Umme Sayma, a student of Early Primary Education (EPE), reading with a young girl.

A young schoolgirl with her text book.

Jubaira Akter Moni (10), a student in class five at Shikhon School 02.

Female workers at Meenhar Fisheries processing shrimps for export.

Female staff at Meenhar Fisheries, a shrimp processing and export company.

Tanzia (10) studying English at primary School. She also sometimes helps her mother at her cleaner's job.

Students of class five Pavin (9), Rusha (10). Kulsum (10), Yesmin (11) and Rozina (10) walking through a field to Shikhon School 02.

Students of class five in class five of Modumoti section's Sustain Non-primary School. Although many of them work they still managed to attend school every day. Left to right Tanzia, Nadia, Zannatul,...

Students of class five Pavin (9), Rusha (10). Kulsum (10), Yesmin (11) and Rozina (10) walking through a field to Shikhon School 02.

Textile workers returning to the Dulal Brothers Ltd garments factory.

Textile workers at the Dulal Brothers Ltd garments factory.

Students of class five Pavin (9), Rusha (10). Kulsum (10), Yesmin (11) and Rozina (10) walking through a field to Shikhon School 02.

A medical worker tests the hearing of a patient at the CDD (Center for disability in Development).

Joba Islam, a trainer at at COEL (Centre of Excellence for leather), showing a pupil how to use the sewing machine. The leather work trainees receive one year of training, then three months off job tr...

Shipa, Arafat and Rumana, class five students on their way to Shikhon School 04.

Ache Mal Ali, 80, with her daughter Amina Maloum Abba, 50 and her son Ali, 15 who is very small for his age. Chronic malnutrition has led to him being physically and mentally stunted. Ache's villag...

A chipped bowl containing a few grains of rice and some dried beans. The extreme north of Cameroon is suffering a food shortage exacerbated by climate change and conflict with Boko Haram. Fighting has...

Isniino (30) at an MSF Malnutrition Centre with her baby Nastcho (three months) who is being treated there. 'This drought has made us refugees. I can't ever remember it being this bad', she says, 'I w...

A woman watches over her sleeping children at Badbaado, one of the many camps for IDPs (internally displaced persons) that have sprung up in and around the city.

This battered spoon, a treasured gift, belongs to 20 year old Amina, a young pregnant mother of two who fled her home village and is now living in an IDP camp. The extreme north of Cameroon is sufferi...

A small, brittle, dried fish used to season bland staple food such as boiled maize. One small plastic bag, from Meme market, containing about seven fish costs about 200 CFA (GBP 0.27p). The extreme no...

An ethnic Twa pygmy child with clear signs of malnutrition walks inside an abandoned Belgian colonial-era cotton factory, now home to about 200 Internally Displaced People (IDPs). They moved to the ol...

Hodan Mohamed Ibrahim with her son Ahmed Ali Ismail, four years old, at the hospital in Burao where Ibrahim has brought them suffering from severe acute malnutrition. The family have lost much of thei...

Mother-of-two Esperence Ndayishimiye, (26) measures the MUAC (mid-upper arm circumference) of her son Blaise. Esperence is bringing up her young children on her own after her husband abandoned her. He...

Sahal Dhicle Samatar squats beside two dead goats. Samatar has seen most of his livestock die as drought stricken Somaliland is brought to the brink of famine, and if April's rains fail the region fac...

A bag of dried leaves, from a variety of potato plant, used to season bland food particularly the local staple of boiled maize porridge. The leaves are found at most local markets and are a speciality...

Ezequiel, 24, and his daughter Avlia, who is 1.5 years old, at the Beira Central Hospital where she is being treated for malnutrition. Ezequiel says: 'I love Avlia so much. When I look at her, I see...

Emilia, 26, and her one year old son Darito at the Beira Central Hospital where Darito is being treated for malnutrition. Emilia says: 'Darito is my son. I do nothing but care for him. It breaks my...

Mohamoud Jama Saleban stands next to the grave where he has just buried Omar Siad in the cemetery in Boodhley village. The dead elderly man was another victim of the region-wide drought which has brou...

19 year old, heavily pregnant, Hinda Cadare, walked into Boodhley village with her dying son in her arms. The village had a cemetery and she thought that if he is to die then at least he could have a...