A Dollar and a Cupcake
April 30th is a pretty amazing day at the Women of Vision office. Well, every day is pretty good (we do have the opportunity to work with amazing women and to help transform communities around the world!) but on April 30th,…
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Women who influenced Bob Pierce
In the recent World Vision magazine article “‘Tiger’ to ‘Typhoon’“, Marilee Pierce Dunker, daughter of World Vision’s founder Bob Pierce, reflects on four women who encouraged, challenged and inspired her father. Included in the list is Elizabeth Hunger (Sales) who wrote: “To Bob…
No Wasted Kindness
We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give. –Winston Churchill This week our nation celebrates National Volunteer week, an opportunity to thank those who do extraordinary things through service. As a volunteer…
Your Story is Your Advocacy
“Advocacy is about building relationships to achieve goals. We tend to focus upward towards our elected officials when we think of advocacy. But that focus can obscure the important relationships that are at the heart of our advocacy—people who are…
Bringing change to Kenya: Rising Up to the Harmful Practices of Female Genital Mutilation
A rusty knife Not to get too graphic or inappropriate, but, that is what is used, or sometimes it is a dirty razor. Female Genital Mutilation (though it has come in many forms in many different cultures) has come up…
Voices of Change: Notes from Afghanistan
My colleagues who work in Afghanistan have an up-close perspective on one of the most dangerous places in the world to give birth. In a country where maternal mortality is at an estimated 1800 women per 100,000 live births, Micah and…
Transformed Lives: Strong Women, Strong World stories at the United Nations
As Easter approaches, (way too quickly this year, if you ask me), I’m so grateful for glimpses of things we see God bringing to life. Of course, we all love the signs of spring we see in nature, so long awaited…
March Focus: Ethiopia
We’re continuing our Strong Women, Strong World country series, focusing on one country a month. We’ll share stories and World Vision projects from that country throughout the month. For March, our focus is Ethiopia. World Vision has been working in…
Looking at Maternal Health: Ethiopia
I think all of us have a story of ourselves or a friend of ours who had a scare during pregnancy or childbirth. Whether it was something like preeclampsia, an emergency c-section, or post delivery bleeding, those stories remind us…
Beauty from Ashes: My Life In Your Hands
In honor of International Women’s Day, we are excited to share a Lenten devotional by Annie Kaseketi Mwaba, World Vision’s Project Trainer and Mentor for the Channels of Hope program. Annie is based in Lusaka, Zambia where she advocates for Church Partnership on Gender and Development. Here she shares how God brought great Beauty out of Ashes in her own life.
