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Monday, August 11, 2025

Water for Every Child: An Inspiring Visit to Sierra Leone

This story highlights the visit of the Global WASH Director to Sierra Leone, where she met with the country’s Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation and engaged with children who shared powerful testimonies about how World Vision International Sierra Leone’s WASH interventions have transformed their lives and communities.

Regional Leader's Statement: Ebola claims the life of Rachel Nelson

As the West Africa regional leader, I would like to acknowledge the tragic passing of Rachel Nelson, the daughter of our colleague, Tamba Nelson. Rachel...

World Vision to play major role in Ebola vaccine trial

World Vision will play a major role in the trial of an Ebola vaccine due to begin in West Africa in May. World Vision will equip faith and community...

Ebola survivor helps give others dignity in death

“I wish my sister would have followed in my footsteps when she got sick,” said Maseray Kamara, 53, who has just joined World Vision’s burial team in Bo...

WV bolsters measures to protect staff from Ebola

The tragic death of the daughter of a World Vision staff member, after she caught the Ebola virus, has prompted World Vision to bolster measures to protect...

What happens when the rice runs out?

By Sarah Wilson, World Vision Emergency Communications Specialist Umu Bah had been serving smaller and smaller portions of rice to her family for weeks...

Helping restore women’s dignity

38-year-old Elizabeth is a burial worker living in the Bo District of southern Sierra Leone. She strongly believes in the work she does - despite the...

Christmas festivities banned to prevent spread of Ebola

While people around the world celebrate Christmas in style, those in Sierra Leone must forgo the usual festivities as the country clamps down on...

Living through Ebola: A teenage survival story

14-year-old Hawa has survived the Ebola virus in the Kenema District of Sierra Leone, one of the areas of the country which has been hit hardest by the...

Helping ensure safe and dignified burials

As I stood alongside the relatives and friends of Betty Thomas to watch her body being brought out by a newly trained burial team, a feeling of peace and...

At home for 21 days

Keeping children in the same place for one day can be a challenge – so imagine how hard it is for families who aren’t able to leave their homes for three...

Orphaned by Ebola: Aminata's story

Aminata is 12 years old. She lives within one of World Vision’s Area Development Programmes in Bo District, in southern Sierra Leone. Like too many other...

Pregnancy in the time of Ebola

Hawa is a 40-year old mother of six living in the Kamara Chiefdom, Kono District, in eastern Sierra Leone. Three of her daughters still live at home and...

Ebola: A survivor's story

40-year-old Tigidanke lives in Kenema district, eastern Sierra Leone. Kenema is where the first Ebola cases were reported in the country and is known as a...

BLOG: 32 graves

Bruno Col is World Vision's Regional Communications Director for the West Africa region. He is currently in Sierra Leone helping respond to the health...

I'm still learning - despite Ebola

12-year-old Rugiatu sits under a mango tree and waits for her school lessons to start. Today it’s maths – her favourite subject. As the class begins, Rugi...

Responding to Ebola in Sierra Leone

World Vision is responding to Ebola in Sierra Leone with protective equipment for health workers, awareness raising with faith and traditional leaders and...

Faith leaders create awareness about Ebola

World Vision Sierra Leone engaged faith leaders to spread the word about Ebola - thus removing peoples' fears and misconceptions about the virus. The faith...

World Vision helps combat Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone

World Vision Sierra Leone (WVSL) is cooperating with government and other agencies in the fight against the Ebola virus, which has already claimed more...

Two mums, one blog

Sierra Leone is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be pregnant; one in every 21 women dies as a result of complications or in childbirth...

The gift of hope

Nine year old Jebeh Yorma is a pupil at Grima Primary School, in Tegloma ADP, southern Sierra Leone. She is doing well at school and has made some good...

School enrollment increased thanks to WV sensitisation

World Vision Sierra Leone’s Tegloma Area Development Programme (ADP) led a series of sensitisations on the need to send children to school, impacting the...

WV responds to diarrhoea outbreak

Nine-year-old Bintu Kargbo narrowly escaped death after she was hit by diarrhoea. She is one of 400 people affected by a diarrhoea outbreak that caused the...

Flood assessment

A family from Bo Jong Village is registered for assistance. In the provinces, Bonthe district, one of the hard to reach areas in Sierra Leone is one of the...

Blanket of hope

When World Vision came to respond to flooding, Mohamed’s family was among the 265 beneficiaries in Bo Jong village. They received nonfood items of clothes...