For years, Mphande Primary School in Chipapa Community stood as a symbol of the challenges facing rural schools across Zambia. Overcrowded classrooms forced learners outdoors under trees, teachers worked under difficult conditions, and limited access to technology left pupils to wonder what digital learning looked like. Today, that story has changed, and a new chapter of opportunity has opened for nearly 500 children.

Every day, Deborah walks into a muddy classroom at Situnga Primary School in Western Province. Before lessons begin, she searches for a seat instead of settling in to learn. The broken floor and poor infrastructure steal her attention and, with time, her chance at an education. No child should lose the opportunity to learn because a classroom fails to hold up. Deborah deserves a safe, dry space where she sits, focuses and grows, because every learner in Situnga carries the promise of a brighter future.

This story highlights how World Vision is promoting positive masculinity in Luambo Health Zone, Kasai Central, by encouraging fathers to play an active role in child nutrition and family health. Through changing social norms and shared household responsibilities, men are participating in food production, meal planning, and maternal healthcare, contributing to healthier children and more resilient families. The article demonstrates how engaging fathers is helping to improve nutrition outcomes and build lasting behavioural change in communities.

In Central Kasai, World Vision's chronic malnutrition prevention project is helping families improve child nutrition through sustainable agriculture and livelihoods. With support from KOICA and WFP, households are adopting market gardening and rabbit farming to increase access to nutritious foods, diversify diets, generate income, and build resilience. The initiative is contributing to healthier children, stronger families, and lasting community change.

Grandmothers in Rolear Bier are transforming child nutrition at home. Through World Vision’s GMIA, one child recovers from severe malnutrition—showing the power of knowledge, care, and community support.

In Cox's Bazar, 12-year-old Win navigates displacement, fear, and funding cuts and still shows up for school every morning. This is her story.

That situation began to change after the family joined the Aleamandro Farmer Group under the Uganda Refugee Resilience Initiative (URRI) Programme and was introduced to nutrition-sensitive agriculture, a farming approach designed to address both food shortages and poor diets at the same time.

15-year-old Martha from Isoka District once faced an uncertain future. Many days, her family survived on only one meal. School felt difficult because her parents struggled to afford uniforms, learning materials, and other school needs. Access to clean water was another challenge. Martha and her siblings often went several days without bathing because the family walked long distances to collect water from a stream shared with animals.

Despite escalating humanitarian needs and constrained resources, World Vision East Africa continued to deliver life-saving assistance and build resilience across the region. The FY25 Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs (HEA) Report highlights the impact of emergency response efforts in nine countries, reaching 7.5 M people, including 4M children.

With support from World Vision Malawi, print-rich walls at Mwanga Primary School are helping learners improve reading, writing and spelling skills by turning classroom walls and school premises into everyday learning resources.