This is the 13th situation update for the Global Hunger Response, created in September 2023. This includes data through 31 August 2023.

Almost one year has passed since Vadim began attending the child-friendly space run by Ave Copiii, World Vision’s local partner in Chisinau, Moldova. This space, supported by Nachbar in Not (NiN) and the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC), is designed to offer protection services, formal, and non-formal education, and facilitate positive engagement for Ukrainian children like Vadim, and host communities.

This report describes the efforts of World Vision Bangladesh to train young volunteers to engage in disaster risk reduction activities that can be scaled up across the country.

Many refugee children are at risk of losing another one or more school years if they are not better supported to enroll in the national school system. We are calling for a renewed sense of urgency, and action among host country governments and donors to ensure all refugee children from Ukraine can enroll in and attend school in national systems as soon as possible.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, World Vision utilized innovative strategies and adaptations to ensure child protection programming continued and thrived to protection vulnerable children from violence.