2025

Impact Report

In a Changing World, Hope Continues to Rise

Across East Asia, children and families are navigating growing challenges, from conflict and climate disasters to economic uncertainty and migration. Yet amid these pressures, communities continue to demonstrate remarkable resilience, determination, and hope.

Together with supporters, partners, governments, and communities, World Vision worked alongside the most vulnerable children and families across the region, responding to immediate needs while helping build the foundations for lasting change.

In 2025, our programmes reached millions of people across seven countries in East Asia, helping children survive, stay protected, learn, participate, and thrive.

5.8 million people reached

Creating lasting change for children, families, and communities across East Asia

3.2 million children reached

Supporting children to survive, learn, stay protected, and achieve their potential

79% of the children reached were among the most vulnerable

Prioritising those facing the greatest barriers to well-being and opportunity

206 policy changes

Influencing systems and policies that improve children's lives at scale

19 emergency responses

Providing life-saving assistance and recovery support during crises and disasters

"Thank you for believing in this mission and for walking this journey with us. And to our teams across the region, your dedication, compassion, and resilience are the heart of everything we do. Because of you, even in the face of adversity, hope continues to rise."

Terry Ferrari
^{Regional Leader, World Vision East Asia}

EAST ASIA
AT A GLANCE

For decades, World Vision has partnered with communities across East Asia to improve the well-being of children, especially the most vulnerable.

Today, we work across diverse contexts, from remote rural villages and rapidly growing urban centres to communities affected by conflict, migration, and climate-related disasters. Our approach combines community-led development, humanitarian response, advocacy, research, and partnership to create sustainable change.

Our Reach in 2025

MYANMAR

2.2 million people reached

CAMBODIA

1.26 million people reached

THAILAND

764,719
people reached

VIETNAM

612,340
people reached

LAOS

378,670
people reached

MONGOLIA

294,443
people reached

CHINA

271,564
people reached

Across East Asia, our work is guided by a commitment to help children survive, stay protected, develop their potential, and participate meaningfully in decisions that affect their lives.

Helping children survive today, with health, safety, and dignity

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene

416,829 people gained access to basic drinking water, and 371,856 people gained access to improved sanitation, helping children live healthier lives and making communities more resilient.
Capacity Statement >>

Health & Nutrition

523,284 people were reached through health and nutrition programmes, supporting maternal and child health, improved nutrition, and stronger community health systems across the region.
Capacity Statement >>

Humanitarian Response

World Vision responded to 19 emergencies across East Asia, reaching 976,956 people, including more than 319,000 children. From the Myanmar earthquake to Southern Thailand floods and Thailand-Cambodia border conflicts, our teams provided life-saving support through food assistance, clean water, child protection, education, health services, and cash assistance. At the same time, we strengthened anticipatory action and locally led preparedness approaches to help communities reduce risks before disasters strike.
Capacity Statement >>

Protecting children from harm and safeguarding their rights

Child Protection

Every child deserves to grow up safe, protected, and free from harm. In 2025, World Vision reached 1.4 million people through child protection programmes that strengthened families, communities, schools, and government systems. From positive parenting initiatives to national child protection frameworks, we worked alongside partners to prevent violence, improve reporting and referral systems, and ensure children receive the care and protection they need.
Capacity Statement >>

Safe Migration

Migration is reshaping childhood across East Asia. As families move in search of safety, work, and opportunity, children often face increased risks of exploitation, trafficking, and interrupted education. In 2025, World Vision reached 111,511 people through safe migration initiatives that promoted legal identity, child protection, awareness, and safer pathways for migrant children and families.
Children and Youth Voices on Migration & Civil Registration >>

Unlocking every child's potential through education and opportunities

Education

Across East Asia, World Vision reached more than 523,000 people through programmes that improved access to quality learning, strengthened literacy, supported early childhood development, and helped children continue learning during crises. Whether through inclusive education, community learning initiatives, or temporary learning spaces, we are helping children gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to build brighter futures.
Our Education Programme >>

Food Security & Livelihoods

World Vision reached more than 1 million people across East Asia through food security and livelihoods programmes. By strengthening climate-smart agriculture, market access, financial inclusion, and sustainable livelihoods, we are helping vulnerable families improve nutrition, increase incomes, and build resilience for the future.

Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change Adaptation

Climate change is one of the greatest threats to children's futures. In 2025, World Vision reached 329,599 people across East Asia through climate resilience and disaster risk reduction programmes. Working alongside communities, we promoted climate-smart agriculture, ecosystem restoration, clean energy, sustainable livelihoods, waste management, and disaster preparedness, helping vulnerable families strengthen resilience while protecting children from the growing impacts of climate change.
Capacity Statement >>

Children Leading Change

Children are not just participants in development. They are leaders of change.

Across East Asia, young people raised their voices on issues including climate action, child protection, migration, and online safety. Through initiatives such as Young Minds CAMP, they engaged with policymakers, regional institutions, and global platforms to influence decisions that affect their futures.

Their ideas, experiences, and leadership continue to shape stronger solutions for children across the region.

Inclusion for Every Child

Lasting change is only possible when everyone is included. Across our programmes, we work to ensure that women, girls, children with disabilities, and marginalised groups can access opportunities, services, and support.

Through our Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion approach, communities are challenging harmful norms, strengthening participation, and creating more equitable futures for all children.

Research Driving Change

UNCOVERING CHILD VULNERABILITY IN EAST ASIA

In 2025, World Vision East Asia partnered with the Institute for Economics and Peace to publish Behind the Averages: Uncovering Child Vulnerability in East Asia.

Using the Multidimensional Child Vulnerability Index, the research highlights how poverty, conflict, climate change, and exclusion intersect to shape children's lives, providing critical insights to strengthen programmes, policy, and advocacy.

Advocacy Impact

Creating lasting change means strengthening the systems that shape children's lives. In 2025, World Vision contributed to 206 policy changes across East Asia, benefiting an estimated 34 million children. By working alongside communities, governments, and partners, we helped improve policies on child protection, nutrition, education, and public services, creating impact that extends far beyond our direct programmes.

Stories of Life Transformed

Bass

THAILAND

Growing up in poverty and at risk of

dropping out of school, Kru Base is

now a national teacher in Nan

Province, guiding young people and

inspiring them to believe in a better

future.

Read Bass' Story

Fon

THAILAND

Growing up in a remote farming

community in Mae Hong Son, Fon once faced uncertainty about continuing her education. Today, she is a certified nurse, providing essential care, saving lives, and

bringing hope back to the very community she calls home.

Read Fon's Story

Margad

MONGOLIA

Once a boy who could only dream of owning professional cycling shoes, Margad-Erdene is now a medal-winning cyclist, turning

aspiration into achievement and showing how belief and perseverance can propel a child toward a brighter future.

Read Margad's Story

Kim Long

CAMBODIA

Kim Long was born into a farming family in Cambodia’s Baribour Area Programme, where life was shaped by uncertainty and hard work. Despite these challenges, Kim

Long carried a quiet but determined dream from an early age to become a teacher. While many children his age were pulled in different directions, he stayed focused.

Read Kim Long's Story

Van Anh

VIETNAM

Once on the verge of dropping out to support her family, Van Anh found confidence and opportunity through World Vision’s sponsorship program. She has since graduated from university and is now shaping young minds as a student teacher in Da Nang.

Watch Van Anh's Story

Vithalin

CAMBODIA

Growing up in a farming family with

limited opportunities, Vithalin is now a health centre staff member, providing essential healthcare and protecting children and families in her community.

Read Vithalin's Story