This story highlights the visit of the Global WASH Director to Sierra Leone, where she met with the country’s Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation and engaged with children who shared powerful testimonies about how World Vision International Sierra Leone’s WASH interventions have transformed their lives and communities.

Thanks to World Vision Korea and Ghana’s government, 10,000+ Afram Plains residents now have safe water, boosting health, education, and livelihoods.

This article highlights a growing humanitarian crisis in Nyiragongo territory, north of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where thousands of displaced people are facing severe water shortages. Formerly a refuge for people fleeing conflict in Rutshuru and Masisi, Nyiragongo now struggles to provide even the most basic necessity: clean water. Testimonies like that of Florence, an internally displaced person (IDP), illustrate the dire situation. People wait for hours in long lines, sometimes traveling up to 8 km, for a single chance at water, which is not only infrequent and unreliable but also costly. This crisis particularly affects children and infants, who are exposed to heat, hunger, and dangerous conditions near water points. The article calls for urgent humanitarian intervention to restore emergency water access, distribute hygiene kits to prevent disease outbreaks, and ensure protection for the most vulnerable.

In Bamako, CVA mobilises citizens to improve health, education, and sanitation—boosting civic engagement and service delivery in dense urban areas.

Clean water and sanitation transformed learning, health, and dignity for students at Ha Rannakoe Primary School in Southern Lesotho.

promoting hygiene to school going children