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School feeding & education

School Meals and School Attendance: Creating a foundation for academic success

Senior Food Assistance Advisor, Kevin Weseni sets out to show the link between the quality of school meals and better academic success.

Surviving drought in Somalia

Climate change is increasing hunger and malnutrition

Andrea Galante and Yukiko Yamada Morovic highlight the urgent actions needed to mitigate the current global hunger and malnutrition crises.

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Making breastfeeding work in a hunger crisis

For #WorldBreastFeedingWeek Colleen Emary calls for more investment to ensure women can breastfeed when food is in short supply.

Girls in Sudan reading together

Schooling for Sudan’s 19 million children could only be five steps away

Inos Mugabe says the effect of 90% of Sudan’s children being denied education is more devastating than just learning.

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Weather insurance plus farming techniques make farmers more resilient to the climate crisis

Climate resilience expert Ngo Tho Hung explains an innovative approach to helping Vietnamese farming families cope when crops fail.

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Finding a place for peace in the HDP nexus

Juliette Semaan observes that peacebuilding is often an add-on to other programming, and suggests future ways to mitigate that challenge.

Middle East children affected by climate change

How extreme weather is aggravating humanitarian crises in the Middle East

Environmental expert Aaron Tanner explains how humanitarian agencies must focus on resilience and flexibility to counter the region’s climate crisis

Peru children in school

Why social justice and education are vital

Teen advocate Sheyla, from Peru, shares why social justice and quality education are imperative for children and young people, and what she wants world...

Displaced children in Cambodia

Displacement due to conflict and violence is taking its toll on Asia's children

Child Protection and Safeguarding Advisor, Amy, spotlights the threats to displaced children and shares some approaches to protecting them and helping them...

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Gender equality, social inclusion, and WASH: How the picture comes together

Water, sanitation and hygiene experts Nobuhle and Kristie reflect on the art of ensuring WASH programmes promote equal and inclusive access, decision...

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‘The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice’: Why we mobilise

Lisa O’Shea explains the three ways World Vision uses mobilisation to bring about life-altering change for children

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World Children's Day: Teen says "Address the pain children face from hunger"

This World Children’s Day, Changemaker 13-year-old Genoveva from Tanzania shares how hunger and malnutrition affect children in her community and what she...

18-year-old XiaoJian in China

What do children with disabilities need most? Co-operation and a chance to thrive.

Brian Kusunoki says that better co-ordination among support services and service providers is vital to supporting children and young people with...

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Improving nutrition through partnerships takes secret sauce and no sugar-coating

Sarah Straatsma and Marina Adamyan say the World Vision, dsm-firmenich public-private partnership to improve nutrition for the most vulnerable is built on...

Girl in Guatemala washing her hands

Handwashing still a life and death issue for children

For #GlobalHandwashingDay Lindsay appeals for governments to promote handwashing and ensure clean hands are within reach as they did during the COVID-19...

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Our top ten calls for improved mental health care for the Middle East and Eastern Europe

“Mental health as a universal human right” might be the theme for this year’s #WorldMentalHealthDay, but Mike Kirakossian reminds us, it’s not a right...

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AI, digital and the climate crisis requires greater social accountability

Sarah Onduko reflects on key areas where the world must ensure citizens’ rights and government accountability

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The cold reality facing Afghanistan's hungry, malnourished children

The new National Director of World Vision Afghanistan warns that today's investment decisions by the international community will shape the future for the...

Children boldly speak up and share their opinions

What children consider innovation will surprise you

Faith explains how child-led innovation is the key to improving the lives of children in East Asia and around the world

Ghana men breastfeeding training

Why breastfeeding is men's work too

Awurabena considers how vital it is for men to understand and support women to breastfeed.

Mongolia Women anticipatory action training dzud 2023

What Mongolians need most in a severe winter crisis? Communications.

Bolortsetseg Bold explains that when facing the Mongolian ‘Dzud, ’community feedback mechanisms and media information campaigns were as vital as...

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Don’t fear the teen! Let’s turn our perspective of adolescents upside down.

As Julia Smith-Brake prepares for the Women Deliver event in July 2023, she ponders the joy and love she shares with her pre-tween daughter, and how...

Staff in Indonesia work with parents on changing behaviours around sanitation

Pioneering new approaches for WASH behaviour change at scale

WASH expert Sidney Shea explains the way people behave is hard to change and even more challenging to sustain, but shares approaches that work.

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Lessons learned from 10 years of changing a child labour law

Harry Kits considers the important lessons learned after a decade of campaigning to have Canadian companies report on what child labour is in their...

Girl in Zambia making sanitary pad as part of WASH UP programme

Helping girls reach their potential through dignified menstruation

For Menstrual Hygiene Day, Idalina Roia Alfai reflects on the vital work that needs to be replicated around the world to ensure girls have every...