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Monday, February 24, 2025

World Vision’s Nutrition intervention curbing malnutrition in Ntoroko

29-year-old Maureen, who lost her home, four goats, and property when Lake Albert and River Semliki burst their banks in late 2024. Once a landowner, Maureen now struggles to pay rent for the land where her makeshift house stands. Feeding her three children has become a daily battle, and affording nutritious meals is a luxury she can barely dream of. As a breastfeeding mother to her one-year-old and two-month-old daughter, Deborah, Maureen had hoped to continue nursing her until the age of two. 

World Vision’s Nutrition intervention curbing malnutrition in Ntoroko

World Vision’s Nutrition intervention curbing malnutrition in Ntoroko

29-year-old Maureen, who lost her home, four goats, and property when Lake Albert and River Semliki burst their banks in late 2024. Once a landowner...

DRC Forum GHS Uvira CPCUS

Launch of CORE Group Partners Project (CGPP) Global Health Security: Community mobilisation to strengthen surveillance of priority zoonotic diseases

With the aim of contributing to the strengthening of community-based surveillance of zoonotic diseases and vaccine-preventable diseases, the CORE Group...

with Nino, project participant

Building healthier communities: World Vision Georgia’s impact on Public Health and awareness

The pandemic hit vulnerable families the hardest, including children, women, and people with disabilities. Many struggled with worsening economic and...

Child friendly space

Burkina Faso: Bringing smiles to flood-affected communities in the North and Centre-North regions

World Vision's teams in Burkina Faso implemented an emergency response that reached more than 200,000 vulnerable people following flooding in the North and...

The SBCC coordinator is building the capacity of community volunteers in communication techniques for social behaviour change in the Uvira health zone.

DR Congo: Faith Leaders And Health Workers Trained In Polio Surveillance In Their Communities And Ready To Serve

This article talks about the training of faith leaders, traditional practitioners, health workers and community volunteers as part of a wider strategy to...

CGPP community-based disease surveillance implementers

South Sudan community-based disease surveillance manual validated

The community-based disease surveillance manual in South Sudan has been updated and validated, marking an important milestone in disease surveillance...

Health, HIV & Nutrition

World Vision's Commitment to Comprehensive Health Education for Children

Explore World Vision's transformative health initiative in Lesotho, supporting Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights education, HPV vaccination, and...

Polio vaccine

“Let us say ENOUGH to Polio in South Sudan!”

“Let us continue to be a beacon of hope and strength to the communities as we ensure that no child misses their vaccination schedule. Let us say ENOUGH to...

Vaccination Campaign in Ouahigouya

RAISE 4 Sahel meets the challenge of vaccinating displaced communities in Burkina Faso

The RAISE 4 Sahel project, financed by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and implemented by a consortium led by World Vision, has organized a zero-dose...

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐕𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜: 𝐀 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲

Innovative Initiative Reaches Unreachable Communities with Life-saving Vaccines

In early September 2023, a remarkable community immunisation effort unfolded in the heart of the Central African Republic. This initiative was made...

Vaccination Campaign

"I had to flee, leaving everything behind, even my daughter's vaccination booklet"

The Raise 4 Sahel project in Burkina Faso, partnered with the Ministry of Health, to conduct a vaccination campaign, targeting zero-dose and insufficiently...

A child receiving his vaccine shot

10 Facts about Vaccination

Vaccinations were a hot topic during the pandemic, but for decades, they have been life-changing for children and communities living in the world’s...

African Vaccination Week

Playing the big catch-up: South Sudan kicks off national measles campaign

Vaccinations save lives. This message was highlighted in last month’s celebration of the African Vaccination Week, marking the rollout of South Sudan’s...

CGPP engages with radio stations

Local radio stations tapped to promote COVID-19 vaccinations in hard-to-reach areas in South Sudan

Effectively communicating risks and engaging with communities help save lives. In many hard-to-reach areas in South Sudan, communities rely on radios to...

Moving forward with vaccination and health awareness campaign in South Sudan’s remote communities

“I am so happy that I got vaccinated against COVID-19. I feel safe now”, says 65-year old Clementina Kaku. Kaku is among the thousands of internally...

Pfizer

World Vision in Zambia and Save the Children launch Pfizer project to boast Vaccine uptake in Zambia

By Agatha Mali, Communications officer, Zambia World Vision Zambia and Save the Children have joined forces to launch a new Pfizer International Non...

Child getting an injection against polio in South Sudan

We must remove immunisation barriers for the Zero-Dose children

Dan argues that the benefits of immunisation are obvious, but every immunisation campaign must listen, inform, dialogue, empower to parents

Bringing COVID-19 vaccination at the foothills of South Sudan’s most distant communities

“I have not heard of anyone who got vaccinated in this village. I am happy to be the first, not only in my family, but also in my community,” 26-year-old...

Breastfeeding mother has her COVID vaccination in South Sudan.

COVID vaccination math should make us uncomfortable

Dan reflects on the COVAX Platform in Year 3 and says that a pandemic that threatens the global population requires a global collective response. I feel...

Richard shares COVID-19 vaccine information

Mobilisers at the market: How communities are learning about COVID-19 vaccines

Our role is crucial in changing people’s minds. I saw the rise in the number of people getting vaccinated. This gives me the fulfilment that I was able to...

Joy, a World Vision Health Promoter, holds her vaccine certificate

The power of mothers promoting the COVID-19 vaccine

The vaccine is safe. It will protect my children and me from COVID-19. Joy Nimaya is a 22-year-old mother of three and a health promoter for World Vision...

Traditional Leaders

Channels of Hope COVID-19 vaccines model elates faith & traditional leaders

To improve the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccines among rural community members and enhance the protection of children, World Vision has, through its Mwamba...

South Sudan’s two biggest universities host COVID-19 vaccination campaign

“I interact with so many people in school, at the market and in public places every day. I took the vaccine keep me protected”, says Paul, a 27-year-old...

Mothers thank mobilizers on effective COVID-19 vaccination campaign in South Sudan

“ COVID-19 kills people. My mother tells me to wash my hands with water and soap so I cannot have the disease”, says Butrus, a 4-year-old boy in Juba...