23 Facts About World Vision

World Vision International is an evangelical Christian humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization.

World Vision began working with communities, health providers, faith-based organisations and people living with HIV and AIDS to encourage an end to stigmatisation, better understanding of HIV prevention and community care for those living with AIDS, and orphans left behind by the pandemic.

World Vision started to openly promote the international ban on land mines.

President of World Vision International has a seat on all national offices with their own national board.

World Vision's staff comes from a range of Christian denominations.

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Richard Stearns, president of World Vision US, stated that World Vision has a strict policy against proselytizing, which he describes as "using any kind of coercion or inducement to listen to a religious message before helping someone".

World Vision Partnership and all of its national members are committed to the concept of transformational development, which is cast in a biblical framework and in which evangelization is an integral part of development work.

World Vision International has endorsed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

World Vision encourages public awareness about the needs of others, the causes of poverty, and the nature of compassionate response.

World Vision India is a national NGO in partnership with a network of over 100 other entities within World Vision International.

World Vision India is registered as a society under the Tamil Nadu Societies Act with its National Office based in Chennai.

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

World Vision operates on the theory that by changing the lives of children, the child sponsorship program facilitates overall growth and development in the community, as it helps communities to build a better future through empowerment, education, income generation, and self-sufficiency.

Foreign Correspondent replied to World Vision concerning child sponsorship, showing contradictions between the organization's literature that creates the impression that donated money goes directly to the sponsor child and evidence of cases where supposedly sponsored children received little if any benefit.

World Vision immediately launched an investigation into the allegations, sending auditors to [their] field sites.

Ian Buchanan, author of Armies Of God: A Study In Militant Christianity, has claimed that World Vision is effectively an arm of the United States Department of State.

On March 24,2014, the United States branch of World Vision announced that it would no longer ban employees from being in same-sex marriages.

World Vision India condemned the murder and denied any involvement, pointing out its anti-proselytizing policy.

In 1982, after World Vision publicly criticized Israel's actions in Palestinian refugee camps near Sidon and Tyre, it came under attack from conservative evangelicals and the government of Israel.

In February 2012, based on information provided by the Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center, World Vision Australia allegedly provided "financial aid to a Gaza-based terrorist group", the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, which they alleged is a "front for terror group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine".

Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency claims that about $48 million of World Vision resources were funneled to Hamas in just six years and another $80,000 was used for building a Hamas position in Beit Hanon and for paying salaries of Hamas members who fought against Israel in the 2014 war.

World Vision confirmed that its funds are spent in accordance with legal requirements that contribute to peace and that the charity works closely with the UN and Red Cross.

World Vision has denounced these allegations which come amid Israeli campaigns against the non-governmental organizations that worked with Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.