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World Vision has a proven track record of effectively improving healthcare by delivering clean water access, handwashing facilities, and infection prevention training to health centers while equipping and training community health workers to prevent and treat diseases in hard-to-reach communities.
2030 GOAL
Upgrade 3,000 health facilities globally with clean water, including strengthening the health system in every health facility, everywhere we work in Zambia, Niger, Rwanda, and Ghana.
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The need
1.8 billion people are at greater risk of infections because their health center does not have clean water, adequate sanitation, or handwashing facilities.
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In the areas where World Vision works, half the health clinics don’t have clean water and 5 out of 6 don’t have basic handwashing facilities. Many mothers are required to bring their own water to wash themselves and their newborns after giving birth and infections can spread under these conditions.
One in six patients in the developing world gets an infection at their health center, and such infections are responsible for up to half the deaths of babies. While the miracle of birth should be a joyous occasion, too often it becomes a death sentence for mother or baby.
830 women die every day from preventable causes associated with pregnancy and childbirth.
Our response
We can save the lives of 1 million mothers and babies every year. World Vision serves the most vulnerable families around the world by supporting more than 184,000 community health workers in 46 countries and thousands of health-focused community groups—more than any other nongovernmental organization—who are trained and equipped to deliver healthcare services to their communities.
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Prevention: We empower women with vital health knowledge and support so they and their children are less likely to be affected by malnutrition, disease, and sickness in the first place.
Clinic upgrades: We fill gaps at rural clinics — access to clean water, equipment, supplies, medicine, and staff training — so workers have a better chance of successfully treating patients.
Community Health Workers: We equip and train local community health workers to extend healthcare from local clinics into communities. They empower women with vital health knowledge and support so they and their children are healthier; these health heroes can address many common and preventable causes of death including diarrhea, pneumonia, malnutrition, and malaria.
Our impact
World Vision reaches more health centers with clean water, handwashing facilities, infection prevention protocols, and training of healthcare workers than any other nongovernmental organization (NGO). World Vision reached 2,000 health facilities serving an estimated 18 million people between 2019 and 2023. An evaluation by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill of World Vision’s health efforts in Zambia highlighted how World Vision efforts are helping save lives by dramatically increasing the capability of the community health workers to diagnose and treat the top killers of children - malaria, diarrhea, and pneumonia.
With your partnership, see the impact we’re making. Click here to view the Health Impact Summary.
831 rural healthcare facilities
831 rural healthcare facilities were upgraded in 2023 and 2024
88% of malnourished children
Over the last 15 years, 88% of the severly malnourished children we treated made a full recovery.
665K people
Since October 2024, 665,958 people, including 209,517 children and youth, have benefited from health education and improved healthcare and nutrition.
We are blessed to partner with hundreds of Christian philanthropists and couldn’t do this work without them. And we’re able to reach more people because of our highly collaborative local and global partnerships within private and public sectors.
Dr. Anne Klamar
donor partner, Ohio
"The things that most impressed us was the breadth, depth, and interconnectedness of World Vision's health programs."
Laura Abernathy
donor partner, Georgia (with her husband Robert)
“I visited several health clinic that were without electricity. And then I was able to go back three years later and see the difference – see a facility with clean water, electricity and solar power.”
