Matthew Pickard, Regional Leader, Southern Africa, highlights how true transformation in education and health emerges when communities lead. He urges policymakers and NGOs to listen first and invest in community-driven solutions that foster lasting change.

Journée mondiale de l’aide humanitaire 2025 : World Vision appelle à la protection des humanitaires, au financement, à la sécurité et la dignité des enfants touchés par les crises en Afrique de l’Ouest et dans le monde.

At World Vision, we believe every child has a right to education and that education can protect and support children affected by crises. Our framework focuses on providing inclusive, quality education during emergencies by integrating protection, health, and other services to help children learn, recover, and build resilience – especially for vulnerable and displaced children.

In 2024, the intertwined challenges of conflict, climate change, and economic uncertainty continued to heighten vulnerability for children and families across West and Central Africa. Yet, by God’s grace and through collective action, World Vision reached more than 13.9 million people with life-saving and sustainable support. Discover our impact.

Dr. Lesly Margel Michaud underscores the urgent need for coordinated action to safeguard children in Haiti, drawing attention to the profound consequences of violence, displacement, trauma and systemic neglect. He calls on all stakeholders—local, national, and international—to step up and prioritise child protection as a shared responsibility.

World Vision Ethiopia’s EU-funded peacebuilding project restores community harmony and supports children’s access to schools and health services in Western Oromia and Benishangul-Gumuz.

Inspiring stories from Bajhang showing how education livelihoods and protection programmes are transforming lives and communities.

In Tripoli, Lebanon, young student researchers raise their voices to share what it means to learn on an empty stomach. Without a national school feeding programme, many children go through long school days hungry, struggling to focus and risking dropout. Through their research and lived experiences, these children call for nutritious school meals that uphold their right to education, health, and dignity. Their message is simple but urgent: feed our right to learn, feed our right to thrive.

This article tells the story of Aimé, a 32-year-old self-taught electronics repairer in Tshikala, in the Congolese province of Lualaba, whose life was transformed by receiving a wheelchair through World Vision DRC’s Gift-In-Kind (GIK) programme. Born without the use of his legs, Aimé’s work was limited by his inability to travel independently. Thanks to this donation, he can now visit clients, purchase spare parts, expand his customer base, and consider opening a workshop. The wheelchair has not only increased his income and eased the burden on his family, but it has also changed how the community sees him, shifting his image from “the young man in a wheelchair” to “the phone repairer”. His story highlights the profound impact that well-targeted in-kind donations can have, restoring autonomy, dignity, and social recognition to people who have long been marginalised.