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Monday, May 5, 2025

From Earthquake’s Shadow to Healing Light: A Partnership Rebuilds L’Asile

New Health Center in L’Asile offers life-saving care and hope after Haiti's 2021 quake, marking a turning point for families like Lanor’s.

Response to flooding in Western Afghanistan

World Vision Afghanistan plans to distribute cash to more than 7,950 people, provide health and mental health services, and distribute non-food item (NFI)...

Children drawing their lives before and after the earthquake

World Vision is focused on the most vulnerable children's needs, and attends carefully to their experiences. As part of our response to the Herat...

Afghanistan Flood

Afghanistan Flood: at least 500,000 people impacted

Flooding caused by unusually heavy rain has caused hundreds of fatalities across Afghanistan since 10 May including at least 55 people in Ghor and 84...

HERAT EARTHQUAKE

WV Afghanistan - Herat Earthquake Response

The Herat earthquakes in October brought tragedy to many children and their families. Razia's mother died in the rubble, and Razia herself lives today with...

We Are Responsive, Eswatini

GIK Donation at Mtsambama

World Vision Delivers Aid After Devastating Storm in Eswatini

Responding to the hailstorm that recently happened in Eswatini, World Vision Eswatini is distributing Gifts-in-Kind to over 370 people, including children...

Kalawati receives relief items distributed by WVI Nepal.

Niruta’s house of cloths

Photo story of Kalawati, mother of a nine-month-old, who has been living out in the open with her family after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Jajarkot on 3...

World Vision Afghanistan Response to Herat Earthquake

Since 7 October, when a series of earthquakes started in Herat-Afghanistan, World Vision Afghanistan has been supporting earthquake-affected people with...

Survivors of Earthquake Bereaved and Homeless

This is an interview of the resident affected by the 6.3-magnitude earthquake that hit Herat Province, Afghanistan on October 7, 2023.

Childhood Rescue_Lebanon

Can't stop, won't stop!

Once upon a time, (some) people thought taking hope to the world's most dangerous places was crazy. Okay. Maybe it was, a little.

Non Food Items

Cyclone Freddy: 150 families receive water purifiers and mosquito nets

A total of 150 families currently living in a temporary accommodation centre in Quelimane, Zambézia province, central Mozambique, received water purifiers...

Freddy

Cyclone Freddy: Search and rescue operations continue, as floods worsen in Mozambique

Stranded families are being taken to safer ground by boats, as search and rescue operations are stepped up in Zambézia province, in central Mozambique...

Nearly 2000 people affected by "Freddy" cry for food in Quelimane

2000 people who have been severely affected by Tropical Cyclone Freddy cry for food in one of the 10 temporary accommodation centers set up by the...

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Tropical Cyclone Gombe claims lives and increases vulnerability in Malawi

Tropical Cyclone Gombe comes barely a month after Malawi started to recuperate from the effects of Tropical Storm Ana which hit Malawi late in January...

A South Sudanese mother worries of her children’s future faced with floods and the hunger crisis

“I lived at the Pagakdit hall in Tonj North County for six months when the flood destroyed our house”, says Ariek, a 24-year-old mother of three. It was a...

Tropica Ana

Malawi: Tropical Storm Ana threatens children’s education and dreams

When Yamikani went to sleep at his grandmother’s place, all was well. Before he left, he and his siblings had eaten nsima (a mix of maize flour and hot...

Eleven years in disaster work yet the impact on children still shocks me

I have been involved in managing disaster responses of all kinds since 2010 starting out in Uganda. My first exposure was the mudslides in the slopes of...

Many areas in South Sudan face intense flooding, adds more woes for its hunger-stricken people

World Vision is responding to the emergency in all the affected areas within its operational zones aimed at saving lives and averting the suffering of the...

Flooding and hunger worsen dire conditions and displacement of 380,000 people in South Sudan

Floods have compounded the pre-existing dire humanitarian situation, including the hunger crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic in South Sudan.

Basir

Loss and hope in the midst of a flood

Every morning, Basir Ahmad, 49, waters and maintains his Fruit garden. “I feel happy every time that I come to my garden because it is my favorite job. My...

Communities are ready to respond disasters

Afghanistan is a country endowed with natural beauty. The land of mountains. It is a unique gift of nature. Nevertheless, this priceless gift is suffering...

Vali and his daughter new to their ruined house by flood.

“My father became my hero.” Communities in disaster response save lives.

On April 12, 2020, Vali Mohammad and his family retired to bed with fear in their hearts. “It was raining that day. Whenever it rains in the mountains, we...

Francisca and her family were forced to evacuate when Hurricane Eta hit Honduras

Hurricane Eta hits Honduras: Francisca’s story

As the people of Honduras braced themselves for Hurricane Eta, many faced the tough decision to leave their homes, everything they had worked for, in order...

11-year-old Mico's home was buried in mud after Typhoon Goni

Surviving Typhoon Goni: 11-year-old Mico’s story

“At night, I still dream about what happened to us during the typhoon. I would wake up feeling afraid,” 11-year-old Mico tells us. Typhoon Goni (known...

World Vision responds to the needs of flood-affected families in South Sudan’s capital Juba

“The flood came at night when everyone was asleep. The water woke us up when our beds got submerged. We ran for our lives and left all our things behind”...