Rising Together: Hope for Every Child | World Vision South Asia and Pacific 2025 Impact Report reveals how evidence-based programs reached 5.8 million children and 9.2 million people. Explore how we are tackling climate shocks, child hunger, and violence through locally-led solutions for children and communities across 15 countries.

2025 had been a challenging yet productive year for World Vision in South Sudan. Despite funding cuts and growing humanitarian needs, we pressed on—guided by our faith and our commitment to serve. The year had been a testament that when Christ is placed at the centre of our work, hope endures and impact is possible, even in the most difficult circumstances.

Drawing on first‑hand experience from one of the world’s most fragile contexts, Paul Kinuthia, Senior Director, Food, Cash & Markets, Disaster Management, argues that repeatedly cutting food, health and protection services traps communities in endless crisis. He makes the case that narrowing aid to short‑term survival is a false economy that drives higher costs, deeper instability and repeated emergencies. The solution, the author provides, is urgent investment in resilience alongside life‑saving aid. This investment should be seen as a credible way to protect children and reduce the need over time.

Despite escalating conflict, climate shocks, economic instability and widespread displacement, we reached over 26 million people, including 16.4 million children

This story is about Vivian, a young mother in South Sudan, and her baby Shushu who became very sick from malnutrition. After losing her husband, Vivian struggled to take care of her children. Shushu was treated with medicine but did not get better until she started receiving the Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) at a nutrition center. The story shows how RUTF helps children recover, and how many families in South Sudan face hunger and malnutrition. It also shares Vivian’s hope for her daughter’s future, even while living in very hard conditions.

The EPIC project in Juba County empowers displaced families like Rejoice Poni’s through savings groups and affordable loans. By building trust in financial institutions and supporting small businesses, EPIC strengthens livelihoods, restores dignity, and promotes resilience among vulnerable urban households in South Sudan.

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World Vision is influencing the adoption and implementation of policies relating to FGM in Kenya, Sudan, Somalia and Sudan. The policy brief highlights strategic policy recommendations targeting national governments, regional institutions donors faith and community leaders.