This article highlights how the Rotary Healthy Communities Challenge (RHCC), implemented by World Vision in partnership with PATH and Rotary, is strengthening community health in Kasaï Province, DRC. By training and equipping community health relays with skills, handwashing kits, and bicycles, the project aims to reduce child mortality caused by malaria, acute respiratory infections, and diarrhoeal diseases. Through improved access to primary health care and a reinforced network of community health sites, the initiative seeks to protect more than 221,000 children under five in some of the most vulnerable and hard-to-reach areas.

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World Vision’s CHW Census 2025 report highlights feedback from 43 field offices on nearly 200,000 CHWs worldwide.

World Vision Eswatini, through its Gifts-in-Kind (GIKs) Programme, has handed over 48,000 tablets of Vitamin A and 24,000 Albendazole in 400mg to the Ministry of Health in support of the country’s efforts towards improved health for children and in line with the organisation's ENOUGH Campaign to End Child Hunger and Malnutrition.

World Vision strengthened 879 CHWs to expand primary health care and improve maternal and child nutrition in fragile communities in Myanmar.

World Vision Burkina Faso implemented the Multisectoral Assistance Project for Populations in Emergency Situations (SAVE), an initiative that has helped improve the living conditions of many vulnerable families in several communes.

World Vision advocates fair pay and ethical workloads for community health workers to strengthen equitable, sustainable health systems worldwide.

Village Health Committees strengthened by GAVI through WVSI

World Vision used a gender analysis framework in Sudan’s Blue Nile State to assess and strengthen gender equity in community health worker programmes.