When you sip your next green tea, you might stop for a minute to take in the aroma of the leaves, revel in the steamy warmth, perhaps appreciate the energising taste. Chances are you won’t be thinking about a small family in the hills of Rwanda. They are indeed related but not the way you might think. This is a story of parenting and… Read more →←
“We are children! We want peace! We want school! Let’s make peace among us!” Watching a group of children at Lumbwe primary school singing and dancing to peace slogans was amusing, only until I learned about the physical and emotional wounds each child in the group bore. “The girl singing in the middle of the circle was… Read more →←
Over 7,000 new Syrian refugees – nearly half of them children – have fled the conflict in northeastern Syria and arrived into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Many of them are women, children and the elderly. Almost all of them walked long distances through the night, hoping to reach safety. They arrive in physical and mental distress.… Read more →←
The drive alongside lake Lanao is idyllic. Surrounded on one side by the lush greenery of the southern Philippine island of Mindanao and on the other by the vast ocean-like expanse that forms the largest lake on the island. But the horror of what took place alongside the lake’s northern shores hits you when you enter the devastated… Read more →←
Emine El Ilevi (front) and her sister Zeynep, in the picture above, are Syrian refugees in the Turkish city of Adana. The sisters, their three siblings and her father Ahmed arrived in Turkey after a bomb landed in the middle of their living room, killing Emine’s pregnant mother and seriously injuring her. The eldest four children of… Read more →←
No, I’m not talking about “revenge body” with one of the Kardashian sisters or the fast-result fad diets popular these days. I’m talking about three children, babies, who range from eight to fourteen months old, with results that make me tear up. Let’s go back eight weeks. I went to Aweil town in northern South Sudan to… Read more →←
If I know about a malnourished child, I will go to the family’s house every day to check on the child. If they don’t have food, I will buy it myself and give it to them. I just can’t look away. I’m South Sudanese and these are my people. Recently, I have been working in South Sudan documenting the treatment of three children… Read more →←
Once a month, the fear of blood stained clothes, embarassment by peers, and discomfort used to hold 17-year-old Nhima Balde back from school, physical activities and friends. Her period was restricting her confidence, and making her feel isolated and dirty because she did not have the materials to adequately manage it. That all changed… Read more →←
On the International Day of the Girl, we sat down with Lucy Wanjiku, HIV activist and mother, to hear about her experience as a young woman living with HIV in Kenya. She shared her hopes, dreams and fears for the future of girls in sub-Saharan Africa. What challenges did you face as a teenage girl in Kenya? What are you doing to address… Read more →←
With suicide and self-harm now leading causes of death and injury among young people between 15 to 19 years, UNICEF and WHO are coming together for the first time at the Leading Minds for children conference to tackle the growing scale of mental health disorders among children and young people. On World Mental Health Day (10 October)… Read more →←
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