Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Visible and Undeniable: Validating Women’s Leadership in Rural South Asia through Natural Farming Research

How does natural farming dismantle gender barriers? This DFAT-funded study uses the "River of Life" tool to reveal how women in South Asia are moving from the margins to become primary decision-makers, overcoming the global polycrisis through localized leadership.

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Periods are only bad when we refuse to talk about it

Razia is a young girl who suffered when she began menstruating as her family did not have the awareness to guide her properly on sexual and reproductive...

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The path back to hope

A young man whose business was affected by COVID-19 attempted to take his life but was rescued by his brother. Through the Youth Empowered Project's...

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Interventions That Save Girls From Early Marriage: Halima's Story

Halima,13, lives in Satkhira District with her mother and her maternal uncles. Halima and her mother moved in with her uncles after Halima’s father passed...

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How Ashish Found Hope During The Pandemic

After his father’s death, Ashish Kumar took loans to start a small business in his hometown. But in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began, Ashish was...

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Jannati and her Mother's Love for Handwashing: A Journey towards Better Hygiene and Nutrition

Jannati is a 17-month-old girl benefitting from the NSVC project's hygiene and nutrition training sessions. Her mother Nasima told World Vision about...

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A Mother's Hope For Her Children Fuels Her Resolve

This story is about Chingkume, who, despite her circumstances and the fact that she was a woman from a minority tribal group, changed her family’s...

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One Brave Girl Is All It Takes

Salma is a 16-year-old girl from the port city of Chittagong in Bangladesh who is working towards ending social inequality for girls and women by changing...

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Moulana Shihabul Islam: From Imam to Changemaker

This story is about a faith leader from Bangladesh who is promoting gender equality and equitable maternal and child nutrition in his community.

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Where strong voices bloom: An adolescent club empowering girls to fight child marriage

Sumaiya, 17, stopped her family from marrying her off with the help of her friends from her child forum in Jamalpur, an area in Bangladesh where more than...

GPOP, livelihood security, women empowerment

Amina's journey of empowerment through GPOP

Amina Begum was having difficulty raising her three children when her husband died. Through World Vision's GPOP project, Amina received training on small...

Nayeem is fighting to end child abuse in his community

Child trafficking: Nayeem's fight for change in Bangladesh

Seventeen-year-old Nayeem has stopped 37 child marriages, assisted two child victims of sexual abuse and helped rescue one child from being trafficked. The...

Sabina survived child marriage and is an advocate to end to practise

Surviving child marriage: The victorious Sabina

Sabina was just 14 years old when she became a child bride in Bangladesh. “In eighth grade, my family pulled me out of school and married me off,” Sabina...

Child labourer Nuri in Bangladesh breaks bricks to earn money for her family.

Child Labour: 11-year-old Nuri forced to break bricks in Bangladesh

Eleven-year-old child labourer Nuri* is by the roadside in Bangladesh, sweaty and exhausted from hammering for hours under the burning sun, lost in the...

Stanislaus

Stanislaus Rozario

Stanislaus Rozario is the Senior Director of Finance and Corporate Services at World Vision Bangladesh. Stanislaus has an accomplished career in finance...

Suresh Bartlett

Suresh Bartlett

Suresh Bartlett is a longtime leader at World Vision, serving in the organisation’s Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka offices for over a decade. Suresh’s...

Chandan Z Gomes

Chandan Z Gomes

Chandan Z Gomes is the Senior Director of Operations and Programme Quality at World Vision Bangladesh. He has been a member of the World Vision Bangladesh...

Alamgir is assisting the next generation of young leaders in Bangladesh

Meet Alamgir: The Bangladesh child rights activist

Alamgir never really had a childhood. The 21-year-old child rights activist in Bangladesh wants to make sure that no other child suffers that same fate...

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Managing menstruation in the slums of Bangladesh

Menstruation becomes a part of every girl’s life. But, for girls living in the slums of Bangladesh’s densely populated Dhaka city, menstruation is...

Sunita Mother

How USAID changed everything for Sunita and her family

The southwest coastal region of Bangladesh is subject to a lot of natural and man-made challenges. The area is frequently hit with cyclones, tidal surges...

South west

USAID supports volunteers to prepare for cyclones in south west Bangladesh

Cyclone Bulbul hit the coast of Bangladesh on 10 November, 2019 with fierce gales and torrential rain. In coastal Khulna, the worst-hit district in...

Supporting entrepreneurs

USAID’s Nobo Jatra project supports local entrepreneurs through win-win relationships with the private sector and local farmers

Susanto is 42 years old and lives in Tildanga village in Dacope a sub district in rural southwest Bangladesh. After Grade 5, Susanto was unable to continue...

Stop child marriage

USAID and World Vision support an equal future inspired by adolescent girls

Sumaiya (14) is a high school student in Kaliganj in southwest Bangladesh. Riding a cycle to school every morning, Sumaiya is confident and respected by...

Reverse Osmosis

OP-ED: Water solutions in the time of Covid-19

The goal is to give communities ownership of health and nutrition. Now more than ever, access to clean water is essential for communities to stay...

Women Enterprenuer

USAID and World Vision Bangladesh support entrepreneurs to diversify livelihoods, access savings and stay resilient

Moyna, is an entrepreneur in rural southwest Bangladesh with assets worth $771 including a fish farm and a small business selling puffed rice, a popular...