Impact stories

Imagine being pregnant but having to choose between eating enough food and drinking enough water. For the last month this has been the reality for Vann, 24, a young woman from Koh Kong in Cambodia.

A disaster response should first and foremost meet people’s immediate needs to help them face the challenges caused by an emergency situation. But in some instances, a well-planned response can have a lasting impact beyond the duration of the issue and…

One of the strongest El Niño cycles in recorded history has caused drought and flooding around the world. In Ethiopia successive crop failures due to drought, have forced more than 10 million people into a food crisis. For some, what seed was saved to be…

Telma is a Malagasy telecommunications company with a difference, and it’s not in their branding or services, but in the way they carry out their corporate social responsibility.

I can hardly believe my own eyes, sitting on a straw mat in the shade of a mango tree in Southern Chad. I have been here before, two years ago, when tens of thousands of refugees from the Central African Republic fled violence after a political coup in…

At the end of the first day, the World Humanitarian Summit mostly achieved its aims.

Water is something that many of us in the developed world have the luxury to take for granted. It is available, on tap, hot and cold, 24/7, any given day of the week. But in the countries of Southern Africa affected by the El Niño weather phenomenon it…