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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

New Office for Child Protection Handed Over to Pitseng Police Station

World Vision Lesotho hands over child-friendly CGPU office in Pitseng, enhancing child protection, community safety, and access to justice for children.

Barack - Uganda

Barack

For five years, Barack has been advocating for ending violence against children in Uganda. Now 15, he continues to be a Changemaker - helping to...

Portrait group photo from Mozambique

The Knock-On Effect: The Disasters and Triumphs of a Global World

It’s a small world, after all. And while there are many benefits to the interconnected world we live in, there are also costs to the economic, social and...

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Zambia’s Children’s Code Act Prohibits Child Abuse and Promotes Child Protection

August 24, 2022, will go down in history as a special day for the children of Zambia. It is the day that the Children's Code Act became law in Zambia...

Children at Sea

A family from the north of Lebanon shares their testimonies about their life as fishermen, and how the children are forced to work at sea to support their...

Birth

World Vision in Zambia donates a Birth Certificate Printer to enhance Child Protection systems.

According to the Zambia Demographic and Health Survey (2018), only 14.2% of children under the age of five have registered births, with 6.6% having birth...

Elie

The prominent youth of Akkar

The youth are the future. Empowering them means empowering and creating future leaders capable of handling the hard situations that they might face.

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Life skills and Psycho-social support sessions help ease the burden

The worries of a teenager should be simple, school, homework and friends. However, not all teenagers are blessed with such a simple life.

Sourcevie selling embers in a community market in the DRC.

Child Labour: What you need to know

The 2021 International Labour Organization report indicates that a total of 3.3 million children are in situations of forced labour on any given day...

Girl proudly shows off her artwork at the workshop.

Honduras: Painting with coffee to prevent child labour workshop

Faced with the problem of child labour associated with coffee production in western Honduras, we have joined forces with the Association of Coffee...

Children of Afghanistan dream and draw despite the crisis

Even living in crisis, Afghan girls and boys dream for their future. Watch this video to see their dream-drawings and learn what they ask from the Global...

Afghanistan needs urgent help to cope with humanitarian crisis

Afghanistan faces one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Economic collapse, lack of access to healthcare services, poverty and hunger affects...

Life-skill classes to fill the gap of education

Over one million children are engaged in child labour in Afghanistan and 4.2 million of them are out of school. World Vision provides access to informal...

Due to poverty, many children dropped out from school and got involved in child labour.

Forced to quit school, yet he dreams

Momen's hometown Afzalpur is a remote village in the northern part of Bangladesh, where the inhabitants are farmers and live under the poverty line. Most...

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Children in Zambia celebrate the Day of the African Child in style

By Kambani Phiri, Communications Specialist, Zambia One of the main tenets of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is that children and young...

Toiling Future Away

Toiling Futures Away: The impact of child labour on children's education in Malawi

Child labour takes away from the children their rights to play, to education and to a safe space. Poverty and lack of civic education rank top among the...

Muneer doing his homework

When fears turn into schoolbags of dreams and hopes

Written by Noora Jader, Livelihood Assistant In the midst of a constant struggle between the need to dismantle heavy engines and the desire to assemble...

Child labour in Busia gold mines

Rescuing and supporting children forced into illegal mining in Uganda

Behind lucrative business lurks a desperate daily battle for survival--child miners bearing the heaviest load. The impact of the work on a child's health...

Three girls in a rag-picking community pursue education

Pursue education against all odds: A story of three girls

The name Anand Parbat would, in all probability, not ring a bell with most people residing in the national capital, Delhi. It is just one of the area that...

Children who have dropped out of school meeting World Vision staff and partners.

Brighter futures for vulnerable children through Citizen Voice and Action

CVA is a local-level advocacy and social accountability approach that facilitates dialogue between communities and government to improve services (like...

child labour

We want to study and play more, not work

By Milagros, aged 16, Young Leader, Peru. I am convinced that child labour is an issue few people tolerate. Despite that, there are many different opinions...

Child labour dreaming again

Partnering to end child exploitation: PACE project enables children to dream again

Child labour is defined by international standards as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential, and their dignity, and is harmful to...

John in his class in Rwanda

Child protection clubs restore hope to children

John* lives with his mother and five siblings. John’s mother has been the sole provider for their family since her husband abandoned them. Even though she...

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...

Rescuing and igniting hope for children and youth forced into illegal mining

After series of surveys conducted in mining communities within the Diaso Area programme, World Vision noticed that small-scale mining was the most common...