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Trauma, the Other Earthquake: World Vision Urges to Protect the Mental Health of Venezuela’s Children
Highlights In the first three weeks, World Vision reached 36,720 people; a third of them are children. 4,052 households have received food security items Restoring the rights to protection and education are long-term priorities of the emergency response. In Venezuela’s hardest-hit communities World Vision...
World Vision U.S. President Visits Venezuela as Earthquake Response Reaches Nearly 45,000 People
Highlights Edgar Sandoval Sr. visits the country where he grew up as World Vision expands emergency assistance, child protection efforts, and church-led response following the June 24 earthquakes As a part of World Vision's response to the earthquake in Venezuela, they have supported more...
World Vision Launches Humanitarian Response to Support Victims of Deadly Earthquakes in Venezuela
Highlights The Christian humanitarian organization will distribute food, hygiene, and menstrual dignity kits in communities devastated by the two powerful earthquakes World Vision will provide psychosocial support to help children and families cope with trauma The response will prioritize child protection, food security, and...
World Vision Announces Hope & Love Measure, the First Validated Tool to Quantify How Children Experience God’s Love
Highlights President and CEO Edgar Sandoval Sr., to be honored alongside the Late Pope Francis at Global Summit 2026: Fostering Hope for Children A child prays during a classroom gathering. World Vision’s Hope & Love Measure identifies six measurable signs of hope in children,...
No safe place: Children in Lebanon face rising protection risks amid expanding hostilities, World Vision warns
In Mount Lebanon, teams are on the ground delivering matresses and support to displaced families BEIRUT (April 9, 2026) – Christian humanitarian organization World Vision warns the recent surge in airstrikes across Lebanon is placing already vulnerable children and families at immediate and increasing risk of harm. Intensifying airstrikes in densely populated...
Sudan: Death toll rises after drone attack on hospital
A child at a stabilization center in South Darfur. A recent drone attack struck the only functioning hospital in East Darfur, killing at least 64 including 13 children. Credit World Vision 2026 EAST DARFUR (March 23, 2026) – Christian humanitarian organization World Vision mourns the...
Cold and rain put forcibly displaced children at even greater risk in Lebanon
Highlights “Protection of children must be the top priority for all involved in responding to this escalation,” explained Heidi Diedrich, World Vision’s national director in Lebanon. As of March 16th, World Vision has reached more than 150,000 people, including nearly 53,000 children, with life-saving...
World Vision study uses GPS to track women’s water collection journeys, finds major gains in its program that helps women reclaim time, income and voice
Women and girls walk to collect water in Rumate, Kenya. The images accompany new research documenting the time, distance, and physical burden women and girls face each day to access water. WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 3, 2026) — Ahead of International Women’s Day, global Christian humanitarian organization World Vision is...
Sudan: New displacement camp sees high numbers of unaccompanied children and women
Highlights “The number of unaccompanied children arriving from El Fasher is deeply alarming,” said Simon Mane, World Vision’s national director in Sudan. World Vision is urgently appealing for coordinated humanitarian support Internally displaced people speak with World Vision staff at a displacement camp in...
One thousand days lost in conflict: the stolen future of Sudan’s children
Highlights Sudan’s conflict reaches 1,000-day mark 17.3 million of the 33.7 million people who require life-saving humanitarian assistance are children A family displaced by conflict from Sudan arrived in South Sudan's Border seeking refuge and safety. PORT SUDAN (January 9, 2026) – As Sudan’s devastating conflict reaches the...
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.