Impact stories

If you want to change the world, start with yourself first. This saying particularly holds true when it comes to changing gender norms.

Almaz is one of the 1 million people who were displaced during the most recent ethnic conflict in Gedeo and West Guji zones in southern Ethiopia.

Amreh is one of the 1 million people who were displaced during the most recent ethnic conflict in Gedeo and West Guji zones in southern Ethiopia

More than 330,000 survivors lost their homes after the Indonesia earthquake and were forced to live in makeshift tents

64 year old hasna single-handedly supports her family of 6. On 28 September their home was destroyed by the Indonesia earthquake

9 month pregnant Citra describes the situation as the Indonesia earthquake hit in September 2018

She holds her gaze when she looks at me. Her eyes cannot lie. She is a survivor, still fighting to overcome the trauma. We meet in a refugee camp in Uganda. She tells me the world must know what she has been through. On her lap sits her daughter. A…

“I felt like it was better to die than marry someone I didn’t know,” says 17 year old Mary (not real name)* from Torit in South Sudan. This is the pain Mary feels six months after she was nearly forced by her family to marry a stranger.

Whenever I speak about my country I feel pain and sadness. The place I lived in my entire life which carries so many beautiful memories is being destroyed in front of my eyes. And with each story we see or hear in the news we feel like nothing will ever…