Highlights Partnership to deliver a $2.8 million program tackling maternal malnutrition World Vision will promote more effective supplementation to reduce poor maternal nutrition and birth outcomes The program will help save the lives of mothers and babies in Zambia LUSAKA, ZAMBIA (March 16, 2023)...
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Kany…shares how before the loan from VisionFund she struggled to provide food for her children or pay their school fees …now all of her children are in school, their health has improved, and she is able to provide more nutritious and better-quality food.. ©...
Mental health crisis in Syria likely to worsen following last month’s earthquake, World Vision warns
Highlights 94% of surveyed families in northwest Syria have some form of damage to their homes, and 51% have had their homes destroyed. 84% said the earthquake had impacted their children’s ability to access education, leaving them at risk of abuse and exploitation. Even...
Toll of conflict in Eastern Ukraine on children: increased aggression, anxiety, substance abuse
Highlights On average, 53 civilians in Ukraine have been killed or injured every day since the war began on February 24, 2022 The homes of nearly half (47%) of children in Ukraine have sustained some form of damage Over half of all children surveyed...
Highlights The already-stretched child protection system in northwest Syria is now overwhelmed due to the number of children who have lost one or both parents. Many are missing identity documents, adding to the challenges of reuniting them with their families. Child protection must remain...
Highlights Deadliest earthquake in a decade has created need greater than any other natural disaster the organization has responded to in over a decade World Vision notes that this humanitarian emergency, catastrophic in historic terms, requires an aid response that is historic in generosity...
Highlights The NFL veteran will fund the drilling of two wells and help raise funds for a third The effort will support World Vision’s goal of reaching everyone in their project areas with clean water—including 800,000 people in Zambia by 2025 Phoenix (February 13,...
World Vision warns of spiraling health crisis and spread of disease in Syria following earthquakes
Highlights World Vision is concerned about growing health needs in Syria, where health facilities are overwhelmed by the wounded and operating at limited capacity. Very little humanitarian aid has reached northwest Syria in the past four days, and medical supplies are running out. Doctors...
Highlights Hundreds of thousands of already vulnerable children are now homeless and facing greater risk of family separation, exploitation and abuse Children in danger of hypothermia as they struggle to survive in freezing temperatures With buildings still deemed unsafe, children will also be out...
World Vision responds to impact of catastrophic earthquake in Turkey and Syria
Highlights Teams on the ground assessing scale of damage and preparing response Organization expresses deep concern for children and communities in quake aftermath A scene of devastation following the deadly earthquake in Syria and Turkey on February 6, 2023. ©World Vision 2023 AMMAN (February...