young boy drinks out of a cup at a kitchen table and a plate of food sits in front of him

Our Impact

In May 2022, World Vision launched a Global Hunger Response to meet the immediate food needs of the worlds’ most vulnerable as nearly 50 million people were facing starvation and in need of urgent life-saving assistance. This Response targets girls and boys living in some of the most difficult, dangerous, and desperate parts of the globe.  

See how our efforts are making a difference in the lives of hungry and vulnerable children and their families. 

Our Response

 

World Vision is responding to hunger in every country we work in. We identified 28 countries in need of urgent, life-saving support, due to high numbers of people currently living in or on the verge of famine-like conditions.

We're aiming to reach the most vulnerable children and their families being affected by hunger with food, livelihoods, and protection. We focus our impact on areas with pre-existing vulnerability and fragility, where children are most at risk: places affected by conflict, urban slums, and refugee settlements.

People reached through our Global Hunger Response

0,000,001,000

. . . including 10,724,158 children.

Objective 1: Improve access to food for affected houses

Hand with cash sign icon
6,113,198

People reached with cash and voucher assistance

hand with money bag in it icon
US$226,274,710

Cash and voucher assistance distributed

educational facility icon
868,722

Children receiving hot meals and/or dry rations through school feeding

bowl of rice icon
7,805,928

People reached with (in-kind) food assistance

Objective 2: Increase access to curative and preventive quality emergency health and nutrition services

medical bag icon
1,137,026

People reached through primary health-care support

Hot food image
470,995

Children reached through management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and moderate acute malnutrition (MAM)

person with knife and fork
38,740

Children recovered from SAM

person holding a baby icon
153,460

Primary caregivers benefited from infant and young child feeding (IYCF) promotion and action oriented sessions and counselling

Objective 3: Improve access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene promotion services to mitigate water-borne diseases

sink icon
1,905,522

People with access to clean, potable water

Person with hand soap icon
549,639

People that have participated in emergency hygiene promotion activities with appropriate supplies

Faith leaders engaged on hygiene promotion activities
2,061

Faith leaders engaged on hygiene promotion activities

Objective 4: Ensure protection for children, women, and vulnerable groups including psychosocial support and provision of dignity kits for reproductive age girls and women

hand with person icon
232,774

People receiving prevention messages on prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse and/or positive coping strategies

Faith leaders engaged in disseminating prevention messages on PSEA and/or positive coping mechanisms
6,794

including faith leaders engaged in disseminating prevention messages on PSEA and/or positive coping mechanisms

child protection icon
132,995

People receiving psychosocial support

Objective 5: Household resilience to food insecurity and livelihoods-related shocks

Households provided with conditional cash or vouchers to procure agricultural physical assets
3,359

Households provided with conditional cash or vouchers to procure agricultural physical assets

hand with tools
40,850

Households provided with livelihood physical agricultural assets

house with seedling
14,909

Households growing crops that are resilient to climate hazards/ stresses

screen with wheat icon
11,636

People trained in climate change resilient farming practices

*Numbers and statistics reflect World Vision's Global Hunger Response. For complete information, please see the most recent situation report.

**Responding includes field programming and/or fundraising.

Woman in refugee camp with grain
GET INVOLVED

Provide urgently needed help to hungry children and their families

DONATE