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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Community Volunteers Promote Child Wellbeing and Protection in Kadjebi

In the Titiaka community in Kadjebi, trained volunteers are leading peer-led sessions to promote the wellbeing and protection of children through World Vision Ghana’s Nurturing Care Groups.

Hana from Ethiopia - Classroom Provision Story

Giving children access to quality and safe education is giving them the key to a better future

Many schools in Adea Berga district lacked basic teaching-learning facilities including well-furnished classrooms, proper seats, toilets, potable water...

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Assistance affects lives of the vulnerable population

When the war started in his place of origin, along with hundreds of his neighbors, 65-years-old Mohammad Ali fled with his wife and four children from his...

HGSFP in Burundi

School feeding project paves way to increased attendance in Muyinga

According to a study done in 2018 by the national education office for planning and statistics (BPSE) there are high school dropout rates nationally (8%)...

COVID campaign for the community

How awareness raising campaigns is helping to fight the pandemic

With the spread of the coronavirus in the world, Afghanistan was no exception and quickly became infected. Limited health facilities, difficult access to...

Jembo community bids farewell to audacious water blues

Frustrations and anguish may suit the description of what the community of Jembo experienced in their ordeal of lacking one of life’s essential commodity –...

Soap

Soap making gives women a voice

By Kambani Phiri, World Vision Communications Officer, Zambia The leader of a women’s group in Zambia says that soap making has brightened their lives and...

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Keeping families safe during Covid-19

It’s been a full year since the first recorded case of Covid-19 in Wuhan China. Ever since the pandemic has swept the entire globe forcing humanity to...

World Vision staff member in Ecuador teach vulnerable families how to protect themselves from COVID-19 through proper sanitation practices

COVID-19: Preparing children in Ecuador to prevent the spread

For 5-year-old Víctor, talking about measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 comes naturally, and he is happy to offer advice to those around him. “You...

Un sachet pour le bien-être des enfants

Safe drinking water to improve children's well-being

In several parts of Senegal, access to drinking water remains a problem. World Vision's Senegal office, in partnership with World Vision's United States...

Covid-19

Ruth becomes a hygiene ambassador

Ruth had always heard about the importance of hand washing but never paid attention to why she should wash her hands. She held the belief that she had been...

World Vision Improving sanitation through loans for toilets.

Access to sanitation and hygiene loans help families in Rakai to regain dignity

“Little children in the community used to see me when I would go to defecate in the bushes,” says Sarah Nakajjoba, a mother living in Kyalulangira, a sub...

Mango shallow well of hope

Mango shallow well of hope

Horsed village faces challenges of insufficient safe water for domestic use, coupled with poor hygiene practices. This has led to women and girls walking...

Sean Kerrigan,World Vision Rwanda National Director presenting handover documents to Dr. Daniel Ngamije,Rwanda's Minister of Health

World Vision partners with the Ministry of Health to inaugurate hand-washing stations in health facilities

In partnership with the Ministry of Health, World Vision recently inaugurated 49 modern hand-washing facilities that were set up at hospitals and health...

Hopscotch toward hygiene

With a fund from World Vision US, World Vision Afghanistan established sanitation facilities in two schools. A solar powered water network, well-functioned...

Naomi gets new lease on life

Naomi gets a new lease on life

Naomi, 55 years old, couldn't recall the exact year of her birth, but when recollecting some significant milestones in her life, she estimates she is in...

#HiddenHero: My journey of a thousand miles to provide clean water for households in South Sudan

At the time of COVID-19, I am relieved that people in Fashoda and Mayo counties have clean water for handwashing. Even the toilets we built for families...

Clean water from USAID-funded R-Life Project helps protect 66K people from COVID-19 in South Sudan

“I am relieved that when the COVID-19 pandemic impacted South Sudan, the people in Kodok town have sufficient water for handwashing”, says Ismail Nyikay...

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...

Zahraa during the WASH Up! programme in Iraq

Raya and Elmo helped Zahraa to be more prepared for COVID-19

Raya and Elmo are the champions of learning how to protect ourselves from COVID-19 Ali Hussein Qader Zahraa is a 10 year old girl from Zummar sub district...

World Vision prepares communities for COVID prevention

COVID-19 spread could devastate millions in Sudan

As of 13 April 2020, Sudan's Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed 29 cases of COVID-19 in the country and four fatalities. The Government has since...

Raghad explains how to wash our hands the right way

Raghad, 10, from Syria lives in Azraq Refugee Camp. She loves hygiene and sings one of the cutest songs as she washes her hands to make sure she stays safe...

A pupil at Falayan Primary School in Mali, demonstrates hand-washing techniques to follow students. World Vision has promoted better hygiene standards.

No Coronavirus Case in Mali: World Vision Pre-positioned Hand Washing

By Michael Arunga, World Vision Mali Emergency Communications Specialist World Vision Mali, already faced with a Category III Emergency with a National...

World Vision staff conducts check-ups of children at remote rural clinic

Ending diarrhea one community at a time

“The children were only 6 months old at the time and on that day, both were having a hard time. Something was wrong. They were having frequent watery...

An individual washes their hands

#cleanhandsforall takes all of us

Kristie Urich reflects on how clean hands for all should be more convenient and more inclusive.