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5 Developing Country Success Stories

The goals for development and humanitarian organizations are to work ourselves out of a job. Here are some of the successes that lead to those moments.

Voices from Chad: “My dream is to…

Voices from Chad: “My dream is to see my children educated”

Ache dreams of something that many of us take for granted: to see her children educated.

5 Unique challenges facing refugee children

While there are risks and challenges for all refugees, living an uprooted life has unique impacts on the 11 million...

The accidental forest: A (happy) unintended consequence…

The accidental forest: A (happy) unintended consequence in Afghanistan

People in the international aid community spend a lot of time figuring out what the potential consequences of their actions...

The Haiti earthquake, 10 years later

One decade after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti, we look back on the days and months after January 12th, 2010.

Ebola outbreak in DRC: Second-largest outbreak in…

Ebola outbreak in DRC: Second-largest outbreak in history rages in Congo

The second-largest Ebola outbreak in history has so far infected over 3,400 and killed over 2,200 people in the Democratic...

The Haiti crisis: 5 things to know

Haiti was in a state of lockdown for much of the second half of 2019 with a fuel crisis sparking...

The 10 Refugee Crises to Follow in 2020

According to a 2019 United Nations report, the global refugee population is at the highest ever recorded, and has nearly...

Letting kids be kids: Protecting what’s precious in Haiti

It’s hard to think that any parent would choose to raise their child in a polluted, overcrowded urban slum in the poorest country in the western hemisphere. But for the mothers and fathers of Cité...