Integrating WASH into Rwanda’s Home-Grown School Feeding Programme boosts nutrition, attendance, and girls’ education. Learn why food alone is not enough.

In Elgeyo Marakwet County, farmers are restoring degraded land through Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), improving harvests, reducing firewood shortages, and transforming livelihoods for families like Scholastica Koech’s.

The increase in student attendance and attentiveness, combined with improvements in child nutrition, are benefits that the Government of Mozambique aims to replicate by expanding the National School Feeding Program (PRONAE). In partnership with PRONAE, World Vision Mozambique served over 5 million school meals in Nampula and Zambézia provinces during the last academic year.

Why School Meals Accountability Must Define the Future of Education and Social Protection

World Vision improves hygiene in Kalemie schools with handwashing stations, latrines, and behaviour change, helping pupils stay healthy amid recurrent cholera.

This article tells the story of how access to clean water transformed life in Nyemba after devastating floods destroyed homes, schools, and basic infrastructure. Through the voice of 10-year-old Moke, it captures both the trauma of loss and the hope that followed. A newly constructed water point now serves more than 1,000 households, improving health conditions in a region affected by insecurity and cholera outbreaks. Supported by the Nexus Accelerator Fund project, the response combines sustainable water access with economic empowerment through savings and credit groups that strengthen family resilience. Beyond infrastructure, the story shows how integrated support can protect childhood, restore dignity, and help communities rebuild after crisis.