Born with an umbilical hernia, Mary endured pain, stigma and poor school performance until World Vision Malawi helped her access life-changing surgery. Today, she is healthy, confident and excelling in school with renewed hope for the future.

In Gemena, South-Ubangi Province, a mother’s determination, combined with World Vision’s Positive Deviance Hearth approach, helped her underweight daughter regain her health and thrive. After learning practical nutrition skills and receiving livelihood support, Médiatrice transformed her family’s well-being, creating a sustainable source of income and ensuring better nutrition for her children. Her story highlights how integrating nutrition education with economic empowerment can build lasting resilience and give children a healthier future.

The completion and handover of the Damang Water Supply System in the Tarkwa Municipality of Ghana’s Western Region marks a transformative milestone for the Damang community. Funded by the Gold Fields Ghana Foundation and implemented by World Vision Ghana, the project represents the successful realization of a shared vision: that every community deserves reliable access to safe, clean water. What was once an aspiration has become a lived reality. Functional water systems now serve households, public spaces, schools, and healthcare facilities, and the community is equipped to manage its own water future.

After losing two children to malnutrition, Jeanine feared she would lose her daughter Zozo as well. Through World Vision's integrated nutrition programme, Zozo received life-saving treatment before Jeanine was trained in the Positive Deviance Hearth approach, learning how to prepare nutritious meals using locally available foods and improve childcare practices. Today, Zozo has fully recovered, Jeanine has strengthened her family's livelihood through a small business, and their household is free from malnutrition. Their story illustrates how combining therapeutic care, community-based nutrition education, and economic empowerment is helping more than 1,600 children overcome malnutrition and build healthier futures in Gemena, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Ray Carter’s journey from TB diagnosis to recovery highlights resilience, support from World Vision PNG, and hope for a healthy future through early treatment.

“We used to get sick all the time. We kept getting diarrhea, and it disrupted our family life and our studies,” says Ernestine.

After surviving conflict, displacement and prolonged school closures in North Kivu, 12-year-old Kelly is now facing a new threat: Ebola. Her story highlights the resilience of children caught between war and disease, and the importance of keeping education alive during crises. Through World Vision’s Integrated Response to Emergency Education in Eastern DRC project, supported by Education Cannot Wait, thousands of children have returned to learning in safer and more supportive school environments. As fears of a new Ebola outbreak grow, Kelly’s determination to continue her education reflects both the hopes and vulnerabilities of children in eastern DRC, underscoring the urgent need to protect their right to learn and thrive.

Young people who are forced to leave school early are finding ways to develop practical skills that help them support their families and earn a living with the support from World Vision.

uvenal, who left school after primary education due to financial challenges in a family of seven, transformed his life after realizing that limited family land could not secure his future and deciding to acquire practical skills. Starting with casual construction work and later learning soap and paint making in his community, his breakthrough came when World Vision’s TARE Youth Engagement and Employment Project provided entrepreneurship training, financial literacy, and access to savings groups, enabling him to expand into a formal business. Today, he is the owner of “Dirty Cleaner,” a growing manufacturing company producing soap, shampoo, and paint, and has trained over 480 people in vocational skills. His success, including winning a national youth entrepreneurship prize and reinvesting in his business, has allowed him to support his family, acquire assets, and pursue a vision of building generational wealth while inspiring others through his journey from limited opportunity to empowered entrepreneurship.

In Pagirinya Refugee Settlement, families face daily struggles of displacement, scarcity, and stress. The Life in Fullness Together (LIFT) programme by World Vision is reshaping parenting by focusing on community-led conversations rather than external aid.