Three Kenyan youths share how the gift of new wheelchairs has transformed their lives by providing them with inclusion and freedom.
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Voices
World Vision Ignite: Building friendships across the globe
A new World Vision program is igniting a passion among high school students for the world’s hardest places! Hear from our partner school’s principal how this new curriculum is making the world’s issues — and some new friends — real for his students.
From the Field
Video: Schoolgirls share their poem ‘Dear Water’
How does clean water change lives? These girls wrote a poem to tell you just how life-giving and transformative it can be.
From the Field
How’d they do that: Transforming lives like Cheru’s through clean water
Find out how your generosity brought clean water to Cheru and her community in Kenya. Cheru appeared on the cover of the spring 2017 World Vision magazine and her story also headlined the Global 6K for Water in 2017 and 2018.
Special Features
Cheru’s Kenyan community is awash in hope after receiving clean water
MAY 1, 2019, KENYA — Now that 6-year-old Cheru and her family have clean, fresh, running water near their home, life is better in so many ways. Clean water supports their community’s health, education, livelihoods, and spiritual growth.
From the Field
Life frames: Our favorite photos of 2018
World Vision’s photographers traveled around the world this year to tell stories of children and their families. They captured moments of struggle and moments of joy. Here are their favorite photos of 2018 and the stories behind them.
Voices
Let’s end FGM: How to fundraise for your passion on Facebook
A school in Kenya is helping protect young girls from FGM and child marriage. This cause is a passion for blogger Breegan Jane, who recently met at-risk girls and calls them “some of the bravest I’ve ever encountered.” See how Breegan is fundraising to protect, educate, and empower more girls — and how you can too!
Voices
Food crisis in Kenya: 5 signs of hunger I’ve never seen
The East Africa food crisis is monstrous: affecting 25 million people and showing up in ways our writer and photographer team have never before seen. Today, our writer — Kari Costanza — gives you a first-hand snapshot of five ways that hunger is changing the lives of people in Turkana, Kenya.
Prayers
Covering the world in prayer: Pray for East Africa
Pray for East Africa with us, especially for World Vision’s work in Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Let’s lift up the concerns of the families and children of these nations to our heavenly Father and listen to what He has to say to us about them.
Change Makers
Watermill Express: ‘Seeing hope and a better future’ for children
In the 1980s, Lani Dolifka learned the water flowing through the faucet in her Colorado home had been declared unsafe. It inspired Lani and her husband, Don, to develop an automated small-scale purification plant that converted their tap water into pure drinking water. Today, their company, Watermill Express, is the largest drive-up pure drinking water company in the U.S.