A mother in Tigray fights to save her malnourished daughter as conflict and hunger threaten her family. With support from World Vision Ethiopia’s JEOP programme, Kendehaftey finds hope, stability, and a second chance for her child’s recovery.

Uwimana Antoinette, a 33-year-old mother of five, fled conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2018 and resettled in Uganda’s Kyaka II settlement. Like many refugees, she initially relied on food aid and cash transfers but struggled to meet her family’s needs. Seeking alternatives, she joined the Ushindi Savings Group, a refugee-led initiative formed in 2019 to promote self-reliance through savings and small loans.

With the village well nearly depleted, Awo and her daughter depend on short-term water trucking—uncertain of what comes next.

Flavia grew up in a family of seven where school fees and basic needs were often out of reach. World Vision’s support—providing school supplies, fees, and encouragement—kept her in class and nurtured her dream of becoming a midwife. Even when financial challenges threatened her university studies, World Vision stepped in again, enabling her to graduate. Today, Flavia serves at the district hospital and in community outreaches, caring for mothers and children through antenatal services, immunisation, and health education.

In the war-torn east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands of children have been orphaned by ongoing massacres and left vulnerable to trauma and despair. Through faith-based initiatives like the Let the Children Come program, local heroes like Hélène offer shelter, psychosocial support, and Bible study groups that help heal deep emotional wounds. Stories like Isaac’s, who regained his voice after years of silence, show how hope and resilience are being rebuilt, even as the urgent needs of countless others remain.

A visual narrative of Fadumo’s life in Cuun, Puntland, Somalia—highlighting her collaborative farming efforts, market preparations, and family moments centred around meals made from fresh farm produce.

World Vision urges urgent psychosocial support for over 50,000 people displaced by recent attacks in Memba, Nampula province, Mozambique, where 66% are children, many unaccompanied and traumatized.

Jane, a 19-year-old refugee from South Sudan living in Uganda, has reclaimed her independence and hope through the gift of a sturdy wheelchair. After losing the use of her legs as a child due to tuberculosis of the bone, she spent years crawling through her settlement, isolated and without prospects. Her life transformed when she received a new, purpose-built wheelchair through a World Vision Uganda project supported by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.

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.