Dr Kathryn Kraft, Global Research Technical Director, provides insight about how Faith-based intangibles—like spiritual resilience, moral authority, and empathy—are powerful yet often overlooked drivers of peacebuilding. She reflects on how integrating these unseen forces into humanitarian programming can deepen impact and foster more authentic, community-rooted change, especially in humanitarian responses.

Sadi Alhassan, a 60-year-old widow displaced from Torodi, overcame her challenges through her involvement in a savings group supported by World Vision Niger. Trained to make soap, couscous, and sesame oil, she turned her skills into a source of income for her family. Her group of 25 women generated 200,000 CFA francs, enabling microcredit and solidarity donations. Sadi was able to send her daughters to school and improve her household hygiene. Her journey embodies the power of female empowerment through solidarity and training.

World Vision and Lao Ministry of Health Partner Again to Deliver 800,000 Deworming Tablets for Young Children

Girls worldwide face unequal progress in education, safety, and rights. This report reveals their hopes, struggles, and the urgent need for global action.

Last year, our programmes impacted more than 5.4 million people, including 2.4 million vulnerable children and families across East Asia.

why ignoring children’s input keeps school meal programmes from reaching their full potential.

Over the past two years of hostilities, World Vision Lebanon (WVL) has mounted a comprehensive and sustained response across multiple sectors to address both immediate humanitarian needs and longer-term recovery challenges. Rooted in our commitment to protecting children and the most vulnerable, our interventions have spanned emergency assistance, infrastructure rehabilitation and resilience building.

Dr. Kathryn Taetzsch explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on the humanitarian workforce, urging a proactive and ethically grounded response to its rapid integration. While AI is enhancing efficiency in disaster response, climate forecasting, and displacement prediction, it cannot replace the human-centric values—empathy, adaptability, and community focus—that define humanitarian work. She highlights the ‘silent reset’ faced by the sector, where AI’s rise risks deepening inequalities and displacing routine jobs unless humanitarian organisations invest in upskilling, ethical governance and locally led innovation.