Learning through play can bring smiles to children living in the world’s toughest places.

Kaltouma is determined to keep on surviving for her children, and dreams of a future when her community returns to peace.

They are parents, children, teachers, doctors and nurses…just some of the thousands whose lives have been disrupted by the worsening Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, now the second largest outbreak of the deadly disease on record.

Violence, economic collapse and crippling shortages now dominate life in Venezuela. Since 2014, living standards have been in freefall with food, medicine and basic services all in short supply.

Hila isn’t sure of her exact age—around 70, she guesses. The Syrian mother of 10 children fled Deir ez-Zor after the area was besieged by ISIS and her home was destroyed.

Dalal, 18, wears her best dress, green dotted with tarnished gold beads. She and her friends sit close together on the concrete floor of a tent in a temporary settlement in Akkar, Lebanon, not far from the Syrian border.

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Ask Esther and Simon their favourite time of day and they share the same answer: it's when they see each other.

11-year old Abdelsalam's dreams are put back on track after receiving treatment for his asthma.

Breastfeeding is restoring hope and humanity in Michika, an area torn apart by conflict in northeast Nigeria.