Isabel Gomes highlights how children are paying the highest price for a shrinking aid system. She also sheds light on how cuts to humanitarian funding are forcing impossible choices—who eats, who learns, who survives. Signaling about a system under strain, where children risk being pushed to the margins, she urges that governments, decision-makers, and donors ensure solidarity triumphs over indifference.

World Vision Afghanistan supported 146,253 people with health, nutrition, WASH, food security, protection & child wellbeing from June–July 2025.

We continue to support the most vulnerable children in the country, as humanitarian needs have remained high since the international withdrawal in 2021.

For boys and girls in Pakistan, education is more than being literate. It is about changing their lives, and the lives of others.

Shankotila Bai, Lady Health Worker

“Since the earthquake World Vision has been working on child protection in various parts of quake-ravaged Mansehra district, and was very concerned about child rights in the earthquake-affected regions of Pakistan,” said Richard Mukhwana, World Vision Child Protection Officer.

Zahida* from Mang Sharki village was 25 and eight-months pregnant when she went into early labour with her fifth child eight years ago. On her way to the nearest clinic in north-west Pakistan’s Balakot city, she died giving birth to an underweight baby girl.