World Vision International statement on humanitarian aid funding

World Vision has been serving the most vulnerable children across the world for 75 years. Our staff in 100 countries witness the impact that wise investment in humanitarian aid achieves not only for children living in the toughest places on earth, but also for donor countries.

Andrew Morley, World Vision International President and CEO, said: “We’re bringing tangible hope in many of the most challenging places to be a child, thanks to investments from donor governments. Together, we can be incredibly proud of this legacy which has saved countless lives, as we aim to ensure that children everywhere are fed, healthy and well-educated. This, in turn, is creating a healthier, more stable world ensuring every child can reach their God-given potential in life.” 

Aid funding has yielded strong returns including routine and critical vaccinations, emergency food distribution, new water systems, and lifesaving interventions to prevent and treat malnutrition in children under five. It also includes programming to support farmers with children at risk of hunger, health clinics, and efforts to identify and manage cases of unaccompanied and separated children along major migration routes.

With programmes like the global effort to combat polio, World Vision has helped deliver vaccinations for as many as 4 million children every year. This 25-year programme has not only saved children worldwide from death and disability — it has also helped keep the deadly disease from spreading.

World Vision carries out these lifesaving efforts with investments from numerous partners, including individual donors, churches, corporations, and governments. We are immensely grateful for all of our faithful donors, and we treat the donations committed to us as a sacred trust. We recognise the critical importance of ensuring rigorous stewardship in humanitarian assistance.

We support a future of wise humanitarian aid that continues to be locally led and evidence-based, and which delivers maximum impact. Because of this, we are very concerned about the impact that further delays in restarting lifesaving aid programmes —including those that deliver urgently needed food, water, and medicine — will have on the most vulnerable families around the world.

World Vision remains unwavering in its commitment to serving the world’s most vulnerable. Guided by faith and hope, we will not relent in our mission to bring relief, security, and opportunity to children and families in crisis. Our resolve remains firm: to act justly, and walk humbly as we work to build a better, safer world for children everywhere.