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Friday, March 28, 2025

Access to Water Improves School Feeding and Learning Environment

Through a World Vision supported water system, learners at a school in Ntondozi, Eswatini longer go a day without food. There is a reliable supply of water, ensuring the school is able to prepare meals everyday.

A child playing with water

10 Facts about Water

Water – it’s thirst-quenching, clean-making, germ-fighting and essential for every process in our human body. But when it is in short supply, every day is...

Thu Thu: Teaching the next generation in Myanmar

All grown up: Sponsored girls who are now changing the world

Karen in Ecuador is fighting patriarchy; Thu Thu in Myanmar is ensuring future generations of girls get educated; Thu’ong in Vietnam is raising the bar of...

Sheyla, 12, Guatemala

Changing the pathway for girls in Guatemala

In 12-year-old Sheyla’s community, it’s rare to see a young girl occupying a position of leadership. In the past, girls have faced discrimination and were...

18-year-old Phally grew up in a family where her aunt had too many mouths to feed and not enough income to meet all of their needs.

From surviving to thriving: How child sponsors are helping girls in rural Cambodia create safe communities

In rural Cambodia, widespread poverty has forced many adults to move to neighbouring Thailand in search of work, leaving children with extended family...

Nomin, a 16-year-old girl from rural Mongolia, is living proof that sponsoring a girl can open up a world of possibilities.

From sponsored girl to aerobatics champion

Nomin, a 16-year-old girl from rural Mongolia, is living proof that sponsoring a girl can open up a world of possibilities. When Nomin was sponsored in the...

Monika, an 18-year-old from a rural community in Bangladesh

How one sponsored girl became a force against child marriage in Bangladesh

Having a sponsor meant Monika, an 18-year-old from a rural community in Bangladesh, had the knowledge, tools and social support resources to stand up to...

Today Heda* is 14, but she’s experienced a depth of neglect, abuse and cruelty that few people confront in a lifetime.

Rising from violence to change the world girls live in

Trapped at home while her mother Desi went out to work each day because she has a disability, Heda was just nine when the first man came into the house and...

Esther’s favourite subject is science and she dreams of becoming a doctor one day.

Esther risks rape to get to school

16-year-old Esther walks 8 km each way to attend school in Tanzania, facing the risk of sexual violence and dangerous animals. Now, the ongoing drought...

At just 12-years-old Sheyla is leading transformation that’s happening thanks to sponsorship in her community in Guatemala.

Four ways that sponsoring a girl can change the world

When you sponsor a girl, you open the doors to a world of possibility – not just for the girl you sponsor, but for their entire community. Global experts...

Kpandai experiences Chosen™ for the 1st time

For the first time. Children in Kpandai have the opportunity to choose their own sponsors.

Obert

World Vision makes Sponsored Child’s University Dream Come True

But years ago, he could never even have dreamt of being successful in his life. As a child, Obert and his mother struggled to make ends meet. He is the...

kids in smiling

71 vulnerable children choose their sponsors in Lesotho's #Chosen

World Vision Lesotho Transforming the lives of vulnerable children and Communities through Child Sponsorship. #Chosen, the power to choose in a child's...

Helping to his mother

A boy with a generous heart

Not only overcoming the challenging time brought by the pandemic and the ongoing civil unrest, but 16-year-old Doe is also pursuing his dream of becoming a...

Evelyn, 16, soccer player from Ecuador

A female soccer player who shines with her own light

At 8 years old, Evelyn had her first contact with World Vision Ecuador when she was sponsored; back then, she had the opportunity to receive the support of...

The Power of Chosen

The West African Regional Leader, Carla Denizard shares her experience with her sponsored children in Wa, Upper West Region of Ghana.

13-year-old Htet’s family has struggled to grow enough food to eat since the unrest began in 2021, and he and his four siblings had to drop out of school

What decades of conflict means for the children of Myanmar

The long-running conflict in this corner of South East Asia pops up occasionally in the news, but for the children living in Myanmar, it’s a daily reality...

Portrait group photo from Mozambique

The Knock-On Effect: The Disasters and Triumphs of a Global World

It’s a small world, after all. And while there are many benefits to the interconnected world we live in, there are also costs to the economic, social and...

Drought in East Africa

How Drought is Changing Childhood in East Africa

They rarely make the headlines. But a slow burning, quiet crisis can be just as life threatening and catastrophic as a sudden, dramatic one – and the...

Kongkham - Laos

Living Out My Dream Job

Kongkham Sounthala, Education Coordinator at World Vision International – Lao PDR, shares her life’s story in the occasion of International Women’s Day.

Thu Thu and Child Group

Girls can do it!

There is no school or health facility in Thu Thu's village. Yet she strived for her goal of becoming a teacher.

I was once a sponsored child: Maswazi, Eswatini

Maswazi says his life was transformed because of his sponsor’s help and it's inspired him to do the same for others.

I was once a sponsored child: Yuyun, Indonesia

From sponsored child to law graduate cum laude. Meet 22-year-old Yuyun, who is determined to fight for the rights of women and children – and says it all...

I was once a sponsored child: Alex, Uganda

Change that lasts! "I have defeated poverty." See how child sponsorship changed Alex's life.

I was once a sponsored child: Gankhuleg, Mongolia

World Vision Mongolia gave opportunities not only for me but also for many other children. Now we are all grown-ups who are succeeding in different sectors...