Our Response

El Niño is now of the same scale as the migrant crisis, affecting 60 mio people globally.

World Vision has reached over 3m people, half of whom are children.

To help protect the development gains against this disaster, in many of the countries affected, World Vision has committed 20 percent of development funds to respond to this disaster. Much of our aid is delivered through multi-sectorial and multi-purpose programs and this includes:

Southern Africa - World Vision has reached 1.6m people in 9 countries with food distributions, cash disbursements, seed distributions, agriculture and livestock support, WASH activities, and by providing non-food kits and child protection activities.

Eastern Africa - World Vision is reaching more than 1.4m people in Ethiopia through emergency nutrition, wash, humanitarian food assistance and food security activities. A project in drought-prone regions has reforested 2,700 acres of land, changing the micro-climate, reviving springs that once ran dry and allowing those who live there to grow and store tons of crops, leaving them with surplus food that they are exporting and donating to other drought affected. In Somalia, World Vision is trucking water, conducting targeted supplementary feeding for children, cash transfers and restocking dead livestock.

Central and Latin America - El Nino has been linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus that causes children to be born with brain deformation. Here, World Vision is providing mosquito nets and repellant, running preventive health campaigns in schools and mobilising the community to clean up areas to prevent mosquito breeding.  World Vision is also responding to the impact of El Nino with cash for work progammes, hygiene and sanitation education and feeding programmes for very malnourished children.

The Pacific - World Vision provides food vouchers, builds and repairs water systems, provides drought-resistant seeds and educates people on how to stay healthy, aiding almost 33,000.