Even in hard-to-reach and vulnerable places, frontline health workers empower women with knowledge about breastfeeding and how to keep their babies healthy.
Breastfeeding is a team sport, and frontline health workers are key players
Food and Nutrition
Better farm, better life for women in Bangladesh
New climate-smart farming techniques are helping women farmers in Bangladesh create a better life for their families and gain respect in their communities.
How can solving health and nutrition issues fight poverty?
Improving the health and well-being of children and families in extreme poverty is a crucial part of ENDING extreme poverty in our lifetime!
Thank you! Congress just passed the Global Food Security Act!
World Vision advocates emailed, called, and even met with their members of Congress about fighting hunger via this bill. Thank you for your hard work!
New report: Global hunger is on the rise
The number of children and families around the world who aren’t getting enough to eat every day has increased for the third year in a row.
What is the Farm Bill and how can you support it?
The Farm Bill is vital for international food security and the work that World Vision does around the world — and it expires Sept. 30.
This family fled violence; now their garden provides peace
The garden has been such a success that the family now employs 5 to 7 people. World Vision provided training, seeds, and a generator for irrigation.
Empower women and help end hunger: The Global Food Security Reauthorization Act (S. 2269/H.R. 5129)
Thanks to Advocates like you, in 2015, Congress passed the Global Food Security Act. Collectively, you took over 5,000 actions (phone calls, emails, op-eds, and more!) to support this bipartisan bill which now ensures greater government coordination across various food security and nutrition programs. Thank you! But we need your help again… Meet Ruma The … Read More
World Water Day: The Impact of Water around the World
By Beth Ann Saracco, policy advisor for food security and livelihoods and Catherine Namwezi, World Vision intern with the Government Relations and Advocacy team Sometimes it is easy to think of issues affecting poverty as individual problems that need to be solved one-by-one, like providing clean water, food security, protection for children, education, and providing … Read More
It Comes Down to Resilience
Last February, a standing-room-only crowd of Congressional staff, U.S. government officials, and development and humanitarian practitioners gathered for a briefing in Washington, D.C. entitled “El Niño’s Strength: Smallholder Farmers, Food Security, and Resilience.” At the time of the briefing, El Niño (a naturally occurring weather phenomenon) was already showing indications of its strength and severity, … Read More