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Monday, June 23, 2025

The importance of sustained engagement for Afghanistan’s children

Johan Eldebo, Senior Adviser for Strategic Partnerships and Fragile Contexts at World Vision Nordics, shares personal reflections from a recent field visit to Afghanistan, highlighting why sustained engagement matters, especially for the country’s most vulnerable children.

Priya and her mother have been helped by World Vision India's Kitchen Garden project.

Fighting malnutrition in India with Kitchen Gardens

Two-year-old Priya was diagnosed with malnourishment when she was just a year old. Following her diagnosis, World Vision India’s health volunteers met her...

Maleka brought her daughter to the hospital because of malnutriation.

Malnutrition Hunts down Families and COVID-19 Intensifies the Challenge

Amidst the hustle and bustle of Baba-e-Barq Comprehensive Health Center - CHC, in Herat Afghanistan, in a corner of the hall a middle-aged woman with an...

Child eating food from a bag

The world's silence is killing and stunting millions

Dan Irvine explains that a major reason the world is failing to eliminate malnutrition is governments not shouting from the rooftops about how bad things...

Digitizing nutrition work to improve services for children in South Sudan

Madelina Abau, a 28-year old mother of four was full of excitement after receiving her card. “ I am excited with the new card because my entire baby ’ s...

Ouwani and her son

Over 4,700 mothers and caregivers benefit from trainings to curb undernourishment and malnutrition in Maradi

With the support of Aktion Deutschland Hilft (ADH), World Vision has trained 20 community health workers in the rapid and early detection of malnutrition...

Innovations in humanitarian aid help food reach the world's most vulnerable

See how in some of the world's toughest places, innovations to food assistance are helping restore people's dignity by allowing them to choose which foods...

CCFLS a preventive measure for malnutrition.

Community-led Complementary Feeding Sessions: A preventive approach to combating malnutrition

Community-led Complementary Feeding and Learning Sessions (CCFLS) is one of the nutrition approaches that World Vision is promoting as a preventive measure...

Ankis is one of 16,300 Rohingya children under age 5 who are receiving life-saving supplementary food through World Vision’s malnutrition prevention and treatment programme. More than 4,000 pregnant and lactating women, including Ankis’s mother, Sowkat, are also benefitting from the year-long programme.

Beating malnutrition in the Rohingya camps

Ankis is one of 16,300 Rohingya children under age 5 who are receiving life-saving supplementary food through World Vision’s malnutrition prevention and...

On Breastfeeding Week, South Sudanese mother shares COVID-19 turned her dream into a nightmare

Thirty-three-year old Viola Luka’s 8-months old daughter Dina was on a monthly visit to one of the nutrition centers in South Sudan’s capital Juba that...

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Twelve-day programme helps mothers curb malnutrition

Malnutrition threatens to destroy a generation of children in Uganda. More than a third of all young children – 2.2 million – are stunted (low height-for...

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World Vision donates $40,500 worth of therapeutic feed to curb malnutrition

World Vision has donated Plumpy’Nut therapeutic feed worth $40,500 to the Government of Zambia for treatment of severe malnutrition among children in...

Community cooking sessions: A practical way to combat malnutrition and COVID-19 in South Sudan

“We have different kinds of meat and vegetables but we did not know how to cook well for a balanced diet. Now I learned that I can combine posho or sorghum...

Tchamune is severely malnourished

Fighting severe malnutrition in southern Angola

After enduring years of Angola’s worst drought in 38 years, and the associated failed harvests, malnutrition rates have soared in southern Angola and...

Pedro and Teresa

Pedro and Teresa take their first steps on the road to recovery

Climate change in southern Angola has led to a swing from one extreme to the other.

Paulino with his mum

Therapeutic food: a lifeline for severely malnourished Paulino

Ready-to-use therapeutic food MANA, donated by Food for Famine through World Vision Canada, has been used to treat more than 14,000 severely malnourished...

South Sudanese working mothers worry they can put their children at risk with COVID-19

Esther Julius is barely a year old but she has to deal with disability and malnutrition. She cannot walk or even sit. Her mother Agnes David says, “My...

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COVID-19 makes malnutrition rehabilitation more difficult but not impossible

Written By Gladith Yoabu, Communications Volunteer – ENRICH Project, and Agness John, Senior Communications Officer, World Vision Social distancing...

Tough road ahead as Juba’s young orphans face the combined risks of poverty, malnutrition and COVID-19

The four young children became orphans when their mother died of childbirth and their father left them behind. The youngest, Rose, 8-months old, was found...

Race between malnutrition and COVID-19 getting to vulnerable children in South Sudan need an urgent attention

The nutrition centers integrated into 15 health facilities around Juba urban were always crowded and full of life. Babies smiling and crying, mothers...

Baby Beto and mum

Baby Beto bounces back from severe malnutrition

World Vision has trained 542 Community Health Workers in Huila and Cunene Provinces to identify and refer severely malnourished children for treatment.

57 volunteers cycle their way to fight malnutrition in South Sudan’s communities

“The walk is over. We will now reach distant communities with our bicycles”, Laura expressed with joy. Laura Idiongo, 23, is among the 57 community...

Mother who lost her son to malnutrition in Angola

Mother devastated after loosing her child to hunger in Angola

By Antonio Matimbe, World Vision Communications Officer, Angola Angola is currently facing the most severe drought in 38 years. Failed rains have led...

The Rate of Malnutrition Raising in Southern Africa

Malnutrition is rising across Southern Africa because of a severe drought. At Chiulo Hospital in Cunene Province in Angola, child deaths because of...

World Vision Health & Nutrition technician in diagnostic work

Rosinha Recovers from Malnutrition but Challenges Remain

It is a breathe a sigh of relief from a mother who has seen her one-year and seven months-old daughter lose weight terribly and her motor skills stagnate...