The 2023–2024 drought hit rural communities hard. Families who depended on a single source of income, most often farming, found themselves without enough to meet basic needs when the rains failed. The crisis exposed how fragile that dependence had become.

From violence to leadership, a young man’s journey shows how faith and World Vision’s peace project transformed a feared perpetrator into a community leader in PNG

Explore the World Vision Solomon Islands 2025 Impact Report: See how we’re future-proofing communities through health, WASH, and child-led advocacy.

Through Empowered World View training by World Vision Malawi, farmers in Mpandadzi are shifting their mindset from limitation to opportunity, using what they already have to build food security, income, and long-term resilience.

Shatha’s story shows how the Faith and Development Project (CARE) helped her grow in faith, emotional resilience and connection with God.

After World Vision’s Empowered World View training, Pastor Khoza used her “other 8 hours” to start a thriving garden and poultry project that now feeds her family.

Learn how World Vision strengthens child protection and participation across East Africa by preventing violence, empowering children, and improving systems that safeguard children’s rights and well-being.

Hanan’s story shows how parenting support helped her move from strictness to understanding and build a warmer, more connected home.

This inspiring feature tells the story of Annie Mbayo, a pastor, mother of nine, and community leader from Kigoma, near Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Through World Vision’s Empowered World View (EWV) training, Annie learned to combine faith with practical planning, transforming her household and community. Once dependent on small-scale seedling sales, she developed her nine hectares into a productive farm, began pig rearing, expanded mango cultivation, and built a stable home, both a symbol and a result of her new vision. Guided by principles of stewardship, savings, and collective action, she also helped form a community savings group, inspiring other women and men to take similar steps toward self-reliance. Annie’s journey reflects the essence of the EWV approach, turning prayer into action, faith into work, and hope into sustainable change.

Explore World Vision Canada’s gender-transformative approach advancing women’s empowerment, equality, and sustainable development worldwide.