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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

On World Children's Day we want to make sure their opinions count

#Children’sDay We reaffirm that every child has the right 'to grow, learn, play, develop and flourish with dignity'. World Vision Afghanistan is dedicated to enhancing the wellbeing of Afghan girls and boys, and helping them thrive. This entails including them in the decisions we make that affect their lives and their communities. By listening to them and making sure their opinions count, we recognise their inherent value, reinforce their agency, and give them reason to believe that their future can be full of possibilities.

Warm like a mother’s embrace

Car horns blare, people walk together, chatting, a vendor calls children to buy snacks, the school bell is ringing. But the young boy hears none of this as...

Prevent and protect children from worst forms of labor

Battambang – The Declaration of the Provincial Committee for Child Labor (PCCL) was launched on October 12, 2016. The event was presided over by Her...

A girl determined to bring change in the community

Confident, self-disciplined, and inspiring, this was my first impression of 15-year-old Ganga. She is the chairman of a school child club. My meeting with...

A love of video games ended up with Thinh being stuck on a fishing boat, with the teenager forced to haul in cuttlefish every night while his family had no idea where he was.

Lured by traffickers, caught by fishermen

Thinh was addicted to gaming so much that he had to restart grade 11 three years ago. But the teenager nearly didn’t have the chance to resume his...

The broken dream – A story of forced labour

Human trafficking is the world’s fastest growing global crime and the third most profitable organised crime after the trade in drugs and arms trade. An...

Photos: Lebanon

During World Vision and The GroundTruth Project's Humanitarian Reporting Fellowship, photographer Christopher Lee documented the lives of young Syrian...

Child labourer finds hope

Phyu rushes out of her simple house of wood on stilts, covered with a thatched roof headed ‘to school’. On Phyu’s shoulder, instead of the school bag, a...