Ongoing instability is leaving children hungry and without safe access to essentials. Help us meet urgent needs for kids and families affected by this crisis.
Through RISE, youth are empowered with education, job training, and meaningful employment. For work. For life.
World Vision’s RISE (Reaching Independence through Support and Empowerment) equips young people to succeed in life, school, and the workforce. Through training, education, mentorship, internships, and scholarships, youth build agency, skills, and resilience — not only for what comes next, but to become world changers.
2030 GOAL
Empower 60,000 youth from the highest-risk areas of the Northern Triangle with agency, opportunity, and workforce training that will enable them to break out of poverty.
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The need
Youth in Central America’s Northern Triangle—Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador—are growing up with limited choices. Poverty, violence, and chronically limited job opportunities leave many searching for any work—or any way out. Many feel forced to migrate or turn to violence to find opportunity and belonging.
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For many youth living in the Northern Triangle, a life of blessing seems impossible.
Poverty, violence, and a lack of opportunity have defined their lives, but we believe there is hope: hope for the youth, their families, and their communities. The region is among the poorest in the Western Hemisphere.
According to the World Bank, more than 1 in 4 youth ages 15 to 24 in Honduras are neither going to school nor working.
Homicide accounts for roughly 1 in 10 deaths among children and teens ages 10 to 19 in Latin America and the Caribbean. This is four times higher than the global average.
Our response
World Vision’s RISE models are designed to help young people gain the skills, training, and experience necessary to succeed both in life and in the workforce. They include various forms of training, education, scholarships, mentorship, internships, and more, all aimed at preparing youth for entrepreneurship and/or meaningful employment.
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At its core, RISE seeks to equip young people with the skills, training, and experience needed to thrive in both life and the workforce.
Youth Ready - Targeting 11,000 participants, Youth Ready equips youth with skills critical for success at work and in life. Participants choose one of three pathways—Education, Entrepreneurship, or Employment—to receive specialized training for their future.
Teen Ready - Focused on in-school adolescents aged 12-17, Teen Ready aims to prevent dropout rates and increase motivation for learning through engaging activities such as art, sports, science, and technology. Considering this is a new program, the early signs are impressive. The impact for those participating in Teen ready is an increase in attendance. One student shared with us, "I want to come to school because I love the Teen Ready class."
Our impact
When you support RISE programs, you empower youth in the Northern Triangle with work readiness, life skills, improved mental health, mentoring, school programs, education, job training, interview skills, resume writing, further education, meaningful employment - all leading to becoming better sons and daughters and engaged participants in their communities.
We’re serious about measuring impact and improving our work. A study done by Montclair State University — a top research university in New Jersey — found that young people who participated in Youth Ready in Honduras increased their scores in communication, critical reflection, perseverance, agency, and hope.
With your partnership, see the impact we made in fiscal year 2025:
2,500 success stories
2,574 Youth Ready graduates found jobs, participated in internships, started their own businesses, or continued their education.
5,000 graduates
5,119 youth ages 17-29 graduated from Youth Ready in fiscal year 2025 equipped with practical skills for life, work, and leadership.
10,000 teens
10,309 youth have participated in the Teen Ready curriculum providing them with agency, positive self-identity, and a sense of purpose; and helps them discover their vocational interests in an effort to keep them in school.
See the people and places whose lives are being transformed in the name of Jesus Christ. Watch videos to learn more about our work.
Our partners
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.
Taylor Rhodes
CEO of Applied Systems and donor partner, Illnois
"For me, that’s what RISE is all about: they (youth) are being equipped with skills so that they can be ready to enter the workforce. World Vision is partnering with companies that hire our RISE graduates into their companies, and that’s a story of transformation. Today, what they see is that the Lord has a plan for them to not only care for their families but to also be leaders in their communities."
