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Friday, April 7, 2017 - 00:03 by Loria Kulathungam

Transforming communities through the power of grandmothers

By Melani O'Leary, Carolyn Macdonald and Bridget Aidam

Grandmothers across the globe play a far more important role than the go-to babysitter on date night. As it turns out, we've learned that grandmothers are vital to not only caring for young children but also advising and educating younger women in their communities on all aspects of family well-being. Interestingly, in the developing world, the influence of grandmothers even extends to the men in their...

What Is The Big Deal About the Global Fund Replenishment Process - Question Answered

Q&A with Ann Claxton, World Vision's Director of Global Health and Nutrition Resources

What's important to know about the Global Fund replenishment?

World Vision supports a robust replenishment of the Global Fund because since its founding in 2002, The...

Community Health Committees: A Catalyst for Global Health

Contributing Expert: Michele Gaudrault - World Vision Sustainable Health Learning and Development Advisor; World Vision International COMM Project Model Champion

What if the greatest and even smallest of health...

A thousand voices gagged by red tape

By Dr Kené Mark Guindo, World Vision Mali Child Health Now Campaign Coordinator

I stood in the reception of the embassy in Bamako, Mali, anxiously awaiting the judgment of the French authorities. Suddenly, a voice shouted my name, calling me forward to collect my passport. At last! After months of meticulously collecting documents; travelling hundreds of miles to arrange a new passport; attending a...

Hunger is a terror we should fight with faith

My father will be 95 this year and thus was a child during the great depression in the United States. The hunger that he experienced at that time haunts him to this day. You will never see a more grateful person sitting down to every meal. And if there is a single issue he is passionate about it is hunger; most of his charitable contributions are to help the hungry.

What I have learned from my father is that hunger is a terror. While not all of us have...

Making A Difference - a CHW story from Sierra Leone

Author: Magnus Mordu Conteh, Director, Global Health Programmes, Strategic Partnerships & Innovation, World Vision Ireland

Can you imagine how it must feel to save a life? Not as a doctor in a fully...

Cherishing Fatherhood Globally

It’s father’s day this weekend, and I was happy to see my three year old daughter come home from nursery with a father’s day card. We put in an envelope together with some photographs and posted it this afternoon, one of many efforts to engage her father as she grows up. I’m a single mother, and have been from an early stage in her life. On top of that I work full time as a technical advisor for World Vision, and am frequently deployed to countries around the globe...

Have you ever been hit in the head by a sanitary pad?

By Shelby Stapleton, Field Partnerships Advisor - WV Australia

I have. Late last year, one Friday afternoon, as part of a personal “training drill” in the World Vision Australia office, I initiated a food-fight style, sanitary-pad “fight” around the office. To my complete surprise, my male colleagues embraced the opportunity to participate, learn and openly discuss the problems that face many girls in World Vision’s programmes daily (and of course, ensured...

Born On Time: Making prevention a priority

By Melanie Boyd, Program Director, Born On Time

What’s the world’s leading cause of death in children under five? It might come as a surprise, but preterm birth – a birth that takes place more than three weeks...

Ghana’s ‘Paradigm Shift’ for CHWs

Article Authors: Polly Walker, World Vision International; Raymond Owusu, World Vision Ghana

The global community has increasingly recognized the contribution of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in reducing maternal and child mortality in the hardest to reach communities with lowest access to health care. Over the last two years the government of Ghana has been working closely with the One Million Community Health Workers (1mCHW)...