Friday, February 6, 2026

It’s Not Time to Retreat- Millions of Girls & Women are still at Risk of Female Genital Mutilation in East Africa

The funding crisis risks undoing decades of progress to end FGM. Global actors are urged to invest more and scale up efforts to stop this human rights violation.

Mary and friends in school

Girl power stopping child marriages

Mary, a teen from Ghana, shares what she and her friends do to save girls from child marriage in their community and to change people's minds about early...

Children's Day

World Children’s Day: Children call on actors in Zambia to end violence

From different schools and towns in Zambia's northern province, children did not let the day pass without joining the commemoration of the universal day. A...

Ending harmful practices: West African girls speak out

English As the 3rd African Girl Summit focusing on “Culture, Human Rights and Accountability; Accelerating End to Harmful Practices” starts in Niamey...

Promoting safe pregnancies in South Sudan through maternal health education

Aniiri is now 18 and a mother of two. She got married to Moses at 14 in 2017. The second of eight children, she recalls the different treatment among them...

Phiona and Masai men due to marry

I came back home to stop child marriage

Phiona shares how she went from growing up in a community with almost universal child marriage to combating it.

livelihood

Ayeshaitu’s story on creating her own opportunities in Ghana

“Due to poverty, many girls who get pregnant are forced to get married early. I did not want that for myself”, says Ayeshaitu. “I wanted to go to school...

In her shadow: Life through Adama's eyes

Day Of The Girl, 11 October 2021 Our National Director, Antoinette Habinshuti, meets Adama, a committed girl who lives in the commune of Dabo, to put...

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...

girls with fruit

#DayOfTheGirl: So much still to do.

World Vision experts in gender equality and social inclusion are proud to see programming that protects and equips girls to thrive, but call for more to be...

CHILDREN

Hope for Girls Rescued from FGM and Forced Marriage in Kenya

By Martin Muluka, World Vision Communications Specialist, Kenya Esther (not her real name) was rescued from FGM and child marriage in 2016, when she was...

No Recovery from COVID-19 without Increased Support to Teachers

By Marco Grazia, Dennis Sinyolo & Gabriela Miranda On this World Teachers’ Day, as communities around the globe continue to reel from the impact of COVID...

Ree got married after dropping out of school at age 16. With no way to pay her school fees, she decided she's be better off marrying her boyfriend.

Parental support and child marriage in Zimbabwe

By Munyaradzi T. Nkomo and Shamiso Matambanadzo, World Vision Zimbabwe 17-year-old Thulie was not pregnant and was still in school when she decided to get...

Ayesha was scared her future would be dropping out of school and getting married, just like her older sisters.

Ayesha’s story: creating her own opportunities in Ghana

As the youngest in a family of nine siblings with none continuing to Secondary School level, Ayeshaitu was determined to fight for her education. After...

Anuradha was a child bride and is now an anti-child marriage advocate

From a child bride to an advocate against child marriage in India

Anuradha was just 13 years old when child marriage, then motherhood, ended her dreams of becoming a teacher. Or so she thought. “Dawn had just broken and...

Sponsored child Gauri, 10-years-old, from Nagpur Area Programme, in her class.

Child Marriage: Why investing in girls’ education right now is essential

Picture this: You’re a 15-year-old girl, thriving in school and dreaming of becoming a doctor. It feels like nothing can get in your way. That is, until...

Girls in Niger

Five tough places to be a girl right now

‘Text me when you get home’. It’s a message that any woman will recognise. And just one example of the many ways that women have grown accustomed to the...

Luyando

A young nurse takes on the fight against teenage pregnancy and child marriage

Twenty-nine-year-old Luyando Hakanyanga, a nurse at Chimba Rural Health Centre, challenged herself to help reduce the prevalence of teenage pregnancy and...

Training helps Wubalem to escape early marriage

Child protection training helps Wubalem escape early marriage

After World Vision’s massive training on child protection to schools, community and Government staff, 14-year-old Wubalem and her community were able to...

Matseliso dreams of becoming a pilot to escape the pain she has had to go through

Back to school after the rape that left her scarred

Fifteen-year-old Matseliso (not real name) cannot control tears running down her cheeks as she bitterly recalls what happened to her on that fateful night...

Young mother in South Sudan rises from early pregnancy to pursue her studies

“Allowing my parents' absence lead me into wrong decisions almost ruined my life”, shares Adut a 17-year-old, mother of one. But she said she has learned...

Janet prefers education of early marriage and dreams of becoming a doctor

Escaping Child Marriage

Janet wanted to be a doctor, not a bride. She had already seen what early marriage could do – because her father had forced her sisters to marry early too...

Birth

More than 4,300 children receive birth certificates in Northern Province

In an effort to ensure that boys and girls from vulnerable households remain protected while at home during the COVID-19 pandemic period, World Vision has...

SAUTI Youth Project - 1

The voices that call for change in Tanzania's coastal region of Tanga

The Eastern coastal region of Tanga has been experiencing increased deforestation due to poor control and planning, and degradation of coastal habitats...

World Vision response assists 1.4 million; appeals for more support as hunger deepens in South Sudan

69,767 children under-5 supported primary health care services 52,217 children age 6-59 months assisted with malnutrition programs 672,543 people assisted...