World Vision East Africa Impact Report 2025

This year, we look back with gratitude and humility at the incredible transformation made possible across East Africa, amid some of the region’s most challenging humanitarian conditions in decades. Despite escalating conflict, climate shocks, economic instability and widespread displacement,  we reached over 26 million people, including 16.4 million children, through life‑saving humanitarian response and long‑term development programmes that strengthen families, protect children, improve access to education, enhance health and nutrition, expand access to clean water and sanitation, and build resilient livelihoods across East Africa.

Throughout the year, resilience emerged as a defining theme, seen not only in the children and families we serve, but also in our dedicated staff, partners and supporters who consistently stood in the gap. Across East Africa, millions continued to face acute needs, from severe food insecurity to record levels of displacement. In response, World Vision rolled out critical humanitarian and development interventions across nine countries, including:

• Humanitarian support to 7.6 million people, including
• 4.4 million children, and
• 1.8 million refugees,
  through food assistance, health and nutrition services, water, sanitation and hygiene interventions, education support, and child protection programming.

FY25 became a pivotal year of breakthroughs, impact and strengthened systems across Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Every number in this report represents a story of hope—hope that emerged from hardship, and hope that continues to drive us forward.

This report is more than a record of achievements; it is a reaffirmation of what is possible when we work together. As needs grow and the humanitarian landscape becomes increasingly complex, our mission remains urgent and clear: to create a future where every child is safe, nourished, supported and free to dream.