In the Shadow of Hunger: The Power of Self-Reliance to Protect Children and Restore Hope

As funding declines and hunger rises, new research from World Vision, in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP), shows that household self‑reliance—or the ability to provide for basic needs without external assistance, protects children from hunger, child labour, early marriage, school dropout, and family separation.

Across northern Ghana, women and persons with disabilities continue to face barriers that limit their participation in restoration, agriculture, and decision-making processes. Unequal access to land, limited control over resources, restrictive social norms, and exclusion from community leadership structures often reduce their ability to benefit fully from development interventions.

Reflections from global and East Africa education forums on disability inclusion, early childhood development, collaboration, and helping every child thrive.

In South Sudan, girls like Shufa are forced from school into labour—hunger and displacement push millions of children’s futures to the brink.

World Vision Lebanon calls for urgent support as more than 1.3 million people are displaced across Lebanon. Children face growing risks amid repeated displacement, overcrowding, and limited access to essential services.

World Vision welcomes the G7 Common Set of Principles for a safer and more secure digital space for children and adolescents.

In Colombia, refugee families rebuild their lives through small businesses—keeping children in school and hope alive, as fragile progress now faces funding risks.

In rural Zambia, menstrual poverty remains a significant barrier to education for thousands of girls. For many, missing up to four or five days of school every month, not because of illness or absence of will, but because of a lack of menstrual hygiene products, is simply the reality of life.

Joining Forces Nepal urges stronger action to end child labour, highlighting laws, challenges, and the need for collaboration, protection, and support for children.