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WVA Opinion pieces reflect our policy and ideas on issues surrounding global poverty.
| 10-Dec-08 |
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Freedom from hunger: the most basic of human rights
Author: Tim Costello (World Vision), Julia Newton-Howes (CARE), Paul O’Callaghan (ACFID), Jack de Groot (Caritas), Andrew Hewett (Oxfam) and Robert Tickner (Red Cross)
Starvation is synonymous with poverty. Food is the most basic of human needs. After all the extras are cut out, and then the necessities – clothes, shelter, education – only food is left. |
| 01-Nov-08 |
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Business for Millennium Development Summit 2008
Author: By Tim Costello, chief executive of World Vision Australia
Amid the carnage of the financial crisis one reality has emerged that Australia’s economic survival relies squarely on the developing economies such as China and India. It is these economies in Asia including Cambodia and Vietnam that will determine how A |
| 22-Sep-08 |
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Australian support of Millenium Development Goals vital to war on poverty
Author: Tim Costello, chief executive of World Vision Australia
Next week political leaders will meet in New York to attempt to get the world’s assault on poverty back on track. No doubt few business leaders in Australia will pay much heed to the UN General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals. They should. Th |
| 04-Jun-08 |
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Fuelling the food crisis
Author: Tim Costello, Chief Executive of World Vision Australia
World Environment Day this year should pierce the minds of more Australians than ever before. As we feel the pinch at the petrol pump our leaders are flinging solutions at us like tax cuts and biofuels. In the meantime, across the globe there is a massive |
| 17-Apr-08 |
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Climate Change and the World Food Crisis
Author: Tim Costello, Chief Executive, World Vision Australia and Don Henry, Executive Director, Australian Conservation Foundation
In Australia the fight against climate change has us switching off lights, recycling and possibly replacing a petrol-guzzler for a small car or even a bike. It is about making small sacrifices now to ensure a better future for our children. |
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| | Twelve year old Aregash Arka lives in Southern Ethiopia where World Vision has implemented the Likimse Abella Water Sanitation project to assist the community maintain a reliable and hygenic water supply. | | | Photographer: Jonathan Krause | |
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