Who We Are

 

For us, children come first.

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian relief and development organisation working in around 100 countries across the globe. For us children come first.

We focus on children because they are the best indicator of a community's social health. When children are fed, sheltered, schooled, protected, valued, and loved, a community thrives.

Our vision is that children live life in all its fullness - and our prayer is to change hearts and wills to make it happen.

Established in 1950 to care for orphans in Asia, World Vision has grown to embrace the larger issues of community development and advocacy for the poor in its mission to help children and their families build sustainable futures.

World Vision is one of the largest Christian relief and development organisations in the world.

What we do

The heart of World Vision's work is in helping communities build stronger and healthier relationships. The absence of such relationships impoverishes communities.

Through emergency relief, education, health care, economic development and promotion of justice, World Vision helps communities help themselves.

Today, over 18,000 committed men and women work in over 100 countries serving 2.1 million sponsored children and thousands of other children and women in various difficult situations.

WVI collaborates with various United Nations agencies including UNICEF, the World Food Programme, the World Trade Organisation, the European Union, numerous Government Agencies and coalitions of Non-Governmental Organizations.

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World Vision in Sri Lanka

World Vision Lanka was established in 1977. Starting with small scale revolving loan programmes and moving into scattered community development projects with a short life-span, World Vision now works mainly through Area Development Programmes (ADPs) that have a life-span of about 10 – 15 years and address root causes for people’s real problems in a macro level.

Today, with 354 staff and over 1,500 community volunteers, WVL assists over 57,000 sponsored children in 23 ADPs, covering 24 selected divisional secretariat divisions in 21 districts in the island.

In addition, World Vision Lanka runs two resettlement programmes and three street children projects.

We also have 621 local staff and 56 international staff representing assisting with tsunami relief projects in every tsunami-affected district in the country.