choosing Where We Work" Explains how World Vision decides where to start new projects.
• www.wvi.org The World Vision International site.