World Vision Lesotho hosts a landmark event uniting faith leaders and partners to advance environmental sustainability and climate action through spiritual resources.

In fragile and conflict-affected settings, children and women often bear the brunt of overlapping crises: hunger, poverty, and violence collide to create unimaginable hardship.

"Channels of Hope User Guide: Practical steps and curricula for faith-based engagement to drive transformation and collective action."

This inspiring feature tells the story of Annie Mbayo, a pastor, mother of nine, and community leader from Kigoma, near Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Through World Vision’s Empowered World View (EWV) training, Annie learned to combine faith with practical planning, transforming her household and community. Once dependent on small-scale seedling sales, she developed her nine hectares into a productive farm, began pig rearing, expanded mango cultivation, and built a stable home, both a symbol and a result of her new vision. Guided by principles of stewardship, savings, and collective action, she also helped form a community savings group, inspiring other women and men to take similar steps toward self-reliance. Annie’s journey reflects the essence of the EWV approach, turning prayer into action, faith into work, and hope into sustainable change.

World Vision Ethiopia highlights women-led restoration and livelihood gains from the RESILIENT-WE project, improving environments and child well-being in Hararghe.

Isabel Gomes highlights how children are paying the highest price for a shrinking aid system. She also sheds light on how cuts to humanitarian funding are forcing impossible choices—who eats, who learns, who survives. Signaling about a system under strain, where children risk being pushed to the margins, she urges that governments, decision-makers, and donors ensure solidarity triumphs over indifference.