More than two years after the United Nations declared an official famine in Somalia, over one million people are still without adequate food, water, medical care and other essentials.

The devastating drought of 2011 left families across Somalia without the means to survive. The International Rescue Committee is working with those people who were displaced.

Through the IRC’s Vision not Victim programme, Nour, a Syrian refugee living in Jordan, was able to envision her future as a lawyer.

Cavine Akello was a 17-year-old high-school student when she became pregnant with her son, Rwot Okonya Billgram, whose name means “God has helped me” in the Luo language of Uganda. Cavine’s parents died when she was a child and her grandmother, who raised her, died when she was 14. The father of her child abandoned her after she told him she was pregnant and later was killed in a car accident.