Making a Difference in the US
   
  
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For 50 years, World Vision has been saving children from disease, poverty, injustice, and hunger the world over. Feeding the spirit as well as the body, we bring the same compassion to families and communities here in the United States. Through a coast-to-coast network of local partnerships with churches and other faith-based groups, World Vision is helping inner cities and rural neighborhoods pull themselves out of crisis. Our overall mission is to to move struggling children and families from poverty to health and wholeness.
Nationwide last year, more than 85,000 volunteers spent over 617,000 hours in service to benefit at-risk children and their families. At least 7,100 churches and local faith-based organizations partnered with World Vision, helping to meet the needs of more than 730,000 children and adults.
The main areas in which we focus our work --
At-Risk Children and Youth
Addressing academic, social, and spirituals needs of children from early infancy through adolescence to help them survive and thrive in difficult circumstances.
Families in Crisis
Motivating, networking, and training churches and faith-based groups to reach out to children and families in their communities:
Rebuilding Communities
Developing decent, affordable housing and expanding small businesses in economically depressed communities.
World Vision partners with faith-based networks across the country to help urban and rural communities pull themselves out of crisis. These partnerships are called Vision Communities and include Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Seattle-Tacoma, Washington, D.C. and New York.
Each Vision City generates hope and change by its ability to bring together the best of what is already there. Neighbors, leaders, congregations and community organizations are able to pool resources (often for the first time) to offer a full range of solutions to those in immediate need - plus unite on common issues that benefit inner-city families for the long term. Add World Vision’s 50 years’ experience helping improverished communities the world over, and you have a dynamic combination that is transforming lives on a person-to-person, heart-to-heart basis.
Whether it’s meeting emergency needs, looking out for children at risk, helping families in crisis make long-lasting changes, or rebuilding the economic foundations of urban neighborhoods, Vision City partnerships are a commitment to people - those with the greatest potential; those who are most vulnerable.
A Vision City offers a number of organizational "tools" to local communities: technical assistance and training; truckloads of donated products; volunteers from churches and businesses citywide; proven models, practices, and program materials from other successful communities; and connections to like ministries (down the street or across the country). All these assets are available to local groups to enhance and expand their good work or helping those in need help themselves - the struggling young single mother, the family moving off welfare, the homeless father recovering from addiction. With the right support, these people and their communities will make it.
To learn more about specific programs for children and youth at risk, seeKidREACH, and Vision Youth.
For World Vision's work in rural America, find out about our ministry in Vision Appalachia and Vision Albany.
There are thousands of stories, thousands of needs, and thousands of answered prayers out there. World Vision Domestic Programs extends our deep appreciation to the individuals, churches, and organizations who are providing hope for families throughout the United States.
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