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Thursday, April 24, 2025

World Vision Scales Up School Feeding Program in Malawi

World Vision has scaled up nutrition efforts, reaching over 60 thousand children in Malawi with school meals.

Nothing can dim their hope for a bright future: 8 dreams from South Sudan's children

In South Sudan 7.1 million people are in need of protection, 61 percent or around 4 million are children 45 percent of girls are married early or forcibly...

Christine lost her father in the conflict in the Kasais provinces of DRC, and spent months hiding in the bush with her family

Caught up in the chaos in Kasais | 15-year-old Christine tells her story

After a relatively short drive from Kananga we arrive at a sun-drenched soccer pitch at one of World Vision’s Child Friendly Spaces in Kasai Central, in...

An increase in influx of children fleeing war

During the first four months of 2018, 1,500 refugees and migrants entered Bosnia and Herzegovina. In March and April alone, 1,000 new arrivals were...

Thérèse lost her father and grandfather in the crisis in Kasais, DRC

Losing a father to militia violence and grandfather to hunger in the Kasais

For 12-year-old Thérèse, the violence that swept Kasai Central between 2016-2017 also cost her her family. Her father used to work In Tshikapa, a mining...

Over 3,000 children who fled South Sudan’s long-running conflict find refuge in child-friendly spaces

By Lisi Emmanuel Alex, Communications Officer, World Vision South Sudan It has been exactly one year since Beatrice lost both parents and never met her...

Alphonsine Kamvanya a volunteer at a Child Friendly Space in Kasai.

Fighting malnutrition at Child Friendly Spaces in Kasai Central, DRC

It is almost 11 o’clock in the morning and the number of children making their way to a Child Friendly Space in one of the rural communities in Kasai...

A New Lease on Life for Children and Families in the Selia Community.

On March 8, 2018, WV Chad Child Protection Officer Grace Palnodji and communications consultant Natja Igney visited World Vision’s Child Friendly Space...

“I was convinced that we were all going to die”

Written by Mouslim Sidi Mohamed It is with great emotion that Rahana, a mother of seven, tells her story about life as a refugee. “In search of refuge...

Children's Day 2017

More than half a million refugee children facing urgent physical and psychological needs are living in appalling conditions in Bangladesh. Children have...

SMART INVESTMENT:THE BAGASOLA CFS EXPERIENCE

Baga Sola lies in the north- west corner of Chad on the Lake Chad Basin. The Region is WV Chad’s part of the Lake Chad Basin Response which was launched in...

Boko Haram survivor: “Hope is still there even though I’m homeless now”

The memory is like a fairy tale. Twenty-three-old Mustapha is still remembering the day he joined the animators’ team to help manage one of World Vision’s...

Larakaraka and bowla: Children appeal for unity and peace through dance

The heat and dust were all over. The drumbeats were fast and the dancing was in a frenzy. The small children who were playing ran to watch and ended up...

The safe places provide children with a safe environment to play, learn and interact with other children to help build friendships and restore some sense of normal day-to-day life

Setting up safe places for children in Niger

World Vision together with Aktion Deutschland Hilft, is setting up a series of Child-friendly Spaces (CFS) to help support the needs of children affected...

Surviving the perilous walk to Uganda, a new life unfolds for Peter and his sisters

At 16, Peter* went through a horrible experience a child of his age should never have gone through. Sadly, he is not even alone. When the South Sudan...

Impact of Child-Friendly spaces on South Sudanese refugee children in Uganda

In this video, we show you the impact of Child-Friendly spaces on South Sudanese refugee children in Northern Uganda. World Vision Uganda, in partnership...

Ahmad never had a hobby before

Ahmad added a happy face to a flower he drew. The eyes he sketched with his favorite pencil were looking at the top right corner of the paper, where the...

One month on: children from Mosul describe life under ISIL

Children from Mosul are reeling from two years of conflict, say World Vision staff. One month after forces launched the battle to re-take the city, more...

Children re-create war scenes in first art class since fleeing Mosul

Two years of life under ISIL has taken a severe toll on many children’s emotional and mental health. Now living in camps in northern Iraq, World Vision...

Promoting maternal and child health after the earthquake

Delivering babies and raising them without proper medical care is quite common in rural Nepal. While the situation is still dire there, significant...

Ibrahim and Hamza in a World Vision child friendly space

‘People look at you as a second-class citizen because you are a refugee’

Jara, a 23-year-old Syrian refugee, fled with her family to Lebanon from Syria almost three years ago. Her husband travelled from Lebanon to the...

Fleeing War, Refugees Get Much-needed Support in Serbia

Herin, a 27-year-old Syrian mother is travelling through Serbia in route to Germany, where her husband went ahead of her in search for a better life for...

World Vision's child clubs increase reading in schools in Ghana

Written by: Marian Roberts Ekutuase Primary School in the Mpohor Wassa East District has in the past three years recorded poor academic results due to...

More than 1,000 children attend child friendly space in East Alor

On November 4, 2015, a powerful earthquake, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, jolted Alor district. In early December, Wahana Visi Indonesia (WVI)...

World Vision hosts first Urban Thinkers Campus on Healthy and Just Cities

How can cities of the future promote healthy, economically vibrant and inclusive environments for children and youth? This question drew experts from UN...