Every child deserves hope. LIFT empowers children, caregivers, and communities to grow stronger together, creating lasting change through resilience and care.

The 2025 Regional East Africa Child Participation Report details the impact of engaging boys and girls in decision-making at local and national levels.

World Vision Ethiopia's FMNR restoration efforts face fictional opposition from the Humbo Goats Union in a humorous story about restoring land for children.

World Vision Ethiopia hosts the FMNR National Forum, bringing together partners to scale land restoration and create lasting benefits for children.

For years, families in Chapemba lived with a quiet fear. If sickness struck at night, help was 17 kilometres away. That distance costs lives. Headman Biton Simbeye remembers it well. "People used to suffer in this community," he says. "They walked so many kilometres to reach a clinic. Some lost their lives. Others gave birth along the road." The pain was real and close. A mother in labour, collapsing halfway to help. A sick child arriving too late to be saved. "It was painful for my people," Simbeye says, "and we could not take any more."

rom children accessing better educational opportunities, to mothers delivering safely at health facilities, to families improving their livelihoods through access to clean water, every story shared during the visit reflected the power of partnership.

Despite escalating humanitarian needs and constrained resources, World Vision East Africa continued to deliver life-saving assistance and build resilience across the region. The FY25 Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs (HEA) Report highlights the impact of emergency response efforts in nine countries, reaching 7.5 M people, including 4M children.

Discover HOPE for Every Child — World Vision Ghana's 2026–2030 Strategy to help 2.8 million children grow up loved, healthy, educated and empowered.

Born with an umbilical hernia, Mary endured pain, stigma and poor school performance until World Vision Malawi helped her access life-changing surgery. Today, she is healthy, confident and excelling in school with renewed hope for the future.

“We used to get sick all the time. We kept getting diarrhea, and it disrupted our family life and our studies,” says Ernestine.