As the world turns its attention to the World Cup, which begins June 14, a World Vision Child-Friendly Space in South Sudan is providing an all-girls soccer program to empower girls to defy gender norms and combat child marriage.
News & Stories
Child Protection
From the Field
Fathers stand together to end child marriage in India
A men’s group in Agra, India, is determined to turn the tide on a human rights violation that is common in their community and around the world: child marriage. Through a World Vision program, they are learning how to create a loving environment for their families and protect girls’ childhoods.
From the Field
How World Vision does child protection around the world
More than half of the world’s children experience some form of violence every year. World Vision protects children and looks out for their well-being by ensuring communities and faith leaders are actively working to identify and support children in need; advocating for children’s rights; and providing for immediate needs, such as emergency shelter and essential care.
Special Features
Building happy childhoods
MAY 18, 2018, ARMENIA — World Vision works with parents, teachers, and community leaders in Armenia to help build safe and happy childhoods for kids from pre-birth all the way up through young adulthood.
Voices
Q&A: Big Daddy Weave
Christian rock band Big Daddy Weave has traveled the world seeing World Vision’s work. Hear from band members about how seeing the work has changed them.
Voices
Clean water: Pouring a foundation for social justice
When you walk for clean water with World Vision’s Global 6K for Water, you help lay a foundation for fighting injustice all around the world. Here are three ways that access to clean water impacts other social issues.
Prayers
Covering the world in prayer: Pray for the Middle East
Pray with us for the Middle East — for Syrians displaced by civil war, refugee host communities throughout the region, and maternal and child health in Afghanistan.
Voices
A safety net to protect vulnerable school girls
This World Teacher Day, find out how St. Elizabeth’s school for girls in Kenya serves as a safety net for vulnerable girls facing child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM).
Special Features
Life in urban India: 7 families, 7 journeys
AUG. 2, 2017, INDIA — Urbanization has changed the face of poverty and how World Vision works. We went to India to talk to seven families about their experiences.
Voices
Make a world of good: Do something!
While children in the United States are going back to school, Reneé Stearns reflects on how a special school in Kenya is making a world of good for girls.