When 13-year-old Yasser from Syria enrolled in the International Rescue Committee’s psychosocial support programme, he rediscovered his love for art and for playing the buzuq, a string instrument similar to a lute.

As dangerously cold weather grips Greece, the International Rescue Committee has been doing everything within our power to ensure that people staying in the refugee sites where we work are warm and safe. We are particularly concerned about children and the elderly, who are most at risk of hypothermia and worse if they don't have sufficient heat.

Militant terror organisation Boko Haram has been committing acts of violence in the far north of Cameroon since 2014. This region was the poorest part of Cameroon even before the outbreak of the conflict. It is even harder now for people to get food and millions are in need of life-saving support.