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World Vision staff in Channel of Hope training

Thursday, December 1, 2022

Faith leaders: How HIV provided a secret to tackling gender-based violence

Maclean Dlodlo and Christo Greyling celebrate the hundreds of thousands of faith leaders now tackling HIV and AIDS stigma and who are working to end gender-based violence.

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World Vision staff in Channel of Hope training

Faith leaders: How HIV provided a secret to tackling gender-based violence

Maclean Dlodlo and Christo Greyling celebrate the hundreds of thousands of faith leaders now tackling HIV and AIDS stigma and who are working to end gender...

ENDING HARMFUL PRACTICES, CHANNELS OF HOPE

Ending Harmful Practices through Channels of Hope

Hawa is a 14-year-old student. Since she was younger, she has been hearing about Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), which is a common practice in...

World Vision partners with local communities to foster peaceful co-existence

In Darfur, years of conflict have threatened peaceful co-existence among neighbouring communities. The possibility of peaceful co-existence is often...

Traditional Leaders

Channels of Hope COVID-19 vaccines model elates faith & traditional leaders

To improve the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccines among rural community members and enhance the protection of children, World Vision has, through its Mwamba...

Bonga Mzini

Pastor trained by World Vision helps diffuse COVID-19 myths

Born in Mount Moorosi in the district of Quthing, in the south of Lesotho, Pastor Bonga Mzini finds joy in getting to the hard-to-reach areas of Lesotho to...

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Enabling the youth with lifeskills and psycho-social support sessions

At a time where children in Lebanon are victims of an unstable economic, social, and political environment, new initiatives emerge to support their well...

María Eugenia and the Hands that Leave A Mark Foundation team delivering toys and sweets for vulnerable children in the Caracas area. December 2018. Courtesy of María Eugenia Morales

Strengthening leaders to transform realities

María Eugenia Morales is from Caracas, Venezuela. She is 48 years old and belongs to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. She is one of 54 church leaders who...

Rajeshree, Nitin and their son Pranay attend India's Celebrating Families workshop.

Celebrating Families in India: A workshop becomes a way of life

Rajeshree and Nitin live in small rented house in Mumbai, India, along with their two children Pranay and Anushka. As a volunteer, Rajeshree has previously...

Pastor Issaka and his huge watermelon farm

How Pastor Issaka became a role model in his village thanks to Empowered Worldview

In 2019, 40 religious leaders like Issaka and 40 youth groups were trained in World Vision's Empowered Worldview approach across Maradi. The Bible-based...

Rohingya refugee girl with World Vision umbrella

The Convention on the Rights of the Child? It’s Biblical!

30 years on, the CRC is an important tool in Christians’ calling to help children flourish. As Christians, our understanding of children's rights is rooted...

Faith Leaders Preventing Violence Against Children in Asia

Rohingya refugee faith leader engagement

Rohingya refugees: Engaging faith leaders to end violence against children

World Vision’s rights-based approach to our work with Rohingya refugees is rooted in our faith. We believe that it’s possible to overcome inequality...

Operations research in Ghana and Kenya on the effectiveness of World Vision’s Channels of Hope methodology in tackling the sensitive topic of family planning

The June 2018 Community of Practice discussion focused on Operations research in Ghana and Kenya on the effectiveness of World Vision’s Channels of Hope...

One Year Ebola Free in Sierra Leone - Community Reflections

The Global Health Nutrition and HIV Community of Practice gathered on 17 March 2017 to discuss the lessons learned collected in two new research reports...

HIV and Adolescents - a World AIDS Day Webinar

AIDS is now the leading cause of death among adolescents in Africa. A majority of adolescent girls lack knowledge of how to protect themselves from HIV and...

Pastor to children's advocate

Like all other children, Eliza, age 14 has a dream. She wants to become a bank teller. However, in order to make that dream come true, she has to face an...

Chiyembekezo is back in school

Chingale community lies 30 kilometres from the centre of the city of Zomba, Malawi’s old colonial capital. To the east of the village is the Cobbe Barracks...

Solomon Island cousins

Fred Sikine is the eldest son of a tribal chief in the Solomon Islands, and the natural heir to his father’s position as chief. However, Fred’s wild...

A transformed view of gender roles

Pastor Ergete Mesfin of Shasheme, Ethiopia firmly believed the Bible taught that women should sit quietly in church, never asking questions or expressing...

From opponents to advocates: faith leaders promote child well-being

As the sun sets, Olivia Makoele and George Omondi rest beneath the avocado tree shading their mud-walled home. They laugh and hold hands as they discuss...

Knowledge about birth spacing changes a Kenyan mother and her family's life

Rose Aoko Aloo barely clears five feet, but this petite Kenyan mother of seven children is a powerful presence. Determined to move her family out of...

"Let me be a channel of hope" prays Kenyan pastor

A personal story told by Phanuel Odany Mbande, Kenyan pastor and maternal/child health champion: I strongly opposed World Vision’s program in my community...

Faith Leaders fight Ebola

In Sierra Leone, Faith leaders united to combat Ebola showing a united front as they share information and promote safe and dignified burial practices...

WV Sierra Leone Ebola Crisis: Channels of Hope ignites an Interfaith Movement

Christian Pastors and Muslim Imams work together to ensure their communities know how to avoid Ebola transmission. Click here for an overview of the CoH...