Drought has made it hard for Ayan to maintain her way of life. The family lost their livestock, and many shops and livelihoods that depended on them have closed. Some children have had to relocate to other areas with more resources to help them survive.

World Vision partners with the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty to advance child-centred policies, scale proven solutions, and accelerate progress toward ending hunger and poverty.

Isabel Gomes highlights how children are paying the highest price for a shrinking aid system. She also sheds light on how cuts to humanitarian funding are forcing impossible choices—who eats, who learns, who survives. Signaling about a system under strain, where children risk being pushed to the margins, she urges that governments, decision-makers, and donors ensure solidarity triumphs over indifference.

FY25 was a year of hard choices and courageous leadership. In the face of escalating global crises, we responded to 108 emergencies, reaching nearly 36 million people—including over 18 million children—with life-saving food, cash, health care, education, and protection. Determined to do more with less, we reimagined humanitarian operations, driving cost-efficiency and resilience while embracing digital transformation. Artificial intelligence and automation helped reinvest savings into communities, even as funding tightened. We strengthened the sector through training and surge capacity, deepened partnerships to champion child-focused humanitarian action, and pushed for a Humanitarian Reset—an aid system that is decentralised, inclusive, and accountable. In the world’s most fragile contexts, we proved that children can thrive when compassion meets purpose. FY25 wasn’t just about responding to crises—it was about shaping the future of humanitarian action.

In a bold move to tackle one of Ghana’s most overlooked public health challenges, World Vision and Unilever Ghana PLC’s Pepsodent brand have joined forces to launch a nationwide oral health campaign that will benefit over 25,000 children in underserved communities across the country. The one-year partnership, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), aims to deliver practical oral hygiene education and services that improve health outcomes, reduce infections, and instill lifelong habits of good dental care.

This press release conveys World Vision’s alert regarding the severe deterioration of the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Recent clashes that led to the capture of Uvira, in South Kivu, by AFC/M23 rebels, a highly strategic town, have resulted in the deaths of many women and children, while triggering large-scale displacement towards Rwanda and Burundi. In a context where humanitarian actors are critically short of resources to meet urgent needs, this press release also serves as an urgent call for strengthened support to help save lives.

New findings from UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children 2025 remind us that more than 417 million children are severely deprived in at least two essential areas of life.