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__**WORLD VISION**__

__**BY JAMES WALKER**__ __**HISTORY**__

From the start world visions activities have been focused on giving people-especially children-opportunities to ease there suffering an d to improve theirs lives. in 1947 american missionary Dr Robert Pierce travelled to China and Korea and found people who regularly had to go without food, clothing, shelter or medicine. he also helped to set up orphanages to care for children.

When the returned to the US he began to raise money to continue to expand his work in Asia. in september 1950, world vision was founded and Pierce was president.

World Vision was established in Australia in 1966.

__** MISSION **__

The purpose of world vision is to be a christian organisation that engages people to

eliminate poverty and

everything that causes it.


 * __WHAT THEY DO__**

World vision goes out to many different countries to help the people who don't have the resources to help themselves. This includes long term development programs, emergency relief projects, advocacy and education. the aim of there many differently projects is to make communities self-reliant.


 * __CASE STUDY__**


 * __Ethiopia__**

About 85% of people living in Ethiopia live in poverty. The people there are suffering from food shortages because of population density, variable rainfall and environmental degradation, and it is over-reliant on its one crop, corn. soil erosion is also a really big problem because heavy rain causes flooding and mudslides that can kill people, animals and crops, this ruins the land. in response, world vision has developed a migration project that involves the regeneration of nearly 3,000 hectares of degraded forests with indigenous, bio-diverse species. this acts as a carbon sink absorbing and storing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

__**CONTACT INFO.**__ You can contact world vision by ringing them on 133240 or go to there website at [|world vision website]