Learn about how our work contributed towards improvement in the well-being of children in Mauritania throughout our 2022 fiscal year (October 2021 - September 2022).
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Within hours, World Vision launched its largest ever global emergency response.
In this report, learn how our efforts are reaching over 322,000 people in Mauritania; helping to limit the spread of the disease and reduce its impact on the most vulnerable children and families across the country.
To mark our annual Safeguarding Awareness Week this year, World Vision organised a workshop on safeguarding and child protection for 28 members of children's clubs, along with their educators. The objective was to share a code of conduct adapted to children with the participants in order to help them understand the rules that employees and any person affiliated to World Vision in Mauritania must respect with regard to children.
World Vision is concerned about the impact that the COVID-19 health crisis will have on the poorest and most vulnerable, and the risk it poses to already stretched basic social services and other pre-existing challenges. We are determined to help stop the spread of COVID-19 and reduce its impact on vulnerable children and families. Proper hand-washing can reduce the spread of COVID-19 within communities.
If area development programmes are the modus operandi of World Vision, Community Development Centers (CDCs) are the most trustworthy approach for community-based programs implemented in Mauritania. CDCs were born out of the initial idea of facilitating the monitoring of children in 1999 and have over the years become a real place for development and integration within communities.
Photographer Amy Sow shares her work highlighting childhood as part of the fight against child marriage in Mauritania.
Poor rainfall, traditional agricultural techniques and customs coupled with a lack of understanding about the importance of birth registration, put millions of children at risk every day.
Our teams are working with communities to address the roots of vulnerability and injustice. We do this every day by monitoring the health and well-being of children to stop malnutrition before it starts, by educating parents on proper feeding techniques and equipping parents to be able to provide for the needs of their families. We are also partnering with schools and the Ministry of Education to ensure all children can access quality educational opportunities.
Finally, we are also working with faith leaders and the Ministry of Family and Social Affairs in a joint campaign to stop child marriage.
Floods, harsh conditions threaten refugee children
After heavy rains and floods in the region of Hodh Ech Chargui in mid September 2018, Residents and refugee populations of Bassikounou and Mbera camp have suffered unprecedented human and material losses.
Highlights of our work with partners to transform the life stories of vulnerable children and communities
Serving and contributing to life in all its fullness for every child in Mauritania.
In partnership with World Vision Mauritania, visual artist Amy Sow and her team, invited young girls to come express themselves through photography to fight against child marriage.
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