article / April 30, 2024
World Vision Kenya Launches National Flood Response
Amidst the devastating floods in Kenya, Mathare North Primary School shelters 200 families, grappling with despair. As of April 29th, the Government of Kenya reports indicate that approximately 150,365 people have been displaced by the ongoing rains, with 169 deaths recorded as floods swept through almost half of Kenya.
World Vision is responding with urgent aid, delivering cash transfers having launched a national flood relief effort to reach over 84,000 affected individuals.
press release / May 1, 2024
Floods wreak havoc across East Africa with death toll rising as experts warn of continued rains - Kenya adversely affected.
Floods wreak havoc across East Africa with death toll rising as experts warn of continued rains - Kenya adversely affected.
publication / April 26, 2024
2023 Annual Report - Ethiopia
This report covers the work and impact of World Vision Ethiopia from 1st October 2022 to 30th September 2023. During this period, our transformative projects reached over 8.5 million people including 6 million children showcasing our impactful efforts in transforming the lives of vulnerable children and communities across Ethiopia.
publication / April 23, 2024
Putting Children First for Sustainable Development
New research to analyize the economic beneift of Official Development Assistance (ODA) programming that directly or indirectly targets children found that every $1USD of child-related ODA directly or indirectly results in a $10USD return and highlights that investing in children is a way to maximise the benefit that donors see from their ODA programmes.
press release / April 26, 2024
Syrians are "forgotten, underfunded” and "gripped by food security, nutrition & climate change crises", ahead of major international conference – World Vision
SYRIANS ARE "FORGOTTEN, UNDERFUNDED” AND "GRIPPED BY FOOD SECURITY, NUTRITION & CLIMATE CHANGE CRISES", AHEAD OF MAJOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – World Vision
publication / May 7, 2024
West and Central Africa Newsletter - April 2024
In this issue themed ‘Building Resilience for Future Generations’, we spotlight strategies and initiatives aimed at supporting children and communities to access the resources, skills and tools that they need to adapt and thrive in a complex and ever-changing context.
article / April 10, 2024
Ukraine’s elderly struggles for scant medical care and food insecurity amidst ongoing war
It was the seventeenth day of heavy shelling, unceasing terror, severe food shortages, and darkness, when half of Iryna's and Nikolay's house burned to ashes. The ongoing attacks in Popasna, a small city in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, made them leave all their belongings and go west. As they settle in Dnipro, they are navigating the hurdles of displacement and war. World Vision's cash assistance helps them cover only part of their medicine expenses, and food supplies. As pensioners who rely on a meager pension and humanitarian aid, they find it more difficult to deal with the realities of war.
press release / March 8, 2024
World Vision says reports of Gazan children starving to death is ‘of grave concern’
International aid agency World Vision is deeply concerned by the increasing reports of children dying from starvation in the Gaza Strip even after the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), an independent and apolitical mechanism, warned of the increasing risk of famine in December 2023.