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Every community that World Vision works with is aiming for self-sufficiency and a better future for their children. Community members and World Vision work together from the start of each project to not only build vital schools and health care centres, but also local skills and knowledge. This means one day they can lead their own development, without World Vision’s help. For some communities, that day has come – we’ve reached that goal!
During the final years of a community development programme, World Vision works to build the capacity of Community Based Organisations who take leadership of each project. If you ask community members who is in charge, they always say themselves!
By leaving these communities, we’re confident children have what they need to grow up healthy, strong and educated, without our help.
The issues facing the countries hit by the hunger crisis are extremely complex. Conflict, climate change, and various other factors compound to create an unstable environment and as a result countries like those currently affected are more susceptible to famine. Unfortunately the issues these countries face are long-term and there is no easy fix.
World Vision works with communities over the long term to increase their resilience to external shocks, including drought. We have strong expertise in both responding to emergencies and helping communities become more resilient in the long-term. There are remarkable stories of long-term change and resilience in communities where World Vision works. For example in Kenya, a former World Vision community provided food aid to neighbouring communities after learning improved agricultural techniques.
In South Sudan, World Vision is working to close the gap between emergency food assistance and long term development programming to provide greater resilience in the country.