In a bold move to tackle one of Ghana’s most overlooked public health challenges, World Vision and Unilever Ghana PLC’s Pepsodent brand have joined forces to launch a nationwide oral health campaign that will benefit over 25,000 children in underserved communities across the country. The one-year partnership, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), aims to deliver practical oral hygiene education and services that improve health outcomes, reduce infections, and instill lifelong habits of good dental care.

This article highlights how the Rotary Healthy Communities Challenge (RHCC), implemented by World Vision in partnership with PATH and Rotary, is strengthening community health in Kasaï Province, DRC. By training and equipping community health relays with skills, handwashing kits, and bicycles, the project aims to reduce child mortality caused by malaria, acute respiratory infections, and diarrhoeal diseases. Through improved access to primary health care and a reinforced network of community health sites, the initiative seeks to protect more than 221,000 children under five in some of the most vulnerable and hard-to-reach areas.

World Vision partners with the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty to advance child-centred policies, scale proven solutions, and accelerate progress toward ending hunger and poverty.

Jane, a 19-year-old refugee from South Sudan living in Uganda, has reclaimed her independence and hope through the gift of a sturdy wheelchair. After losing the use of her legs as a child due to tuberculosis of the bone, she spent years crawling through her settlement, isolated and without prospects. Her life transformed when she received a new, purpose-built wheelchair through a World Vision Uganda project supported by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.

FY25 was a year of hard choices and courageous leadership. In the face of escalating global crises, we responded to 108 emergencies, reaching nearly 36 million people—including over 18 million children—with life-saving food, cash, health care, education, and protection. Determined to do more with less, we reimagined humanitarian operations, driving cost-efficiency and resilience while embracing digital transformation. Artificial intelligence and automation helped reinvest savings into communities, even as funding tightened. We strengthened the sector through training and surge capacity, deepened partnerships to champion child-focused humanitarian action, and pushed for a Humanitarian Reset—an aid system that is decentralised, inclusive, and accountable. In the world’s most fragile contexts, we proved that children can thrive when compassion meets purpose. FY25 wasn’t just about responding to crises—it was about shaping the future of humanitarian action.