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Samira was trafficked in India at the age of just 14.

Join us in prayer: Pray to end human trafficking

Human trafficking is the recruitment and transport of a child or adult for the purposes of sexual exploitation or forced labour. This story looks at how we...

Faith

Cutting the Roots of FGM with Life Skills In West Pokot

By Martin Muluka, Communications Specialist, World Vision Kenya. Faith loves education and would do anything to go to the university to study nursing. Her...

Yuko, a former child soldier

Child soldiers: What you need to know

As a child soldier, girls and boys will be forced to take actions and experience things in a way that denies their childhood and forces adulthood – actions...

Cherop and her friends in Kenya

Hope after forced marriage and FGM in Kenya

By Sarah Ooko, World Vision Senior Communications and Media Officer, Kenya Cherop*, 14, loves school and has always wanted to be a doctor. In 2016, this...

Surviving trafficking in India: Samira’s story

Surviving trafficking in India: Samira’s story

Samira loved going to school. But at the age of 14, her family could no longer afford it. They sent Samira to live with one of her sisters in Mumbai, India...

Hidden Hero - Chief

Chief Rallies Community to End FGM and Child Marriage

By Sarah Ooko, World Vision Senior Communications & Media Officer, Kenya One morning, Carlos Kapkoikat was going about his normal duties when he was...

Reshmi in India was facing child marriage at the age of just 15

An end to child marriage: Reshmi’s story

“It was a terrible shock for me when I heard that I was going to be married in a few days and I was scared and hopeless after hearing the news.” When...

These student leaders in the Philippines are fighting against online sexual exploitation.

The Philippines student leaders fighting online sexual exploitation

By Mong Jimenez, Field Communications Specialist A group of student leaders in the Philippines are banding together to teach their classmates how to...

David in Peru plays his guitar given through World Vision

Changing views on disability in Peru

In Peru, many believe disability is a punishment from God or caused by witchcraft. These myths mean the parents of disabled children often keep them...

Saving a Generation: Girl On a Mission to End FGM

By Irene Sinoya, World Vision Communications Specialist, Kenya Zipporah, aged 15, is determined to save girls in her community from Female Genital...

Paka and the pastor who helped change how she viewed FGM

Reformed Circumciser Inspired by Pastor, Protects Girls at Risk of FGM due to COVID-19

By Sarah Ooko, World Vision Senior Communications Officer, Kenya. In one of the villages situated in Baringo County, Kenya, an elderly woman is conducting...

A World Vision employee with local children

5 things all children fleeing conflict need

Around the world, children are bearing the burden of adult conflicts and violence beyond their control. A recent report by UNICEF revels that nearly 30...

Children’s life experiences help to prevent violence

Children in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region are contributing to the prevention and response to violence against children. For the first time...

Report: A world without violence against children

Report from the Side-event A World without Violence against Children New York City, NY – February 5, 2014 Co-hosted by the Government of Canada and the...