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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Rural Herat Health Centre: 'Without It, We Would Still Be Losing Lives'

After travelling for hours from Gunbadi village, families were often too late to be treated. A new clinic is saving lives, supporting thousands of people.

13-year-old Nouraldin and his family in Sudan's Blue Nile state, tune into the local radio station for news about COVID-19 so that they can prevent risk of infection.

Children in Sudan are championing COVID-19 prevention efforts in their families

As millions of children in Sudan remain out of their schools and classrooms due to the coronavirus pandemic that resulted in learning institutions being...

New vehicles from UNHCR to boost World Vision’s campaign against COVID-19 and other diseases

“This support from UNHCR is a celebration for partnership at work. It is not every day that we receive these much-needed vehicles to augment our fleet...

After months of being away from school due to the coronavirus, these girls in Blue Nile state were excited to finally be back in school, and even more, sit their final year exams.

World Vision supports children in Sudan to take their final exams

Following the country's first positive COVID-19 case in March, Sudan’s authorities imposed a raft of precautionary restrictions, including closure of all...

How children in South Sudan’s displaced camps face the COVID-19 challenge

A UN report has estimated that 5.5 million people are in need of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services, at least 54 percent of these are children...

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World Vision donates $40,500 worth of therapeutic feed to curb malnutrition

World Vision has donated Plumpy’Nut therapeutic feed worth $40,500 to the Government of Zambia for treatment of severe malnutrition among children in...

World Vision, USAID and UNMISS support training of 34 COVID-19 responders in South Sudan

World Vision’s USAID-funded CORE Group Polio Project, supported by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), conducted a 2-day training attended...

World Vision makes symbolic handover of COVID-19 prevention kits to Burundi's Public Health Ministry

The National Director of World Vision in Burundi leading a distribution of COVID-19 prevention kits, made up of hand-washing kits, soaps, masks, gloves...

Children in Roseiries locality in Blue Nile state, receive religious teachings in which their teachers also incorporate COVID-19 prevention messages Photo by Mutwakil al Jamry

Faith Leaders boost World Vision's COVID-19 prevention efforts

Pastor Boutros al Nour, the chairperson of the Blue Nile Council of Churches, is one of 27 faith leaders that World Vision is engaging with to boost the...

#HiddenHero: Serving others with love and courage amid COVID-19 in South Sudan

Love in action! World Vision's #HiddenHero in South Sudan delivers humanitarian assistance even on difficult challenges like risks of COVID-19. Every...

Understanding how COVID-19 has adversely affected children in Sudan

As we mark this year's Day of the African Child, we are deeply concerned at how the pandemic has taken a significant on the children on the continent, and...

World Vision and USAID reach over 59,000 people through intensified COVID-19 awareness campaign

“At my age, if I get infected of COVID-19, I can die. Being aware of the pandemic is helping my family so much. So, we frequently wash our hands with soap...

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Therapeutic food: a lifeline for severely malnourished Paulino

Ready-to-use therapeutic food MANA, donated by Food for Famine through World Vision Canada, has been used to treat more than 14,000 severely malnourished...

Health Pooled Fund transports supplies to help boost World Vision’s COVID-19 campaign in South Sudan

“The delivery of these COVID-19 supplies this week is very timely. The information materials composed of multi-lingual posters and job aids will ensure...

Micheal builds tippy taps for members of his community

From the Sekyere East district in the Ashanti Region, Micheal explains how COVID-19 has changed his life and the way his community operates. He explains...

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COVID -19 could put 85 million children at risk of physical, sexual and emotional violence over next 3 months World Vision warns

Based on emerging indicators, World Vision warns that the estimated 1 billion children already exposed to violence, could grow by up to 85 million as...

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World Vision distributes hygiene kits to families in northern Bangladesh

As part of the COVID-19 response, World Vision Bangladesh has started hygiene kits distribution in Paba Area Programme to the most vulnerable children and...

World Vision supports the Ministry of Health with personal protective equipment in Ghana

In Ghana, as part of our global Covid-19 response, World Vision has donated personal protective equipment worth US$10,000 to the Ministry of Health. Learn...

How to properly use a face mask

This video outlines the proper way nose masks should worn and also guidelines to ensuring they are being used correctly.

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World Vision warns that COVID-19 could reverse 30 years of poverty reduction progress as it launches largest response in its history

· NGO priority focus will now be COVID-19 emergency response in every country where it works · US$350m response that aims to support 72 million people...

Charles Kabogoza was appointed to the Covid-19 District Tasforce

Charles Kabogoza: Hero on the frontline in western Uganda

By Emmanuel A. Okello, Communications Officer, Uganda “When one of the first cases of COVID-19 was identified, it created a lot of anxiety, fear and...

Samuel listens to music during the lockdown

COVID-19: Coping with a lockdown in a refugee settlement

Families tell us how they are coping with the lockdown in their Uganda refugee settlement during the height of the COVID-19 outbreak.

COVID-19 Response in Lesotho

Supporting children on ARV treatment during COVID-19 lockdown in Lesotho

For children living with HIV whose families struggle to put food on the table, school days are an opportunity to get their first meal of the day; sometimes...

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Are children forgotten in the response to the pandemic?

Across Asian developing countries, COVID-19 is a gigantic nemesis that can paralyse their already frail and inadequately prepared health system...

Meet William, a 14 year old helping to fight COVID-19 in his Community

William is from South Sudan, and he stays in Omugo refugee settlement in Uganda's West Nile Region. He is in Primary 4, but since schools were closed to...