Meet Chankos, a 16-year-old South Sudanese refugee in Ethiopia’s Tierkidi Refugee Camp. Once too hungry to focus in class, he now attends school regularly thanks to WFP and World Vision food assistance and school feeding programmes. A powerful story of hope and resilience.

My journey to Nygunyyiel Refugee Camp revealed the daily realities of humanitarian work and the difference school meals make for children facing hunger.

Schools and health facilities across Uganda are receiving critical infection prevention supplies as World Vision Uganda strengthens efforts to protect communities from Ebola amid renewed concerns over the spread of the disease.

After developing severe acute malnutrition, six-year-old Rebecca's life was transformed through World Vision's integrated nutrition programme in Gemena, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Combining early community screening, life-saving treatment, Positive Deviance Hearth nutrition education, and livelihood support for her family, Rebecca recovered, returned to school, and now dreams of becoming a teacher. Her story demonstrates how integrated community-based interventions are helping families prevent malnutrition and giving children the opportunity to thrive.

A few months ago, as World Vision Zambia Board Chairperson, I, Mabel Mung'omba, visited Situnga Primary School and saw children learning without basic infrastructure. Together, we broke ground to restore dignity to their classrooms, because no child deserves to sit in such conditions.

A mother in Dhaka's slums was forced to choose between feeding her children and educating them. Read her story of loss, guilt, and one daughter's second chance.

USDA monitors the McGovern-Dole school feeding programme in Nampula, Mozambique, highlighting how nutritious meals, clean water, and literacy boost education.

Every day, children carry their own seat in the form of a stool to school alongside their books at Situnga Primary School in Western Province. The extra weight drains their energy before lessons begin, leaving little strength for focus and learning.

Every morning, Akapelwa carries a stool to school alongside his books at Situnga Primary School in Western Province. The extra weight drains his energy before lessons even begin, leaving little strength left for focus and learning.

Children of Situnga Primary School in Senanga District, Western Province, walk to school each day carrying more than books. They carry resilience, courage and a quiet determination to learn, even when learning conditions fail them.