Hunger | World Vision

Despite the world now being able to produce more food than we actually need, the battle against famine and hunger isn’t over yet. Millions of people are still deprived of food and at risk of malnutrition.

1 of 6 children

(roughly 100 million) in developing countries is underweight.

66 million

primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world.

500,000 children

250,000 to 500,000 children go blind every year from vitamin A deficiency.

Every child

Our vision is a world where every child has access to enough nutritious food every day, and where families are empowered to provide for their children and withstand life’s unexpected setbacks; but hunger is still a daily reality for more than 820 million people.

Over the last five years, 89% of the severely malnourished children we treated made a full recovery.

Vaccinating children from preventable diseases

Our TB programmes have an 88% treatment success rate

Supporting parents to feed their children nutritious meals

We reach another child with nutritious food every minute

Training health workers to help give children quality healthcare

Our therapeutic feeding programmes have an above industry standard 89% cure rate

A girl and boy sit on the floor outside, eating packets of nutritious food that helps malnourished children

Malnutrition

Malnutrition affects children like Pedro (left) and Teresa from Angola. They were diagnosed at a World Vision health screening and are eating enriched food called Plumpy Nut to aid their recovery.

Female doctor holds out an injection over a desk, leaning towards a mother. The child on her lap looks nervously at the syringe

Health

World Vision Mobile Health teams visit places like this internally displaced person's camp in Afghanistan to provide basic health services including growth monitoring and free vaccinations for children.

Girl and her mother stand in front of the private latrine in India

Hygiene

We work with communities to understand their needs, and work to provide simple improvements that help people maintain personal and environmental hygiene - like this latrine provided to a family in India. We also teach about the importance of soap and encourage a culture of hand washing.

We believe a Hunger-Free world is possible.

Every child

Malnutrition

Health

Hygiene

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