World Vision is influencing the adoption and implementation of policies relating to FGM in Kenya, Sudan, Somalia and Sudan. The policy brief highlights strategic policy recommendations targeting national governments, regional institutions donors faith and community leaders.

EU-funded World Vision project supports 4,800+ Ukrainian children with education, psychosocial aid, and protection amid ongoing war disruptions.

This story highlights the urgent challenge of child hunger and education in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than 29 million students are enrolled for the 2025–2026 school year, yet only a fraction benefit from school feeding programmes. Through the voices of Valence and Jean, two 11-year-old pupils at TCHABILWA Primary School in Kalemie, Tanganyika Province, the article brings statistics to life. For them, a hot meal at school is more than food; it is energy to learn, play, and dream. Their joy reflects the impact of World Vision’s school feeding programme, which reached 74,731 children in Kasai and Tanganyika during the 2025 fiscal year. The results are encouraging: school enrolment in supported schools has significantly increased, especially among girls. Yet the needs remain overwhelming. Attendance gaps, dropouts, and the millions of children still unreached reveal the scale of the crisis. Ultimately, the story is both hopeful and urgent, showing how a simple meal can keep a child in class, while calling for greater investment and partnerships to ensure that many more children across the DRC are not left behind

The funding crisis risks undoing decades of progress to end FGM. Global actors are urged to invest more and scale up efforts to stop this human rights violation.

As the Ukraine Crisis Response enters its fifth year, the war continues to devastate millions of lives, particularly children. Over the past four years, World Vision Ukraine has reached more than 2.3 million people, including over 1 million children, providing critical support in education, mental health, protection, cash assistance, livelihoods, basic needs services and winterisation.

In 2025, the Green Palestine Project brought the Mobile Environmental Museum to 40 vulnerable communities across the West Bank in 2025. Through 80 hands‑on visits, the Mobile Museum reached more than 10,000 children and 1,200 adults, offering an engaging introduction to Palestine’s biodiversity, natural heritage, and climate challenge

World Vision warns: Escalating drought and food insecurity put millions of children in the Middle East and Afghanistan at extreme risk.

In 2025, WV Syria Response reached 4.22M people despite crisis, expanding access, meeting communities, and reaffirming its mission to help children thrive.

Drought conditions are worsening across Afghanistan and the Middle East. Millions of people - many of them children - face acute food insecurity.