In five years, World Vision's Cash and Voucher Programming reached 9.8 million people in over 50 countries, distributing $1.5 billion to vulnerable children and families.

“I have nothing – where should I get it [food] from?” Drought has taken their crops. Inflation has made basic food unaffordable. But cash assistance is giving her a fighting chance. Meet Kemia, a grandmother in rural Afghanistan, who is raising her orphaned grandchildren in the midst of a deepening humanitarian crisis. Through World Vision Afghanistan's life-saving programme funded by the German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO), families like Kemia’s receive direct cash support to meet their most urgent needs. It allows them to buy food locally, pay for essentials, and make decisions with dignity. “For me, cash assistance means survival,” Kemia says. She is one of 23 million people in Afghanistan, half the population, who urgently need humanitarian assistance to survive this year. Watch her story. Share her voice.

World Vision Afghanistan provided vital support to over 369,000 people in February and March 2025, delivering health, nutrition, WASH, education, psychosocial support, livelihoods & food security, and cash assistance.

As part of WV’s Myanmar Earthquake Response, in partnership with WFP, 9,313 people have received Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA). The World Food Programme and World Vision have been in long-term partnership for years prior to the earthquake. With WFP's support, World Vision has provided support to vulnerable families and children through various initiatives, including food distribution, maternal and child cash transfers, assistance for internally displaced persons (IDPs), and cash-for-assets programmes.

Across Bangladesh’s poverty pockets, a quiet transformation is underway led not by handouts, but by empowerment. At the heart of this change lies World Vision Bangladesh’s innovative use of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) within its Ultra Poor Graduation (UPG) programme—a bold shift away from traditional asset transfers towards a community-driven, dignity-affirming model of livelihood development.

As of April 2025, over 2.2 million people affected by the Ukraine crisis across Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, and Georgia have been reached through World Vision support — providing food, cash, protection, education, livelihoods, and mental health care. Nearly half of them are children.

But that story is beginning to change—thanks to the El Niño Life Saving Cash Project, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and implemented by World Vision Zimbabwe, in collaboration with the Government of Zimbabwe.

The initiative is helping over 24,000 people in Epworth who are facing food insecurity due to the effects of the El Niño-induced drought.

In 2024, we reached 17.9 million people, including 9.5 million children, and responded to over 16 emergencies across the region. From food security and health to protection and education, our work has brought tangible relief and hope to families affected by crisis.

In the district of Mutarara, in Tete province-Mozambique, children are raising their voices against one of the most urgent and persistent threats to their health and development: malnutrition.