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Potable water for villages in Southern Ethiopia

19/04/2021

Although the situation is improving, many people in remote indigenous communities still lack access to safe drinking water. The limited availability of fresh water and high delivery costs to rural areas are some of the factors that keep communities...

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Haiti: supporting deportees in times of coronavirus

14/04/2021

The Dominican Republic has been one of the hardest-hit countries in the Caribbean and monitoring the border is imperative to avoid an uncontrolled spread of the virus. In 2020, the European Union allocated €3.9 million of humanitarian funding to...

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This Yemeni doctor has proven her critics wrong

09/04/2021

“Other doctors told me that ‘Bushra, you are freshly graduated, you can’t cope with all this’,” she says, explaining her decision to move away from her family home to a rural area in Yemen, where necessities are scant. “But all this talk was just...

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A digital window to breathe from

02/04/2021

Amani is a single mother from Idlib, northwest Syria. She fled the war in her country and came to Hatay, Turkey’s southernmost province, with her 4 sons. “I wanted my children to be safe,” she says. For 2 years, she struggled to find a job. She...

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Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar rise from the ashes

31/03/2021

“The fire was so massive that no one could extinguish it. Everything turned to ashes,” recalled Shofiqul Islam, a Rohingya volunteer working with the International Organization for Migration’s Rohingya Cultural Memory Centre.All his origami books...

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Meet Mehtap: survivor, mother and designer

26/03/2021

Mehtap* is 25 years old. She is a mother to a 10-year-old daughter. After she was married off as a young girl in Afghanistan, Mehtap lived through years of domestic violence. When the physical and psychological abuse became too much to bear 4 years...

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Ecuador: providing shelter to forcibly displaced Venezuelans

17/03/2021

“We left Venezuela a month ago. We have been walking most of the time, with our two children,” says Hernan* while his sons – 5 and 6 years old – hug their mother. “We have not eaten properly since we left, we survived mostly on bread and water. We...

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Empowering Rohingya women through mental health care and counselling

08/03/2021

Over a decade ago, 16-year-old Faresa from Rakhine State of Myanmar was like any ordinary teen, dreaming of a happy marriage and kids. Her life turned upside down when she left her parents’ home to marry a man called Ahmed. After 2 years of...

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Cameroon’s Far North: helping displaced people overcome grief

24/02/2021

Originally from a small village in Magdemé, in Cameroon’s Far North region, 48-year-old Elizabeth fled her home in 2015.In Cameroon’s Far North region, villages are randomly looted and burned, cattle stolen from farmers, and villagers kidnapped....

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Fleeing the conflict in eastern Ukraine: 3 mothers tell their stories

17/02/2021

‘We have passed the circle of hell.’ Tatiana is a mother of 3 who was forced to leave her hometown of Mariupol in Ukraine due to hostilities in 2015. “When the conflict began, we no longer had the strength to endure these horrors, we were afraid...

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