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 31 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
4,181,384
People reached with cash and voucher assistance
US$351,302,094
Cash and voucher assistance distributed
717,420
Children receiving hot meals and/or dry rations through school feeding
6,869,249
People reached with (in-kind) food assistance
Objective 2: Increase access to curative and preventive quality emergency health and nutrition services
682,787
People reached through primary health-care support
224,224
Children reached through management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and moderate acute malnutrition (MAM)
59,247
Children recovered from SAM
280,016
Primary caregivers benefited from infant and young child feeding (IYCF) promotion and action oriented sessions and counselling
Objective 3: Improve access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene promotion services to mitigate water-borne diseases
1,581,268
People with access to clean, potable water
470,351
People that have participated in emergency hygiene promotion activities with appropriate supplies
900
Faith leaders engaged on hygiene promotion activities
Objective 4: Ensure protection for children, women, and vulnerable groups including psychosocial support and provision of dignity kits for reproductive age girls and women
67,306
Caregivers/children affected by food insecurity accessing psychosocial support sessions
276,003
People benefiting from joint activities between food security and child protection to prevent negative coping mechanisms
2,890
faith leaders engaged in positive coping strategies to deal with food insecurity related risks
Objective 5: Household resilience to food insecurity and livelihoods-related shocks
6,154
Households provided with conditional cash or vouchers to procure agricultural physical assets
51,573
Households provided with livelihood physical agricultural assets
24,697
Households growing crops that are resilient to climate hazards/stresses
97,718
People trained in climate change resilient farming practices
Objective 6: Reduce and mitigate predictable humanitarian impacts from negatively affecting at-risk populations through anticipatory action
19,153
Individuals supported through forecast based actions
8,098
People provided with direct access to information on climate/weather risks and crop management advisory
4,272
Existing community structures used as platforms to engage on anticipatory actions
*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.
