FAQs

Every community that World Vision works with is aiming for self-sufficiency and a better future for their children. Community members and World Vision work together from the start of each project to not only build vital schools and health care centres, but also local skills and knowledge. This means one day they can lead their own development, without World Vision’s help. For some communities, that day has come – we’ve reached that goal!

During the final years of a community development programme, World Vision works to build the capacity of Community Based Organisations who take leadership of each project. If you ask community members who is in charge, they always say themselves!

By leaving these communities, we’re confident children have what they need to grow up healthy, strong and educated, without our help.

The issues facing the countries hit by the hunger crisis are extremely complex. Conflict, climate change, and various other factors compound to create an unstable environment and as a result countries like those currently affected are more susceptible to famine. Unfortunately the issues these countries face are long-term and there is no easy fix. 

World Vision works with communities over the long term to increase their resilience to external shocks, including drought. We have strong expertise in both responding to emergencies and helping communities become more resilient in the long-term. There are remarkable stories of long-term change and resilience in communities where World Vision works. For example in Kenya, a former World Vision community provided food aid to neighbouring communities after learning improved agricultural techniques. 

In South Sudan, World Vision is working to close the gap between emergency food assistance and long term development programming to provide greater resilience in the country. 

As an NGO, World Vision is independent, impartial, and politically neutral. We have a mandate to respond to humanitarian needs wherever they exist and on the basis of need alone.

In natural or conflict related crises the people who always suffer worst are the most vulnerable; mothers, children and the poorest of the poor. In the case of South Sudan these are not the people responsible for the crisis. Those worst affected did not cause the conflict and they have little ability to influence the course of it.
 
We cannot blame them for something they cannot control, any more than those affected by natural disasters, so instead we can support those affected by famine caused by factors outside their control.

From 1 April 2012, we no longer send tax receipts for each donation. For all donations to World Vision New Zealand, you will receive an annual tax certificate each April, showing the total of your tax-deductible donations in the previous financial year.