Clementine Uwimana, a young mother with her baby, uses a wicker basket to shake up maize kernels so that the wind takes the loose husks with it. Farmers at work at a central collection point, where ha...

A child, being held by its mother, is weighed and measured at a health centre where their growth and development is monitored.

Clementine Uwimana, a young mother with her baby, uses a wicker basket to shake up maize kernels so that the wind takes the loose husks with it. Farmers at work at a central collection point, where ha...

A child, being held by its mother, is weighed and measured at a health centre where their growth and development is monitored.

An advertisement for a commercial breakfast mix product for mothers and young children made by Africa Improved Foods, a Rwandan company with a Dutch shareholder, DSM. Mostly only the middle class can...

A commercial breakfast food product for young children made by Africa Improved Foods, a Rwandan company with a Dutch shareholder, DSM. Mostly only the middle class can afford the product but at the sa...

Oksana Ruschyshyn and her three children watch as their husband and father is buried three days after he was killed on 7 March 2022 during a battle with invading Russian forces in the Luhansk region....

Oksana Ruschyshyn, holding her youngest child Roman, stands with her other children and close family beside the body of her husband inside their home during the funeral of the former police officer. R...

Oksana Ruschyshyn and her youngest son, named after his father Roman, mourn beside his coffin in the church where they, and hundreds of local villagers, have gathered for the funeral of Roman Ruschysh...

Oksana Ruschyshyn and two of her three children kneel in honour of their dead husband and father Roman Ruschyshyn (44). The funeral of the former police officer took place in Soposhyn, where they live...

Oksana Gonishuk, and her children Any (9) and Illa (13), say farewell to her husband, the children's father Yevgeni Gonishuk. The family have fled their home in Kharkiv and is now heading for safety i...

A woman, with her children, waves through the window of a train as it departs to Poland. Under martial law, men aged 18 to 60 are not allowed to leave Ukraine, her husband, the children's father, is...

The station at Lviv is the main hub for people trying to escape the war in Ukraine. Most of the refugees here are heading to Poland arriving on trains that come from all over the country. The thousand...

Refugees arriving in Lviv trying to leave the train they have just come in on and hurry to catch the next departing service to Poland. The station at Lviv is the main hub for people trying to escape...

Julia Boyko and her daughter with their pet cat, one of the few things they have brought with them. They have come from the Kyiv (Kiev) suburb of Irpin where heavy fighting has been going on for days...

Oksana Gonishuk, and her children Any (9) and Illa (13), say farewell to her husband, the children's father Yevgeni Gonishuk. The family have fled their home in Kharkiv and is now heading for safety i...

A father holds his hands up to the window of a departing train to say farewell to his wife and child who are fleeing to safety in Poland. Under martial law, men aged 18 to 60 are not allowed to leave...

Tatiana, Vitaliy and their five children and are desperately trying to get on board a train to Poland. They fled Kyiv (Kiev) as fighting in their neighbourhood became increasingly fierce. Under mart...

Veronica (32) sits, too exhausted to walk any further, on the cold ground outside the train station where a woman tries to encourage her to move inside a tent. The station at Lviv is the main hub for...

A woman fleeing her home arrives at the train station in Lviv carrying her pet dog inside the jacket to keep it warm. The station is the main hub for people trying to escape the war in Ukraine. Most o...

People arrive at the train station in Lviv, the main hub for people trying to escape the war in Ukraine. Most of the refugees here are heading to Poland arriving on trains that come from all over the...

After a wait of many hours, people squeeze onto a carriage on a train which is heading to Poland. Huge numbers of people, mainly women and children, have gathered at the train station in Lviv, the mai...

Railway staff help a woman and a child onto a train which is heading to Poland. Huge numbers of people, mainly women and children, have gathered at the train station in Lviv, the main hub for people t...

A mother and her son, who have been waiting more than 12 hours, stand in the middle of a large crowd gathered at the train station in Lviv, the main hub for people trying to escape the war in Ukraine....

Evgenia (6) clutches her favourite toy and fairytale book, the two things that she was allowed to take before fleeing her home in Borispol. Lviv's train station is the main hub for people trying to e...

A large crowd gathered at the train station in Lviv, the main hub for people trying to escape the war in Ukraine. Most of the refugees here are heading to Poland arriving on trains that come from all...

Evgeni holds his hands to his face as he collapses in tears after saying farewell to his love Antonina at the train station in Lviv. Under martial law, men aged 18 to 60 are not allowed to leave Ukra...

Andrey (6) sleeps, completely exhausted after 24 hours travelling to Lviv and more than a further 14 hours in a queue for a train to Poland. His sister and mother care for him, while his father has st...

A baby sits in its buggy, while Polina (5, right) huddles under a blanket with her mother, Anastasia Pichakhchi. The family fled Kharkiv after shelling hit their apartment bloc. Beside them Oksana (56...

Weronika Sierogodskaya (17) and Liza Kochan (18) fled from Kharkiv together, but have now been waiting in a queue for 24 hours, in the hope of boarding a train to Poland. The train station at Lviv i...

People gather around a fire burning in an oil drum outside the train station at Lviv, the main hub for people trying to escape the war in Ukraine. Most of the refugees here are heading to Poland arriv...

Natalie Gaponko (43), who lives close to Crimea where the fighting is fierce, is now on the final leg of her escape from Ukraine together with her four children. While a family member holds the place...

A couple arrive at the Krakovetz border crossing point with their three children where they hope to cross into Poland and safety from the Russian invasion.

Victoria with her son rest in a tent set up at the Krakovetz border crossing post for families with small children.

A woman, wrapped in a blanket, with her child in tow near the Krakovetz border crossing point with Poland.

Refugees by the millions are fleeing Ukraine, most of them to Poland as these people on the Krakovetz border cross. Mostly woman and children arrive here by car or busses and stand in lines in the fre...

Single mother Qamar Gul, her son Said (5 months) and her two daughters Sumaya (9) and Mariam (7) huddle in the open in a makeshift camp. About one thousand people have moved from their villages and...

Zanib (7) with her grandmother who is looking after her. Zanib has a high fever and a very bad cough but her family can't even afford the small price for transport to the hospital in Herat city. Abou...

Gulstan and her family have fled their home village because they ran out of food. Their hunger has taken them to this little camp of simple tents on the outskirts of Herat city. Her two daughters, Fa...

Maidagul and her husband Mohammed Hanif who are planning to buy a five year old girl from a homeless woman and her family who cannot look after the child. The child Parima (5) lives with her mother,...

Fatemah with her baby girl Asheg (3 months) sit on the floor, surrounded by other mothers and their children, at the main hospital in Herat city where children suffering from severe acute malnutrition...

Fatemah with her baby girl Asheg (3 months) sit on the floor, surrounded by other mothers and their children, at the main hospital in Herat city where children suffering from severe acute malnutrition...

A mother and her sick baby at the main hospital in Herat city where children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) are being treated by staff from Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

Mahgol with her baby (1 month) who was born with asthma and was premature, very likely due to the mother's malnutrition at the main hospital in Herat city where children suffering from severe acute ma...

Jomogal with one of her children who she lives with, together with her family, in a small tent. Her daughter Sohila (5 months) is severely malnourished and though Jomogal is trying her best to breas...

Najibullah and his wife Jomogal with their children who live together in a small tent. Their daughter Sohila (5 months) is severely malnourished and though Jomogal is trying her best to breastfeed h...

Single mother Qamar Gul, her son Said (5 months) and her two daughters Sumaya (9) and Mariam (7) huddle in the open in a makeshift camp. About one thousand people have moved from their villages and...

Women waiting, with their children, for their turn to see a health worker from an UNICEF mobile team visiting the village of Mirane Rostam, a day's travel from the city of Bamiyan. UNICEF is there to...

Women waiting, with their children, for their turn to see a health worker from an UNICEF mobile team visiting the village of Mirane Rostam, a day's travel from the city of Bamiyan. UNICEF is there to...

Women waiting, with their children, for their turn to see a health worker from an UNICEF mobile team visiting the village of Mirane Rostam, a day's travel from the city of Bamiyan. UNICEF is there to...

Fatema with her son Ibrahim (6 months), begs for money or food from a passing car in the city centre.

Women and children, wearing burkas (burqa), begging for food outside a bakery in central Kabul.

Sharifa with her daughter Momina who is undergoing medical treatment for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) at the provincial hospital in Bamiyan. She had been suffering from malnutrition for some time,...

Momina undergoing medical treatment for severe acute malnutrition (SAM) at the provincial hospital in Bamiyan. She had been suffering from malnutrition for some time, but her father didn't think the f...

Ayz Ali (left) and Sabera (pink scarf) and their six children who are living inside this cave near the city of Bamiyan. The family arrived as refugees to the city 18 years ago and as they couldn't aff...

Family members gather for lunch of bread and tea at the home of Afi sa (25) who is holding Hojatullah her 11 month old son. Hojatullah was diagnosed as malnourished when seen by a health worker in a s...

Kobra Mohamidi (25) with her son Madi (10 months), who has been diagnosed as moderately malnourished. They are being seen by a health worker in a small clinic managed by UNICEF. Children from the vill...

Nafisa (35) with her son Hadi (10 months), who has been diagnosed as moderately malnourished. They are being seen by a health worker in a small clinic managed by UNICEF. Children from the village of A...

Women wait with their children to be seen by a health worker in a small clinic managed by UNICEF. Children from the village of Alibeg and surrounding area are being medically examined for malnutrition...

Jamilla (30) with her one year old son Ibrahim who is one of her six children. They are being seen by a health worker in a small clinic managed by UNICEF. Children from the village of Alibeg and surro...

Jamilla (30) with her one year old son Ibrahim who is one of her six children. They are being seen by a health worker in a small clinic managed by UNICEF. Children from the village of Alibeg and surro...

Hojatullah (11 months old) with his mother Afi sa (25) (left) are seen by a health worker in a small clinic managed by UNICEF. Children from the village of Alibeg and surrounding area are being medica...

Hojatullah (11 months old) with his mother Afi sa (25) (left) are seen by a health worker in a small clinic managed by UNICEF. The child has a MUAC test (mid-upper arm circumference) test as children...

Hojatullah (11 months old) with his mother Afi sa (25) (left) are seen by a health worker in a small clinic managed by UNICEF. Children from the village of Alibeg and surrounding area are being medica...

Natalia Voronkova, a volunteer who offers support and basic first aid training for Ukrainian government forces fighting Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country. While Natalia works on th...

A Batwa (pygmy) woman smokes a pipe outside a church-built shelter where members of the Batwa live in abject poverty. Until 1992 the Batwa people lived in the forests of Western Uganda but they had to...

A Batwa (pygmy) woman and her children outside a shelter where they live in abject poverty. Until 1992 the Batwa people lived in the forests of Western Uganda but they had to make way for the mountain...

A Batwa (pygmy) woman smokes a pipe outside a church-built shelter where members of the Batwa live in abject poverty. Until 1992 the Batwa people lived in the forests of Western Uganda but they had to...

Saida, with two of her sons in front of her shop in an agricultural village outside Sfax. She says she would not like to see her sons leave for Europe, but also understands that there are few prospect...

Ronald Apaza places a hand on the coffin of his father Simon Apaza (81) during the funeral of the elderly man who died of COVID-19. Five of Simon Apaza's ten children were able to attend the funeral o...

Villagers and family, including his wife Zenira Pereira Francisco (2nd right) and their children Sandro (13), Luciana (16) and Wesley (23), from the indigenous Terena community living in the village o...

Ronald Apaza places a hand on the coffin of his father Simon Apaza (81) during the funeral of the elderly man who died of COVID-19. Five of Simon Apaza's ten children were able to attend the funeral o...

Ronald Apaza clings to the coffin of his father Simon Apaza (81) during the funeral of the elderly man who died of COVID-19. Five of Simon Apaza's ten children were able to attend the funeral of the w...

Rosangela Pereira Vieira, an indigenous Terena woman in the village of Moreira, breastfeeding her daughter Ana Clara (2) who has tested positive for COVID-19. Her mother believes she might have contam...

Leonardo Runyo (35), wearing ppe to protect himself from the novel coronavirus, stands in the yard of a home in the Paraisopolis favela. He is with a team of volunteers are going from home-to-home tes...

Jennifer (10) plays with her two year old brother Moises while their mother, Vanessa Silva Santos Souza, is tested for COVID-19 antibodies in their apartment in the Paraisopolis favela. A team of volu...

A woman and a girl wait in line for food aid at a distribution facility in the Paraisopolis favela that was set up to offer relief during the coronavirus crisis.

Officials visiting an area suffering a locust infestation talk with locals after the area was sprayed from the air with an insecticide. According to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO)...

A Samburu farmer examines a locust. Desert locusts have swarmed into Kenya from Somalia and Ethiopia, destroying farmland and crops. The yellow locust is mature and while not so voracious as the pink...

The day after their arrival to Uganda the Monday family is transported in a bus that takes them to the larger refugee centre in Kuluba. On the backseat is Farida Aba, 6, who has a high fever because o...

Students and their teacher in a computer equipped classroom at Mwijabu Primary school where a digital learning project is helping young students to work with new, interactive multimedia software that,...

Students and their teacher in a computer equipped classroom at Mwijabu Primary school where a digital learning project is helping young students to work with new, interactive multimedia software that,...

A teacher in a computer equipped classroom at the Inspirations Primary School shows her pupils how to work with new, interactive multimedia software, part of a digital learning project that, in a play...

A teacher in a computer equipped classroom at the Inspirations Primary School shows her pupils how to work with new, interactive multimedia software, part of a digital learning project that, in a play...

Students and their teacher in a computer equipped classroom at Mwijabu Primary school where a digital learning project is helping young students to work with new, interactive multimedia software that,...

Students and their teacher in a computer equipped classroom at Mwijabu Primary school where a digital learning project is helping young students to work with new, interactive multimedia software that,...

Students and their teacher in a computer equipped classroom at Mwijabu Primary school where a digital learning project is helping young students to work with new, interactive multimedia software that,...

Students and their teacher in a computer equipped classroom at Mwijabu Primary school where a digital learning project is helping young students to work with new, interactive multimedia software that,...

Students and their teacher in a computer equipped classroom at Mwijabu Primary school where a digital learning project is helping young students to work with new, interactive multimedia software that,...

A teacher in a computer equipped classroom at the Aga Khan Academy shows a pupil how to work with new, interactive multimedia software, part of a digital learning project that, in a playful manner, en...