Water Critical to COVID Response in Mwala
Samuel Gamusa Oct 2, 2020 5:00:00 AM

When news of a new virus hit the headlines of the world, 30-year-old Eunice Ngumbi’s (pictured center) medical intuition kicked in. She sensed in her spirit, that it would be only a matter of time before the contagious...

Hope for Honduras
Dr. Greg Allgood Sep 29, 2020 7:00:00 AM

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, World Vision staff traveled to Honduras to see how World Vision is addressing the root causes of emigration from Honduras to the United States, and empowering families to have hope at...

COVID-19: Safe At Home
Samuel Gamusa Sep 28, 2020 5:32:31 PM

Ann Ndululu is a 14-year-old sponsored child who started the year in high spirits and looked forward to transitioning to her new school. Mumbuni Girls Boarding School is a prestigious school in Machakos County that...

'Hope' Child Forum Teaches Community about Coronavirus—Ayesha is a Hidden Hero
George Sarkar Jul 24, 2020 12:00:00 PM

“When our first three coronavirus positive cases were detected and declared by our Bangladesh government, our program community people in the slums became very afraid of COVID-19. The first time they heard of the...

COVID-19 Aftershocks - Economic tsunami hits the poorest
Christopher Shore Jul 17, 2020 12:35:12 PM

On July 7, 2020, World Vision released a major report called Out of Time. World Vision gathered field-level data from 24 countries. We surveyed 14,000 households in Asia, over 2,400 small business owners across Africa,...

New Hope as Coronavirus Storm Lingers
Collins Kaumba Jul 17, 2020 12:00:00 PM

Seated on the ground, 13-year-old Ivy eloquently reads a book in her mother tongue as she leans against the wall of a small mudbrick house in southern Zambia’s Moyo community. In the day’s twilight, the sun pleasantly...

Coronavirus Makes it a Double-Edged Sword
Collins Kaumba Jul 17, 2020 12:00:00 PM

The wave of fear remains as the coronavirus continues to impact many lives all over the world. Forty-two-year-old Florence Hachiyona of the Moyo community in southern Zambia likens the COVID-19 era as “facing a...

So much to cry about these days
Sherree Funk Jul 17, 2020 8:14:38 AM

There is so much to lament in our world today – a global pandemic, economic downturn, social/political/racial tensions. We face our own humanity and mortality on a daily basis. We know of people with serious health...

Sahinoor Helps Protect Neighbors from Coronavirus
George Sarkar Jul 2, 2020 12:00:00 PM

“Just the week before [the] lockdown started in our area I filled my store with new goods. I brought mostly the kitchen items like [the] electric kettle, fan, iron, gas stove, and rice cooker. I invested all the savings...

World Refugee Day: When life is upended
Elisabeth Rickard Jun 19, 2020 2:25:23 PM

We’ve likely all had an experience of life changing in an instant. Maybe it was the birth of a first child, the unexpected loss of a loved one, or bad news about a job. Whatever it was, life was irrevocably altered...