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Our Impact
In May 2022, World Vision launched a Global Hunger Response to meet the immediate food needs of the worlds’ most vulnerable as nearly 45 million people were facing starvation and in need of urgent life-saving assistance. This Response targets girls and boys living in some of the most difficult, dangerous, and desperate parts of the globe.
See how our efforts are making a difference in the lives of hungry and vulnerable children and their families.
Our Response
World Vision is responding to hunger in every country we work in. We identified 28 countries in need of urgent, life-saving support, due to high numbers of people currently living in or on the verge of famine-like conditions.
We're aiming to reach the most vulnerable children and their families being affected by hunger with food, livelihoods, and protection. We focus our impact on areas with pre-existing vulnerability and fragility, where children are most at risk: places affected by conflict, urban slums, and refugee settlements.
In Phase I (May 2022 - September 2023), we reached 25,475,732 million people, including 14,014,810 children. Our work is not done. This is why we launched Phase II in October 2023 with a goal of reaching 30 million people.
Objective 1: Improve access to food for affected households
Objective 2: Increase access to curative and preventive quality emergency health and nutrition services
Objective 3: Improve access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene promotion services to mitigate water-borne diseases
Objective 4: Ensure protection for children, women, and vulnerable groups including psychosocial support and provision of dignity kits for reproductive age girls and women
Objective 5: Household resilience to food insecurity and livelihoods-related shocks
Objective 6: Reduce and mitigate predictable humanitarian impacts from negatively affecting at-risk populations through anticipatory action
*Numbers and statistics reflect World Vision's Global Hunger Response numbers from Phase II (starting October 2023). For complete information, please see the most recent situation report.
**Responding includes field programming and/or fundraising.
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