Water is the blue thread of integration connecting people, places, and progress. It is essential to the well-being of children and their communities and creates pathways out of poverty. Water transforms lives by driving economic growth, food security, environmental resilience, safe healthcare, and educational success. Mapping the Blue Thread is World Vision’s 2026 to 2030 global business plan to deliver adaptive water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) solutions for a better, healthier world across 42 countries. Our data-driven approach enables country WASH teams to deliver targeted, location-specific strategies that maximize impact, effectiveness, and sustainability.

Lalor, a remote mountaintop village on the Vietnam border, faces isolation, poor sanitation, and health risks—but a water project brings hope.

Two rural communities in Krachi West, Oti Region, celebrate the end of daily two-hour walks for water as new solar-powered systems bring safe drinking water to nearly 10,000 residents.

Safe Water Network praises World Vision Ghana’s Water Lab for advancing safe water in Ghana, as both explore deeper collaboration for inclusive, sustainable access.

World Vision Ghana and CWSA renew partnership to boost sustainable rural water access through innovation and regulation.

Despite the lingering threat of cholera across parts of South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, especially in Renk, Sudanese refugee mothers like Nasime are proving that knowledge can be as powerful as medicine. Through simple but life-saving hygiene and health practices, they’re keeping their children safe, curbing outbreaks, and building resilience even in the harshest conditions.

Over 22,000 Krachi Nchumuru residents now have safe water and sanitation via solar-powered, accessible systems in six rural communities.

World Vision warns climate plans overlook child hunger: only 18% mention it, 11% address malnutrition, leaving millions vulnerable to food insecurity.