World Vision Lesotho is empowering families in Mokhotlong to transform locally available rosehip into sustainable businesses, improving livelihoods and helping end child hunger.

World Vision Ghana convened national stakeholders to advance sanitation in Ghana, as government makes sanitation a key performance measure for local government leaders.

After years of unemployment, Steven Kazula from Machinga transformed his life through vocational skills training supported by World Vision and TEVETA. Now a successful motorcycle repair business owner, he is earning an income, supporting his family, and inspiring other young people with his vision to create jobs and expand his enterprise.

In Colombia, refugee families rebuild their lives through small businesses—keeping children in school and hope alive, as fragile progress now faces funding risks.

Young people who are forced to leave school early are finding ways to develop practical skills that help them support their families and earn a living with the support from World Vision.

uvenal, who left school after primary education due to financial challenges in a family of seven, transformed his life after realizing that limited family land could not secure his future and deciding to acquire practical skills. Starting with casual construction work and later learning soap and paint making in his community, his breakthrough came when World Vision’s TARE Youth Engagement and Employment Project provided entrepreneurship training, financial literacy, and access to savings groups, enabling him to expand into a formal business. Today, he is the owner of “Dirty Cleaner,” a growing manufacturing company producing soap, shampoo, and paint, and has trained over 480 people in vocational skills. His success, including winning a national youth entrepreneurship prize and reinvesting in his business, has allowed him to support his family, acquire assets, and pursue a vision of building generational wealth while inspiring others through his journey from limited opportunity to empowered entrepreneurship.

Sam, a former World Vision-sponsored child who is now an Engineer with World Vision Rwanda, shares how early support in education, healthcare, and basic needs transformed his life by giving him hope, confidence, and the opportunity to dream bigger despite significant personal and financial challenges. Inspired by his experiences growing up in a vulnerable situation, he pursued Civil and Environmental Engineering to help address community challenges such as water and sanitation. After completing his studies through resilience, mentorship, and family support, he chose to return and work with World Vision as a way of giving back, even turning down a more lucrative offer elsewhere. Today, he reflects on the depth of development work behind impact stories and remains committed to empowering communities toward self-reliance, guided by his faith and the belief that life is a continuous journey of growth and service.

Joining Forces Nepal urges stronger action to end child labour, highlighting laws, challenges, and the need for collaboration, protection, and support for children.

USDA monitors the McGovern-Dole school feeding programme in Nampula, Mozambique, highlighting how nutritious meals, clean water, and literacy boost education.

1.49 million people were reached through health, nutrition, WASH, food, livelihoods and protection services.