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Reflecting on the Live Life journey

Happy Easter Sunday! Jillian is the voice behind Live Life – from writing the challenges to tweeting for World Vision Youth. During her Live Life journey, Jillian adopted an old tradition to give up...

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Let’s Create a HungerFree World

  Throughout April, we’re focusing on hunger. Today, one in seven people in the world – nearly 1 billion people – will go hungry. And hunger is one of the leading killers of children under the age of...

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What’s on Your Plate?

   Hunger is not just about a lack of food.   Even if people eat enough calories, they can be malnourished if that food does not provide adequate nutrients to allow their bodies to function well....

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Why Malnutrition Matters

Hunger is not just about a lack of food. Even if people eat enough calories, they can be malnourished if that food does not provide adequate nutrients to allow their bodies to function well....

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Fighting Hunger – One Famine at a Time

World Vision’s Famine programs are part of a global movement of youth going without food to fight child hunger.  The programs go by different names – from the 40 Hour Famine in Australia to Zip Your...

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Basic Nutrition

Basic Nutrition: Giving children the best start in the first 1,000 days By Katheryn Reid   You’ve got to respect the tenacity of a babe in arms to hold up his head, focus his eyes, and grasp a...

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Nutrition + Emergencies

Hunger is often an immediate consequence of a regional emergency, whether a natural disaster, war or other social conflicts. In these situations, emergency aid from outside sources is needed in the...

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The Global Reach of 30 Hour Famine

  Youth throughout Canada are fasting from food and other parts of their daily routine for 30 hours during 12- 13 April. You may be thinking, “Are these people crazy?” The answer is “yes” and “no”...

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Food Security + Accessbility

The next section of HungerFree explores how the affordability and accessibility of food affect the world’s hungry. When global demands for particular foods increase, often farmers are affected the...

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New things to come in Fall 2013!

Wow, this year has flown by!  The time has come when you pack up your dorm rooms, you get a summer job, and some of you are graduating (congrats!!). As you take a break from your routine this summer,...

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