After leaving school and withdrawing from community life, Argentina found her voice through Every Girl Can, becoming a youth advocate for better services and girls’ rights in Mozambique.

Young advocate Ludmila is helping transform childhood in Nampula through Every Girl Can, challenging child marriage, promoting gender equality and empowering young voices to drive community change.

Factsheet 2025 Engaging Citizens to Improve Service Delivery Through Social Accountability Project

World Vision Eswatini strengthens staff skills through Citizen Voice and Action training, promoting community participation and lasting improvements in children’s well-being.

This article highlights how community nutrition dialogues supported by World Vision in Sake, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, are helping families turn knowledge into practical action. Through household vegetable gardens, mothers are improving access to nutritious foods, diversifying family meals and sharing their knowledge and harvests with others. The story demonstrates how community-led solutions can strengthen child nutrition, promote self-reliance and build hope among families affected by conflict and food insecurity.

Through World Vision’s Enough Campaign, a campaign calling for collective action to end child hunger and malnutrition, children are not only raising awareness about child hunger and malnutrition but also using their voices to influence solutions to improve school meals and nutrition across the country.

Esther had run out of easy options. A 29-year-old single mother of four in Maridi, she was watching her household fall apart at the joins over school fees. Two of her children had already been sent home from class because she couldn't pay. She was weighing whether to leave her kids and search for casual labor in town, the kind of decision no mother wants to make, and the kind that rarely fixes anything for long.

Discover how community advocacy helped secure 7.6 million Kshs for schools in Samburu County, giving more than 400 children access to education and a brighter future.

This article tells the story of Aminata Luse, a mother of three from Biaboko, whose experience with exclusive breastfeeding transformed the health and well-being of her third child. After facing frequent illnesses with her first two children, Aminata joined an Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) support group, where she learnt about the importance of the first 1,000 days and the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding. The story highlights how nutrition education, community-based support and practical guidance can empower mothers to adopt healthier feeding practices and improve outcomes for their children. It also showcases World Vision’s work, with support from KOICA and the World Food Programme, to promote good infant and young child feeding practices in Luiza and Luambo health zones.

For years, Harona believed that success could only be found beyond Senegal's borders. "I thought the only way to build a better future was to leave," he recalled.