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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

How Faith Leaders in Mozambique Are Turning Belief into Sustainable Progress

Discover how faith leaders in Mozambique are breaking the cycle of poverty through mindset change, farming innovation, and community leadership.

child protection

World Vision celebrates Parliament’s passing of two bills protecting children

World Vision celebrates the recent passing of two bills that seek to protect children from the most heinous of crimes. On 3 May 2021, the Parliament of...

World Vision holds prosecutors' training targeting improved justice for children

World Vision holds prosecutors' training targeting improved justice for children

Reports of violence, particularly sexual violence against children, continue to hog the news in Eswatini, despite the introduction of the Sexual Offences...

Dola, child from Bangladesh fighting Child Marriage

Sponsored child, Dola, proclaims to the world that girls are not a burden

Sponsored child, Dola, proclaims to the world that girls are not a burden “Many people of Bangladesh treat girl children as a burden. My mother was also a...

Promising Young Woman

If that was your daughter

Promising Young Woman and Billie Eilish have Elena asking why it takes a personal link to help us see the horrors children face.

Janet, student in school in Uganda, values education more than child marriage

Janet, faced with child marriage, fights for her education in Uganda

“Both my parents are small-scale farmers. My father always complained about having all of us in school at the same time.” Janet is one of eight children....

Child bride takes back her life in Iraq

Forced to marry at 11, Amai takes back her childhood

Amai* sat very still in her chair. Her headscarf was wrapped tightly around her small face. Her large eyes darted around with a mix of childish curiosity...

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Open letter to the future member of the Albanian Parliament

Esteemed future Member of the Parliament, Very soon, you might be one of the Members, sitting in the Parliament of Albania playing a honourable role...

SDGs Symposium

Collective effort needed to protect children from Violence

World Vision, the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Secretariat at the Office of the Prime Minister, and other partners hosted a High-Level Children’s...

Hunger, COVID-19 and traditional practices in South Sudan force girls to early marriage

“I want to go back to school and become a doctor”, says 19-year old Bakita. Bakita is a senior two dropout from Kuajok Academy Secondary School in Gogrial...

Landmark Declaration to End FGM among the Pokot Community in Kenya & Uganda

The Pokot Elders from Kenya and Uganda, who are custodians of culture and tradition, are committed to using their leadership skills and influence to help...

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Elders make historic declaration to end FGM and child marriage in Kenya

By Sarah Ooko, World Vision Senior Communications & Media Officer, Kenya As a child of only 11 years, Jacinta was forced to undergo Female Genital...

teenage mother story

World Vision working to tackle teenage pregnancy in Argotime-Ziope

Seventeen-year-old Rejoice (pseudonym) has become a mother well before her time; she fell victim to teenage pregnancy, and this has affected many aspects...

MOU signing GJA and World Vision Ghana

World Vision and Ghana Journalists Association partner to promote child protection and humanitarian development work

World Vision and the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) have entered into a partnership agreement to address key issues regarding Child Protection, Water...

Miriam moved with her family into this modest house

Blog: Children formerly recruited by armed groups are not just statistics

Our Campaigns Coordinator, Manzo Dembele, blogs on the importance of supporting children formerly recruited by armed groups for the successful...

Reviving children's hopes: Home-based distance-learning program amid COVID-19 in South Sudan

An estimated 3.4 million South Sudanese children, 51 percent of whom are girls, lack or have inadequate access to education services this 2021, according...

Faith

Cutting the Roots of FGM with Life Skills In West Pokot

By Martin Muluka, Communications Specialist, World Vision Kenya. Faith loves education and would do anything to go to the university to study nursing. Her...

Hidden Hero Diana Tibesigwa It takes a world World Vision Uganda christ-centred and community empowering humanitarian organisation

Diana: a hidden hero who won’t relent in the face of challenges

Diana Tibesigwa is a child rights advocate and believer in the power of a person’s voice to do the impossible, battle inequality, and call for justice...

Syrian refugee Aryan

Growing up scared

As she faces a milestone birthday of her own, Eleanor looks at why for so many children, turning the significant age of 10 is not the celebration they...

Ending the Use of Child Soldiers: What girls and boys in armed conflict face today

Ending the Use of Child Soldiers: What girls and boys in armed conflict face today

To truly realise a world without child soldiers, we must address the emerging issues that allow child recruitment and use to continue as World Vision's...

Ending violence against children

What do our broken promises teach children?

New research puts uncomfortable spotlight on the global commitments to end violence against children, say Dana Buzducea and Dr Belinda Bennet.

Yuko, a former child soldier

Child soldiers: What you need to know

As a child soldier, girls and boys will be forced to take actions and experience things in a way that denies their childhood and forces adulthood – actions...

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Promoting zero tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), one community at a time

It is estimated that more than 200 million young girls and women still alive today have been victims of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). On this 6 February...

Cherop and her friends in Kenya

Hope after forced marriage and FGM in Kenya

By Sarah Ooko, World Vision Senior Communications and Media Officer, Kenya Cherop*, 14, loves school and has always wanted to be a doctor. In 2016, this...

Antoinette Habinshuti in Kondokhou_@Alexandre Gassama for World Vision Senegal

Why joining forces is pivotal to addressing violence against children in Africa

World Vision's Antoinette Habinshuti highlights the value of consortium work at the JOFA Project launch in Senegal, aiming to maximize collaborative...