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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Frontline Readiness: Supporting Firefighters in the West Bank

This is the story of Riyad, 38, a Palestinian firefighter supporting some of the most vulnerable communities in the West Bank, and how World Vision supported his team so they have the tools they need.

Faith leaders and churches are instrumental in ending Gender-Based Violence (GBV) which disproportionately affects women and girls. ©World Vision Photo.

Churches and faith leaders key to ending violence against women and girls in Kenya

Churches and faith leaders key to ending violence against women and girls in Kenya

Ending violence against women and girls enables countries to progress much faster and attain their development goals

The road to ending violence against women and girls in Kenya

The road to ending violence against women and girls in Kenya

Kids in Bangladesh refugee camp

G7 must offer more than words to protect children from violence

The Brave movement of Survivors of Sexual Violence in Childhood have pushed strongly G7 governments to go a step further and step up their action and...

Hunger and age-old tradition fuel more gender-based violence and child marriages in South Sudan

“When it happened, I cried and blamed the day I was born”, Katina*, 16-years-old, recalls. Her father is a soldier who left them when they were young. Her...

Children praying and smiling

Research gives us faith that children can be protected

Kathryn is excited about new research in three countries that helps World Vision better understand the role of faith in social change and tackling violence...

mother daughter and bee keepers smiling at the camera

'Being the change you want to see' is more than a cliché

At the start of the 16 Days, Eleanor asks what women can do and be to break the cycle of oppression and injustice that harms women and girls in so many...

A family silhouetted against a blue sky

Three reasons a children's charity tackles violence against women

Abigail shares three ways intimate partner violence against women impacts child well-being and what World Vision is doing to address it.

Lady showing money to the camera

Domestic violence, economic woes: the intertwined menace for women

Tendai discusses how helping a woman achieve economic freedom leads to her being free from gender-based violence.

Matthew Stephens in Nepal 2017

Can faith-based organisations balance expertise and humility?

Matt asks what it means for World Vision to be humble when it comes to preventing and responding to violence against children?

Former child soldier on tough road to recovery, appeals to end violence against children

John* was a former child soldier was abducted in 2017 on his way back from work in the farm in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria State. He was among the...

Cabo Delgado conflict

Cabo Delgado: Where hope needs to be restored

Over the past few years, the province of Cabo Delgado in northern Mozambique has gone from being considered an important area where the country’s future...

Channel of Hope

Channels of Hope helps in addressing violence against women

Many positive stories have been generated by the World Vision’s Community Channels of Hope (CCOH) Project that is currently rolling out in parts of the...

Child in pink glasses

Children: not victims, but climate change allies

Patricio's survey of children reveals they think of themselves not just as victims, but as potential agents of change in tackling climate action and ending...

A Rohingya refugee girl with had bowed

Where’s Al Gore’s movie about child violence?

Tamara Tutnjevic shares her top three takeaways from working with leading think tank ODI on the sinister interplay between climate change and violence in...

Woman in shadow in Afghanistan

Why do we put up with this?

Eleanor reflects on worsening violence and discrimination against women, and asks what’s it going to take for it to end.

World Vision staff in Syria celebrates 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

World Vision male staff step up efforts to fight gender-based violence in northern Syria

By Alexandra Matei, Syria Response Advocacy and Communications Director, and Elias Abu Ata, Syria Response Communications Manager, World Vision, Jordan...

Informative sessions with parents

Gender-based violence in the poorest county of European Union - Vaslui County in Romania

By Eliza Drob, Communications Officer, World Vision Romania Gender-based violence phenomena are widely spread in Romania, in rural regions especially...

Towards a Future Free from Violence project

Samuel leaves behind his violent past

As the wind blows gently along the dusty road, local villagers head inside their homes to escape the chill. In this community in the rocky highlands of...

Understanding each other as parents and leaders

Understanding each other as parents and leaders

Lonsdale and Wereti are couples and members of the Community Hope and Action Team (CHAT) in Marau. They have three biological children and one adopted...

Aftershocks a perfect storm

Stopping the other pandemic, in the age of COVID.

Tamara Tutnjevic shares five things governments must do to end violence against children while fighting COVID-19. Every year at the beginning of July...

A girl in her home in lockdown because of COVID-19

COVID-19: We must fight harder to end violence against children

Bill Forbes, Global Sector Lead - Child Protection & Participation The headlines are terrible: more than 4.4m people infected with COVID-19 and 300,000...

Determined Ahmed in one of the oldest schools in Mosul that was built in 1848 where catch up classes took place in the summer.: Shayan Nuradeen, © World Vision 2020.

Determination of a young boy

A young, green eyed boy of 14, Ahmed* is dressed in his formal dark blue suit today. He is not dressed up to be interviewed, today is a special day for him...

Zyada and her daughter Duaa while starting their day

A Glimmer of Hope Amidst Change

Women are a unique, strong, wonderful group at the heart of any community. They are like flowering trees, enhancing everything around them as they provide...

Haiv at the Hair Salon

A Restored Future After Conflict: Haiv’s story of surviving conflict and struggling for a new life

It was August 3, 2014, when ISIS attacked the town of Singal, home to many Yazidis. Haiv (now 25) recalls, “It was around 5:00 pm when we started hearing...