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Highlights New report finds 85% of forcibly displaced families are unable to afford enough food to meet their daily nutrition needs 25% of families are responding to increased financial pressures by taking their children out of school; 19% have sent their children to work...
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 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,...
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...
Highlights Cold weather and the inability to keep their children fed and warm take a serious toll on the mental health of displaced female heads of household Displaced female-headed households are put at risk by last-resort heating methods necessitated by poverty Displaced women have...
World Vision ahead of goal to reach 30 million women and girls by 2023
Highlights Over 25 million women and girls now equipped to live safer, healthier, and more productive lives. World Vision to ring NYSE Opening Bell to mark progress in empowering women and girls worldwide. December 1, 2022 (New York) ––World Vision is recognizing a major milestone...
Highlights In Sudan, food prices have gone up 143% since 2021[1], a year after the FAO’s global food price index saw its highest ever annual increase It would take two weeks for a Somalian to earn enough to buy a common basket of food...
Fact Sheets and Extras
For Every Child: WATER, SANITATION and HYGIENE (PDF)
To change the lives of 6 million children and their families by 2016 by providing clean water, sanitation and hygiene. World Vision is leading the largest rural water project underway in Africa today.
For Every Child: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (PDF)
World Vision seeks to help over 1 million children experience greater well-being as their families earn more income and increase their assets. Our goal is to create over 300,000 jobs through the provision of basic financial and business services like savings, micro-loans, and enhanced market knowledge.
To save the lives of over nine million children and families by providing timely, basic, cost-effective interventions like treated bed nets, vaccinations, and childbirth supplies will dramatically reduce maternal and infant/young child deaths.
For Every Child: CHURCH PARTNERSHIPS (PDF)
World Vision seeks to provide spiritual nurture for millions of people, including children, helping them know the transformative love of Christ.
For Every Child: CHILD PROTECTION (PDF)
World Vision seeks to protect the world’s most vulnerable children from trafficking and abuse. This campaign will prevent, protect, and restore children through programs that reach over 1.2 million people around the world.
Thousands of children die every day after falling through the cracks created by the great health gap.
Evaluating the effectiveness of Child-Friendly Spaces: Goma field study report (LINK)
Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) is an intervention frequently used by humanitarian agencies for supporting and protecting children in emergencies. Leading agencies are collaboratively developing standards and guidelines for CFS while strengthening the evidence base through a joint agenda for learning and research.