Before the project, access to healthcare in the Gaya area was extremely limited. Many isolated villages forced vulnerable families to walk for hours to reach health centers in Tounouga or Gaya, often arriving too late for proper treatment. The situation was worsened by seasonal floods in Dosso and Tillaberi, which cut off communities and left thousands without essential health services. According to Mrs. Edui Ramatou, Head of the Gaya 2 Health Center, common illnesses such as malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory infections were difficult to manage due to limited supplies and reliance on only two small health posts. In response, World Health Organization supported the project “Anticipatory health assistance for at-risk and flood-affected populations,” implemented by World Vision Niger and ISCV. Completed in May 2025, the project introduced mobile clinics that brought care directly to villages. Monthly consultations increased from 1,000 to 1,800, while trained community health workers improved case detection and follow-up. For mothers, children, the elderly, and pregnant women, access to timely care greatly improved. Although the project ended, its positive impact continues, and communities hope for sustained support to strengthen resilience against future floods.

Policy Brief | Famine Prevention & Food Security

World Vision’s outreach clinics bring women’s health education and VIA screening closer to communities, transforming lives like Leah’s in Solomon Islands.

Famine is not a natural disaster and can be prevented. Across the world’s hunger hotspots, early warnings are clear, yet governments continue to act too late – or not at all. Conflict, blockades, and the denial of humanitarian access, not food scarcity, are driving a deepening hunger crisis, with children suffering first and longest. As aid budgets are cut, the gap between need and response is widening fast. This is a false economy: preventing famine costs far less than responding once lives are already lost. World Vision warns famine can be predicted and prevented – but only if leaders act early, protect civilians, and put children at the centre of hunger prevention.

In Narang, World Vision nutrition hearths equip displaced mothers with skills and local foods to prevent malnutrition and help children thrive.

Clean and safe water is transforming maternal health at Nambazo Health Centre in Phalombe, as World Vision Malawi’s WASH project reduces infections and improves dignity.

On February 18, 2026, Sailung’a Health Facility in Mwinilunga District marked a major step toward improved health services. World Vision Zambia handed over a modern ablution block and water system to the facility. The new infrastructure strengthens access to safe water and sanitation for patients, mothers, children, and health workers.

Ending paediatric tuberculosis requires confronting two hidden crises: the underdiagnosis of children with TB and the separation of TB and nutrition.

World Vision introduced the Citizen Voice and Action (CVA) approach, a grassroots advocacy method that empowers communities to hold government and service providers accountable for essential public services like health care, education, and child protection.

This article highlights how the Rotary Healthy Communities Challenge (RHCC), implemented by World Vision in partnership with PATH and Rotary, is strengthening community health in Kasaï Province, DRC. By training and equipping community health relays with skills, handwashing kits, and bicycles, the project aims to reduce child mortality caused by malaria, acute respiratory infections, and diarrhoeal diseases. Through improved access to primary health care and a reinforced network of community health sites, the initiative seeks to protect more than 221,000 children under five in some of the most vulnerable and hard-to-reach areas.