For years, families in Chapemba lived with a quiet fear. If sickness struck at night, help was 17 kilometres away. That distance costs lives. Headman Biton Simbeye remembers it well. "People used to suffer in this community," he says. "They walked so many kilometres to reach a clinic. Some lost their lives. Others gave birth along the road." The pain was real and close. A mother in labour, collapsing halfway to help. A sick child arriving too late to be saved. "It was painful for my people," Simbeye says, "and we could not take any more."

For years, Habiba’s family has relied on unsafe, contaminated water. A broken borehole now forces hundreds of households to depend on a seasonal water pan.

In Colombia, refugee families rebuild their lives through small businesses—keeping children in school and hope alive, as fragile progress now faces funding risks.

Discover how a community-based maternal and child health project in Mongolia improved child nutrition, strengthened primary healthcare, and empowered families.

Drawing lessons from Eswatini, this article explores how partnerships, political will, and community ownership can accelerate sustainable development and achieve lasting impact.

World Vision Venezuela and Colombia continues to monitor the emergency caused by the two earthquakes and calls for collective support to help reduce the growing risks faced by children and their families.

For years, Mphande Primary School in Chipapa Community stood as a symbol of the challenges facing rural schools across Zambia. Overcrowded classrooms forced learners outdoors under trees, teachers worked under difficult conditions, and limited access to technology left pupils to wonder what digital learning looked like. Today, that story has changed, and a new chapter of opportunity has opened for nearly 500 children.

As funding declines and hunger rises, new research from World Vision, in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP), shows that household self‑reliance—or the ability to provide for basic needs without external assistance, protects children from hunger, child labour, early marriage, school dropout, and family separation.

In the Shadow of Hunger: The Power of Self-Reliance to Protect Children and Restore Hope

ENOUGH 2025, presents key developments in policy, programmes and partnerships three years into the campaign