World Vision Ghana launches a major WASH initiative in Sekyere Afram Plains to improve access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene for local communities.

The Launch of the WASH Business Plan

Water is the blue thread of integration connecting people, places, and progress. It is essential to the well-being of children and their communities and creates pathways out of poverty. Water transforms lives by driving economic growth, food security, environmental resilience, safe healthcare, and educational success. Mapping the Blue Thread is World Vision’s 2026 to 2030 global business plan to deliver adaptive water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) solutions for a better, healthier world across 42 countries. Our data-driven approach enables country WASH teams to deliver targeted, location-specific strategies that maximize impact, effectiveness, and sustainability.

Menstrual poverty remains one of the most critical, yet often unseen, barriers to girls’ education in Zambia. For many young women, especially in rural areas, the inability to afford basic sanitary products or access clean facilities leads to shame, fear, and chronic absenteeism. The Ministry of Education's data reveals the devastating educational cost: inadequate Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) causes Zambian girls to miss at least 36 days of classes per year, disrupting their studies and contributing to the low completion rates, with 44% of girls dropping out before finishing secondary school.

Amid ongoing conflict, displacement, overlapping crises, and worsening climate shocks, humanitarian needs in the Middle East & Eastern Europe are soaring.

World Vision Ghana launches its 2026–2030 WASH Business Plan and Universal Service Coverage Programme, aiming to deliver sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene services to over 700,000 people across 23 districts.

World Vision Mozambique’s URWOSAM project empowers women to build climate-resilient latrines, improving rural sanitation, health, and economic opportunities.

World Vision Afghanistan delivered lifesaving health, nutrition, WASH, and livelihood support amid drought, disasters and rising humanitarian needs.

Lalor, a remote mountaintop village on the Vietnam border, faces isolation, poor sanitation, and health risks—but a water project brings hope.