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Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Governance for Local Development Plus (GoLD+) launched in Senegal

NGOs in the GoLD+ consortium met in Dakar (Dec 2-5, 2024) to align on requirements and standards, a crucial step before the program's implementation.

Leveraging art for child protection with Sister Fa

Sister Fa is a committed Hip Hop singer, with a strong personality and radiant energy that inspires children listening to her. She knows how to find the...

Sister Fa for Child Protection in Kolda region

Senegalese artist Sister Fa, in Kolda Region in february 2016, with World Vision for a series of animation for Child Protection and Promotion of the...

Cementing Behavioral Change : Celebrity partnership

Going into something as a skeptic isn’t always a bad thing as long as you keep an open mind. It leaves room for improvement, room to be convinced. Going...

Sight from West Africa

Photos from around the West Africa region.

Regional Leader's Trip to Sierra Leone: Reflections on Ebola

I’m just returning from a visit in Sierra Leone, visiting our team there working on the Ebola response. I salute their courage, engagement, commitment and...

Mobilization and Involvement of Health Personnel to Accelerate Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation

World Vision is one of the largest international Faith-based, non-governmental, relief and development NGO, with a focus on child wellbeing and a presence...

Bed nets save lives

Wali Balde lives in Kael Bessel in south east Senegal. This area is particularly swampy, and during the rainy season the country side is often flooded...

His brother's keeper

Once living in isolation, and discriminated against because of his disabilities, Samba is now watched over by his big brother, and especially a World...

Suffering from malaria no more

Wali once suffered from malaria, but since receiving a bed net from World Vision, he hasn't been sick since. Here he is, watering the garden at his school...

West Africa Food Crisis

In Senegal, some of the people living in the rural areas are affected by food insecurity. As estimated earlier this year, there are over 850,211 people...

Child Protection Caravan

A Child Protection Caravan covered 100 miles from Manda Douane to Kolda, stopping at seven points where, each time, an issue was addressed through various...

Children of World Vision Senegal celebrate

A group of drummers faces the audience. In the crowd, there are girls wearing matching pink and blue dresses, smiling from under sparkly, sequined-adorned...

Boys forced to beg

Mahamadou Kandé left home at the age of seven. Today, he is back from Senegal’s capital city, reunited with family and trying to recover from a traumatic...

Excited for Olympic football

"At the Olympics, Senegal can have good results because it has good players. They have talent. A victory is possible,” says 16-year-old Souhaibou Doumbouya...

Country’s youth excited for Olympic football

By Alegnesy Bies, World Vision Senegal’s communication manager For the first time ever, Senegal will send a football team to the Olympic Games. The entire...

Excited for Olympic football

By Alegnesy Bies, World Vision Senegal’s communication manager For the first time ever, Senegal will send a football team to the Olympic Games. The entire...

Boys forced to beg

By Alegnesy Bies and Joseph Carvalho Mahamadou Kandé left home at the age of seven. Today, he is back from Senegal’s capital city, reunited with family and...