Our Story

For decades, World Vision has been providing clean water and sanitation for millions of children and their families.

World Vision has WASH programmes is 55 countries, with a global expenditure of $113 million in FY14. In FY14, World Vision reached 2.7 million beneficiaries with water, 2 million with sanitation and 2.3 million with hygiene in 26 countries with large-scale WASH programmes.

WASH has been part of World Vision’s work for more than 50 years, starting in the 1960s primarily with small water projects in individual communities. We gained much experience in the subsequent decades, including a significant scale-up through the West Africa Water Initiative – a large public-private partnership, where World Vision served as the lead non-governmental organisation. In 2010, World Vision made a strategic decision to scale up its investment in WASH, making an increased, targeted investment in WASH in 12 countries with high WASH need – ten in Africa, one in Latin America, and one in Asia. Because of this strategic investment, more than 5.8 million people have been reached with WASH interventions between 2010-2014.

Over the next five years, or until 2020, World Vision aims to reach a minimum of 14 million people with WASH, and to increase the scope of our work to have more robust WASH programmes in more than 25 countries worldwide.