Calls to accelerate universal access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene for children in Africa, addressing gaps harming health, education and protection.

World Vision strengthens community resilience in Southern Africa through Disaster Risk Reduction as a forecasted super El Niño threatens drought and floods in Mozambique.

Day of the African Child 2026: Every Child Deserves Safe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

In Eswatini, farmers face floods and drought linked to climate cycles and a first foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in over 20 years, threatening food security and livelihoods.

ENOUGH 2025, presents key developments in policy, programmes and partnerships three years into the campaign

Press release highlighting World Vision's response to needs caused by back-to-back earthquakes in Venezuela

Across northern Ghana, women and persons with disabilities continue to face barriers that limit their participation in restoration, agriculture, and decision-making processes. Unequal access to land, limited control over resources, restrictive social norms, and exclusion from community leadership structures often reduce their ability to benefit fully from development interventions.

As funding declines and hunger rises, new research from World Vision, in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP), shows that household self‑reliance—or the ability to provide for basic needs without external assistance, protects children from hunger, child labour, early marriage, school dropout, and family separation.

The article emphasises that before children can learn, play, or thrive, they need access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).