Launching of Municipal Councils for Children

The opening was held with a quick soccer tournament

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Humanitarian Aid World Day

“It’s necessary to strength the local abilities”

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World Humanitarian Day

Costa Rica - August 19, 2010.- World Vision as a Christian humanitarian organization have a strong history helping and assisting victims in differents emergency situations across the world -now working in Haití, Niger, Pakistán and Chile, among others- Today World Vision would like to welcome all its staff and its various partners on field-communities, community leaders and volunteers, in over 350 communities in working in Latin America and the Caribbean...

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COLOMBIA: Recent Earthquake had epicenter in the Coffee Region in Colombia

Bogotá 29 July 2010 - The Codazzi Geographic Institute reported today at 14:00 (local time) an earthquake of 5.4 on Richter scale intensity with its epicenter in the town of Ortega, Tolima, about 250 kilometers far from Bogota...

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Nicaragua: “La niña” will contribute to improve nutritional and food conditions

Managua july 26th 2010.- the Nicaraguan Institute of territorial and weather studies(INETER) base on the climatic and analyzed prognostics, indicated that conditions are given to the establishment of La Niña phenomena from August to September, this could represent good conditions for production...

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HAITÍ: Six months after...

Port-au-Prince, July 12, 2010.- Six months after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, World Vision says much has been done to help the people of Haiti, but the road to lasting recovery will take many years. As aid groups transition from relief to recovery efforts, providing sturdy, safe shelter to survivors is one of the most pressing and complex challenges now facing aid workers. With hurricane season already underway, better shelter is also one of the most urgent needs for families.

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COLOMBIA: Strong floods in Soacha, municipality near to Bogotá

Bogotá, Colombia - July 8.- The hard rains presented since last Wednesday, July the 7th in the municipality of Soacha, Cundinamarca, located in the periphery of Bogota, have affected more than 1.000 families that lost his goods and suffered damages in their properties due to several floods that overcame the level of 1,50 meters...

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MEXICO: Three northern states of Mexico severely affected by rains

Mexico City, Mexico (July 8th).- Hurricane Alex, Category 2, hit the coast of the State of Tamaulipas on the Gulf of Mexico, south on the border of the U.S last Wednesday night, June 30th...

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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: The Fourth Journalistic Competition on Child and Adolescent

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - 14 June 2010.- World Vision Dominican Republic, UNICEF and Plan Dominican Republic convened the Fourth Journalistic Competition on Child and Adolescent Issues, an event awarding the best works of journalism dealing with children and adolescents published in the Dominican media...

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Soccer World Cup 2010:

Johannesburg, 10 June 2010.- As the 2010 FIFA World Cup commences in South Africa on 11 June 2010, World Vision is calling for the protection of children who will be vulnerable and at risk during the soccer competition and beyond...

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World Vision responds to the victims of Agatha

El Salvador, 6 June 2010.- The red alert issued for the tropical storm expired several days ago, but the physical damage and loss of life have not gone away in El Salvador...

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Low pressure system affects Nicaragua

Managua, Nicaragua, 28 de Mayo.- On may 27th INETER (Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial and Weather Studies) sent an Alert which reports a Low pressure system that moves slowly and is affecting the Pacific area in Nicaragua. The phenomenon shows in heavy rains, which will turn intense in west and north areas from the country and moderate in the rest of the regions for the next 24 hours...

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Costa Rica: Heavy raisn affects Guanacaste

San José, Costa Rica.- Since May 23rd, heavy rains brought about by low pressure system affected Costa Rica, particularly the province of Pacific Region and the Central Valley...

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Guatemala: Pacaya volcano erupts

Guatemala, May 27th 2010.- According with an official bulletin from National Institute of Seismology, Volcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology – INSIVUMEH for its initials in Spanish – at 16:00 hours, some explosions were registered every second, reaching 1640 feet over the crater.

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Support the campaign:

What is hunger?.- For the more fortunate, it’s only the feeling in your stomach that says “it’s time to eat.” If you are less fortunate and don’t get enough to eat each day, hunger makes you feel weak, tired, unable to concentrate, even sick...

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Hurricane Season Approaches:

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haití-- World Vision, the international Christian relief agency, is concerned that the upcoming hurricane season in Haiti could create a secondary disaster for Haitians and urges the Government of Haiti and the international community to include disaster risk reduction activities in its long-term rebuilding plans...

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Guatemala: Encouraging economic development

Guatemala.- World Vision inaugurated their new office in Chimaltenago this month, through the Guatemalan Association for Development (Agudesa), in order to encourage economic development and to generate better opportunities for people that live in vulnerable communities...

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World Vision donates medicine:

La Paz.- World Vision Bolivia (WVB) donated medicine to the Bolivian Health Ministry that added up to more than $2.6 million. This will benefit the population of nine regions of the country, through the Departmental Health Services offices.

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ECUADOR: Photography exhibition

Quito, Ecuador.- Looking to support a more active and purposeful participation of children and adolescents in their closest sphere, is that World Vision Ecuador organized a photographic exhibition' The World Seen from my eyes", through its special project 'Leading and Public Advocacy of Indigenous Children”...

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Challenging Overview

A major challenge ahead, figures make it clear that the way forward involves a series of edges...

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Agreement in Guaribas, Sierra de las Confusiones (Mountain Range of Confusion)

“I have a very particular and positive experience to share about how I came to know World Vision and the perception I have about this organization....

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Historic agreement for eradicate hunger:

City of Panama – April the 27th, 2010.- The first Memorandum of Regional Cooperation between the offices for Latin America and the Caribbean of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization –FAO- and World Vision International was signed today in the city of Santiago, Chile. The negotiations to finalize this memorandum took over a year and half and were initiated in this city on October 2008...

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We didn’t know what was happening

Lota – Chile, 5th March 2010 - “I was at home with my two children,” Edlemira Fonseca Chavez remembers. “At the time of the earthquake we didn’t know what was happening. We didn’t know what it was.”

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World Vision delivers food, supplies to outlying areas devastated by Chile quake

World Vision delivers food, supplies to outlying areas devastated by Chile quake

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More aid reaching many survivors, but conditions remain dire

January 19, 2010 – Port-au-Prince Disaster Statistics * 70,000 bodies officially recovered, total death toll likely well over 100,000 * 3 million people displaced or otherwise impacted by earthquake (Population of Port-au-Prince prior to the quake: 4 to 4.5 million)

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Myths of disaster relief

Aid groups address public stereotypes about overseas disasters As they rush to save lives in the wake of the Haiti earthquake, aid workers also must address myths about disaster relief among the public. Edward Brown, relief director for Christian humanitarian organization, World Vision, debunks five myths around disaster relief.

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Distributions continue, new aid arriving

Saturday, 16 January 2010 An airlift of 18 metric tonnes of emergency supplies arrived in Port-au-Prince Friday night from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver, USA, and a second flight is planned for the weekend.

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“Race against clock” to save lives in Haiti

January 16, 2010, Port-au-Prince – World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents.

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HAITI: World Vision mobilizes aid effort amidst devastation

World Vision’s main office building was rendered unusable, but operations continued from a second building.



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Eyewitness to the Devastation: Accounts from WV volunteers on the ground

On the same day that the devastating earthquake struck Haiti, a team of World Vision volunteers had just arrived in the capital of Port-au-Prince. Heidi Billington and Bernie Zebarth, both from New Brunswick, are members of that team and were able to send these personal reflections in the terrifying first 24 hours.

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World Vision articulates joint response to situation in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, January 14, 2010. – At the end of the second day of search and rescue work after the 7-degree earthquake that struck Haiti, the panorama in the city of Port-au-Prince continues to be one of destruction, death and desolation.

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World Vision organizes a Center of Operations in Jimani

San José, 13 January 2010 – Creating a roadway corridor between the Dominican Republic and Port-au-Prince is one of the high priority coordination actions set for emergency relief following the earthquake registering 7.0 on the Richter scale which shook the island of Hispaniola yesterday afternoon. Hit hardest was Haiti and its capital city, Port-au-Prince.

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World Vision to send aid

World Vision urgently sends vital supplies to earthquake survivors in Haiti Denver, January 14, 2010. – World Vision will urgently send today 18 metric tons of vital help from its warehouses in Denver to the country of Haiti, that was struck last Tuesday by an earthquake of 7 degrees in the Richter scale that affected 3 million people, according to preliminary data. If the airplane manages to land, it is expected to arrive early in the morning of Friday the 15th.

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World Vision Dominican Republic Starts Actions to Aid Haiti

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, January 13, 2010. – World Vision Dominican Republic started response and humanitarian aid actions to the 7.3 degrees earthquake (Richter scale) that stroke Haiti yesterday. Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the territory of the island.

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World Vision expresses concern over the welfare of children in Haiti

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 13, 2010. – World Vision is assessing the damages and will begin today a massive humanitarian aid response, after an earthquake of 7.0 degrees in the Richter scale struck Haiti on Tuesday evening. World Vision has been working in Haiti for 30 years and has 370 employees. It has emergency supplies and has previously positioned equipment all over the country.

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World Vision anticipates massive needs and a difficult response.

Port-au-Prince – Haiti, January the 13th, 2010 – broken communications, blocked roads and continuous aftershocks have affected the humanitarian efforts during the night. The rubble of fallen houses and fallen buildings blocked the streets in the city of Port-au-Price for many hours, making it very difficult for the humanitarian personnel to move around.

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7.3 Earthquake Hits Haiti

A devastating earthquake, measuring 7.3 in Richter scale, hit the capital Port-au-Prince and other southern areas of Haiti this afternoon. As a result, a tsunami alert has been declared for various nearby countries. The main quake was followed by 2 strong aftershocks and a hospital building might have collapsed, according to the first reports.

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BOLIVIA: Chaco and Altiplano region affected by severe droughts

La Paz, Bolivia.- The Bolivian government has confirmed the emergency state in six departments of the country because of droughts. The declared departments are: The Bolivian Chaco ( Tarija, Chuquisaca and the Cordillera Province in Santa Cruz) and the Altiplano (La Paz, Oruro and Potosi)...

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World Vision congratulates CNN Hero Efren Penaflorida

World Vision joins the thousands of people, especially Filipinos, around the world in rejoicing with Efren and the Dynamic Teen Company (DTC) for winning the CNN Hero of the Year Award.

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World Vision launch Global Child Health Campaign

New York.- A new report from international humanitarian agency World Vision calls on governments to focus on bolstering family and community-level health interventions, some of which cost as little as 30 cents*...

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Child Health Now Campaign

Rio de Janeiro and La Paz.- World Vision launches today their campaign “Health for the children on first place” in Latin America to diminish infant mortality rates in both countries. The proposal is to open a debate, investigate causes and present solutions between governmental and no governmental organizations. In both countries high authorities, boys, girls and teenagers will participate on the campaign launch...

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20th Anniversary of the Convention

The event focused on analyzing the enjoyment of rights by children and adolescents, and the participation accorded them in their countries from the standpoint of the Convention on the Rights of the Child....

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20th Anniversary of the Convention

As we face the Twenty-first Century, we are deeply convinced of our need to rise to the occasion of this historic moment which is ours to live, acknowledging and affirming the central position of children in the development of our countries...

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20th Anniversary of the Convention

World Vision Ecuador (WVE) is part of the delegation that will represent the country at the Geneva Summit from 6-12 October to present the report of Ecuadorian civil society on the status of children....

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20th Anniversary of the Convention

To mark this anniversary, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and two other partners, World Vision and Plan International, as well as the NGO Group for the Convention and UNICEF, will organize a two-day celebration....

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20th Anniversary of the Convention

The Convention was ratified by 192 countries, making it the most universal human rights instrument. In spite of progress over the last 20 years, the fundamental rights of millions of children around the world are still not respected...

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400 persons displaced and 71 houses destroyed in Landslide in La Paz, Bolivia

La Paz.- At 18:00 hours on October 9, 2009, the land starts to crack open in the neighborhoods Villa Salome Bajo and 23 de Marzo in the City of Children in the city of La Paz. On October 10, 2009 at 12:30 the macro movement reactivates itself provoking the destruction of 71 houses, the most affected neighborhood is Villa Salome Bajo...

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WVI Board commissions new President

Kevin Jenkins, the in-coming World Vision International President was last week commissioned to take over his new role by the organisation’s international board...

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Children, the most affected by the Guatemalan food crisis

The food scarce, caused by the advanced rainy season and the entrance of El Niño Phenomenon which brought drought, has taken the life of 54 children...

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Hunger in poor communities of Guatemala:

This crisis could get worst on the months from January to March, when added to the draught is the lack of opportunities for the agricultural laborers

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Swine Influenza Emergency CAT II, Level 2 Response

Swine Influenza Emergency CAT II, Level 2 Response

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UN appointment of former President Clinton as Haiti special envoy

World Vision applauds UN appointment of former President Clinton as Haiti special envoy

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Living for the children

Living for the children

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More Pro-Children Actions, World Vision Host of the MGI Meeting

WVI Hosts the Annual Meeting of the Latin-American Chapter of the Global Movement for Children

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Gaza: Statement and analysis on cease-fire announcements

Gaza: Statement and analysis on cease-fire announcements

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Gaza's crisis: WV call to stop all manifestations of violence

Gaza's crisis: WV call to stop all manifestations of violence

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Earthquake in Costa Rica: World Vision delivers aid to those affected

Earthquake in Costa Rica: World Vision delivers aid to those affected

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Rains affect 253 families in Malacatoya. 64 families evacuated.

Rains affect 253 families in Malacatoya. 64 families evacuated.

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Nehuentúe, Chile, a flooded town

In the aftermath of the heavy rains which have flooded the South of Chile, and for which the World Vision Chile office has declared an Emergency, together with the government which as declared an Agricultural Emergency, teams from WV projects visiting ADP members have discovered unknown details of the emergency.

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Haití está llorando después de Hanna. Las poblaciones afectadas esperan ayuda..

En Haití, Hanna dejó por lo menos 132 personas muertas, 8 personas desaparecidas, 7 heridas, 3,118 familias sin hogar y 9,156 personas viviendo temporalmente en refugios

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Hanna leaves the Dominican Republic and now it is IKE's turn

For the ninth time in this season, the National Hurricane Center, located in Miami, has alerted the countries of the Atlantic coast on the arrival of a new hurricane. According to the latest information, Ike could be the third storm to reach the Dominican coasts this season.

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Red Alert in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, due to effects of Tropical Storm Hanna

The National Emergency Commission (CNE) declared a Red Alert for Guanacaste province because of the heavy rains brought on by the effects of Tropical Storm Hanna.

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Rains produced by Tropical Storm Hanna affect Guanacaste

Since 2 September, rains brought about by Tropical Storm Hanna have been constantly pounding Costa Rica, particularly the province of Guanacaste

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RED ALERT DECLARED FOR THREE NORTHERN PROVINCES IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

The Emergency Operations Center (COE) issued a red alert today for Dajabón, Montecristi, and Puerto Plata, along with yellow and green alerts for another 14 provinces, due to downpours that are expected to be caused by tropical storm Hanna.

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Haiti - Several flooded regions due to Hurricane Hanna, cat 1

Haiti is under the threat of heavy rains and gusts of winds due to the eighth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season “Hanna”. The storm strengthened to a category one hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson scale) earlier on Tuesday. Hanna has affected all of the Country flooding several regions.

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Gustav is being felt in Costa Rica

Strong, non-stop rains are affecting Costa Rica, especially the province of Guanacaste, due to the effects of tropical storm Gustav. Excessive rain has swollen the rivers and damaged two bridges, leaving communities isolated, including the Río Seco community

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Hurricane Gustave hits Haiti

Haiti is under the threat of heavy rains and gusts of winds due to the seventh tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season “Gustave”. The storm, which strengthened to a category one hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson scale) earlier on Tuesday, is set to gain further strength. It could bring rainfall of up to 64cm (25 inches) in the south of the country.

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Hurricane Gustave strikes southwest Haiti

Hurricane Gustav made landfall today at noon on the southwestern peninsula of Haiti, near the city of Jacmel. It is expected that the storm, still a Category 1, to reach Category 2 status by day's end or tomorrow on its approach to Cuba while it moves through La Gonave’s Gulf; still some raining will remain in the west side of Haiti.

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Gustav Moves through the Dominican Republic

The National Meteorological Office and the National Emergency Commission continue to place southern provinces under red alert, from Barahona to the Haitian border, including inland areas such as Jimaní.

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Tropical Storm Gustav Forms in the Caribbean

Tropical Storm Gustav formed on Monday in the Caribbean Sea and was moving toward the South coast of Hispaniola, the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where it could reach hurricane status on Tuesday, the US National Hurricane Center said.

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World Vision present at the 2008 International AIDS Conference

World Vision’s delegation participated at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City as spokespersons of the children around the world and the impact of this epidemic in their lives.

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World Vision continues supporting victims of rain emergency

Two weeks after heavy rain affected the country, mainly at the East part of the country in the departments of Zacapa and Chiquimula, which left 15 dead people, more than 4,500 evacuated people and 20 shelters with a population of 2,806 according to national information, World Vision Guatemala continues supporting the people affected.

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World Vision’s voice is heard at the Ecumenical Pre Conference

World Vision’s delegation at the Ecumenical Pre Conference on AIDS, will be remembered as a milestone for our Partnership for their various interventions in the opening day.

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Declared Emergency in La Unión Zacapa, Guatemala

The President of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom has declared a State of Public Calamity in the municipality of La Unión Zacapa, after the rain that has affected the country since the past weekend left more than 150 damaged houses, 299 in risk and more than 2,000 people affected, with around 52 isolated communities...

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World Vision goes to the aid of families affected by heavy rain

Heavy rain that affected the area of Unión Zacapa at the East part of Guatemala this past weekend, not only left 12 people dead -nine of them were children- but also more than 275 damaged houses, destroyed bridges and more than 500 people affected around the country.

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Rain affects Guatemala, mudslide left 12 people dead in World Vision’s Project

Due to the heavy rain that affected the country this past weekend as a result of the tropical storm Dolly, 12 people, nine of them children, were dead as a mudslide fell over their house on Saturday night, on the community Aldea Campanario Oratorio, La Union, Zacapa at the Eastern side of the country.

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Patricio Cuevas, Chilean humanitarian worker in Libano

“Each time I have to visit a refugee camp I go through extreme sadness and frustration” say Patricio Cuevas, a Chilean communicator who works at the World Vision office in Lebanon, has a heart-rending vision, based on his own experience, of the drama lived out by refugees in the Middle East.

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June 20th is World Refugee Day

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR, Mr. António Guterres, the number of refugees or displaced individuals reached a record high last year, particularly due to the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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When Work and Study Go Togother

At the beginning of Summer, the beaches of Lota, a southern Chilean seaside city, get covered by a seaweed locally known as luga. From then on, the majority of the poor families who live on the Pacific Ocean coast harvest and sell those plants. This activity provides them with their main income. Thirteen year old Susana Parra, tells how her life has depended on the harvest of this seaweed, and how worried she is when she observes that many children have to drop out of school because of this harvest.

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Child Labor and Poverty go hand in hand

MEXICO CITY, 9 June 2008 – About 218 million girls and boys (from 5 to 17 years old) work every day around the world, full time, often at the expense of their education, health and natural development. Many of them are exploited in the sex trade, as slave labor, soldiers or trash pickers

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Better production practices are imposed in the face of food insecurity

The escalating prices of gas, thus the pressure this is generating among food prices, plus the sudden slowdown of the US economy are starting to have their effects in some towns and cities in Honduras with high prices of some of the staple food items, situation that is forcing the municipal governments such as the municipal office in Concepcion, Intibuca to reassess its local production.

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Guatemala has Declared Yellow Alert due to Heavy Rains

The constant rain which has affected Guatemala for the past six days as a result of Tropical Depressions Alma and Arthur, forced President Alvaro Colom to declare a yellow alert among the population throughout the country, forcing all departmental and municipal emergency coordinators to be on alert for any eventuality. President Colom also asked the Guatemalan population to be on alert for any warning issued by the authorities regarding evacuation procedures

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Water purifiers to relief the affected families from “La Niña” at Beni – Bolivia

World Vision Bolivia set up a water purifier to the refugees affected by the natural phenomenon of “La Niña” at Trinidad, the capital of the Beni region. This water purifier is currently serving more than 180 families (an average of 5 members per family) from the flooded community of Puerto Almacen, who fled to a nearby motorway to install their temporary houses alongside the road.

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Hurricane season is drawing near for Central America, Mexico and The Caribbean

World Vision is sounding an alert to the authorities and to the general population, expressing that they may be affected by rains, subsequent inundations, landslides, and flash flooding characteristic of these phenomena.

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Families in southern Honduras have food reserves for until June

Five ADPs from the southern region of Honduras: Las Cabezas, El Trapiche, Shalom, Nueva Vision and Siria are carrying on periodical monitoring of the Nutritional Food Security indicators, that allows them to verify the rising behavior that staple food items have, due to the high prices of gas and lack of rainfall.

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VOLCANO EXPLODES IN CHILE III

This morning, at 8 A.M. Chaiten Volcano, in the South of Chile made a frightening explosion, and as a result, its two craters joined to form a huge perfectly round one, of about 800 meters in diameter. The enormous ash cloud, 30 kmt. high prevents a clear view of the volcano, and 6 hours later, it is still impossible to know if there is a flow of lava.

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Emergency in Chile due to volcanic eruption

Among constant quakes, with the background of an ongoing eruption which throws ashes up to 30 km. in the atmosphere, the combined efforts of civilians, the army and the police, managed to evacuate by ferryboat the 4.000 inhabitants of Chaitén, a sleepy agricultural town, some 500 kilometers to the South of the nearest World Vision Area Development Project. These refugees were received in Puerto Montt, an important southern sea port, which had prepared shelters in schools, yet only some 400 people lodged in them, the rest staying with relatives and friends.

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Facing Down the ‘Perfect Storm’ of the Global Food Crisis

“An empty sack cannot stand.” This Creole proverb captures the real impact of the current food crisis, which has caused riots in several nations, from Italy, ranked 20th on the United Nation’s human development ratings, to Ethiopia, ranked 169th out of 177 countries.

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Storms hit Brazil\\\'s Northeast Region

The rains that flooded a great part of the northeast Brasil were especially harmful in the states of Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte and Paraíba.

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Area Devopment Programme of World Vision promotes combat to primness

People who live in Vila de Cava don\'t own many things. In spite of the peacefulness, there’s a lack of public transportation, sanitation, public health services. But one that doesn\'t lack are cases of dengue.

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Global food price increase forces major humanitarian organisation to...

One of the world’s largest humanitarian organisations has announced a 1.5 million drop in the number of people receiving its food aid. World Vision, whose work includes food programmes in 29 countries, blamed the soaring cost of food and unmet donor aid commitments for a 23% decrease in the number of people it was able to provide with food aid.

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Epidemic in Rio de Janeiro afects children

Seven years old, Marcelo is a smart boy: he likes to ride the bicycle and study. Suddenly, he lost his happiness on playing and started complaining of pain in the whole body. His mother, awareness of the documentaries about the tropical disease caused by a virus, transmitted by the mosquito Aedes Aegypti, looked for medical care in the region where she lives, between Jardim Primavera and Saracuruna neighborhoods, in the city of Duque de Caxias.

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World Vision Brasil intensifies the Dengue Fever Emergency

Along this week in the state of Rio de Janeiro World Vision has intensified prevention activities and the fight against the aedes aegypti mosquito, the cause of Dengue Fever. The organization decreed emergency due to the disease epidemic, which has already killed 80 people in the State.

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Authorities Declare an Orange Alert due to the Volcano Eruption in Colombia

Emergency entities evacuated nearly 15,000 countrymen and indigenous people who inhabit areas near the Nevado del Huila Volcano. This volcano occupies the departments of Cauca, Huila and Tolima, which are the high-risk places. If an eruption occurs, nearby crops and houses may be lost, mostly those of indigenous communities.

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Increase of food prices worldwide affect the most poor: Haiti Situation

The protests in Haiti registered since April 2nd against the high cost of food prices, have left a toll of five deaths, dozens injured and some detained, according to the local press in the capital Port-au-Prince.

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World Vision Nicaragua encourages Network of Men Against Violence

Violence against women has direct consequences not only for her own well-being, but also her families and villages.

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Brazil declares Emergency Cat 1 due to Dengue´s Outbreak

The city of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazilian Southeast, is facing one of the worse Dengue’s outbreaks of its history. The health authorities already classify it as an epidemic situation. According to State Health Secretariat, the number of deaths in consequence of Dengue in the state of Rio de Janeiro reaches 67 this year, being 32 children under 14 years old. Other 60 cases are under investigation. Dengue is transmitted by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito and produces high temperature and dehydration.

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Worse than Before: Five months after hurricane Félix

September 4, 2007 will be remembered forever in the life of Leonardo Sanders. Unaware of hurricane Félix, this fisherman with weather-beaten face and strong hands, along with 13 fishermen, set sail days before hurricane Félix hit the North Atlantic region of Nicaragua

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Sudan: Protesting food truck drivers block highways after hijackings

A visit by World Vision Canada Vice President Emmanuel Isch to World Vision\\\'s South Darfur programme was delayed after the convoy became stuck behind hundreds of trucks blocking the main El Fasher and Nyala highway.

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The Digicel Haiti Foundation and World Vision help the La Bruyère Public School

Now sitting in decent classrooms, the students of the La Bruyère Public School publicly expressed their joy on January, Saturday 26th, as their new school facility was being inaugurated

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The Children of Iraq: 5 Years on

As this week marks the fifth anniversary of the Coalition invasion of Iraq, some steps have been taken to improve the lives of those displaced; Jordan has opened up it’s classrooms to 50,000 Iraqi refugees this academic year, and an amnesty was issued for those refugees living in Lebanon – hundreds of whom were had been imprisoned for many months simply for being refugees.

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Ministry of Economy and World Vision promote Fair Trade and Solidarity Economy

The solidarity economy and fair trade situation in Guatemala and the perspectives for the Latin American market, as well as the creation of a work plan that promotes commercial growth and development in benefit of the small producers associated to it, were the main objectives of the “Fair and Joint Commerce, Identification of Guidelines for its Implementation at National Level and as a Tool to Access Markets for Small Producers” seminar held within the Cooperation Agreement framework signed between the Ministry of Economy and the Christian humanitarian organization World Vision Guatemala.

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Drought in Chile II

The La Niña phenomenon has hit Chilean territory with one of the worst droughts it has had in the last 100 years. So far the effects have been devastating; the country´s economy has suffered so much that growth projections for 2008 are being reviewed. The government has declared a state of agricultural catastrophe in 144 communes, but the effects of the drought go beyond that.

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450 Victims and 16 Dead from the Winter in Ecuador

The strong rain ravaging the country has left 450 victims and 16 dead stated the Civil Defense

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Drought in Chile Affects ADP

While the worst drought in the last 50 years is affecting the national territory, ADP Comunidad Un Nuevo Sendero - located 375 km. to the South of Santiago, the capital city of Chile – is suffering from its highly negative effects.

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Ecuador declares national emergency state

Yesterday the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, widened the national emergency decree to include several other provinces of the country, especially along the coast line, affected by the floods caused by the strong rainy season.

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World Vision delivers more than a million dollars in medication

Due to the humidity in the environment caused by the rain, the constant contact and bad state of the water, the children of Trinidad, and particularly those who are living in temporary refugee camps, have begun to show mitotic and respiratory symptoms such as coughing, fever, diarrhea and other infections.

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Child Malnutrition Study Shows Early Prevention is Best

Study shows more benefit from reaching all at-risk children under age 2 with nutrition, versus starting assistance among the malnourished up to age 5

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La Niña phenomenon affects over 53 thousand people in Bolivia

The La Niña phenomenon in Bolivia continues to cause natural disasters throughout the country. Strong rains during the last few weeks have overflowed rivers, causing widespread flooding, the destruction of roads, and the subsequent isolation of some communities and towns.

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Raise your voice for the 2.5 million children with AIDS at the IAC

World Vision (WV) will call attention to “the need to build resources and abilities at community level, and to bring support and company to children, especially orphans, their families and their communities” at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City from August 3rd to 8th.

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Happiness returns to one thousand children after hurricanes

In the Dominican Republic, over one thousand children ages 5 to 12 that were affected by storm Noel in November 2007 are receiving psychosocial therapy through UNICEF´s “Return to Happiness” program that World Vision is implementing in their communities.

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Catastrophic Drought Threatens Chile

The Chile’s water shortage of 41% has compelled the Government to form a Technical Coordination Group to face the drought. This group consists of public entities that have something to do with the water resource directly or indirectly. The most affected sectors are the power ones – the greatest part of the country’s electricity comes from hydroelectric power stations – and agriculture.

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Super Bowl Apparel Goes To Nicaragua

National Football League (NFL) and Retail Partners to Donate Clothing to World Vision the next wednesday 13th febraury. Clothings will donated to children and families in need, many of whom have never owned new clothing in their lives.

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Tungurahua Volcano diminishes activity

After the intense activity displayed by the Tungurahua volcano since the night of Tuesday, February 5th, a clear decrease in its eruption process can be seen.

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Tungurahua Volcano in Red Alert

The Government of Ecuador has declared a Red Alert in all locations near the Tungurahua volcano at 3am of today. This measure was taken due to the increment of eruptive activities around Tuesday midnight.

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President of Ecuador Declare a State of Emergency in Six Provinces

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa declared a state of emergency in six provinces along the country´s coastline which has been affected by heavy rainfall in the past few days.

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La Niña Phenomenon Still Striking Bolivia

According to the weather forecast, the climatic conditions caused by the La Niña phenomenon in this country will worsen in the departments of Beni, Santa Cruz and Pando, with a high probability to cause more floods.

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Strong Rains Affect Ecuador

Since last Sunday January 27th, Ecuador has been rampaged by intense rainfall leading to flooding. The provinces that have been most affected by the floods include Guayas, Esmeraldas and El Oro.

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Organizations United in a Campaign to Save Lake Nicaragua

Lake Nicaragua runs 8 thousand square meters and has a depth of 40 meters. It is the main body of water in Central America. There are 365 islets on the lake which are internationally recognized for their flora and fauna. However, contamination produced from 32 nearby municipalities is now smothering the lake.

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The Phenomenon of La Niña Affects the BolivianTerritory

The Phenomenon of La Niña has been accentuated throughout the Bolivian territory generating a large amount of rainfall in the country’s nine departments.

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The Phenomenon of La Niña Affects the BolivianTerritory

The Phenomenon of La Niña has been accentuated throughout the Bolivian territory generating a large amount of rainfall in the country’s nine departments.

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World Vision Ecuador Delivers Aids the Community of Asaco

The World Vision Rapid Response Team in collaboration with the Technical Team of the Guano San Isidro Project delivered 500 face masks and 300 bottles of saline solution to 93 families living in the community of Asaco in the Guano region (province of Chimborazo), one of the most vulnerable areas in the ADP management area.

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Children from the World Vision Symphony Appointed to be Ambassadors for Peace

On January 9 at Guatemala´s National Presidential Palace, the nation’s Secretary of Peace, part of the Presidential Cabinet, Norma Quixtán, recognized the work of more than 200 children from the Rural Children’s Symphony sponsored by World Vision.

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Displaced families receive survival kits in conflict-affected Eastern DRC

World Vision is helping to address the ongoing needs of displaced communities in Eastern DR Congo, this week distributing 6,000 survival kits to families, and clothing to more than 8,000 displaced children.

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Southern Africa Floods - WV distributes food aid, prepares for more flooding

As heavy rains continue to displace households across a number of southern Africa countries, World Vision is responding with food, shelter and health interventions, and preparing for further flooding in vulnerable areas.

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Ash from Volcano Continues

For the past few days, seismic activity from the Tunguragua Volcano located 135 km south of Quito, has continued to grow. Volcanic ash and rainfall have been falling in the surrounding area although without any debris landslides from the volcano.

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Seismic Activity Continues to Grow in Tungurahua

The Tungurahua Volcano´s seismic activity continues to increase. Ash emissions have been observed with a varied content of ash reaching a height of 3 km above the crater and ash has been reported to continue to shower the surrounding populations.

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Increased Seismic Activity at Tungurahua Volcano

Today, the Geophysical Institute of the National Technical College (IGEPN) informed about the possibility of a new eruption from the Tungurahua Volcano, similar to those of July and August of 2006. As seismic activity has increased in recent hours, the authorities have been asked to prepare the necessary actions sufficiently beforehand.

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Seven Dead and 3,000 Forced to Flee Homes by Tropical Storm Olga

The number of people killed by Tropical Storm Olga has risen to seven. The storm caused flooding in various cities of the Dominican Republic, while approximately 3,000 people were forced to flee their homes, according to reports from the World Vision Emergency Operations Center (COE), which has maintained 30 provinces in the country under maximum alert.

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Off-Season Tropical Storm Olga - Haiti

The Permanent Service of Risk and Disaster Management (SGPRD) of the Republic of Haiti issued its second special report at 8:00 am Eastern Time, declaring an Orange Alert due to risk of high-impact heavy rains in six provinces: North, Northwest, Northeast, Artibonite, Centre and West, as well as a Yellow Alert in the southern provinces of South, Nippes and Grande-Anse.

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Dominican Republic Under Red Alert Due to Tropical Storm Olga

Now Tropical Storm Olga is headed towards the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic, which is already experiencing heavy rains.

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Christmas brings hope and new houses for indigenous families

Christmas season brought this year a big blessing to the communities of San José Poaquil at the West part of the country as they inaugurated this past December 4th, a housing project that will benefit 84 families.

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Drinkable water is the motor of economic and human development

Thanks to the organization and empowerment processes promoted by World Vision, the communities of the neighbourhoods of Villa Carmen II and New Esperanza where the Nace la Esperanza program is located in the municipality of Soledad – Atlantico, finally have running clean water.

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Teenagers express their opinions about the rights of people living with HIV

Adolescents made listen their voices about the rights of children and teenagers who live with HIV in Peru during the first International Congress of communal defense offices in Lima. The congress was organized by the Woman and Social Development Ministry and supported by other organizations included World Vision.

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Children are Victims to a Crack in Chiapas

Gazing far in the distance, he spoke with neighbors about how he and his mother María, 34 years-old, left their community in the town of Ocotpec “after we started hearing the noise that caused the crack”.

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Child Friendly Spaces in Tocopilla

In the heart of the most destroyed sector of Tocopilla, in the district of La Patria, World Vision is raising an oasis of peace and hope. A huge weather proof tent in a fenced playground surrounded by the desert will host the “Club de Niños y Niñas” (Spanish for the Club of Boys and Girls).

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“My Children are suffering the most”

“The children were so traumatized they could not sleep and screamed at night. I had to sleep with them huddled in bed with me. My daughter was so scared, she screams every time the earth shakes. We had constant replicas throughout the night”.

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National Director for World Vision’s Chile declares CAT I

After the Government of Chile declared state of catastrophe in the areas of Tocopilla, María Elena and Quillagua, the World Vision National Director for Chile, Tatiana Benavidas, decided to declared a Category I Emergency, an organizational code that defines efforts and resources directed at providing aid for children and families located in emergency affected areas.

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Sponsored children twirling for tolerance

Children from ADPs Coatitla and Tulpetlac participated in an event to celebrate the International Day for Tolerance. Children and WV staff created colorful pinwheel, that along with children coming from other organizations and schools were planted in the Chapultepec Park, the most important park in Mexico City.

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Increases number of displaced people in Chiapas ADPs for mudslides and rains.

Until last week there were 200 people moved to a shelter in Copainala High school. Most inhabitants of Lopez Mateos community, part of ADP Unidos Caminando, have arrived to the municipality of Copainala after a crevice that has opened in the land of their community resulting from rains, and rivers flooded. Another 400 people members from other two communities will also be moved to shelters.

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Wal-Mart announces today 1.2 million grant to World Vision to aid Tabasco,Mexico

Wal-Mart de Mexico announced today a US$1.2 million grant to World Vision to aid economic recovery in the flooded Tabasco-Chiapas region of Mexico.

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Earthquake in Chile – III update

Less than 24 hours after the 7.7 (in the Richter scale) earthquake that has hit the North of Chile, the World Vision team which reached early this morning the port of Tocopilla – 24.000 inhabitants, 1.600 km. to the north of Santiago, the capital – reported that there are files for food, specially bread, the staple food of the poor, which is rationed because it could not be produced due to the lack of electricity.

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Earthquake in Chile-II

Three and a half hours after a 7.8 in the Richter scale earthquake hit the North of Chile, (8° in the Mercalli scale), more news are arriving regarding the damages.

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Earthquake in the North of Chile

The northern part of Chile was shaken by an 8° Richter earthquake, with its center 60 km. inland, in the town of Quillahua, which means that the danger of a tsunami was discarded.

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60 Thousand People Displaced in the Dominican Republic

Tropical Storm Noel caused heavy rains for six consecutive days which resulted in flooding and over saturated dams and the overflow of rivers, streams and gullies. This is one of the most tragic events in the history of Dominican Republic. National authorities report 85 dead and 48 missing, in addition to 66,608 people who have been displaced, and more than 16,000 homes destroyed or damaged. Moreover, 137 communities remain isolated.

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Floodings in Tabasco, Mexico

This weekend has been a very stressful time for 1,000,000 of people living in the States of Tabasco and Chiapas, southeastern of Mexico.

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Tropical Storm Noel in Haiti- update #2

November 1st, 2007, on the 48-hour assessment following the passage of Tropical Storm Noel, the damage toll has risen, with the West Department paying the highest price so far.

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More than one million people affected by rains and floodin

Mexico is facing a huge emergency situation in Southern Mexico that is currently affecting the States of Chiapas and Tabasco (nearby Chiapas), due to strong intense rains that have flooded thousands of homes in both rural and urban areas of these States.

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Tropical Storm Noel - Haiti Update

From the Southern Peninsula up to the North, Haiti has experienced the conditions and effects of Tropical Storm Noel from late night Sunday October 28th to Tuesday October 30th, with intermittent light, medium to heavy rains over its entire territory.

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All we are saying - is give woodwork a chance

In October 19th the Area Development Program (ADP) Cusubamba, located south from the capital city, Quito, inaugurated the Integral Center of Human Formation (Centro de Formación Humano Integral). The establishment is a qualify carpentry and locksmith center, the objective is to professionalize to young people of thirteen to eighteen years in these offices.

María Valarezo | Read More »    Comments(1)  

World Vision & Churches fighting violence against children

“Good relationships with boys and girls: a responsibility of Churches” was the name of a seminar organized by the Municipality of La Florida – one of the most populated neighborhoods in Santiago, the capital of Chile, by the NGO Red Viva (Live Net) and World Vision Chile.

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Medicines for the quake-affected people of Ica

Last August 15th, an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale shook the central coast of Peru, devastating the towns of Chincha, Pisco and the surroundings of Ica. About 320,000 people had to deal with the collapse of their homes and electricity, water and sewer systems.

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World Vision provides aid for people affected by the earthquake

The earthquake that shook the central coast of Peru last August 25th, left hundreds of people dead or injured, and 85,000 families homeless.

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World Vision volunteer seeks community transformation

Service is a priority in the life of Guillermo Antonio Jimenez Molina, a 38-year-old volunteer.

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Dominican Republic under Red Alert due to Tropical Storm Noel

Two days of strong rains caused by Tropical Storm Noel have led the National Emergency Committee (COE) to declare red alert in the national district and six provinces of Dominican Republic and yellow alert in other 12 provinces.

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Over two thousand people evacuated by persistent rains in El Salvador

The persisting rains have been affecting all the Salvadoran territory and this caused that 2,589 people were evacuated to 25 shelters established all over the country. Due to this weather conditions, Civil Protection keeps the yellow alert in the whole country.

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President from Nicaragua declared National Disaster

Heavy rains have affected 20,131 or 3,933 families in 168 communities, in the departments of Esteli, Madriz, Chinandega, León, Managua, Masaya, Granada, Jinotega and Matagalpa. According to the authorities 11,068 people have been evacuated to 88 shelters.

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Hoping for Joy to Return

n the middle of the heat, uncertainty and the overcrowding, more than 2000 people, many of them children, find themselves living in shelters, victim of the floods in the province of Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

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New Yellow alert due to rains in El Salvador

Near 36 constant hours of rain have caused several landslides and floods in some communities in Ahuachapán, Sonsonate, La Libertad, San Vicente, La Paz, Usulután and San Miguel, in El Salvador, that caused that the Civil Protection authorities declared Yellow alert again.

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Declaration of Emergency Category I in Communities of Costa Rica

Declaration of Emergency Category I, Level I as a result of the disaster caused by river floods due to low pressure systems and the influence of a tropical storm in the Caribbean, October 2007

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Floods force more than 2000 people remain in shelters in Costa Rica

Torrential rains sweeping from 10 October 2007 have been lashing Costa Rica. The Costa Rican government declared a national state of emergency Wednesday after heavy damage and casualties were caused by heavy rainfall over the last week.

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Alert from heavy rains; more than 800 people affected in Guatemala

nstitutional Orange Alert was declared since last Thursday October 11 by the National Coordinator for Disaster Mitigation -CONRED- due to the heavy rains and the low pressure system that affects the North and Pacific areas of Guatemala, twelve departments were declared on alert, including five supported by World Vision.

Evelyn López | Read More »    Comments(1)  

Prevention better than the cure? Disaster mitigation training in Chile

As one of the most seismic countries in the world, Chile is making large-scale prevention exercises which will benefit all of the 18 Area Development Programs (ADPs) in its territory.

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Yellow alert - floods affecting many families - getting worse

The persistence of rains that affect all the Central American region a week ago has started to cause floods in different parts of a El Salvador, mainly in the coastal area in the eastern region in the country.

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Educational solidarity for the very young

World Vision El Salvador officially gave twelve school modules that were constructed in six schools of Guatajiagua in the Department of Morazan to the authorities of the Ministry of Education with the purpose of encouraging the constant community development for the benefit of more than 500 children and young people.

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Solidarity with children

With the purpose of empowering the children, World Vision El Salvador carried out the first Infant Convention and closing of the fiscal year of two programs of the Department of Usulutan called “Solidaridad” and “Nueva Vida”.

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Sponsorship enables Gertrudis to become an accountant

While most of the girls in the indigenous community of San Juan La Laguna in western Guatemala get married at 14 years old, have children, walk for hours to get water or go to the fields to sow crops with their parents, Gertrudis Fabiola leaves her house at 8 o\\\'clock to be at the office of the Association Lemaj, a cooperative that works in making traditional souvenirs to sell them to tourists.

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A safe place to start again after the earthquake: Building temporary shelters in

The magnitude of the devastation caused by the recent earthquake occurred in Peru is beyond any imaginable situation.

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A special agronomist

Hernán Paca, a 28-year-old man of brown complexion, well built constitution and indigenous physical characteristics, works in a trout pool located a kilometre away from the Area Development Program (ADP) UOCIC, located in the community of Chimborazo, south of the capital Quito.

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Almost a month after: People still have needs in Nicaragua

World Vision Nicaragua is sending 64 tons of aid- the equivalent of $180,000- to the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN)

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Guarayos in emergency due to the forest fire

Until last Tuesday 18th, Fires in Guarayos devastated houses, crops and bridges causing many cases of conjunctivitis, allergies and pulmonary diseases. In order to prevent the spread of sicknesses school classes were stopped.

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Promoting education and nutrition in Camiri

Improvements in the quality of either local education or of local nutrition often help improvements in the other area too. Some of the lessons are global.

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Supporting educators of the poorer eastern zone

ducation is often taken for granted, but its improvement usually has large multiplier affects for the lives of children.

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Getting vaccinated against child battering

Chile, seven out of ten children are victims of violence. According to the last Unicef study, 73% of the polled children said to have suffered some kind of violence within their homes.

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United Nations Representative in the Area of Children Visits Costa Rica

Mrs. Rosa-María Ortiz, a Latin American member of the United Nations’ Committee on Children’s Rights, visited Costa Rica last August in order to hold discussions with Costa Rican authorities in charge of enforcing children’s rights.

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Eight days after the passage of Hurricane Felix by Nicaragua

Eight days after the passage of Hurricane Felix by the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) Nicaragua struggles to recover

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Felix becomes a low pressure system in Guatemala

The National Institute for Sismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology, and Hydrology, INSIVUMEH, released an official report about the remnants of Felix, which has become a low pressure system, leaving behind a high percentage of humidity that generates intense rains throughout the country. Monitoring alerts are still active, and rains are expected to subside.

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No More Yellow Alert Caused by Hurricane Felix

According to the forecast of the National Weather Institute, since September 3rd, the National Emergency Committee declared a Yellow Alert for all the national territory due to the possible influence of Hurricane Felix, mainly due to the bands related to the cyclonic system.

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Red Alert for Towns Near Ulúa and ChamelecónRiver Basins

In agreement with the latest joint analyses and monitoring made by the Valle de Sula Committee, the Permanent Contingency Committee, the National Weather Service and the Water Resources Management Office regarding the hydrometeorological conditions of the country’s northwest area, it has been determined that the water levels of the Ulúa and Chamelecón Rivers are normal, according to the words of Mr. Castro, member of the Permanent Contingency Committee, located in the north country region.

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Tropical Depression Felix Arrives in Guatemala

According to the meteorological bulletin issued by Guatemala\'s National Institute of Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology (INSIVUMEH), Hurricane Felix has downgraded to a Tropical Depression generating irregular rains throughout the country.

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Honduras Still under High Alert

The National Meteorological Service and the Permanent Commission for Contingencies (COPECO) informed that Tropical Storm Felix has lost strength and has become a Tropical Depression. However, Honduras is still under high alert due to heavy rains that could cause some disasters.

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World Vision Nicaragua Helps Victims of Hurricane Felix

Yesterday, Monday September 4th, at around 5:15am, Hurricane Felix then a Category 5, landed in Nicaragua, more specifically in the Atlantic North Autonomous Region (RAAN), close to Bilwi in Puerto Cabezas. By the afternoon, the Hurricane had downgraded to a Category 1, leaving in its path 8 deaths and 11 missing people, according to the Civil Defense.

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Felix Weakening Rapidly; Heavy Rains still Expected

At 4:00 am (CDT), the center of Tropical Depression Felix was estimated near latitude 14.0 north and longitude 87.0 west, very close to Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

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Tropical Depression Felix Lowers National Alert to Yellow

According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, early this morning at 3:00am (CDT), Tropical Depression Felix was moving westbound of Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras at about 14k/h. Felix has created a low pressure system south of the Fonseca Gulf.

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World Vision Nicaragua will Support Victims of Hurricane Felix

As part of the Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief Program, World Vision Nicaragua is coordinating efforts with different institutions such as MI FAMILIA to deliver clothes, black plastic covers, corrugated sheets, antibiotics and treatment for parasites.

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Heavy Rains in the North Departments

According to the latest report from the National Emergency Commission (CNE), Hurricane Felix, originally a category-5 hurricane in the Saffir-Simpson scale, has moved into Nicaraguan territory and weakened to a tropical depression. According to the institution, the hurricane could still potentially affect Costa Rica, mainly because of the heavy rains associated with cyclonic systems.1

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Impact of Hurricane Felix on Costa Rica

According to reports from the National Emergency Commission, Hurricane Felix hit the Nicaraguan coast this morning, diminishing in intensity, rain and impact in Costa Rica.

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Hurricane Felix Impacts Central America

Latest report form the NHC has HR Felix at a CAT 3. Hurricane Felix made landfall as a Category 5. The storm track makes first landfall at the Cabo de Gracias a Dios at a CAT 5 intensity, then moves inland over Honduras decreasing in intensity to Tropical Storm status, then moving into Guatemala and decreasing in intensity steadily down to a tropical depression before moving near to the Pacific coast of Mexico over Chiapas States as a tropical depression.

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Felix is in Nicaragua, Cat 3 Hurricane

Hurricane Felix is currently travelling through Nicaragua. There were no victims reported as of six o’clock this morning, September 4th.

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Hurricane Felix Passing through Nicaragua

Based on information from Nicaragua’s National Hurricane Center and the National Institute for Territorial Studies, Hurricane Felix is headed directly towards the northern region of Nicaragua, impacting the area of Cape Gracias a Dios at midnight tonight Monday September 3rd.

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Alert Caused by Arrival of Hurricane Felix to Guatemala

According to the meteorological bulletin issued by INSIVUMEH, Guatemala\\\\\\\'s National Institute of Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology, Hurricane Felix is approaching Guatemala\\\\\\\'s Atlantic coast, and will cause heavy rains all over the nation.

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El Salvador under Yellow Alert due to Hurricane Felix

In El Salvador, Civil Defence authorities are preparing the country for possible effects of Hurricane Felix.

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Hurricane Felix coming to Central America

The National Meteorological Center of Honduras in conjunction with the Permanent Contingencies Commission (COPECO) has issued a red alert for the Islas de la Bahia, and a yellow alert for six departments in the Atlantic coast of Honduras. Among these departments are Gracias a Dios, Colon, Atlantida, Olancho, Cortes and Yoro.

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WV Peru starts recovery plan to children affected by the earthquake

After fifteen days the devastating earthquake hit the central coast of Peru, a World Vision’s team of psychologist arrived to Pisco, Chincha and Ica to start bringing support to the affected children.

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Aid Arrives to most Affected Towns in Earthquake Hit Cities in Peru

Seven days after the earthquake that shook the cities of Ica, Chincha and Pisco in the department of Ica, Perú things are tending to go back to normal, however new complications are becoming evident now.

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World Vision Delivers Help to More than 5,000 People Affected by the Earthquake

One week after the earthquake hits Ica, Pisco and Chincha, south of Lima, the reconstruction stage has began, but the families still have needs like everyday food and appropriate shelter. To date World Vision continue delivering food and hygiene kits.

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Aftermath of Hurricane Dean affects El Salvador

The rains originated as a sequel of Dean hurricane caused on August 20 during the night that lasted about 3 hours (160 mm as pluviometer marked), which originated that “La Gallina” stream slid in the northern area in the community, dragging the trees from the shore and also stopped the pass of the stream, producing an overflow and water and mud flooded the houses in the community.

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Hurricane Dean strikes Mexico for the second time

Jalapa, State of Veracruz. After its pass through the Yucatan Peninsula, Hurricane Dean hit today (August 22nd) the State of Veracruz located in the Gulf of Mexico. At 11:50 am, hit the land in the northern part of the State as “category 2”.

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Time to Evaluate Damages After Dean´s Impact

After a very expectant day where the eyes of the Yucatan Peninsula population were following the journey of Dean, NGOs and local government gather together to start the damage evaluation process in the State of Yucat[an, one of the three states that form the Yucatan Peninsula.

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Hurricane Dean Strikes Yucatan Peninsula

Hurricane Dean made landfall in Yucatan early this morning, and is now crossing the peninsula expecting to leave earth by noon today Tuesday to get again into the Gulf of Mexico.

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World Vision Aid Still Arriving For Earthquake In Peru

Electricity and phone lines are getting restored gradually. However water supply will take longer to restore. In the meantime, the major efforts are being concentrated in alleviate this need, as well as food and shelter.

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After Dean, Evaluation Continues

Located at 670kms of Tiburon, at the western end of Haiti\\\'s south peninsula, at 5:00 AM this Monday 20 August, Hurricane Dean was evaluated as no longer a direct threat to the country.

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Mexico Under Alert as Hurricane Dean Approaches

After passing by Hispanola Island, Haiti and Jamaica, Hurricane Dean is approaching to Mexican Coasts, where it is expected to cross between the cities of Mérida (capital of Yucatán State) and Cancún, an international tourism city.

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Haiti under alert as Hurricane Dean moves towards Jamaica

Hurricane Dean has run along the south peninsula of Haiti, from the 18th to the 19th of August, with heavy rain strong winds and swollen seas and has caused moderate damage in terms of devastated plantations, houses that are partially or totally destroyed, especially in the south and south-east departments.

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Devastation in Pisco, Peru

Pisco, the most affected city by the earthquake in Peru continues to experience scenes of devastation.

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World Vision National Offices raise funds for humanitarian assistance in Peru

The World Vision (WV) National Offices in Mexico, Guatemala, United States and Canada has taken as their own the difficult situation faced by people in Peru, after the 8.0 degrees earthquake happened last Wednesday.

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World Vision Provides Relief in Peru

The international humanitarian assistance organization, World Vision (WV), entered the coastal province of Ica yesterday around 4:00 p.m. (local time) in a plane carrying first donations for the Longar community. Ica was the area most affected by the 8.0-magnitude earthquake in Peru last Wednesday.

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Peru Declares Emergency Category I, After the 8.0 Earthquake

Early this morning after having more accurate information about the earthquake, Caleb Meza, National Director of Peru, declared an Emergency Category I, caused by the August 15th earthquake that reached 8.0M in the Richter scale.

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World Vision Arrives in Disaster Area after Eartquake in Peru

First emergency World Vision team arrived in Ica at 4:00 pm (local time) by plane and already delivered the first donations to the community of Longar, one of the most affected areas that haven’t received humanitarian aid yet. This actions were coordinated with the Manager of the Local Government of Ica, Ricardo Otiniano.

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Powerful Earthquake hit Peru

strong earthquake shook most of the country of Peru this afternoon at 6:41. The epicentre was located in the ocean close to the town of Pisco at 160 km south far from the capital city of Lima.

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Drought in El Salvador has Farmers Worried about their Crops

San Salvador, July 20th 2007 - Severe drought caused by an uneven rainy season has farmers in El Salvador worried about damages to their crops, mostly in basic grains, fruits and vegetables.

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Colombian government declares red alert due to flooding

One week of rain has flooded rivers Sinu and San Jorge disrupting the lives of more than 50,000 people in the north province of Cordoba, Colombia.

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National Alert due to Increasing cases of Phenumonia & Dengue in all El Salvador

The Ministry of Public Health and Social Aid, declared on July 11, 2007 afternoon, a NATIONAL PREVENTIVE ALERT, due to increasing cases of pneumonia and dengue.

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First regional fair encourages new entrepreneurs

About 100 enterprising people from rural areas of the western zone of the country gathered last weekend to offer their products and put into practice their commercial skills.

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Indigenous communities trained in emergency affairs

Seventy people in western Guatemala trained in emergency relief response recently, covering topics such as disaster mitigation and prevention, and community diagnosis to identify vulnerable areas.

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World Vision pushes food security onto the national agenda

Citizens from rural communities, justice promoters, non-government organisations and government met recently to analyse a Food and Nutritional Law project at the National Congress awaiting approval.

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Medical supplies to assist 18,000 people in most vulnerable southern communities

Medical supplies and medication to benefit more than 18,000 people were donated to a central health centre in Valle area, southern Honduras

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Educational materials help children continue study

More than 1,300 boys and girls in central Honduras received school supplies recently, helping children to stay in school.

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Southern communities isolated by freak snowstorm

World Vision Chile is assessing the situation of indigenous Pewenche communities in the south of the country, following a freak snowstorm.

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Poverty decreases however women and children still most vulnerable

Poverty and extreme poverty have decreased 5 percent in Chile, however women and children are still the most vulnerable in the community.

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GREEN ALERT is declared due to increase in dengue cases in El Salvador

El Salvador government, through the Ministry of Public Health and Social Aid, declared on June 20, 2007, Preventive Alert (Green Alert), due to the increasing dengue cases in San Salvador, Santa Ana, La Libertad, San Vicente and La Paz provinces.

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G8 leaders accused of missing “historic opportunity”

A leading global charity has accused the G8 leaders of “tragically failing” in its response to the growing global HIV and AIDS crisis and of offering little more than “cold comfort” to the millions of men, women and children living with the virus.

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G8 leaders accused of missing “historic opportunity”

A leading global charity has accused the G8 leaders of “tragically failing” in its response to the growing global HIV and AIDS crisis and of offering little more than “cold comfort” to the millions of men, women and children living with the virus.

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Strong tremor affects Guatemala

City of Antigua, Guatemala. A strong tremor of 5.4 on the Ritcher-s scale was felt in Guatemala today Wednesday June, 13 at 13:29 p.m.

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Food for more than 4,000 hungry families

More than 4,000 families who were the victims of floods in the Department of Choco will receive food gathered by Caracol TV and World Vision Colombia during the next two weeks.

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Earthquake, landslides and a tidal wave in southern Chile

Ten people are dead, houses and salmon-raising industries have been destroyed, and bridges and roads have collapsed, as the result of an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale in the Aysen Fjord in the South of Chile.

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World Vision carries out the Enterprising People First National Forum

More than one hundred people of all the country participated in the Enterprising People First National Forum organized by World Vision and carried out the 29-30 of the current month in a hotel in the capital city.

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Guatemala Is Ready To Fight Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis takes a heavy toll on almost two million people every year, which makes it one of the major infectious causes of decease among young people and adults all around the world.

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School Buildings Are Cleared of People So That Children Can Go Back to School

On March 23, at a symbolic community act at the square of Barrio Mangalito, 44 temporary houses were delivered to the victims of the Tejería San Juan area.

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Sad Record of Women Murdered by Spouses

Since the beginning of 2007, every week a woman has been murdered in Chile either by her husband – legal or common law – or by a boy friend, an increase over last year.

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Work, the Big School Enemy

World Vision Chile made an in depth study of children between 5 and 14 years of age, belonging to the communities “Esperanza y Progreso” and “ Renacer”, a former mining city which is now one of the poorest in the country

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Thieves in the Water: Whatever wasn’t carried away is still in damage

Over the last few months, more than 3,000 families left their homes due to floods in Trinidad. Water destroyed plantations and houses, and carried away food and some belongings.

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Neither the Rain nor the Mud Impede Families To Be Moved to Temporary Homes

In spite of the heavy rain that fell in the Benian capital, the mud formed by the rainfall was not an obstacle for those Villa Monasterio’s families, who were sheltered in the school “6 de agosto,” to be moved to the Shelter area, where World Vision is preparing 600 temporary homes

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Neonatal Tetanus Caused a Newborn’s Death

On March 3rd, in the area of El Pantanal quarter, Dora Torres gave birth in a canoe and was her husband the one who helped her with the childbirth. Due to the adverse conditions in which the child was born and the lack of materials appropriate for the umbilical cord, the baby was infected with tetanus, sickness that provoked the baby’s death just days after.

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World Water Day 2007: ‘Coping with Water Scarcity’

’Coping with Water Scarcity’ is the slogan for World Water Day, which is celebrated on March 22nd. This year, we wish to highlight the growing importance of water shortage on a global scale, and the need for greater cooperation and integration to guarantee sustainable, efficient, and equal management of scarce water resources, both internationally and locally.

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World Vision, in partnership with major media network, distributes aid to affect

In the main square, amid music, great enthusiasm and joy, residents of Guarayos and affected families from the Bolivian Departments of Santa Cruz and Beni received three trailers filled with 75 tons of aid donations from the German government and channeled by World Vision to families hit by the devastation wrought by weather brought on by the El Niño effect.

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Through Childrens Parliament, children have solutions

In the city of Huanta, located one hour from Ayacucho, there are more than twelve communities displaced by terrorist violence, which harshly affected Peru during the 1980s and early 90’s. The group of children and teenagers who live there still have to face the consequences of the terror period.

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Children as change agents for health

Although it is known that one of the most efficient ways to eradicate diseases like diarrhea and parasitic infestation in children is by setting suitable sanitary conditions, only social changes can guarantee a sustained victory.

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Play activities improving child capacities

Boys, girls and teenagers are people with potential still to be discovered. They naturally possess liberty, creative capacity and stamina to reach their dreams.

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Droughts Also Affecting three Departments in Bolivia

Part of the consequences of the “El Niño” phenomenon now affecting Bolivia are the droughts and freezes in most of the provinces in the department of Oruro, Potosí and the north of La Paz, which have already resulted in 9,000 families losing their harvests.

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WV Peru helps families build clean sanitation system

World Vision Peru helps 600 families from Ventanilla improve the health quality in their houses by building bathrooms and improving hygiene practices.

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Emergency Bolivia: People tell their story

Since their community was flooded last week, Catalina is living with her husband and five children in someone else’s shack, since their own dwelling is still flooded.

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Women formalized communal market thanks to WV Peru support

67 women from Ventanilla ADP, northern Lima, Peru, have turned into entrepreneurs since they formalized on February 9 the communal market “Villa Escudero”.

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WVI President observes international women’s day

In observation of International Women\\\'s Day, WVI President Dean Hirsch called for World Vision to \\\"get its house in order\\\" on women in leadership. Hirsch specifically urged the Partnership to affirm gender equity and implement the necessary assessments, policies and programmes to achieve full female participation.

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National Disaster in Bolivia due to El Nino Phenomenon

In view of the National Disaster status declared by the President of the Republic, Evo Morales, World Vision, Regional Office has declared it an Emergency Category II condition.

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World Vision is Helping “El Niño” Victims in Bolivia

Medication and medical items estimated at US$ 2 million were shipped last February 27th to La Trinidad city for distribution in the health care centers located in the Department of Beni in Bolivia.

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El Niño phenomenon gravely affects Bolivia

The community of Puerto Varador, located 1500 kilometers from the capital of Bolivia, has been totally evacuated due to flooding recently afflicting the country.

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WV gives a donation of 550 wheelchairs in the disability policies updating forum

World Vision, in coordination with the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance and the Salvadorian Institute for Disabled Rehabilitation (ISRI), encouraged the event called Updating the Disability Policies. At the same time, World Vision gave in a symbolic way a total of 550 wheelchairs to 13 institutions of the country and to 12 ADP’s located at a national level.

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World Vision delivers aid to flood affected region

World Vision has distributed aid to Junin, one of the departments most heavily affected by rain, floods and landslides caused by the El Nino phenomenon.

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World Vision in march against corruption

On Saturday, 10 February, more than 30,000 Hondurans joined forces in a march to protest the corruption that is slowing the Nation .

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International crafts fair brings security for Mapuche women

Eleven groups of Mapuche women, all of them trained by World Vision’s fair trade program, are participating with great success at the summer international crafts fair in Temuco, in the South of Chile, together with craftsmen from Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru and Uruguay.

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World Vision gives culinary art courses to young people and women

More than 40 young people of the Municipality of Tepetitan in the Department of San Vicente were trained in a “culinary art” workshop with the purpose of developing their enterprising abilities and to offer them an option so that they insert in the labor environment.

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Wholesale produce store increases neighbourhoods food security

More than 7,400 inhabitants from the neighbourhood Villa Cristina in Tegucigalpa will improve their family economy and food security with the opening of the Basic Produces Wholesales Store, organised by the Association Action for Development - ASDI - a development organisation under World Vision Honduras coverage.

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Indigenous Women participating in TV program: they tell their story

\'My sister suffered a lot and for any reason she was hit by her husband. She had six months of pregnancy and her husband hit her so hard that she lost her baby. My parents saw that she was walking as a hunchback due to the pain in the stomach and they decided to take her to the doctor, but the child had died three days before and she underwent curettage\', said Josefina when talking about the situation in which her sister Jimena lived.

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Salvadorian children participate in an international drawing competition

More than 100 boys and girls from two Area Development Programs participated in a children\\\\\\\'s international drawing competition organised by World Vision Taiwan, where they creatively depicted the needs of their communities.

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World Vision gives an HIV and AIDS sensitization workshop

Eighteen Christian leaders recently took part in \"Channels of Hope\" training in San Salvador.

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Summer camp for 800 children

During January – summertime in Chile – 800 children, between 8 and 12 years of age, belonging to 11 different Area Development Programs, have been enjoying a one week long camp located on the shores of Caburga, one of the most beautiful lakes in Chile.

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World Vision launches summer school for rural children

World Vision last week launched the summer school of “Interactive mathematics and communication” in the district of Quiquijana, one of the poorest rural areas of Cusco.

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New plant clinic opens

World Vision and the Technology and Agricultural Institute (INTA) have established a new plant clinic to provide free technical assistance and laboratory services to detect any plague or virus affecting crops.

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Birthday party for 1,900 children

More than 1,900 peasant children from the Pasa – San Fernando Area Development Program (ADP), celebrated their birthdays on 25 January in the Pasa parish, Tungurahua province.

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Reintegration for teenage mothers

In a country where single motherhood remains a social stigma, a pilot project in World Vision’s Lanin Area Development Project is helping young single mothers reintegrate into their families and communities.

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WV supports housing program

Due to the high housing needs in Tulpetlac, Mexico, World Vision is starting a housing program with the technical support of Foundation \\\"Vamos a Dar\\\", (Let’s give away).

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Cultural changes in the perception of Violence

In the Familias de Huamachuco, located on the outskirts of Santiago, the capital of Chile, a recently inaugurated center for Family Counseling , is marking a dramatic change in the lives of women and children of the sector. Psychologists, social workers and legal experts man the new center and work in coordination with the local police, which have been specially trained to handle cases of family violence.

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World Vision on alert following intense rain

Heavy rains over several regions of Peru are causing floods and overflowing rivers, affecting housing, roads and crops.

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Micro-financial entities impact the lives of children and communities

Lucila Polanco Executive Director of the Fund for Microenterprise Investments (FIME), Dominican Republic

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Speaking of Fair Access to Markets

Glayson Ferrari dos Santos Director of the area of solidarity trade and fair access to markets for small producers, World Vision Brazil

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Why World Vision in microfinance?

Interview with Arnoldo Valverde Regional Consultant in Economic Development for the Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office

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Historical Profile of the Microfinance Industry in LAC

Microfinancial entities originated in Latin America and Asia in the early 70’s, almost simultaneously.

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Microfinancial Institutions fight poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin America is one of the regions in the world with greatest inequalities. Experts cite inequality as one of the causes for poverty.

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Global Fund approves anti-TB program

Costa Rica, December 6th, 2006. Guatemala celebrates the approval of nearly 3.7 million dollars to continue its fight again tuberculosis, after the Global Fund granted it to them, in the XIV Global Fund Conference recently held in that country.

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Guatemala commemorates World AIDS Day

World Vision Guatemala participated in the presentation of a Strategy of Information, Education and Communication for the change of behaviour to prevent sexual transmitted infections and AIDS, carried out in the National Palace, to commemorate World AIDS Day, 1 December.

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“Amusga” Indigenous Community celebrates International Day against AIDS

Last November 30th the indigenous population of ADP Montaña Amusga celebrated an event to conmemorate the International Day against AIDS

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World Vision’s fair to prevent HIV/AIDS

“Life is something more than a simple moment of desire. It is more to just arouse and spoil everything (…) Be careful, it is lying in there waiting for us. AIDS, it is its name” this was the chorus of the song that 18-year-old Luis Magyver Sánchez wrote and sang before 300 hundred people at the Fair to Prevent HIV/AIDS and the Promote Healthy Styles of Life which was held on November 24 in Colorado, Abangares at the Guanacaste province.

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World Vision Ecuador takes part in march for HIV/AIDS

This December 1st, World AIDS Day, World Vision Ecuador took part in a multitudinal march in Quito, in support of people living with HIV/AIDS.

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World Vision and COPRESIDA sign agreement of inter-institutional collaboration.

The Presidential Counsel of AIDS (COPRESIDA) and World Vision Dominican Republic signed an agreement for the development of actions in matter of HIV and AIDS, articulating initiatives with Organizations Faith-based (OBF).

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Mothers of Andean communities take part of \\\\\\\"Warm your child\\\\\\\" Campaign

For the second year, Area Development Project (ADP) Cusipata promote the campaign \\\\\\\"Warm your child\\\\\\\" in seven rural communities of the high Andean area in Cusco, southern Peru. The activity focus the health prevention since it contribute to decrease the cases of respiratory diseases in children under five.

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Heavy rain flooding causes severe damages in El Salvador

Heavy rain registered in the coastal zone of El Salvador caused that several rivers of the Departments of Sonsonate and Ahuachapán overflowed, affecting some communities where World Vision El Salvador are working.

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Guatemala will be hosting the XIV Annual Meeting of the Global Fund

From October 31 to November 3th, Guatemala will be hosting the XIV Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

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Ecological housing for families

During August and September of 2006, 94 families from the Area Development Project Crescencio Morales, received training to build their houses thanks using a new technology.

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Violence against children: a silent epidemic

Seventy per cent of Chilean children are subjected to violence, according to a recent UNICEF report.

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Families receive food for work

The World Food Programme (WFP), through World Vision El Salvador, started a second round of food-for-work activities in Tacuba Area Development Programme (ADP) this week.

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Soccer Tournament Empowers Women

In 1998, World Vision hosted its first women\\\'s soccer tournament in northern In 1998, World Vision hosted its first women\\\'s soccer tournament in northern Ecuador. Initially, many people opposed the idea. Soccer was perceived to be a man\\\'s sport.

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Tsunami: The work continues

World Visions on-going work in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia continues to touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of people with around one million lives impacted by the organisations aid and rehabilitation work over the last year.

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