World Vision Australia
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| Founded | 1966 |
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| Founder | World Vision (USA) |
| Type | Non-Government Organisation |
| Focus | Well being of all people, especially children. |
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Area served
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97 countries |
| Method | Transformational Development through emergency relief, community development and policy and advocacy |
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Key people
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Claire Rogers (CEO) |
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Revenue
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A$350 million (2008) |
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Employees
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600 (2009) |
| Slogan | Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness; Our prayer for every heart, the will to make it so. |
| Website | www.worldvision.com.au |
World Vision Australia is an ecumenical Christiannon-governmental organisation based in Melbourne, Australia. It is a part of the World Vision Partnership led by World Vision International.
World Vision Australia was founded in 1966 after a proposal to start a new office in Australia by Bernard Barron, the head of World Vision Canada, and after startup funds were provided by the headquarters of World Vision in the United States. Greame Irvine, an evangelical Christian, was at the head of the Australian branch of World Vision. The first project of World Vision Australia was related to Vietnam.
The head of World Vision Australia, Greame Irvine, was 1978 also among the signers of the Declaration of Internationalization, which declared a set of objectives for World Vision and also defined a Statement of Faith that corresponds to the Statement of Faith put forward by the American National Association of Evangelicals as standard for their evangelical convictions as the theological frame in which World Vision International and its national offices like World Vision Australia have to operate. Greame Irvine became 1988 the first non-American president of World Vision International.
World Vision Australia, like the whole World Vision organization, began in the 1970s with development work instead of mainly emergency relief as before. Like all other members of the World Vision Partnership it is committed to the concept of transformational development, which is cast in a biblical framework and in which evangelization is an inseparable integral part of development work. Greame Irvine gives as an example for transformational development the change in an indonesian village where after development work malnutrition had disappeared and everyone had become a believer in Jesus Christ, including the former witch doctor, who presented a bowl with ashes in it where he had burned his idols and fetishes.
The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) provides government funding for World Vision Australia. In the 2003/2004 year World Vision received $16 million from AusAID, including $1.7 million classified for use in emergency relief. World Vision Australia is approved for tax deductibility.
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