World Humanitarian Day 2025 highlights rising violence, funding cuts, and eroding trust—calling for urgent action to protect aid workers and communities.

When Women Rise, Nations Heal: Why Global Solidarity Must Begin at the Grassroots

In Migori County, 15-year-old Zilpha Akinyi defied the pressure of FGM and early marriage after dropping out of school. With support from World Vision’s Kenya Big Dream Program, she is now training to become a hairdresser, restoring hope, earning respect, and inspiring other girls to dream beyond harmful traditions.

This brief outlines how Mali can improve child well-being amid crises by scaling integrated interventions—cash transfers, school meals, health, and parenting support.

In a groundbreaking move to address critical issues affecting girls' education, World Vision Zambia has partnered with Absa Bank Zambia PLC on the Flow Fund campaign aimed at raising K700,000 ($30,000 United States Dollars) to provide 5,000 girls in rural communities with reusable sanitary towels. This initiative aims to end menstrual poverty, a significant barrier preventing many girls from attending school regularly, and to promote gender equality in education.

LUSAKA, ZAMBIA, Thursday, August 7, 2025 – Pick n Pay Zambia and World Vision Zambia have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) formalizing a strategic partnership to support 5,000 girls in rural communities across Zambia to remain in school through “Flow Fund Campaign”, a nationwide menstrual health initiative that provides reusable sanitary pads to girls in rural communities.

Technology training opens doors for girls in Tanzania - World Youth Skills Day

Ghana can tackle child well-being challenges worsened by inflation through integrated social protection, health, and education services.

When Vannak walks through the Svay Rumpear Health Centre in Kampong Leaeng, she does so with a deep sense of pride in how far both she and her community have come. As a leading midwife, she greets patients with warmth, guiding new mothers as they welcome their babies into the world. It’s the type of medical support that didn’t exist 20 years ago, and just one of the many interventions this community has seen thanks to sponsorship.