View image | gettyimages.com Climate Change: The worst is yet to come – “Nobody on this planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change,” Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations Group, told reporters earlier this week. A new report by IPCC warns… Read more →←
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The story takes place in the northern part of Equateur (Nord-Ubangi), a remote province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Our mission was to assess the nutritional situation and the care of refugee children from the Central African Republic (CAR) and people in host Health Zones. Accompanied by the Child Survival Administrator and our… Read more →←
No internet? No problem – Move over Google, a human-powered, user-created, SMS-based search engine is saving lives in Zambia! uReport, made for and by Zambians, is an incredible text-message based system that works wonders in giving young Zambians, who don’t have internet connectivity or mobile data, access to… Read more →←
In 2008 the melamine scandal erupted in China. The industrial chemical was discovered throughout the milk supply, killing at least 4 babies and hospitalizing more than 50,000. Chinese parents were faced with a life and death infant feeding decision. With a low breastfeeding rate and one of the fastest growing formula markets on earth,… Read more →←
Ramez*, a 17-year-old resident of old Homs, had gone without eating for two days. His eyes lit up when he found half a can of tuna in the abandoned basement. Now the choice was to have it himself or to share it with Lama, his girlfriend who was with him on the rummaging mission. She was hungry too, only in a worse state than him. Ramez… Read more →←
Last week we celebrated the International Day of Happiness. With my colleague Justine, we thought that it would be an amazing opportunity to show the bright side of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, rather than the ever-tragic picture you can see in most media. Described by some as the ” worst country in which to be a mother… Read more →←
“We’re done,” shouted an excited aid worker from across the fence. Thumbs up. Colleagues who had very quickly become friends applauded and cheered. We had just sent the last UNICEF truck. Truck number 16. Part of the first-ever UN humanitarian convoy that had gone from Turkey to Syria. Over the past four days, I had been at the… Read more →←
In this week’s Photo of the Week, Paulino, 7, and his sister Laura, 14, stand beside their possessions, displayed outside their hut in Zambezia Province, Mozambique. The children have been on their own since the deaths of their parents and siblings several years before this photo was taken, in 2007. Every time I’ve come across… Read more →←
The drive to the border town of Mardin in southeast Turkey was long. We reached the town in the evening, a sleepy border town that has become a centre of attention in the past few days. Humanitarian aid to Syria was going in from Turkey for the first time ever since a brutal civil war began more than three years ago. We drove to the… Read more →←
You’ve heard of drones used by the military, maybe even by Dominos for delivering pizza, but have you heard of drones being used to save lives in crises? We’re guessing not. So check this out – Celina Agaton, a Google-USAID fellow for the International Conference on Crisis Mapping, has been creating a network of drone volunteers in… Read more →←