This human-interest story highlights the journey of Jeannine, a young girl from Gemena who overcame severe acute malnutrition with timely medical treatment and support from World Vision. Through the Positive Deviance Hearth programme, her grandmother Marie also gained practical knowledge on nutrition, hygiene and childcare, enabling her to protect Jeannine’s health and prevent malnutrition in her family. The story illustrates how early detection, community support and caregiver education can save lives and contribute to lasting improvements in child nutrition.

This article tells the inspiring story of Sephora, a single mother living with a disability in Bukanga Lonzo, Kwango Province, who overcame economic hardship through World Vision DRC’s livelihood and inclusion support. After receiving tailoring training, a start-up kit and an adapted tricycle, Sephora established a home-based business, gained financial independence and improved her ability to care for her daughter. Her journey highlights how inclusive skills development and targeted livelihood support can restore dignity, strengthen self-reliance and create hope for vulnerable families.

This article highlights how community nutrition dialogues supported by World Vision in Sake, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, are helping families turn knowledge into practical action. Through household vegetable gardens, mothers are improving access to nutritious foods, diversifying family meals and sharing their knowledge and harvests with others. The story demonstrates how community-led solutions can strengthen child nutrition, promote self-reliance and build hope among families affected by conflict and food insecurity.

This article tells the inspiring story of Élodie, a mother in Karawa, North-Ubangi Province, whose daughter Esther recovered from severe acute malnutrition with support from World Vision and the Karawa Health Zone. Through nutritional treatment, Positive Deviance Hearth sessions and livelihood support, Élodie gained practical knowledge, strengthened her family’s resilience and rebuilt her hope. The story highlights how integrated nutrition and livelihood interventions can help vulnerable families move from crisis and uncertainty towards recovery, dignity and a more secure future.

Through funding from Enabel, World Vision is helping vulnerable communities in Gemena Territory, South-Ubangi Province, strengthen their livelihoods and resilience. Through Farmer Field Schools, functional literacy classes and Village Savings and Loan Associations, farmers and women are gaining practical agricultural, financial and literacy skills that are already improving harvests, household income and economic independence.

William, a father of eight from Ntompo in Kasaï Central, is challenging traditional gender roles around childcare and nutrition. Through a KOICA-funded project implemented by World Vision in partnership with WFP, he learned about positive masculinity and the importance of shared responsibility for family well-being. Today, William works alongside his wife in their family garden, helps make decisions about their children’s meals and supports their health and nutrition. His story shows how engaging men can strengthen families, improve children’s diets and inspire lasting behavioural change within communities.

Explore World Vision Kenya’s 2021–2025 Impact Report, highlighting how 4.6 million people and 9.4 million children were reached through advocacy and transformative projects in different sectors (Child Learning and Household Resilience, Disaster Management, Climate Change and WASH)

In Afghanistan, hope is not optimism but faithfulness. Read how families and aid workers persevere through drought, uncertainty and crisis.

When Dr Tinah Tusiime Mukunda sat down with Lexis Bill on Joy 99.7 FM's Personality Profile, she shared more than a career story. She laid out how she is leading World Vision Ghana toward one of its most ambitious goals yet, and why she believes the country's development sector needs to work differently to get there.

How can Africa restore degraded landscapes while producing enough food for a rapidly growing population? This question was at the heart of the CIRAWA Agroecology Conference 2026, held in Accra from 1–3 July, where policymakers, researchers, development partners, private sector actors, civil society organisations, and farmers came together under the theme: "Agroecology and Nature-Based Solutions for Sustainable Food Systems in Africa."