Urgent appeal

We urgently need you to help these children who fight hunger every day.

Across eastern and southern Africa, millions of children are threatened by famine. For them, each day is a battle for survival.

Musimbi, her young nephew Rayford and the rest of their family survive on two tiny meals a day. Drought destroyed their crops and livelihoods. They’re all at risk of malnutrition and even starvation.

Musimbi feels hungry almost all the time and can’t go to school. Rayford is underweight and needs nutrient-rich foods to grow properly and fight illnesses.

Your gift could save lives. Thank you for giving what you can.

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How your money can help

Children like Musimbi and Rayford urgently need your help today. Your gift today could:

Fund nutritious food packs to feed hungry children

Help families learn new ways to grow crops to adapt to climate change

Help buy seeds and teach families how to prepare and cook the food they receive

Your support can change the lives of vulnerable children for good.

We eat once a day. When I am hungry, my body shivers and I feel weak. I love playing with my friends, but when I am hungry it’s hard to play.

Change hungry children’s lives

Two children from Zambia looking to the camera

Each day is a battle for survival

Musimbi’s nephew, Rayford, is just 19 months old. He weighs less than the average 11-month old boy. He’s so little and especially vulnerable because he’s so young. Without the right nutrients, his body and brain can’t grow properly.

Barren landscape in Zambia with blue sky

Climate devastation and at breaking point

Following years of climate devastation, the situation in Zambia is now at breaking point. In the past few months, the country has been hit by an extreme dry spell, the worst in forty years.

A severely malnourished cow walking across a barren background

Millions of families are hungry

Families in rural Zambia are now facing the worst drought in four decades. The streams and crops have dried out, and the cattle are dying. Millions of families are hungry and desperate as a result.

Four children sat together on sandy ground, one looking to the camera

Hunger can have lifelong consequences

Children under five years old are especially vulnerable because they need critical nutrients to grow and to build strength and immunity against disease.

Failing crops because of climate disaster

Donate today

Children in southern and eastern Africa are hungry; their childhoods wasted and their futures uncertain. By donating today, you can support vulnerable children all across the world, where your help is most needed.

Can you help?

World Vision's nutrition ministry has helped 89% of the hungry and severely malnourished children we’ve treated since 2014 to make a full recovery. Food packs containing emergency food would help children like Rayford thrive.

Could you donate today to save hungry children like him from starvation?

You can help re-write the futures of children like Musimbi and Rayford.