World Vision Laos empowered CHWs through Timed and Targeted Counselling to improve maternal and child health, increasing service use and reducing malnutrition in rural areas.

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

World Vision Afghanistan delivered lifesaving health, nutrition, WASH, and livelihood support amid drought, disasters and rising humanitarian needs.

Learners at a primary school in Ntondozi say life has transformed since World Vision provided clean water. Before, classes were disrupted to fetch unsafe river water, causing sickness and missed school meals. Now, lessons continue without interruption, the school garden thrives, and children like Benkhosi and Seluleko are healthier and focused on their studies. The change reflects the wider impact of World Vision’s WASH Programme, which is improving health and dignity in communities across Eswatini.

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.

In a bold move to tackle one of Ghana’s most overlooked public health challenges, World Vision and Unilever Ghana PLC’s Pepsodent brand have joined forces to launch a nationwide oral health campaign that will benefit over 25,000 children in underserved communities across the country. The one-year partnership, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), aims to deliver practical oral hygiene education and services that improve health outcomes, reduce infections, and instill lifelong habits of good dental care.

The Batkivska Opora chatbot supports Ukrainian caregivers with evidence-based parenting, child protection, and mental health guidance amid the ongoing war.

World Vision partners with the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty to advance child-centred policies, scale proven solutions, and accelerate progress toward ending hunger and poverty.

On this World Children’s Day, let’s come together to celebrate the strength, creativity, and dreams of Palestinian children and to renew our commitment to protecting their most basic right: the right to simply be children. Together, let’s ensure that every child grows up in a world where they are safe, protected, and hopeful for a brighter tomorrow.