publication / April 25, 2024
MEER Brussels VIII Policy Brief: spotlight on nutrition, food security and climate change
The Syria crisis recently marked its 13th year, it remains the largest displacement crisis in the world, with over 12 million Syrians forcibly displaced in the region.
publication / April 17, 2024
World Vision and World Food Programme Facts and Figures 2023
For more than 30 years, World Vision and the World Food Programme (WFP) have partnered around a shared vision for a hunger-free world for the world’s most vulnerable children, families and communities. Together, World Vision and WFP provide assistance to disaster-affected people to save lives, improve health and education, and empower vulnerable communities to become self-reliant, now and in future.
The 2023 World Vision and WFP partnership report demonstrates the impact of the two organisations working together resulting from an extensive network of strategic, operational relationships at the national, regional and global levels.
article / April 10, 2024
Ukraine’s elderly struggles for scant medical care and food insecurity amidst ongoing war
It was the seventeenth day of heavy shelling, unceasing terror, severe food shortages, and darkness, when half of Iryna's and Nikolay's house burned to ashes. The ongoing attacks in Popasna, a small city in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, made them leave all their belongings and go west. As they settle in Dnipro, they are navigating the hurdles of displacement and war. World Vision's cash assistance helps them cover only part of their medicine expenses, and food supplies. As pensioners who rely on a meager pension and humanitarian aid, they find it more difficult to deal with the realities of war.
article / April 19, 2024
Ukrainian farmer promotes healthy food and lifestyle through her flourishing green business
Renata is one of 280 Ukrainians who have received assistance in starting or expanding their businesses. She became interested in farming during her maternity leave. The family created a 30-meter foil tent using their own resources and a minor loan from friends. Unfortunately, with the onset of the war, they had a staff shortage, leaving Renata, her husband and their three children without their primary source of income. Recently, they reopened their small business, Dorcas helping them in purchasing a greenhouse to expand their crop production.
article / February 8, 2024
Comfort in a Cup of Coffee
Safi, whose education was interrupted in Afghanistan wants to become a doctor and help women and children, and she was joyous to hear of the opportunity to practice her spoken English and learn a bit of the local language while having coffee with locals. Language classes and community meetings are a part of the World Vision BiH programme providing mental health and psychosocial support to migrants and refugees in BiH, and build empathy and solidary among refugee and local population. These activities are supported through the regional GIZ project “Social participation of people on the move and local population in host regions of the Western Balkans”.
article / February 19, 2024
Hot meals bring a feeling of home, comfort and care for displaced Ukrainians
The Baptist World Alliance, World Vision’s local partner, provides hot meals to Ukrainian displaced people in Novomoskovsk city, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, through one of the seven mobile kitchens. The initiative is currently funded by World Vision USA.
video / March 26, 2024
World Vision and World Food Programme respond to children's needs
The impact of the food and nutrition crisis on communities, particularly children, and presents the achievements of a nutrition project implemented in Burkina Faso.