World Vision International

World Vision International is an Evangelical Christian charitable aid, development, and support organization. It was established in 1950 by Robert Pierce as a service group to meet the urgent situation needs of missionaries. Development work was added to World Visions goals in 1975. It is dynamic in more than 90 countries with a total income including grants, product and overseas donations of $2.79 billion (2011).

History

Launched in 1950 as World Vision Inc, the aid organization originally functioned only in the United States but extended to other countries in 1966. World Vision International was established in 1977 by Walter Stanley Mooneyham also the then president of World Vision. at present it has headquarter in Monrovia, California, in the unchanged building as World Vision Inc. Until 1982 Mooneyham served as president of World Vision International when he resigned after criticism within the International Board associated to management style.

During the 1970s, World Vision commenced training families to construct small farms by teaching agricultural expertise aiming to make long-lasting effects in the communities they were helping by promoting self-sufficiency. The association also started installing water pumps for clean water in communities which caused newborn mortality rates to drop. Volunteers now use the fresh water to train communities gardening and irrigation and promote good health. During the 1990s, World Vision International started to focus on the requirements of children who became orphaned in Uganda, Romania, and Somalia in response to AIDS, abandon, and civil war. They started educating other African communities on AIDS after realizing its affect. They also united with the United Nations peacekeeping efforts to offer help to those affected by civil war. World Vision also began to openly endorse the international prohibition on land mines.According to Forbes magazine, dated December 2014, World Vision is the 11th leading charitable organization in the United States with total revenue of above 981 million dollars.

Activities and philosophy

Activities of World Vision include: education, health care, economic development, emergency relief and promotion of justice. The association has counseling status with UNESCO and affiliations with UN agencies like UNICEF, WHO, UNHCR and ILO, and financial records disclose that it has aided evangelical activities all over the world.

Its vision is to first help people and their communities and recognize the resources that lie within them. World Vision claims that communities has transform themselves by carrying out their own progressive  projects in health care, education, agriculture production, micro-enterprise development, water projects, advocacy and other community programs with the help of world vision.

It also concentrates on factors that are responsible for poverty by what it describes as promoting justice. It helps community awareness of the communal ability to tackle unjust practices and begin working for change. It claims to speak out on issues such as child labor, debt relief for poor nations, and the use of children as fighters in armed conflict. World Vision International has sanctioned the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It claims to promote opportunities to help lessen conflict levels and to contribute to the peaceful resolution of hostilities and reconciliation of disputes.

World Vision promotes public awareness about the needs of others, the causes of poverty, and the nature of sympathetic response. These efforts comprise alliance with media and community contribution in fundraising.

In 2015 World Vision took part in operations to bring earthquake relief to Nepal.