Southern Africa is currently facing one of the strongest El Niño crises in 35 years, with an estimated 49 million people at risk. This El Niño, through drought, floods and sometimes both, is causing food insecurity, increased food prices, death of livestock and economic slow-down.

Effective Community Engagement Helped Contain Epidemic, Protect 58,000 Children and Families, says Aid Agency

At its height, the conflict displaced an estimated 180,000 people with Georgia bearing most of the brunt. Tbilisi swelled in population by nearly 10% overnight with almost 100,000 living in more than 800 collective centres -- mainly schools and abandoned government buildings.

Story and photos by Mong Jimenez, World Vision Philippines Communications

Just a decade ago, it was rare for Khang ethnic minority girls, who live without main electricity in Vietnam’s mountainous district of Tuan Giao, to go to school.

Story by John Schenk: Global Centre Communications, Manager Communications Academy

In his early years Bombora was diagnosed with Down Syndrome, and Keto, a single mother, could not provide him with the special care her son needed, so she made the agonising decision of placing him in the Makhinjauri children’s institution.