FAQs

World Vision is on the ground, helping those most affected by the crisis. Your donations to the East Africa Hunger Crisis will enable us to support the health, nutrition, child protection, livelihoods, shelter, education and water and sanitation needs of the most vulnerable children and families across all countries affected by the crisis – South Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda.  

World Vision is committed to ensuring the highest proportion of the money you donate gets to those in need. Last year 80.4 percent of the money received by World Vision New Zealand funded our development work overseas.

World Vision is happy to provide logos for individuals and groups in a variety of formats. The approval of use will be decided on via a case-by-case basis. World Vision retains implicit rights to distribute its logos to other users where appropriate.

Formats include but are not limited to: Review articles, books, websites, brochures, exhibits, videos, CD-ROMs, textbooks, these and other media. In the past, permission has been granted for both educational and for-profit usage.

To obtain permission to use the World Vision logo(s) please email your request: email@worldvision.org.nz

World Vision is a Christian organisation focused on helping the most vulnerable children, in the most difficult places, to overcome poverty and injustice. Because our mission is to help the world's most vulnerable children, we do not make a distinction between faiths. We help based on need, not faith or geography.

We pursue our mission through an integrated, holistic commitment to:

•    Transformational development that is community-based and sustainable, focused especially on the needs of       children
•    Emergency relief that assists people afflicted by conflict or disaster
•    Promotion of justice that seeks to change unjust structures
•    Public awareness that leads to informed understanding, giving, involvement and prayer
•    Witness to Jesus Christ by life, deed, word and sign that encourages people to respond to the Gospel

World Vision believes that all people of faith should be able to worship in peace and security, and calls on all governments to protect their faith communities. We call on people of all faiths to rise above indifference, prejudice and hate. And we pray that, in solidarity, people will come to the aid of all innocent victims of abuse, war, hunger, disaster, terrorism, and disease.

World Vision affirms and defends the right of all Christian and faith-based organisations, including our own staff and World Vision itself, to witness through their lives, words and deeds.

Witness is not, however, the same thing as proselytism. World Vision defines proselytism as the use of aid as an inducement or source of coercion for religious conversion. World Vision believes that nobody should be coerced or manipulated into converting to Christianity – accepting Christ must be a free decision based on consideration and judgment. World Vision condemns proselytism and does not tolerate its practice by staff.

Christian witness is an essential and integral part of the mission of World Vision. Christian witness should never involve the use of pressure or inducement but equally it is unethical and inappropriate to hide that Christian teaching is the underlying motive for all of World Vision's work.