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Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Mobilisers at the market: How communities are learning about COVID-19 vaccines

Our role is crucial in changing people’s minds. I saw the rise in the number of people getting vaccinated. This gives me the fulfilment that I was able to do my job well and keep people safe and protected.

Richard shares COVID-19 vaccine information

Mobilisers at the market: How communities are learning about COVID-19 vaccines

Our role is crucial in changing people’s minds. I saw the rise in the number of people getting vaccinated. This gives me the fulfilment that I was able to...

Joy, a World Vision Health Promoter, holds her vaccine certificate

The power of mothers promoting the COVID-19 vaccine

The vaccine is safe. It will protect my children and me from COVID-19. Joy Nimaya is a 22-year-old mother of three and a health promoter for World Vision...

COVID-19 vaccination – still far from a celebratory moment

For the world’s poorest, ‘freedom’ from the COVID-19 pandemic is nowhere in sight – only 0.4% of vaccines have been given to people in the lowest income...

Cinthia continues her studies despite COVID-19 school closures

Cinthia is one of more than 2 million children World Vision teams around the world have helped continue their education, despite academic interruptions.

Cesar keeps learning despite COVID-19 lockdowns in Cusco

When COVID-19 closed Cesar's school, he struggled to continue his learning. With support from World Vision, he and many other students were able to...

South Sudan health workers take the frontline of COVID-19 vaccine subnational rollout

The South Sudan Ministry of Health (MOH) reported that 57,150 people received COVID-19 vaccines of which 52,387 and 4,763 individuals received their first...

Santosh and her daughters received Cash help during the COVID-19 crisis.

India: How Cash and Voucher programmes help families during COVID-19

Widowed Santosh shares a small one room with her mother and two daughters Pooja, 18, and Shradha, 5, in Lucknow, northern India. Before the COVID-19...

Early marriage

Maria escapes child marriage and returns to school

A year after COVID-19 broke out and schools were closed to prevent the spread of the disease, many girls in Tete still bear the marks of the impact of the...

South Sudanese children turn to the streets due to hunger and COVID-19

World Vision’s child-friendly space in Warrayat, a part of Warrap State’s Gogrial West County has re-opened but few children came to join the activities...

Krishna, in line to buy an oxygen tank for his father

Children fight against all odds to save their father

Anjali, a World Vision volunteer, recounts the story of how she and her siblings fought to keep her father alive as he battled COVID-19 in one of India's...

Hospital staff of a hospital in Kathmandu providing treatment to COVID-19 patients amid the COVID-19 lockdown

The COVID effect being felt in Nepal

There are moments in life when we can decide what we want for ourselves. But there are also times when decisions are thrust upon us and we have no choice...

Buwana and her Amma, Alamelu

Little Buwana's world torn apart

Alamelu and Buwana were each other’s worlds. They lived alone in a small one-room house in Chennai, India. “Wait for me in the house, I will come soon,”...

The impacts of India's second COVID-19 wave on children

With schools closed, parents unable to work and many caregivers who are ill or hospitalised, the second wave of COVID-19 in India is leaving devastating...

Franklin Jones, Head of Humanitarian Emergency Affairs, World Vision India

No hospital beds, 'acute shortage' of oxygen

I have worked in humanitarian emergencies in India for over 25 years, and I have never seen anything as devastating as what we are experiencing now. The...

Mridula Narayan, Communications Associate, World Vision India

'It's worse than a horror movie'

What you are seeing in the media with crematoriums being full and people dying because there are no oxygen supplies is all true. I have never seen anything...

Esther Ghosh, Head of Grants Acquisition and Management, World Vision India

World Vision worker's fight to save her brother

Esther Ghosh, Head of Grants Acquisition and Management for World Vision India. She lives in Delhi. This text is taken from an interview originally...

Pregnant South Sudanese mother agonizes how child will survive hunger and pandemic

"The need is urgent for timely humanitarian assistance especially to women and girls faced with combined hunger and the COVID-19 pandemic."

Ashmitha’s unsaid last goodbye to her father

A last goodbye

Ashmitha, a 9-year-old in class four, lived with her parents and older sister in one of Bangalore's informal settlements. Since the beginning of the COVID...

Some of World Vision staff who got vaccinated

World Vision staff receive COVID-19 vaccine among front-liners serving the community

As of today, over 140 World Vision staff in Rwanda have received the COVID-19 vaccine, as part of the Government’s efforts to give priority to the country...

The four daughters standing next to each others. Safa, Rayan, Tala and Assinat (ages between 10 to five).

Little girls need good food to grow properly

A "crisis within a crisis" is the best way to describe Lebanon's situation right now. Worldwide, everyone is suffering from the social consequences of...

South Sudanese women put up a brave front against hunger and the pandemic

A long queue of mothers and their babies wait patiently outside of Angela Acayo’s check-up room in Gurei Primary Health Care Centre (PHCC), one of the 13...

Hunger, COVID-19 and traditional practices in South Sudan force girls to early marriage

“I want to go back to school and become a doctor”, says 19-year old Bakita. Bakita is a senior two dropout from Kuajok Academy Secondary School in Gogrial...

Laurinda & Jorge sitting under a passion fruit tree in front of their small hut

School materials restore children's dreams in cyclone and COVID-19 affected areas in Mozambique

Anyone looking at the beautiful smiles of 10-year-old Laurinda and nine-year-old Jorge could never imagine that these children had their dreams threatened...

Fighting COVID 19

Fighting in silence from COVID-19 and climate change impact

“COVID-19 pandemic has affected our cash flow resulting on us those residing on the islands facing difficulty to get vegetables from the market as we only...