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School students in blue and white uniform dancing around a water pump that is filling up a bucket. (2025)

Why water and dance?

Lifting the curtain on the choreography, what does water have to do with dance?

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What are Peace Clubs and how do they protect girls and boys?

In San Pedro Sula, Honduras, recruitment into gangs is a major problem for girls and boys growing up in the city. Peace Clubs are making a difference.

Latin America

Education
Meet Immaculée, Female Mechanic-in-Training

This teenage rockstar is jumping into a male-dominated trade with no regrets—watch her explain why.

DRC
When women and girls are the last to eat

Hunger, gender inequality and violence are all connected. World Vision to working to protect, support and empower women and girls around the world.

Hunger
Rice, rabbits and a resilient community of farmers

As communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo gain knowledge and tools in sustainable agriculture through World Vision programming, they’re becoming less dependent on outside support and more empowered to shape their futures.

DRC

Health
She was determined to go to school despite a war and an earthquake.

The war in Syria began before she was born; this is Firyal’s incredible story.

Syria

Education
Mama bears: doing it for the kids

Groups of mothers in South Sudan have organized themselves as community farmers under the moniker “Mother-to-Mother.” This carousel showcases how the group is enhancing their livelihood and promoting health and food security for their families.

Hunger
How aid cuts are hurting refugees and health workers

Humanitarian aid cuts are crippling hospitals and leaving refugees without support. Here’s a firsthand look at the real impact of global relief withdrawal.

Uganda

Health
5 surprising ways climate change is affecting children

Discover 5 ways global warming and climate change impacts children. From malnutrition to displacement, let’s explore this important issue.

Climate Change
“I have amazing goals for the future”

Paul, a farmer in South Sudan, uses his training from the FEED II program to feed his family and improve their future.

South Sudan

International Development

Education
A mother braves civil unrest to access healthcare

Mai braves a tense political situation in Lashio, Myanmar, to access healthcare through World Vision

Human Rights

Myanmar

Health
Just give money? The beauty of cash assistance in emergency response

Why support for cash-based aid grows stronger by the year

Disaster Relief
A song of healing and happiness

Junior, a clinical psychologist, uses the power of song to heal trauma in children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

DRC

Health

Education
Guilhermina, a deaf teenager, finds new purpose in her community

Guilhermina and her son are taking a path toward transformational change through her participation in the Access to Justice for Adolescent Girls Who are Hard of Hearing project.

Human Rights
Cutting ties with FGM

Peninah had her genitals cut as a girl, marking the end of her childhood. Today, she’s speaking out against female genital mutilation (FGM) to prevent other childhoods from being cut short.

Human Rights

Education

Sponsor a girl
The stigma of divorce

Divorced at 14-years old, Farah lives each day fighting against the stigma, advocating for change in her country, and reclaiming her dreams.

Human Rights

Education

Sponsor a girl
Empowering teenage girls in Bangladesh

Sultana and Maliha are part of a new girls’ group challenging harmful gender norms in their village.

Human Rights

Gender Equality

Bangladesh
The landslide that changed everything

Can you picture a hillside losing its grip - sliding down to trap your community? You may not want to try.

Disaster Relief
Burundi schools serve up success one plate at a time

How a massive team effort achieved an impressive zero drop-out rate

Hunger

Education

Burundi
After the emergency: why does World Vision stay?  

Why we remain long after news headlines quiet

Disaster Relief
An education interrupted: A Venezuelan’s story of escaping oppression

Rosa’s success story and how World Vision helped rebuild her life.

Ecuador

Education
The rise of The Cereal Bank

How a community in West Africa took charge of their future

Hunger

Niger
A pipe dream comes true: One chief’s 50-year wait for water

The story of how clean water impacted a chief and a student in the poorest municipality of the Philippines.

Philippines

Water
"Because I am a son of Africa"

CFL player, Boseko Lokombo, shares his reflections from his latest trip to Kenya with World Vision Canada

Kenya

Education
Is safe water for all by 2030 a pipe dream?

Senior Water, Sanitation and Hygiene director Jordan Smoke warns that water providers must head in a new direction to realize universal coverage.

Water
My family’s six tips for reducing food waste

Katie Hackett, World Vision Canada writer and mother of 2, shares her family’s six tips for reducing food waste in the midst of a surging global hunger crisis.

Hunger
A bounty of chickens for Bounhoy

How a flurry of feathers significantly improved a family's situation

Food
Harvesting hope - Habiba's story

The story of how a family overcame food insecurity from years of drought with help from World Vision.

Food
These new backpacks are more than “just” bags

Teacher Normina is dialled in to her students, so she knows how special they felt after a recent distribution of school supplies.

Philippines

Education
Have you ever been to a breastmilk bank?

In the Philippines, a breastmilk bank provides donated milk to orphaned, malnourished and premature babies. With strict safety checks and cultural respect, the program has grown, helping vulnerable newborns across the region.

Philippines

Hunger
Ending child marriage

Once at risk of being a child bride, Neha is now a powerful voice fighting against child marriage—and training other girls to follow in her footsteps.

Human Rights

Sponsor a girl

Education
From Kenya to Australia

An Australian child sponsor, Georgie, virtually meets her sponsored child Nancy, from Kenya. Watch her emotional reaction to this special video message, 20 years later.

Human Rights

Education