47 degrees!

That's how high the temperature reached in Nasiriyah, Iraq on the day the team lead this activity.

Get your sunscreen, hat and gardening gloves, we're off to Iraq!

Children should be free to enjoy, childhood!

Playing outdoors and exploring the local park is joy most of us can fondly remember.

Today, in Nasiriyah, Iraq children can not enjoy this experience and that's where your gift is at work.

Our programmes are designed so all children, especially girls are included.

Iraq is struggling with environmental degradation, desertification and deforestation. The effects are directly felt by children especially with the lack of safe, green spaces.

A key focus of World Vision Iraq this year is collaboration, with the goal of revitalising spaces and resources for children to be, children.

This large-scale tree-planting campaign is one of many initiatives that unifies many local organisations, including government.

Whilst lots of organisations can work on good campaigns for children, a key differentiator for the World Vision project is the insistence that children are included and that their voice is heard.

Your gift is ensuring children are included in the decisions and actions that will affect their futures!

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Climate

Climate change - arguably the greatest challenge facing our modern world.

We clearly see the effects of climate in the news & on our social media feeds. Images of natural disasters and unheard of weather phenomenons such as uncontrollable fires, snap freezes, rising sea levels, flooding and drought demonstrate the changes in our natural world and the heart-breaking effects on people's lives.

Climate affects us all, but the most vulnerable are affected in ways we just don't associate with the climate change.

Have you ever thought of climate change resulting in the drastic increase of child marriages or child labour? It can seem disconnected, but we constantly see the effects of climate change and how it severely increases the underlying issues of poverty.

Violence, neglect, exploitation and displacement rob children of their childhood and their future. Climate and issues of poverty are all connected, with food insecurity being one of the greatest threats to children living in the communities we serve.

Empowering people to survive disaster and build sustainable futures is a significant way we're working to fight the effects of climate change in the world's most complex and dangerous places.