Hadya Abdul Satar in the Afghan capital, Kabul, last summer. Hadya hopes to find a teaching job in Afghanistan — her family's home country — after she graduates from the University of Richmond.

An estimated 31 percent of school-age children have never set foot in a classroom in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The IRC has been actively working to support increased enrollment and attendance by building and renovating school infrastructure, training teachers and subsidizing school fees for impoverished students. The IRC is committed to giving boys and girls, as well as illiterate men and women, a second chance.

Migrant children shell mussels on the docks of Bangkok from dawn to dusk to make a living. 

Children stop to play on their way home from school in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp. 

An estimated 140,000 people have been displaced by the fighting in and around the city of Goma.