At just 15, Faith has seen the desperate lengths children will go to for food. She talks of girls who marry the ‘boys on motorbikes’ who ferry passengers around the dry, dusty villages of southern Kenya, because they earn money. Others have ended up pregnant to the motorcyclists, dropping out of school early to become teenage mums.

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Akili is a 6-year-old boy who lost both his parents in a flood. The school canteen is the only place where he finds comfort. He gets to eat his one meal for the day and also laugh and play with his friends. 

Sambath and her family had to face the storms of hunger and malnutrition alone. But everything changed with the help of World Vision.

Ei, a young girl in a village, witnesses the struggles of children facing hunger and a lack of education. Through support from World Vision, her family learns financial management, receives food aid, and rebuilds their lives. Ei dreams of becoming a doctor to help others in similar situations.

A price shocks report released today by World Vision reveals that for the most vulnerable, food prices are still higher than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic. Analysis of food prices from September 2023 shows that a food basket that would cost 1.5 hours of work in Australia, Ireland, or Singapore would take the average worker 36 days to earn the money to purchase in Burundi and 25 days in the Central African Republic. 

At just 15 years old, she was forced to make the difficult decision of leaving her childhood home in search of food. The hardest part? Her mother was too sick to make the journey, so she was forced to flee with her 10 younger siblings alone. All in hopes of finding enough food and water to survive. 

Every day, nine-year-old Blue carries his four-year-old brother Sunday to school so that he can get his one meal of the day. 

Every day, Khadija’s heart aches as she sees her one-year-old son, Saiful, losing weight. All that she can feed him is some soggy rice and bland vegetables. Each time he struggles to eat, she carefully saves the leftover because wasting even a grain of rice is not an option for them.