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World Vision International is an international non-profit humanitarian aid organization based on Christian values. Its international headquarters are in London, United Kingdom and its current president is Andrew Morley.

History
Robert Pierce (Bob), became a Baptist missionary and went to Korea in 1947. Poverty, human suffering and the situation of orphans commute to Pierce. When she meets a missionary on an island of Amoy, and she presents her to a girl abandoned by her family, Pierce gave her her last five dollars and promised to send her the same amount every month. In this way and with this first symbolic sponsorship, Pierce founded World Vision International in 1950. The first programme of collaboration with another community began three years later in response to the needs of the hundreds of thousands of orphans who left the Korean War. In 1979, she co-founded with the Evangelistic Association Billy Graham, the Evangelical Council for Financial Responsibility.

Organizational structure
In 2022, he worked in 100 countries and had 35,000 employees. It operates with national and independent country offices, fund-raising and field-based offices that receive and use funds in projects. The main offices located in Geneva, Bangkok, Nairobi, Cyprus, Los Angeles, San José de Costa Rica are responsible for coordinating operations common to their international scene. They also contribute to decision-making along with the views of field offices.

Programmes

The main areas of action of the organization focus on at least five areas: Emergency, Education, Health, Economic Development and Human Rights Promotion. World Vision has consultative status with UNESCO and other United Nations organizations such as UNICEF, WHO, UNHCR and ILO. The aim of the programmes is to empower communities.

World Vision works on six continents, having become one of the world's largest humanitarian aid organizations. In 2016, he managed to raise a total of over $2.7 billion (grants, product donations, foreign contributions, among others).

Certifications
World Vision has received good management certifications from independent organizations such as Better Business Bureau and Charity Navigator.

At the international level, World Vision subscribes to the principles and working patterns of Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability, the Sphere Project standards and the International Code of Red Cross and Red Crescent. It also has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and is one of the major food distribution partners of the World Food Programme (WFP).

He is a founding member of the Global Movement for Children, and is also a member and follows the rules of transparency