Image: Children who have fled unrest in the DRC with their families, attend psychosocial support sessions in a transit centre, Uganda © 2025 Brian Jakisa Mungu/World Vision.
RESPONDING TO DISASTER
Our contribution to World Vision’s emergency responses across 29 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Eastern Europe reached 2.8 million people, half of whom were children.
In 2025, the World Vision Partnership supported 104 emergency responses in 70 countries. We reached over 35.6 million people: of these, 18.6 million were children. Our own contribution to this in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Eastern Europe reached 2.8 million people, half of whom were children.
Last year we reported on the World Vision Partnership’s ENOUGH campaign in the 28 countries of highest alert, and we continue to respond to hunger. This year the campaign has focused on promoting child nutrition, which we have been part of through our commitment to school meals in Sudan, DRC and Burundi and though advocating for change.
Snapshots of our work in emergencies this year1
Accountability to communities is an important part of the high humanitarian standard we aim to achieve. Almost all2 reports available showed how we involved communities in collecting feedback on our interventions through consultations, focus groups and feedback sessions. Help desks, hotlines and feedback boxes allowed people to share concerns, which were tracked and addressed. Projects were adjusted based on this input, with special efforts to include vulnerable groups and make facilities accessible.
1 Summarised from project reports; 26 project completion reports out of a total of 38 were available at the time of writing.
2 Clear evidence in 25 out of 26 (96%) of available reports.
Image: Children waving outside their school in Ethiopia. © 2025 Amy Van Drunen/World Vision
INSPIRING ACTION & PRAYER
The World Vision Partnership’s global ENOUGH campaign continues. Our advocacy activities in 2025 were aligned towards one overarching goal: ensuring that every child, everywhere, has access to enough nutritious food to survive and thrive.
NUTRITION FOR GROWTH SUMMIT
As part of the International Coalition for Advocacy on Nutrition (ICAN), World Vision UK joined other major UK charities in calling for strong UK government commitments to end global hunger and malnutrition. At the Nutrition for Growth Summit in Paris, we were among the first civil society organisations to sign the UK government-led Global Compact for Nutrition Integration on including nutrition objectives across other policies and sectors, including climate action and health. The Compact aims to reach 1.2 million children each year with an investment of $1bn into work that supports child nutrition.
Three World Vision youth delegates – Williams (17, Sierra Leone), Salome (17, Colombia) and Sunischita (16, Nepal) – met with David Mundell MP and Steve Race MP, co-chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Nutrition for Development. The MPs listened as the young leaders presented their child and youth call to action, urging leaders to confront the global malnutrition crisis, and shared solutions to end global malnutrition.
Image: World Vision youth delegates at the Nutrition for Growth summit. From Left David Mundell MP, Salome (17), Williams (17) Sunischita (16) and Steve Race MP.
Image: Event poster NOURISH school meals dialogue.
GLOBAL SCHOOL MEALS DIALOGUE
One of our long-term advocacy goals is for the UK government to join the School Meals Coalition and support the vision of every child in the world receiving a healthy, nutritious meal in school by 2030.
To amplify youth voices and highlight the essential safety net school meals provide, two weeks before the 2nd Global Summit of the School Meals Coalition in Fortaleza, Brazil, World Vision UK hosted NOURISH: A Global Youth School Meals Dialogue co-led by the World Vision UK Youth Advocacy Network. Fully youth-led, this virtual event brought together young people from 12 countries. Participants designed the event and served as co-chairs and speakers. The dialogue drew policymakers, decision-makers and civil society representatives from 24 countries. Rather than speaking, decision-makers were encouraged to listen directly to young people and learn from their recommendations. Sharon Hodgson MP, a long-standing advocate for school food and chair of the APPG on School Food, was invited to offer closing remarks.
A Call to Action summarising the young people’s recommendations from this event was also taken to the summit in Brazil as a key advocacy resource to share with attendees.
"Decision-makers aren't just persuaded by facts and figures and statistics and economics, hearing personal stories of why school meals matter, really does change minds. And it's about celebrating the myriad of benefits that school meals have.”
Sharon Hodgson, Labour MP for Washington and Gateshead South and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on School Food.
PRAYER IN OUR MISSION
Prayer has always been at the heart of World Vision’s mission. It is a language that transcends oceans and cultures – a heavenly connection that unites God’s people in hope and compassion. Across the year, we’ve seen how prayer not only sustains our work but inspires supporters to act with courage and generosity.
One of the most powerful moments came through a partnership with the Wildfires conference, where we invited four children from Uganda – Simon, Patricia, Genesis Scovia and Jackson – to write and share a prayer for the church here in the UK. Their words were simple, grounded in faith, and yet they bridged worlds in a profound way.
Their prayer reminded everyone present that God knits us together across continents:
“Heavenly Father, we are thankful for the gift of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. We are also grateful to you for your divine connection around the world. May your will be done. Amen.”
As this prayer was spoken aloud, it became more than words – it became a shared experience of God’s presence. Supporters told us how deeply they were moved, how this moment renewed their commitment to stand with vulnerable children, and how the unity of global prayer strengthened their own faith.
This is the impact of prayer in action: voices rising from different places, carried by the same Spirit, inspiring compassion that transforms lives – both here in the UK and around the world.
