View source for World Vision International

{{Short description|Christian humanitarian organization}}
{{For|the unrelated defunct television distribution company of the same name|Worldvision Enterprises}}
{{redirect|World Vision|the song by Blank Banshee|Blank Banshee 0}}
{{Infobox organization
| name                = World Vision International
| logo                = World Vision logo 2017.svg
| logo_size           = 200px
| status              = [[501(c) organization|501(c)(3)]]<ref name= irseos>"[https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/displayAll.do?dispatchMethod=displayAllInfo&Id=12043624&ein=953202116&country=US&deductibility=all&dispatchMethod=searchAll&isDescending=false&city=&ein1=&postDateFrom=&exemptTypeCode=al&submitName=&sortColumn=orgName&totalResults=5&names=World+Vision+International&resultsPerPage=25&indexOfFirstRow=0&postDateTo=&state=All+States World Vision International Inc.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715132336/https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/displayAll.do?dispatchMethod=displayAllInfo&Id=12043624&ein=953202116&country=US&deductibility=all&dispatchMethod=searchAll&isDescending=false&city=&ein1=&postDateFrom=&exemptTypeCode=al&submitName=&sortColumn=orgName&totalResults=5&names=World+Vision+International&resultsPerPage=25&indexOfFirstRow=0&postDateTo=&state=All+States |date=July 15, 2020 }}" ''Tax Exempt Organization Search''. [[Internal Revenue Service]]. Retrieved August 11, 2019.</ref>
| type                = Religious nonprofit organization<ref>see entry "World Vision International" in [http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/ California Secretary of State Business Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315010639/http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/ |date=March 15, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="worldvision.planyourlegacy.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldvision.planyourlegacy.org/advisors/pdf/tax-exempt.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330195457/http://www.worldvision.planyourlegacy.org/advisors/pdf/tax-exempt.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Group exempt letters from IRS to World Vision International and World Vision, Inc. Feb. 13, 2009, (accessed on Aug. 11, 2011)|archivedate=March 30, 2012}}</ref>
| founded_date        = 1950
| formerly            = World Vision Inc.
| tax_id              = 95-3202116<ref name= irseos/>
| founder             = [[Robert Pierce|The Rev. Bob Pierce]]
| leader_name         = [[Andrew Morley (humanitarian)|Andrew Morley]]<ref name= leadership>"[https://www.wvi.org/about-us/our-leadership Our Leadership] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200627190737/https://www.wvi.org/about-us/our-leadership |date=June 27, 2020 }}". ''World Vision International''. Retrieved August 11, 2019.</ref>
| leader_title        = President, Chief Executive Officer
| leader_name2        = Donna Shepherd<ref name= leadership/>
| leader_title2       = Board Chair, Australia
| leader_name3        = Maria Consuelo Campos<ref name= leadership/>
| leader_title3       = Board Chair, Colombia
| leader_name4        = Soriba Joseph Camara<ref name= leadership/>
| leader_title4       = Board Chair, Mali
| location            = {{plainlist|
* [[Monrovia, California|Monrovia]], [[California]], U.S. (administrative center, World Vision International board)
* [[London]], U.K. (executive office and international headquarters)
}}
| area_served         = 100 countries
| focus               = Well-being of all people, especially children.
| method              = Transformational Development through emergency relief, community development and  policy and advocacy
| revenue             = USD $3.14 billion
| employees           = 33,000
| purpose             = Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness; our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so.
| website             = {{URL|http://www.wvi.org}}
}}

'''World Vision International''' is an [[Ecumenism|interdenominational]] [[Christian humanitarian aid]], [[Social change|development]], and [[advocacy]] organization.<ref name=christianitytoday>{{cite web |last1=Swartz |first1=David R. |title=World Vision's Forgotten Founder |url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/april/world-vision-kyung-chik-han-forgotten-founder.html |publisher=[[Christianity Today]] |date=March 16, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Time to review law for foreign funding of NGOs |url=https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/time-review-law-foreign-funding-ngos |publisher=[[The Sunday Guardian]] |date=June 22, 2019}}</ref> It was founded in 1950 by [[Robert Pierce]] as a service organization to provide care for children in [[Korea]]. In 1975, emergency and advocacy work was added to World Vision's objectives.<ref name="Hamilton1980"/> It is active in over 100 countries with a total revenue including grants, product and foreign donations of USD $3.14 billion.

== History ==
The charity was founded in 1950 as World Vision Inc. by [[Robert Pierce]], [[Kyung-Chik Han]] and Frank Phillips.<ref name="Hamilton1980">{{cite thesis |type= Dissertation |last = Hamilton |first = John Robert |title = An Historical Study of Bob Pierce and World Vision's Development of the Evangelical Social Action Film |publisher = University of Southern California |year = 1980}}</ref><ref name=christianitytoday /><ref>Mehmet Odekon, W. George Scarlett, ''Encyclopedia of World Poverty'', SAGE Publications, USA, 2006, p. 1198</ref> It was founded after Pierce was invited to [[Korea]] by Han to speak at [[Youngnak Presbyterian Church|Young Nak Church]], followed by another speech in [[Seoul]]. After the breakout of the [[Korean War]] weeks later, Pierce and Han continued to collaborate on relief efforts in the region.<ref name=christianitytoday /> The first World Vision office opened later that year in [[Portland, Oregon]],<ref>Brian Steensland, Philip Goff, ''The New Evangelical Social Engagement'', Oxford University Press USA, USA, 2014, p. 243</ref><ref name="Hamilton1980"/> with a second office following in 1954 in Korea.<ref>Graeme Irvine: "Best Things in the Worst Times: An Insiders View of World Vision" BookPartners, Inc. (1996) p. 77 {{ISBN|1-885221-37-1}}</ref> During the early years, the charity operated as a missionary service organization meeting emergency needs in crisis areas in [[East Asia]]. World Vision operated as a missionary service organisation meeting emergency needs of children in crisis areas in [[East Asia]] following the Korean War.<ref name=christianitytoday />

In 1967, the Mission Advanced Research and Communication Center (MARC) was founded by Ed Dayton as a division of World Vision. It became the organizational backbone of the [[Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization]], collected and published data about "unreached people" and also published the "Mission Handbook: North American Protestant Ministries Overseas".<ref>S.W. Haas: "MARC to Make Transition, Retain Its Mission" MARC Newsletter 03-4, World Vision Publications, Nov. 2003</ref>

During the 1970s, World Vision began training families in the agricultural skills necessary to build small farms, with the aim of promoting long term improvement and self-reliance in the communities.<ref name="WV History">[http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/about/history World Vision History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110304005004/http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/about/history |date=March 4, 2011 }}. Retrieved April 26, 2011</ref> The organization also began installing water pumps for clean water, which caused [[infant mortality]] rates to drop. Volunteers now use the fresh water to teach gardening and irrigation and promote good health.<ref name="WV History" />

In order to restructure, the organization World Vision International was founded in 1977 by [[Walter Stanley Mooneyham]] the then president of World Vision.<ref>{{cite web |title=World Vision Annual Review 2012 |url=https://www.wvi.org/sites/default/files/WVI%20AR2012_Final_electronic_smallest.pdf |publisher=World Vision International}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.manta.com/c/mmghym3/world-vision-intl|title=World Vision International : Company Content Page|publisher=Manta.com|access-date=September 1, 2013}}</ref><ref>[http://www.wvi.org/wvi/wviweb.nsf/maindocs/39F905AE21E265C1882573750075074B?opendocument] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110227220137/http://www.wvi.org/wvi/wviweb.nsf/maindocs/39F905AE21E265C1882573750075074B?opendocument|date=February 27, 2011}}</ref> In 1979, World Vision also co-founded the [[Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability]] with the [[Billy Graham Evangelistic Association]].<ref>Timothy J. Demy Ph.D., Paul R. Shockley Ph.D., ''Evangelical America: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religious Culture'', ABC-CLIO, USA, 2017, p. 135</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Fund-Raising Oversight Agency Begun by Evanzelical Christians |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/03/archives/fundraising-oversight-agency-begun-by-evangelical-christians-public.html |publisher=[[NY Times]] |date=March 3, 1979}}</ref>

During the 1990s, World Vision International began focusing on the needs of children who had been orphaned in Uganda, Romania, and Somalia in response to [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]], neglect, and civil war, respectively. 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. They also joined the [[United Nations]] peacekeeping efforts to help those affected by civil war. World Vision also started to openly promote the international ban on land mines.<ref name="WV History"/> In 1994 World Vision US moved to Washington State.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-06-30-ga-10097-story.html|title=MONROVIA : World Vision Picks Seattle as Relocation Site|date=June 30, 1994|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> In 2004, the political weekly ''[[Tehelka]]'' newspaper in India criticised World Vision India for its involvement with [[Joshua Project|AD2000]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main.asp?filename=ts013004shashi.asp&id=1|title=VK Shashikumar '"Preparing for the harvest ..."' Tehelka, Vol 1, Issue 1, Feb 07, 2004|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304024001/http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main.asp?filename=ts013004shashi.asp&id=1|archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref>

In 2022, WVI operated in more than 100 countries and had over 33,000 employees.<ref>{{cite web 
|title=Our Structure
|url=https://www.wvi.org/about-us/our-structure 
|website=World Vision
|publisher=World Vision International
|access-date=2023-08-14
}}</ref>

==Organizational structure==
The World Vision Partnership operates as a federation of interdependent national offices governed by a commitment to common standards and values on fundamental issues. World Vision International provides the global oversight and sets global standards, and is the operating entity in some countries. In other countries, World Vision operates through a locally incorporated NGO, with a local board of directors. Most of the workforce in each country are citizens of that given territory.
World Vision International’s board of directors oversees the World Vision partnership. The full board meets twice a year to appoint senior officers, approve strategic plans and budgets, and determine international policy. The current chairperson of the international board is Ivan Satyavrata.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wvi.org/board-directors|title=Board of Directors|date=December 7, 2012|website=wvi.org|access-date=March 19, 2018}}</ref> The international president is [[Andrew Morley (humanitarian)|Andrew Morley]].<ref name="annreport08">{{cite web|title=World Vision International announces new President and CEO|url=https://www.wvi.org/pressrelease/world-vision-international-announces-new-president-and-ceo|access-date=November 13, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=February 19, 2019|title=Andrew J Morley President & CEO, World Vision International|url=https://www.visionfund.org/andrew-j-morley|access-date=February 19, 2019}}</ref> From 2021 onwards, Morley served as Chair of the [[Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response|Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR)]], and is a member of the [[Inter-Agency Standing Committee|Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)]].

===Partners===
World Vision partners include [[government]]s, civil society organisations, faith communities, faith-based organisations, businesses, academia, and others. The organization has thousands of partners located around the world.

Some of those who work with World Vision globally include the [[European Union]],<ref>{{cite web |title=European Union and World Vision launch project for socio-economic support |url=https://www.ft.lk/news/European-Union-and-World-Vision-launch-project-for-socio-economic-support/56-747074 |publisher=Daily FT |date=April 5, 2023}}</ref> Unicef, Global Partnership to End Violence, [[Joining Forces]], [[World Bank]], [[World Health Organization]],<ref name=who>{{cite web |title=Statement by Principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on Afghanistan: Women's participation in aid delivery must continue |url=https://www.who.int/news/item/28-12-2022-statement-by-principals-of-the-inter-agency-standing-committee-on-afghanistan--women-s-participation-in-aid-delivery-must-continue |publisher=[[World Health Organization]]}}</ref> World Food Programme, Inter Agency Standing Committee,<ref name=who /> International Food Policy Research Institute, and Joining Forces<ref>{{cite web |title=Joining Forces partnership calls for urgent actions to be taken to protect children and their families in Ukraine |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/joining-forces-partnership-calls-urgent-actions-be-taken-protect-children-and-their |publisher=ReliefWeb |date=April 2022}}</ref> for Last Mile Nutrition.

==Beliefs==
World Vision's staff comes from a range of [[Christian denomination]]s. Its staff includes followers of [[Protestantism]], [[Catholic Church|Catholicism]] and [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodoxy]]. Around the world its staff includes followers of different religions or none.<ref>Michael Barnett, Janice Gross Stein, ''Sacred Aid: Faith and Humanitarianism'', Oxford University Press, UK, 2012, p. 46</ref> Some staff participate in [[Church service|religious service]]s provided by WVI. They stress that one can be a Christian in any culture. However, World Vision also respects other religions that it encounters, stating that "to promote a secular approach to life would be an insult to them".<ref name="Gender and Development">Tripp, Linda. "Gender and development from a Christian perspective: Experience from World Vision." Gender and Development 7.1 (1999): 62–64. Print.</ref> [[Richard Stearns (World Vision)|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".<ref name="Richard Stearns interview">Stearns, Richard. "World Vision CEO Richard Stearns Charts Course, Spirit For Nonprofit Sector ." Huffington Post March 3, 2011: 1–2. Print.</ref>

The World Vision Partnership and all of its national members are committed to the concept of transformational development, which is cast in a [[bible|biblical framework]] and which is seen as a witness to the love of God for all humanity.<ref>"World Vision Mission Statement." In: Graeme Irvine: "Best Things in the Worst Times: An Insiders View of World Vision", BookPartners, Inc. (1996) {{ISBN|1-885221-37-1}}, Appendix C.</ref>

==Programs==

[[File:Wvi relief.jpg|thumb|WV relief effort in disaster affected areas in Indonesia]]

Activities include: emergency relief, education, health care, economic development, advocacy, water/sanitation, food distribution and promotion of justice.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1525/ae.2001.28.3.595|doi = 10.1525/ae.2001.28.3.595|title = Child Sponsorship, Evangelism, and Belonging in the Work of World Vision Zimbabwe|year = 2001|last1 = Bornstein|first1 = Erica|journal = American Ethnologist|volume = 28|issue = 3|pages = 595–622|url-access = subscription}}</ref> The organization  has consultative status with the [[United Nations Economic and Social Council]] and partnerships with UN agencies like UNICEF, WHO, UNHCR and ILO.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main.asp?filename=ts013004shashi.asp&id=6 |title=The People's Paper |work=Tehelka |access-date=September 1, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205041504/http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main.asp?filename=ts013004shashi.asp&id=6 |archive-date=February 5, 2013 }}</ref>

It also addresses factors that perpetuate poverty by what it describes as promoting justice. It supports community awareness of the collective ability to address unjust practices and begin working for change. It claims to speak out on issues such as [[child labor]], [[debt relief]] for poor nations,<ref>[https://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/feature-stories/g20-leaders-urged-protect-poor-20090402 – Amnesty International News – Apr 2, 2009] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226180145/http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/feature-stories/g20-leaders-urged-protect-poor-20090402 |date=December 26, 2013 }}, G20 leaders urged to protect the poor, April 2, 2009</ref> and the use of children as combatants in armed conflict. World Vision International has endorsed the [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]] and the United Nations [[Convention on the Rights of the Child]]. It claims to foster opportunities to help reduce conflict levels and to contribute to the peaceful resolution of hostilities and reconciliation of disputes.<ref>[https://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/feature-stories/uganda-former-child-soldiers-excluded-adulthood-20051014 Amnesty International News – Oct 14, 2005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140825090337/http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/feature-stories/uganda-former-child-soldiers-excluded-adulthood-20051014 |date=August 25, 2014 }} – Uganda: Former child soldiers excluded in adulthood, October 14, 2005, independent journalist Euan Denholm</ref>

World Vision encourages public awareness about the needs of others, the causes of poverty, and the nature of compassionate response.<ref>[http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/globalissues-action?Open&lpos=ctr_txt_AdvocacyActionCenter Advocacy action center] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726164521/http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/globalissues-action?Open&lpos=ctr_txt_AdvocacyActionCenter |date=July 26, 2011 }}, World Vision. Retrieved July 21, 2009</ref> These efforts include collaboration with media and community participation in fundraising.<ref>[https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/org10/012/2008/en/ – Amnesty International Press Center] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181122060346/https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/org10/012/2008/en/ |date=November 22, 2018 }}, Document of Public Statement Issued by CEOs of INGOs on the impact of the global economic downturn – '''October 2008''', Authors: Irene Khan, Secretary General, [[Amnesty International]], Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director, [[Oxfam International]], Dr. Dean Hirsch, Chief Executive Officer, World Vision International, Tom Miller, Chief Executive Officer, [[PLAN International]], Gerd Leipold, International Executive Director, [[Greenpeace]], Dr Robert Glasser, Secretary General, [[CARE International]]</ref> In areas of the world that are considered too dangerous for news organizations to send their crews, World Vision's own videographers supply newscasters with footage of events from these areas.<ref>{{Citation
  | last = Shortal
  | first = Helen
  | title = Showing the Way
  | newspaper = AV Video Multimedia Producer
  | pages = 67–69
  | date = April 1, 2001}}</ref> In its communications, the organization claims to uphold the dignity of children and families in presenting explanations of the causes and consequences of poverty, neglect, abuse and war.<ref>[http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/world-vision-somalia?Open&lpos=lft_txt_Somalia World Vision News] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110508093816/http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/world-vision-somalia?Open&lpos=lft_txt_Somalia |date=May 8, 2011 }} – World Vision Houses 70,000 in Somalia In War Torn Area</ref>

World Vision operates in Rwanda since 1994, following the [[Rwandan genocide|1994 Genocide against the Tutsi]]. In 2023, through 24 programs it helps 1.9 Million people all over the country.<ref>{{cite web |last=Reporter |first=Times |date=2015-04-09 |title=World Vision; partnering to build a better world for children |url=https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/117758/Advertorial/world-vision-partnering-to-build-a-better-world-for-children |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=The New Times |language=en}}</ref> Between 2010 and 2017, World Vision Rwanda was averaging nearly US$35 million budget annually, said [[George Gitau]], former country director. '''<ref>{{cite web |title=Rwanda: Minister Commends World Vision's Education Initiatives |url=https://www.wvi.org/rwanda/article/rwanda-minister-commends-world-visions-education-initiatives |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=www.wvi.org |language=en}}</ref>'''

In 2015, World Vision took part in operations to bring earthquake relief to Nepal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenational.ae/uae/sheikh-mohammed-bin-rashid-orders-aid-flight-to-nepal|title=Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid orders aid flight to Nepal - The National|date=April 28, 2015 }}</ref> It was also involved in running a [[child sponsorship]] program bringing aid  to needy children in the wake of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/article/20150128/NEWS/150126250|title=$67K offering will go to fight Ebola outbreak|first=Jonathan Phelps Daily News|last=Staff}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Eekhoff Zylstra |first1=Sarah |title=What Current, Past, and 'Never' Child Sponsors Think |url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2017/december/child-sponsorship-donors-survey-compassion-world-vision.html |publisher=[[Christianity Today]] |date=December 19, 2017}}</ref>

==Criticism==
After his resignation from the post of president, its founder [[Robert Pierce]] criticized the organization for its professionalization at the expense of its evangelical faith and founded [[Samaritan's Purse]] in 1970.<ref>David P. King, ''God's Internationalists: World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism'', University of Pennsylvania Press, USA, 2019, p. 159-160</ref>

===Accusations of misrepresentation===

Some donors to World Vision's [[child sponsorship|Sponsor a Child]]-type fundraising have reported feeling misled by the group's use of such funding for community rather than individual-specific projects.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/world/middleeast/worldvision-palestinians-sponsor-a-child.html|title=A World Vision Donor Sponsored a Boy. The Outcome Was a Mystery to Both.|date=August 3, 2016|author=Diaa Hadid|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 2, 2016}}</ref> In a 2008 report on [[Food security in Ethiopia|famine in Ethiopia]], reporter Andrew Geoghegan, from Australian TV programme [[Foreign Correspondent (TV series)|''Foreign Correspondent'']], visited his 14-year-old sponsor child. The girl has "been part of a World Vision program all her life" yet says (in translated subtitle) "Until recently, I didn't know I had a sponsor." And when asked about her knowledge of World Vision sponsorship says, "Last time they gave me this jacket and a pen." Geoghegan was disconcerted to find that despite being "told by World Vision that [the girl] was learning English at school, and was improving&nbsp;... she speaks no English at all".<ref name=abc.net.au-foreign-2008-s2423906>[http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/people/geoghegan_andrew.htm Geoghegan, Andrew] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221092246/http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/people/geoghegan_andrew.htm |date=February 21, 2009 }} "[http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2008/s2423906.htm Ethiopia – The Endless Famine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907130651/http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2008/s2423906.htm |date=September 7, 2011 }}", ''[[Foreign Correspondent (TV series)|Foreign Correspondent]]'', November 25, 2008, series 18, episode 22, 2008 [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]].</ref>

In response, World Vision stated that "it unapologetically takes a community-based approach to development", in which the money is not directly provided to the family of the sponsored child.<ref name=ABCWVresponse/> The organization argued that the "direct benefit" approach would result in jealousy among other community members without children and would not work.<ref name=ABCWVresponse>Costello, Tim (2008). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20081208114321/http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/World_Vision_Response.htm World Vision response to Foreign Correspondent story from Ethiopia broadcast on 25 November 2008]". ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''. Archived from [http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/World_Vision_Response.htm the original] on December 8, 2008.</ref> ''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.<ref>ABC Material's Foreign Correspondent, [http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/World_Vision_FCPResponse.htm Foreign Correspondent story from Ethiopia broadcast] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002093538/http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/World_Vision_FCPResponse.htm |date=October 2, 2009 }}, broadcast on November 25, 2010, Australian Broadcasting Corporation.</ref>

===Israel and Palestine===
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 spite of this pressure, World Vision president Mooneyham presented to the eight hundred thousand readers of ''World Vision Magazine'' a report "showing 255 bodies and ankle-deep body fluids left in a school basement by an Israeli bomb."<ref>David Stoll, Is Latin America Turning Protestant? The Politics of Evangelical Growth, University of California Press, Oxford 1990, p. 285. {{ISBN|0-520-07645-1}}.</ref> In the September 1982 issue of ''World Vision Magazine'' President Stanley Mooneyham was quoted describing Israeli actions with the behavior of Hitler's army, "reminiscent of [[Warsaw Ghetto|Warsaw]]".<ref name="MoonAgainstIsrael">{{cite news|last1=Moon|first1=Luke|title=World Vision's Decades-Long Hate Campaign Against Israel|url=http://www.thetower.org/article/world-visions-decades-long-hate-campaign-against-israel/|access-date=December 8, 2016|work=[[The Tower Magazine]]|date=December 2016}}</ref> In the same month Mooneyham was forced to resign when, according to former World Vision employee Ken Waters, his leadership style was criticized; he was replaced as President by [[Ted Engstrom]].<ref>Ken Waters: "How World Vision Rose From Obscurity To Prominence: Television Fundraising 1972-1982" American Journalism, 15, Nr. 4, 69-93 (1998)</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=March 20, 1982 |title=World Vision Leader for 13 Years to Resign |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/153088751/ |work=Los Angeles Times |location=Los Angeles, CA |access-date=December 16, 2024}}</ref>

On June 15, 2016, [[Mohammad El Halabi]], manager of World Vision in [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]], was arrested at the [[Erez Crossing|Erez border crossing]] and charged by Israeli prosecutors with channeling funds to [[Hamas]].<ref name=KershnerArrested>{{cite news|last1=Kershner|first1=Isabel|title=Israel Charges Palestinian Employee of Aid Group With Funneling Funds to Hamas|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/world/middleeast/world-vision-hamas.html|access-date=August 4, 2016|work=The New York Times|date=August 4, 2016}}</ref><ref name="MillionsDiverted">{{cite news|title=Israel: World Vision Gaza boss diverted cash to Hamas|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36974350|access-date=August 4, 2016|publisher=BBC|date=August 4, 2016}}</ref><ref name=Hz08>{{cite news|title=Top Official in Christian Aid Group Charged With Funnelling Funds to Hamas | url= http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.735243 | access-date=August 9, 2016}}</ref> Halabi's lawyer said his client had nothing to do with Hamas and that the fact that the investigation had lasted 55 days proved that there was a problem with evidence.<ref name=Hz08 /> The charity stood by Halabi, stating that he was a humanitarian.<ref name=beau>{{cite news|title=Israel accuses World Vision's Gaza director of diverting cash to Hamas | url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/04/israel-world-visions-gaza-director-diverting-cash-hamas-mohammed-el-halabi | access-date=August 9, 2016}}</ref>

== Notable affiliated persons ==
* [[Hugh Jackman]]<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.christiantoday.com.au/article/an.interview.with.hugh.jackman.world.vision.ambassador/9111.htm
|title=An interview with Hugh Jackman, World Vision ambassador
|website=[[Christianity Today]]
|access-date=2023-10-01
}}</ref>
* [[Kris Allen]]<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://sacramentopress.com/2013/02/17/kris-allen-comes-to-sacramento
|title=Kris Allen comes to Sacramento
|first=Edgar Alejandro
|last=Hilbert
|date=2013-02-17
|website=Sacramento Press
|access-date=2023-10-01
}}</ref>
* [[Paul Brandt]]<ref>{{cite web 
|date=2008-09-13 
|title=Paul Brandt: Guided by family and faith 
|url=http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=98176f4f-86a5-4a2e-be94-2d5593baa3c1 
|url-status=dead 
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324104006/http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=98176f4f-86a5-4a2e-be94-2d5593baa3c1 
|archive-date=2016-03-24 
|via=Canada.com
}}</ref>
* [[Richard Stearns (World Vision)|Richard Stearns]]
* [[Liam Cunningham]]<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.worldvision.ie/liamcunningham
|title=Liam Cunningham {{!}} World Vision Ireland
|website=www.worldvision.ie
|access-date=2019-04-16
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=April 16, 2019
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416182020/https://www.worldvision.ie/liamcunningham
}}</ref>
* [[Richard C. Halverson|Richard Christian Halverson]] (former chairman and former trustee)<ref name=washposthalverson>{{cite news
|first=Bart
|last=Barnes
|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/12/01/rc-halverson-dies/0c889e21-3486-4372-8be0-a16eb4a036ff
|date=1995-12-01
|title=R.C. Halverson dies
|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]
|access-date=2023-10-01
}}</ref>
* [[Paul Osteen]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Osteen |first=Dr Paul |date=2019-02-08 |title=Beautiful feet: A story of medical missions |url=https://www.worldvision.org/blog/beautiful-feet-story-medical-missions |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=World Vision |language=en-US}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Christianity}}
* [[Hope International (Christian microfinance)|Hope International]]
* [[International Christian Fellowship]]
* [[The Fellowship (Christian organization)|Fellowship Foundation]]
* [[World Health Organization]]
* [[Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response]]
* [[Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization]]
* [[Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

<!-- Wikipedia is not a paper
==Further reading==
* [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/003/18.50.html ''The Colossus of Care: World Vision has become an international force—and a partner with the poor''], Tim Stafford, ''Christianity Today'', March 2005
* [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/003/19.56.html ''Imperfect Instrument: World Vision's founder led a tragic and inspiring life''], Tim Stafford, ''Christianity Today'', March 2005
* [http://www.pointhope.org/our_story.php ''Our Story – Point Hope, Inc.''] [[Delilah Rene]] recounts working with World Vision, 2005
* Greene, Elizabeth, "Connecting with Generation Y," Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 24, 2003.
* Holt, Shirleen, "Partners Find Real Ambitions Are to Do Good," Seattle Times, August 16, 2005.
* Johnson, Larry, "[http://www.allbusiness.com/specialty-businesses/non-profit-businesses/379356-1.html World Vision's New Weapon]," Fund Raising Management, June 1993, p.&nbsp;22. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121102233917/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-14154452.html Highbeam source]
* Le Pla, Ruth, "[http://www.governance.tpk.govt.nz/docs/dir0611-matteroffaith.pdf A Matter of Faith: Passion in the Boardroom]," New Zealand Management, November 2006, p. S18.
* Whaites, Alan, Pursuing Partnership: World Vision and the Ideology of Development,' Development in Practice, 1999, Volume 9, Number 4 [http://www.developmentinpractice.org/journals/pursuing-partnership-world-vision-and-ideology-development-case-study]
* [http://dcommon.bu.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/2144/1337/vanderpol_gary_thd_2010.pdf Gary F. VanderPol: The Least of These: American Evangelical Parachurch Missions to the Poor, 1947–2005 Boston University School of Theology, 2010, (Dissertation)]
* J.R.Hamilton: "An Historical Study of Bob Pierce and World Vision's Development of the Evangelical Social Action Film" Dissertation, University of Southern California, 1980
* Transformational empowerment of children in India [http://www.worldvision.in/annual_review_2010/]
* [[David Stoll]], Is Latin America Turning Protestant? The Politics of Evangelical Growth, University of California Press, Oxford 1990, {{ISBN|0-520-07645-1}}.

See also:
* Katharina Hofer: ''Afrika im hektischen Missionsfieber''. In: Deutscher Bundestag (ed.), ''Das Parlament'' Nr. 10 vom 1. März 2004 ([https://web.archive.org/web/20050224041640/http://www.das-parlament.de/2004/10/Thema/009.html Online-Text]).
* Mark R. Amstutz / Andrew S. Natsios: ''Faith-Based NGOs and U.S. Foreign Policy'', in: Elliott Abrams (ed.): The influence of faith. Religious groups and U.S. foreign policy, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland 2001, p. 175-189 (Amstutz) / p. 189-200 (Natsios);
* Steve Brouwer, Paul Gifford, Susan D. Rose: ''Exporting the American gospel''. Global Christian fundamentalism, Routledge, New York 1996, S. 184 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=buO3vdjzGl4C&pg=184 online]);
* James K. Wellman, Jr.: Art. ''Evangelicalism'', in: Thomas Riggs (ed.): ''Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices'', vol. 1: Religions and Denominations, Thomson Gale, Farmington Hills, Michigan 2006, p. 183-188, hier p. 187f.
* Evangelical Manifesto Steering CommitteeEIN EVANGELIKALES MANIFEST]. Eine Erklärung zur evangelikalen Identität und zum öffentlichen Engagement, Washington, D.C., 7. Mai 2008, Übersetzung des Instituts für Ethik & Werte, Gießen. [http://www.ethikinstitut.de/fileadmin/ethikinstitut/redaktionell/Verlautbarungen/6-EIN_EVANGELIKALES_MANIFEST.pdf PDF]
* Derek Michaud / YunJung Moon / Mark Mann: ''[http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/bce/henry.htm Art. Carl F. H. Henry (1913-2003)]'', in: Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology, mit Bezug auf Edith L. Blumhofer / Joel A. Carpanter: Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism. A Guide to the Sources, Garland Publishing, New York - London 1990, p. xi.
* Charles van Engen: ''Opportunities and Limitatons'', in: Gary Corwin, Kenneth B. Mulholland (eds.): Working together with God to shape the new millennium, Evangelical Missions Society, Pasadena, California 2000, p. 82-122, hier S. 98.
* Interhemispheric Resource Center: Report ''World Vision'', 1991, hier zitiert nach Stephen A. Kent: ''The French & German vs. American Debate over 'New Religions', Scientology, and Human Rights'', in: Marburg Journal of Religion 6/1 (2001), [http://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/mjr/kent2.html Online-Text].
* William A. Dyrness: ''Evangelical theology and culture'', in: Timothy Larsen, Daniel J. Treier (eds.): ''The Cambridge Companion to Evangelical Theology'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007, p. 145-160, esp. p. 151.
* Kai M. Funkschmidt: Art. ''World Vision / World Vision International'', in: Hans Dieter Betz et al. (eds.): [[Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart]], 4. A., Bd. 8, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2005, p. 1694f.
* Julie Hearn: ''The 'Invisible' NGO. US Evangelical Missions in Kenya'', in: Journal of Religion in Africa 32/1 (2002), p. 32-60, p. 34.53.
* D. Michael Lindsay: ''Faith in the halls of power. How evangelicals joined the American elite'', Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, {{ISBN|0195326660}}, p. 259.
* [[David Stoll]]: ''Is Latin America Turning Protestant? The Politics of Evangelical Growth'', University of California Press, Oxford 1990, {{ISBN|0520076451}}, p. 289 (vgl. z.B. S. 155 u.ö.).
* Hans-Jürgen Prien: ''[http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/dcfichero_articulo?codigo=244455&orden=64242 Der Protestantismus in Lateinamerika im (18.-20. Jh.)'', in: Anuario de historia de la Iglesia 9 (2000)], S. 171-195, hier p. 188. -->

==External links==
{{commons category}}
* {{official website}}
* {{ProPublicaNonprofitExplorer|953202116}}

{{World Vision International}}
{{Humanitarian Aid}}
{{Humanitarian partners of the European Commission}}
{{Authority control}}

{{WikidataCoord}}

[[Category:Christian organizations established in 1950]]
[[Category:Christian charities based in the United States]]
[[Category:International climate change organizations]]
[[Category:Development charities based in the United States]]
[[Category:Children's charities based in the United States]]
[[Category:Emergency organizations]]
[[Category:International medical and health organizations]]
[[Category:Educational organizations based in the United States]]
[[Category:Christian educational organizations]]
[[Category:1950 establishments in California]]
[[Category:Charities based in California]]
[[Category:Evangelical Christian humanitarian organizations]]
[[Category:Organizations based in Los Angeles County, California]]
[[Category:Monrovia, California]]