Impact stories

As the old saying goes, tough times don’t last; tough people do

More than 275,000 refugees are living in Dadaab, the biggest refugee camp in the world in Kenya. Here is what you need to know.

Question as "Where is Mosul? How big is it?", "How many people are affected?", "When did the conflict start?" are explained

“They took the beautiful girls,” Goze tells me from her temporary home in a camp in northern Iraq. It soon becomes clear what she was alluding to: the women were raped, their husbands killed.

Eight Haitians tell their stories about the moments during and after Hurricane Matthew storm.

In the local Lotuko language Ituba means ‘united we progress’. It is also the name chosen by a group of 30 women in Eastern Equatoria, South Sudan for their one-month old village savings and loans (VSLA) group. A statement of purpose and of hope.

Stacked neatly in a pyramid fourteen rusted metal cups represent all that is left of 11-year-old Regina’s life. Belongings carefully guarded and transported some 2,000 kilometres back from Khartoum, Sudan in 2011 - to mark the family’s new life in the…

As the impacts of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti started to emerge, the damage from the storm immediately started being compared to the damage of the 2010 earthquake. I could not imagine that a hurricane could possibly leave comparable levels of damage as…

World Food Day has been marked every year on 16 October since 1979, and is observed by more than 150 countries. One can’t help but reflect on the social inequity that for millions of people, food is – at best –- bare sustenance to make it to tomorrow. …