Photo story of Kalawati, mother of a nine-month-old, who has been living out in the open with her family after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Jajarkot on 3 November 2023. 

World Vision prioritizes its efforts to provide children with access to developmentally appropriate reading materials in the local language to foster foundational literacy skills as well as develop the habit of reading in the early years. We have launched 15 books in local Rana Tharu Language, which includes story books, pictorial books, and decodables which are developmentally appropriate for early graders.

World Vision International Nepal responds to the flood affected families in Kailali district in collaboration with the respective local governments and local partners. The response included distribution of most essential food items (rice, oil, lentil and salt) to 67 households of Tikapur and Bhajani Municipality. A total of 44 individuals temporarily residing in safe houses were also supported with nine sets of food items.

The Annual Progress Report FY22 highlights key achievements of World Vision International Nepal in ensuring the well-being of the most vulnerable children, their families, and, communities in the fiscal year 2022. Through multi-sectoral interventions, WVI Nepal reached out to 785,301 individuals of whom 39.5% are children with a total of 310,545 (168,408  girls, 142,137 boys) and 6,292 people with disability. 

With the glasses on, Saloni is now able to continue her passion for reading books and actively participates in the classroom activities as well.

Building Resilience with Children in Kathmandu’s Brick Kilns (BRiCKK) Project is a five-year project being implemented across 12 brick industries of Kathmandu Valley. The project aims to protect families and their children from hazardous labour. Read the stories of change here:

Strengthening the capacity of Nepal’s disaster risk management and preparedness institutions.

Around 8% of school children in Nepal do not know how to read and write. World Vision’s literacy programme has given a new hope to provide quality education to underprivileged children.

We are supporting community school teachers in Nepal to achieve their dream of a child-friendly school.

It has been four years since they started their salon. Now, Chandan actively supports his father running the parlor. They earn NPR 800-1,000 ($ 8-10) per day from the salon. With the sustainable income source, Chandan and his father have been supporting the basic needs of the family members, including education for his younger brother who studies in grade 11. 

World Vision is addressing the learning gap in Nepal through a comprehensive programme referred to as ‘Unlock Literacy’ that complements the National Early Grade Reading Programme of the Nepal Government. 

We have introduced multiple agriculture-related activities for drought-affected communities in Jumla to become food secure and even have means for more income.

Supporting the Government of Nepal (GoN) to tackle second wave of COVID-19 in the country and support children, women and the most vulnerable families impacted by the coronavirus. 

We are working to create favourable platforms for women to be financially independent. Our Savings for Transformation model is a very good example of this.