Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Strengthening Health from the Ground Up: How Village Health Committees Are Transforming Immunization Outreach in Solomon Islands

Village Health Committees strengthened by GAVI through WVSI

World Vision reminds Solomon Island leaders and communities that child well-being must remain a priority

Across the globe, Universal Children’s Day is celebrated on 20 November each year to promote child wellbeing and unite people to improve the welfare of...

Community Resilience & Disaster Risk Reduction in Solomon Islands

'Creating Resilient Communities' looks at World Vision's work with vulnerable communities in the Solomon Islands. Communities who are exposed to hazards...

Child Friendly Space help children recover from flash flooding in Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands children, parents and teachers have benefited from World Vision’s Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) program established following flash flooding...

Solomon Islands women empowered through Women Friendly Spaces

The Women Friendly Spaces (WFS) program set up by World Vision Solomon Islands (WVSI) following the April 3 floods is providing an opportunity for elder...

Toilets: More than ‘luxury’ for Solomon Islands Flood affected Communities

For Solomon Islands women and their families, toilets are more than just a ‘luxury’, following flash flooding that damaged many communities. Toilets and...

Seeds and tools help Solomon Island families recover from flash floods

Three-year-old Rina’s tiny hands slowly weaved through the stems as she plucked the bright red healthy looking tomatoes and capsicum near her house at a...

Improving health of rural communities

Rara is a remote community in Solomon Islands where basic health services are limited leaving women and children especially vulnerable to disease and...

Women Supporting Women in Post-Floods Solomon Islands

Women Friendly Spaces are providing hundreds of women privacy and support as they recover from severe flooding that swept through Guadalcanal Plains...

World Vision health team supporting communities in suspected meningococcal outbreak area

The Solomon Islands Ministry of Health Surveillance Unit and the World Health Organization are investigating a possible outbreak of meningococcal disease...

Supporting children affected by floods

Lisa Meikau, 6 was born and raised in an urban settlement where different vulnerabilities, challenges and opportunities exist. She grew up in Burns Creek...

Hygiene awareness activities aim to keep communities healthy

Solomon Islands Ministry of Health issued a nationwide alert following an outbreak of diarrhoea that has affected nearly 1,000 people in six of the country...

Blog: Our family’s special day now remembered for the wrong reason

Christina Muge is the Senior Communications and Advocacy Officer at World Vision Solomon Islands. Read how the devastating floods of early April that...

Blog: Sit Reps and Stories in Solomon Islands – Oh my!

World Vision Australia’s (WVA) Senior Field Resources Advisor and Photographer, Suzy Sainovski, leant a hand to the WV Solomon Islands’ Communications Team...

Improving the Nutrition of Children in Solomon Islands

World Vision is helping 61 remote communities in Solomon Islands adopt improved health and nutritional practices and protect the health of women, children...

Students honour mothers affected by floods

At a special Mother’s Day assembly, students from Woodford International School in Solomon Islands presented World Vision with a number of gifts such as...

ANZ volunteers help World Vision respond to flood-affected families in Solomon Islands

Following days of heavy rain, river banks were strained and eventually broke, inundating communities in the Solomon Islands’ capital, Honiara and outlying...

Of coconuts and the kindness of relatives: Rebecca’s story of survival

Baby Rebecca was sleeping when flood waters swept through her village in Guadalcanal Plains on April 3. It had been raining heavily that day so her mother...

Volunteers pack relief items for flood affected families

On Good Friday, a group of young volunteers, some of whom had been affected by the floods, packed World Vision relief items destined for flood affected...

Smartphones speed up flood response in Solomon Islands

World Vision is using smartphone technology to speed up an assessment of the needs of flood-affected communities and distribution of emergency relief items...

World Vision assists Solomon Islands flood survivors

World Vision is providing much needed support to more than 10,000 people staying in evacuation centres in Honiara and Guadalcanal Province following flash...

Honiara Flood Relief

Thousands of people have lost homes and loved ones after devastating flash floods tore through the Solomon Islands capital, Honiara, on 3rd April 2014...

Water is like a thief for Solomon Islanders

Suzanne Wargo is a volunteer with World Vision Solomon Islands. As an Advocacy and Communications Officer she gets to meet many amazing Solomon Islanders...

Solomon Islands flash floods damages homes and destroys livelihoods

On 3 April 2014, following days of heavy rain, river banks broke and flash flooding swept through Solomon Islands’ capital of Honiara. The steep slopes of...

Solomon Islands Floods: 'It has stolen everything'

“The flood, the water it is like a thief - it has stolen everything.” Rebecca Unga, 28, said as she described the moments after the Mataniko River broke...