What's "right" with this picture?
Isabelle, the one smiling in the blue sweater, is 16 years old. What’s right? She is healthy. She is carrying crystal clear water from a tap just minutes from her home. She is in school. She’s among the top 5 in...
Girl Power Stops a Child Marriage
| One of Basanti's Girl Power Groups |
“As a neighbor, I saw the wedding related activities and got suspicious,” says Rojina, a 16-year-old from a village in Basanti. She knew Ajmira from school and was concerned...
World Vision helps end harmful traditions
| After 20 years, a circumciser in Kenya laid down her tools—a knife and a razor blade. World Vision helps girls, boys, and communities to stand against the dangerous, damaging practice of Female Genital Mutilation... |
Freed from forced marriage, Sabina helps others
| A World Vision Child Protection Officer meets with Sabina* (r) and Kibset* (l) at Morpus School |
Sabina, a 15-year-old girl in West Pokot, Kenya, has escaped a forced marriage and is working to prevent other...
Restoring their dreams
| James Lokuk speaks to students at Morpus School |
He has become the face of Child Protection in West Pokot County, a voice for the protection of girls escaping the violence of Female Genital Mutilation and...
14th Annual Strong Women Strong World event wrap-up
More than 250 men, women, and young people from around the globe came together for World Vision’s 14th Annual Strong Women Strong World Event in New York on November 30. They learned more about the plight of women and...
International Day of the Girl Child
The evidence is indisputable. When girls and women have better access and opportunity, progress is accelerated. Children are better cared for, families are stronger, and communities are more prosperous. World Vision has...
From embarrassment to celebration in Malawi: Sanitary rooms help keep girls in school
Instead of celebrating adolescence, 19-year-old, mother of two, Malita, recalls days filled with pain and societal seclusion, which resulted in her dropping out of school. Malita remembers that she and her female peers...
Ending second generation trafficking in the red-light district of West Bengal, India. One girl at a time.
Essential human rights, liberty, and dignity are being torn from millions of people today. They’re sexually exploited, forced into labor, domestic servitude, and thrown into begging and stealing in an illicit...
Seven ways to empower women and girls
To celebrateInternational Women’s Dayon March 8, here are seven easy ways to make a big difference in the lives of daughters, sisters, and mothers around the world — and right in our own neighborhoods.
