Hospitals and health clinics are usually considered places of safety and healing. But in many of the rural communities where World Vision works, health facilities lack a critical resource for keeping patients —...

Hospitals and healthcare clinics are intended to be safe places. Patients seek medical treatment, determined to find relief and restoration. But when there is no water in such facilities, or the water is unsanitary, a...

World Health Day, on April 7,is an opportunity to celebrate God’s work...

Appeals to remember the world’s hungry aren’t new here — for every success story of a child recovering from malnutrition, there’s yet another desperate mother wondering how she’ll feed her children today. And the sad...

It’s often said that being a mother is the hardest job in the world. But when you live in one of the world’s poorest countries, the hardest...

This past year drove home the importance of handwashing. We’re buying soap by the gallon and scrubbing our hands a little longer as we do our best to stay safe from COVID-19.While the U.S. has taken strides in combating...

How can women and girls, in every society, participate effectively as full and equal members of their communities?

I first became interested in this question as an undergraduate partnering with global communities to...

In Rwanda, about two-thirds of the population are farmers with very small plots of land. At least half of these farmers are women. World Vision, through its THRIVE project, has helped to organize small groups of farmers...

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...

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...