World Vision Laos empowered CHWs through Timed and Targeted Counselling to improve maternal and child health, increasing service use and reducing malnutrition in rural areas.

World Vision strengthened 879 CHWs to expand primary health care and improve maternal and child nutrition in fragile communities in Myanmar.

Village Health Committees strengthened by GAVI through WVSI

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.

World Vision’s CHW Census 2025 report highlights feedback from 43 field offices on nearly 200,000 CHWs worldwide.

Learners at a primary school in Ntondozi say life has transformed since World Vision provided clean water. Before, classes were disrupted to fetch unsafe river water, causing sickness and missed school meals. Now, lessons continue without interruption, the school garden thrives, and children like Benkhosi and Seluleko are healthier and focused on their studies. The change reflects the wider impact of World Vision’s WASH Programme, which is improving health and dignity in communities across Eswatini.

In Iraq’s Sinjar, Mayada rebuilds her confidence through training, becoming a community leader and inspiring women to pursue learning and new opportunities.

Modest, community-based medical facilities have greatly decreased maternal and child mortality by bringing healthcare closer to remote areas.