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Friday, February 21, 2025

DR Congo: "We can't save everyone, but we can change a destiny"

A child's life transformed by a benevolent couple through the Channel of Hope for Child Protection training. From rejection to a loving family and a new beginning.

Signed MoU

World Vision signs 3-year MoU with Ministry of National Guidance

World Vision has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs (MNGRA) to provide a framework for...

Channel of Hope

Channels of Hope helps in addressing violence against women

Many positive stories have been generated by the World Vision’s Community Channels of Hope (CCOH) Project that is currently rolling out in parts of the...

faith

Child health and protection no longer the sole responsibility of women in Talensi and West Gonja

In rural communities, aside the Chiefs and “Tendaanas” (land custodians), faith leaders have great respect and honour and wield so much power and authority...

Channels of Hope changing families

A couple’s love restored through Channels of Hope

With the continued closure of schools as a measure to curb the spread of COVID-19, children wander about the community with no specific tasks to keep them...

Pastor Peter, Communities of Hope in Sierra Leone

Putting our faith in leaders

In so many developing countries, people of faith and faith-based organisations play a substantial role in providing healthcare.

Lessons learned from Ebola: Helping communities prepare for COVID-19

Watch this video to see how World Vision is using our Channels of Hope programme to partners with local, trusted leaders to educate communities to stop the...

Trained Faith Leaders Set to Help Communities Fight COVID-19

Faith leaders equipped to fight COVID-19 in communities

World Vision has trained and equipped 40 influencers, now deployed to their communities, for infection prevention and control interventions against the...

Hope

Three reasons to have faith in 2020

A new decade brings with it a renewed cause for hope. All we have before us is opportunity.

Clergy like this Kenyan priest take part in Channels of Hope training

Science and religious text combine to protect female sexual health

World Vision believes, and has demonstrated empirically, that engaging faith leaders to dialogue, share information about development outcomes, and...

Rebuilding families

“I must tell you that my husband was a very hard man. He not only treated me badly, but he was also very vocal in his position towards World Vision’s...

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...

Communities commended Channels of Hope programme

April 24th, 2018, Honiara - Members of Kwailatutu and Gwaibaleo communities in Malaita province have highly commended the Community Vision for Change (CV4C...

Sam Fanoasui's journey through Channels of Hope

March 26th, 2018, Honiara - “My interest grew when I joined World Vision’s Community Channels of Hope program as Chairman of our community action team in...

Advocacy and Interfaith in West Africa

World Vision in West Africa is working with pastors and imams who have the passion for people and are engaged to transform this passion into development...

World Vision and Buddhist Faith Leaders Join Forces for Children Protection

World Vision partners with Buddhist monks in Cambodia to protect children through the Channels of Hope for Child Protection (CoH-CP) initiative.

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...

Zimbabwe-CoH/ IGATE

One religious leader trained by UDACIZA came to the school to talk to the students during assembly. She talked about the dangers of teenage pregnancies and...

Honduras-CoH

Channels of Hope (CoH) is a key intervention addressing HIV-AIDS in Honduras. Training religious leaders and youth leaders throughout the community has...

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...