This article tells the inspiring story of Ilunga Mpundu Balthazar, a man with a disability in La Vallée, Lubumbashi, who transformed a struggling nursery into a thriving agroforestry business. Guided by Empowered World View training and community collaboration, he combines faith, innovation, and resilience to support his family, train local youth, and strengthen neighborhood networks, demonstrating how determination and organization can turn adversity into sustainable growth.

This article highlights how World Vision DRC’s support to the Mapendo association in Sambwa (Haut-Katanga province) has strengthened community resilience through dry-season vegetable farming. Faced with shorter rainy seasons and limited access to inputs, local farmers received fertilisers, seeds, and technical training that enabled them to set up an experimental collective field. By adopting improved techniques such as organic manure use, crop rotation, and efficient water management, the group achieved promising yields and established a community fund for reinvestment. The initiative not only enhanced food security and household income but also aligned with World Vision’s ENOUGH campaign, which seeks to combat malnutrition and promote sustainable local production.

This inspiring story from Luiza, in the Kasaï Central province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, highlights how the KOICA funded project implemented by World Vision is transforming the lives affected by child malnutrition. Through the journey of Aimée and her daughter Scola, the article reveals how integrated nutrition support, family farming, and community education can turn despair into hope. What began as a mother’s struggle to save her child from malnutrition became a story of empowerment, resilience, and lasting change for an entire family and a symbol of renewed hope for many others in Luiza.

This inspiring feature tells the story of Annie Mbayo, a pastor, mother of nine, and community leader from Kigoma, near Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Through World Vision’s Empowered World View (EWV) training, Annie learned to combine faith with practical planning, transforming her household and community. Once dependent on small-scale seedling sales, she developed her nine hectares into a productive farm, began pig rearing, expanded mango cultivation, and built a stable home, both a symbol and a result of her new vision. Guided by principles of stewardship, savings, and collective action, she also helped form a community savings group, inspiring other women and men to take similar steps toward self-reliance. Annie’s journey reflects the essence of the EWV approach, turning prayer into action, faith into work, and hope into sustainable change.

This human-interest story highlights the inspiring transformation of Jérôme, a neighbourhood chief from the rural commune of LUIZA in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Once guided by traditional gender norms that placed the entire domestic burden on his wife, Jérôme’s perspective changed after attending a positive masculinity training organised by World Vision with support from the European Union and the World Food Programme. Motivated by the lessons he learned, Jérôme began sharing household and agricultural responsibilities, leading to improved family health, increased income, and renewed harmony in his home. His actions have since inspired other men in his community to adopt more equitable roles within their families.

In Maluku, Kinshasa, Saidate, a mother of two, struggled during her first pregnancy due to a lack of guidance, leading to frequent illness in her baby. With support from World Vision’s targeted home visits, she received vital advice during her second pregnancy, especially on exclusive breastfeeding. Her second child is now healthy and thriving. Saidate expresses deep gratitude, saying the support saved my daughter’s life.

In the war-torn east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands of children have been orphaned by ongoing massacres and left vulnerable to trauma and despair. Through faith-based initiatives like the Let the Children Come program, local heroes like Hélène offer shelter, psychosocial support, and Bible study groups that help heal deep emotional wounds. Stories like Isaac’s, who regained his voice after years of silence, show how hope and resilience are being rebuilt, even as the urgent needs of countless others remain.

World Vision raises alarm over a newly declared Ebola outbreak in Kasai Province, DRC, where 32 suspected cases and 15 deaths, including four health workers, have been reported. With a fatality rate of 57%, the organization warns of urgent humanitarian needs and is working with partners to assess the situation. Drawing on experience from past Ebola responses in DRC, Uganda, and West Africa, World Vision calls for immediate donor funding, better community engagement, and stronger regional coordination to contain the outbreak and prevent its spread.

For mothers like Saidate and Miryam in Maluku, breastfeeding is no longer just a routine, but a life-saving act for their children. Thanks to World Vision’s awareness campaign during World Breastfeeding Week, supported by PRONANUT and local health authorities, hundreds of families discovered the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding. With over 94% of mothers adopting the practice and fathers stepping in to support, the initiative is building confidence, healthier babies, and stronger communities.

Miryam, a mother of several children, benefited from World Vision’s targeted home visits during her latest pregnancy. Previously unaware of proper infant feeding practices, she learned the importance of exclusive breastfeeding through trained community volunteers. Applying this advice, she gave birth safely, and her baby, Ofranel, now three months old, is healthy and has never been sick. Miryam expresses her gratitude, saying the program helped her experience motherhood more confidently and safely.