Monday, August 31, 2026

Reclaiming Time, Restoring Childhood: Clean Water Arrives in Manguar After Decades of Need

The new borehole at Manguar Primary School was made possible through the Enhancing Community Resilience and Local Governance Project Phase II (ECRP II), a government-led initiative funded by the World Bank and implemented by the Ministry of Finance and Planning and the Local Government Board, in partnership with World Vision.

Women in Bangladesh participate in nutritional training as part of World Vision's child sponsorship programme

It Takes a Village: Why child sponsorship includes adults too

Child sponsorship is all about improving the lives of children, but to see real change that lasts, the family and community they live in need to be...

These water wheels are helping children in India get into school on time.

India: The water wheel helping children get to school on time

Krishna pushes the water wheel with a playful gesture. Her family's nearest water source is a hand pump, located a couple of hundred metres from her house...

sponsored children wash their hands

Water works: how child sponsorship changes kids’ lives with water

It makes up 70% of the world’s surface and 60% of the human body. And just like food and healthcare, water is one of the essentials that children need to...

Webster and his daughter

Clean water transforms Japi community

Japi community has had faced challenges with access to clean water in the past. Community members used to fetch water from shallow wells, and this affected...

The 7-years old little Djenebou lives with her parents in a village a few kilometers from the town of Mopti. Djenebou is a student from a Franco-Arab school who shared with us how her family has suffered from the lack of drinking water for years.

Clean drinking water means no more stomach aches for Djenebou

In Mali, battles are being waged to put an end to diseases linked to unsanitary drinking water, as the problem generally affects people living in rural...

CHILDREN

Water projects and improved education infrastructure fosters development in rural Kenya

By Sarah Ooko and Irene Sinoya, Communications Specialists, World Vision Kenya World Vision has handed over seven water projects (boreholes) equipped with...

Himanshi collects clean water from the Hub and Spoke network tap.

Solar power clean water system keeps Himanshi healthy in India

Just like all of us, Himanshi in India has been told to wash her hands often during the COVID-19 pandemic to reduce her chances of catching the virus. But...

World Vision & Britam Launch Water Insurance

Insurance Innovation to Boost Sustainability of Rural Water Projects in Kenya

By Sarah Ooko, World Vision Senior Communications Officer, Kenya World Vision, in partnership with Britam General Insurance, has launched a water insurance...

Clean water supply frees Kodok’s children from cholera and water-borne diseases

When conflict raged in Kodok, a small town in Upper Nile State’s Fashoda County in South Sudan, people suffered from fear and instability as well as...

WaSH inaguration in Tigray region, Ethiopia.

New Water Facilities for Meseret Tabia

“Water is life!….Water is life!….Clean water for all!…...Clean water for All!,” loudly chanted by children of Meseret Tabia in Enderta Area Programme in...

Joseph with his wife Joan and two of their children, Dalmas and Skovia, at their brick making site in their home in Busia, Kenya. ©World Vision/Photo by Susan Otieno.

Improved Water Access Increases Family’s Fortune

Eight years ago, when Joan, 36, and her husband Joseph, 40, got into the brick-making business, water was a problem. This are very different now.

Rose smiling

Partnering For Improved Water and Sanitation: a Refreshing Relief For Rose

For many years, 10-year-old Rose and her two younger siblings consumed contaminated water from Agago stream, 2.5km away from their home. As the only source...

Photo summary: Josephine is pictures with her son, practicing proper and washing skill using flowing water and soap. This was taught to them through the WASH behavioral change messaging through different channels, including radio and training workshops.

Reclaiming Time with Access to Clean Water

“I’m overjoyed at the fact that we [now] have access to clean drinking water close to our home,” says Josephine, a wife and a mother to eight lovely...

WASH water supply system launch

Working Together Towards Universal Access to Clean Water and Proper Sanitation in Rural Rwanda

In many developing countries, including Rwanda, about 80% of illnesses are the result of poor water and sanitation conditions. Infants and young children...

Dignitythroughwashmamaraky

Dignity through WASH

The lack of suitable latrines is not just a failure of personal hygiene and a risk to public health – it is also an affront to individual dignity. “Little...

The Ministry of Hydraulics conducts the process of restitution of the results of the trace metal study in rural development water points

World Vision Niger provided technical input to a groundbreaking event, hosted by the Government of Niger, which will lead to action to improve the quality...

Isabelle writing at school

Isabelle: Sponsorship, economic empowerment and clean water—a powerful combination

Sponsored child, Isabelle, is absolutely thriving in the Kisaro Area Programme in Rwanda, thanks to her sponsor in Australia, as well as a new cow, and a...

World Vision Bangladesh implemented a WASH project for the costal dwellers in Assasuni District

Pond Sand Filters impacted thousands of lives in Bangladesh

“Situation was unthinkable before, says Dilip Mondol, the chairman of the Pond Sand Filter Management Committee of Thakurbari, at Assasuni Upazila, now it...

Women in South Fly to see ease in access to water burden WAVE project (23)

Women in Daru to see ease in access to water

To mark the International Women’s Day, we have all been urged to – Think equal, build smart, innovate for change. In Papua New Guinea, women still lack...

Denzely finally returns to school

Earthquake Response: One year after, Denzely returns to school

Eleven year old Denzely will be back in school this year enjoying his favourite subject mathametics at Muluma Primary School, located in the Southern...

Mushe savings group meeting

A Savings Group Transforms a Community

In Central province in World Vision Zambia’s Mumbwa Kaindu Cluster, Mushe savings group is among more than 3,700 groups across the country that have been...

Clean Water for Democratic Republic of Congo : One Family's Story

This video is going to show the one family's story who, thanks to World Vision (Ledia Program Gemena) and Evangelical Covenant Church support, has access...

No More Confused to Defecate

On August 5, 2018, I Wayan Dana (41 yo), head of Orongkelas sub-village has just arrived from Bayan Village, North Lombok Regency as a volunteer for the...

From Mud to Water in Mauritania with P&G

World Vision Mauritania and P & G for the first time bring clean water where there has never been in Mauritania. Discover in video how the distribution of...