article / April 2, 2024
Women Groups in Rural Villages of Kilifi County Saving for the Future
Meet Farida, a resilient mother transforming her community with World Vision's support. From droughts to entrepreneurship, here is a story that inspires hope and joy as we learn about how women groups in Kilifi County are prospering through the support of World Vision and other partners.
article / March 19, 2024
Saving Transforms Households’ Future
Saving is an essential tool for increasing household income. World Vision work with the communities to introduce and support the adoption of a saving culture, to support saving group formation, and to offer financial literacy training on saving, credit, loan repayment, and sharing.
publication / February 29, 2024
Price Shocks: Economic gains masking a growing hunger and malnutrition crisis
World Vision's annual price survey analyses global food prices over the past three years. This Price Shocks report is a continuation of our 2021 and 2022 studies with findings showing a slight dip in the highest costs of living for some while others remain at previously marked crisis levels. This year's findings continue to underscore the uneven recovery from the socioeconomic shocks from COVID-19, inflation, and extreme weather and indicates a disparity of food prices, both in the current cost of the basket of 10 common food items and in the year-on-year comparisons. We provide insight into the year-on-year changes and share recommendations on mitigation for various audiences.
article / April 19, 2024
Ukrainian farmer promotes healthy food and lifestyle through her flourishing green business
Renata is one of 280 Ukrainians who have received assistance in starting or expanding their businesses. She became interested in farming during her maternity leave. The family created a 30-meter foil tent using their own resources and a minor loan from friends. Unfortunately, with the onset of the war, they had a staff shortage, leaving Renata, her husband and their three children without their primary source of income. Recently, they reopened their small business, Dorcas helping them in purchasing a greenhouse to expand their crop production.
article / March 8, 2024
Tanganyika: Saving for the transformation of families affected by interethnic conflict
This article shows the impact of the ADH project, which incorporated the Saving For Transformation approach in Tanganyika. After years of conflict that affected them and forced them to flee, they have now returned to their villages and are becoming self-sufficient thanks to the savings and loans they receive from their savings groups. Their living conditions are changing thanks to the support of World Vision, which trains them and gives them the means they need to prosper.
publication / April 5, 2024
2023 Global Report on Child Participation in World Vision Decision-Making Processes
This second annual Global Report on Child Participation in World Vision Decision-Making Processes celebrates the different ways girls and boys across the world have been meaningfully involved in the decisions that World Vision makes to improve child well-being around the world. Field Offices have continued to implement stronger and more innovative ways of listening to children, including them in local and national decision-making spaces to ensure that programming and strategy decisions are informed by children’s experiences, priorities, needs, and perspectives.
This report highlights the extraordinary practices of each region and Field Office, celebrating the ways our staff have shared decision-making power with children. World Vision continues to press in our belief that children’s participation is not only a right, but an essential element of our child-focused agenda.
publication / January 19, 2024
Universal Access to WASH in Rwanda
Over the past two decades, water service coverage levels have been steadily increasing in Rwanda, though significant gaps remain in many rural communities. In 2018, World Vision committed to reaching 1 million people with access to clean drinking water with the goal of reaching everyone in the areas World Vision works in Rwanda by 2023, through scaling up programming in Rwanda’s most underserved areas. Through the collective effort of a government-led network of actors, achievement of universal water coverage in the 39 sectors (sub-districts) prioritised by World Vision was achieved in 2023.