In downtown Myitkyina, Kachin State, Lahtaw Zau Mun helps run the only health center for miles, which provides essential services for the hundreds of families who have been caught up in the ongoing conflict in Myanmar and displaced as a result.

A Salvadoran refugee girl is pursuing an education in the United States. A Nigerian woman is creating her own business despite the male-dominated society of her native country. A Rohingya activist in Bangladesh is helping to end violence against women.

When Salem, 39, and his family of six became sick with cholera, they didn’t know what had hit them. As a fisherman by trade, he thought the fish he had brought home might have caused them to fall ill.