Download World Vision Ethiopia’s menstrual health and hygiene awareness comic book, designed to spark safe, informed conversations in communities.

💧 A child stood before Africa's top child rights body and made governments listen.

Access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene is a fundamental child right. Across Africa, millions of children still lack these essential services, affecting their health, education, and dignity. A rights-based WASH approach is critical to ensuring every child survives, develops, and thrives.

💧 A child stood before Africa's top child rights body and made governments listen.

Thirty-five years. Countless roads. One unwavering commitment. Chewe Nkumbula has been behind the wheel at World Vision Zambia for over three decades, navigating dusty paths, remote communities, and long distances to ensure that the work of transforming children's lives never stops moving. His dedication is a living example of what it means to serve with purpose.

outh leaders at IMRF 2026 urge governments to move beyond debate and implement child-sensitive migration governance that prioritizes legal identity and climate resilience for communities.

Hanan’s story shows how parenting support helped her move from strictness to understanding and build a warmer, more connected home.

African leaders convene in Maseru to push for increased investment in child-focused WASH, highlighting water, sanitation, and hygiene as fundamental to children’s rights.

While visiting Rulindo District to document the story of a sponsored child named Bertin, the team discovered another story in his home. They met seven-year-old Blandine, a girl living with a disability who could neither walk nor speak and had been confined to her home for years. Due to lack of resources and hope, her condition remained untreated, and she was largely unseen. The visit shifted focus, and Blandine’s story became the one they carried forward.

Learn how World Vision strengthens child protection and participation across East Africa by preventing violence, empowering children, and improving systems that safeguard children’s rights and well-being.