article / September 10, 2024
Maternal and Child Health Promoted in Luanda
Recently, the WVA team, in partnership with the JUCARENTE - a local organization, visited four pregnant women from the Cazenga municipality who are being monitored weekly by health agents.
publication / September 10, 2024
World Vision Haiti 2023 Annual Report
WVI-Haiti made a sustainable impact in Haitian communities, reaching thousands of children and families through diverse programs, projects, and strategic partnerships.
video / September 5, 2024
World Vision and VisionFund Zambia Board of Directors witness impactful interventions in Chongwe
World Vision Zambia, VisionFund Zambia Board of Directors and Brian Bwembya, a friend of World Vision Zambia, recently embarked on an eye-opening field visit to Chongwe and Rufunsa. There, they engaged with community members, including children, to appreciate the impact of interventions in WASH, microfinance loans, education, livelihoods, and child protection.
article / August 9, 2024
The Sound of Hope: A Portable Ultrasound Brings Vital Care to West Bank’s Most Vulnerable
Improving access to quality maternal and child health care in local clinics has been a priority for World Vision’s emergency response to the Middle East Crisis in the West Bank. In just 10 months, we have rehabilitated and/or equipped 39 health clinics, directly benefitting more than 20,000 people with close to US$600,000 in essential materials, including eight mobile ultrasound machines. In the coming months, we will distribute 18 more ultrasound machines and additional emergency obstetric care supplies to clinics in vulnerable communities. As the need grows, World Vision has already supported over 155 villages. Your support can help us reach even more families with basic health care essentials.
article / September 17, 2024
Transformative impact of savings groups: Mollel Samba's testimony
In the small village of Ateichane, on the edge of the Assaba region, the life of Mollel Samba, a mother of eight, has been profoundly transformed thanks to World Vision's Savings for Transformation (S4T) program. She shares her story with us.
publication / September 4, 2024
Better Food, Better Health Project, WV Timor-Leste
World Vision (WV)’s Better Food, Better Health (BFBH) project was a nutrition-sensitive agriculture project aiming to improve nutrition for 31,806 direct beneficiaries in Timor-Leste.
publication / July 19, 2024
Promotion of Baby-Friendly Health Centres (BFHC)
Between the '90s and early 2000s, Cambodia showed impressive achievement in the percentage of children in Cambodia exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months; however, it later decreased from 74% in 2010 to 51% in 2021 (CDHS). In addition, the country registered low rates of early breastfeeding initiation, with only 54% of new-borns breastfed within 1 hour of birth, even though 98.7% of the births are delivered by skilled birth attendants in Cambodia according to the Cambodia Demographic Health Survey 2021-2022.
article / September 3, 2024
Partnering with parents: A key to ending child hunger
Despite abundant food, hunger remains the biggest threat to children today. Learn how partnering with parents helps tackle this global issue.