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Sunday, November 17, 2019

Mothers fear malaria and water-borne diseases after South Sudan flood

Melut County – “Our biggest concern is the rise of malaria and water-borne diseases”, says World Vision’s Health Project Manager Dr. Terefe Tafesse Woldeyes at World Vision’s integrated mobile health clinic being conducted for flood-affected families.

Seeds of hope: Gardening helps refugees thrive despite ongoing drought

By Mark Nonkes & Zipporah Karani Water from a World Vision drilled borehole is providing refugees in northern Kenya with an oasis - a place to produce...

Refugees helping refugees: Foster families providing homes to unaccompanied children

In northern Uganda, the concept of family is being redefined. South Sudanese children who have escaped conflict have arrived as refugees, often alone and...

11 photos: Providing clean water to drought-affected communities

Drought and conflict across East Africa is leaving normal water points dry. The lack of water has led animals to die and crops to wither away, robbing...

Refugee

Refugee child seeking education, care and protection

Missing person Gat Luak rubs his head, chafes his fingers against each other. His voice becomes soft. His eyes seem to drift to a distant memory. The man...

Emergency seeds enables Ethiopian farmers to feed their children

When crops fail, children drop out of school, families go hungry and the future seems bleak. Drought in Ethiopia is affecting 7.78 million people and many...

Young South Sudanese entrepreneurs rise from the refugee settlements

He escaped to Uganda from South Sudan with his mother and five siblings. At 18, Lucky Jackson became a breadwinner when his father died during an attack by...

Meet 8 future leaders of South Sudan

You can almost understand how hate festers and grows when you hear stories of the brutality South Sudan’s refugees have faced. Children have witnessed...

Twice a refugee: A South Sudanese teenager's escape, exile and hope

The world’s youngest nation is in crisis. Meet a teenage refugee who has twice been a refugee and dreams of building a better nation. It was a moment of...

Pulling children from the clutches of malnutrition in Somaliland

At a health clinic in rural Somaliland, Deeqa kisses her three-year-old daughter on the forehead. “She was so sick, I thought she would die,” says Deeqa...

World Vision President Kevin Jenkins visits refugee response in northern Uganda

“This is one of the fastest-growing humanitarian emergencies in the world, and it’s unimaginable that it isn’t higher on the news agenda. What strikes you...

Distributing food in drought-affected areas of Kenya

Millions of people in northern and eastern Kenya are in crisis. A prolonged drought has dried up water sources, killed livestock and destroyed crops...

Drought in Somalia

Somalia among other East African countries such as South Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia is on the brink of starvation due to prolonged drought affecting...

Woes of acute diarrhoea in drought ravaged Somalia

Story By Lillian Omariba, Senior Communications Manager Nine-year–old Ali, is rushed to Bay Hospital in Somalia, unconscious and severely dehydrated...

East Africa Hunger Crisis

A complex hunger crisis driven by drought, conflict and poor governance has left over 22 million people across East Africa in urgent need of life-saving...

Fighting tuberculosis in drought-stricken Somalia

While Somalia is struggling with a looming famine, the country is, at the same time, fighting another silent killer: According to the World Health...

Potential famine in Somalia pushes children out of school

As families continue to grapple with going for days without food to eat in the drought stricken country of Somalia, children are the most vulnerable and...

Emergency water keeps Somalia communities alive

From the shade of her new home in Malasle Village, with her little grandson dozing in her lap, Faduma describes how she and her family were forced to leave...

World Vision Somalia National Director talks of the dire need in Somalia on BBC 2

World Vision Somalia National Director, Simon Nyabwengi, talks of the desperate situation in somalia due to the drought and the risk of an impending famine...

The new woes of Ethiopian pastoralists

According to UNICEF Ethiopia’s February 2017, Humanitarian situation report, over 5.6 million people are in critical need of emergency water, health and...

World Vision's Simon Nyabwengi discusses the impending famine in Somalia on BBC

Simon Nyabwengi, National Director World Vision Somalia discusses what needs to be done to support millions facing can impending famine in Somalia

Hunger: The wild fruit "loma" is part of our meal.

Lokis Area Development Programme in Baringo County, Kenya is one of the areas that has been adversely affected by the hunger crisis. We visited Arupe...

Somalia imminent famine robs families their only livelihood as gap to calamity closes fast

The gap to a calamity is closing fast, as hundreds of thousands desperate Somalis in food crisis and pastoralist families continue to be robbed of their...

Disease spreads with drought

“I was certain that I was going to die,” says 25-year old Ifrah, who is at the Galibey TB Hospital in Somaliland. Four months ago Ifrah's life was at...

Which cup would you drink from?

“The water is so bad, not even our cow will drink it,” Khadar tells us with a glint in his eye, maintaining a little bit of humour in a very tough...