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.
Health and Nutrition
No child should go hungry or be sick. Every child deserves a good start in life.
Tackling illness and malnutrition
Every day children are dying before they have a chance to live. Millions die annually from preventable causes. It’s a lottery of malnutrition, infections they weren’t immunised against, and illnesses that could be easily treated with the right health care. It can so easily be different.
World Vision focuses on three essential ways to improve health – especially for 0-5 year olds: good nutrition, protection from infection and disease, and access to essential health services.
Together, we can protect children’s health and well-being, so they can grow up healthy and safe, even in the toughest places.
Since 2010, 89% of the severely malnourished children we treated made a full recovery.
Helping children grow up healthy
Good health empowers children, families, and communities. We enable vulnerable people to live fuller, freer lives by strengthening health systems and promoting good hygiene and nutrition.
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.
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.
You can be part of World Vision’s lifesaving work:
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
Sponsor a child today, improve their life forever
In a world where 1 in 9 people don’t have enough food to eat, you can help make sure children have access to nutritious food.
Tackling Extreme Poverty
Supporting Chipego's Family
Mildred's son Chipego, from Zambia, was malnourished back in 2017. With support from World Vision's treatment and the nutrition information and resources Mildred received, he improved rapidly and by October 2018 had reached a normal, healthy weight. His parents received a goat, so the whole family benefited from nutritious milk and greater income, and they joined the village savings group. Chipego's dad Conrad said, “Being part of the savings group has really helped us to be resilient and cushion the shocks experienced in our area because of the drought.”
