Children run along a corridor at the Dar Al Aytam Al Islamiya orphanage. Following political collapse and the pandemic, the Lebanese economy plunged, wiping out 90% of people's savings and resulting...

Children run along a corridor at the Dar Al Aytam Al Islamiya orphanage. Following political collapse and the pandemic, the Lebanese economy plunged, wiping out 90% of people's savings and resulting...

Children run along a corridor at the Dar Al Aytam Al Islamiya orphanage. Following political collapse and the pandemic, the Lebanese economy plunged, wiping out 90% of people's savings and resulting...

Boy in Pajok orphanage draws an explosive item he has seen nearby, it is a mortar bomb. Children frequently report unexploded ordnance during risk education sessions.

Given (8) is the last survivor of her family who were all killed in clan wars, they were all slaughtered along with most of the village population in an attack two years ago. SHe is living at the Paj...

A boy opens eggs found by children from the Pajok orphangage. One of the boys found two eggs in the bush close to the orphanage. The children look on hoping to get a little taste of the eggs but unfor...

Several dozen people, almost all women and children, sheltering under a couple of large trees opposite the IDP camp's entrance, on the other side of the road. They were hungry and desperate and had be...

Several dozen people, almost all women and children, sheltering under a couple of large trees opposite the IDP camp's entrance, on the other side of the road. They were hungry and desperate and had be...

Darina Korol (6), Asya Malik (5) and Alina Alexeeva (6) wearing donated traditional Ukrainian folk costumes, while Yaroslav Koukoul (9) wears his own military-style outfit. Natalia Voronkova (not pic...

ATO Primate Sanctuary rescues primates, many of which are orphans whose parents were killed by hunters and poachers. The combination of habitat loss through deforestation and hunting is having a sever...

ATO Primate Sanctuary rescues primates, many of which are orphans whose parents were killed by hunters and poachers. The combination of habitat loss through deforestation and hunting is having a sever...

ATO Primate Sanctuary rescues primates, many of which are orphans whose parents were killed by hunters and poachers. The combination of habitat loss through deforestation and hunting is having a sever...

Nine year old Ruth (named changed) lives in an orphanage run by the Anglican church near the town of Minembwe on the Haut-Plateau. Ruth said: ''We used to live in a village close to here (Kalingi), bu...

Nine year old Ruth (named changed) lives in an orphanage run by the Anglican church near the town of Minembwe on the Haut-Plateau. Ruth said: ''We used to live in a village close to here (Kalingi), bu...

A priest leads children in mass in the Mai Am Hoa Hue Orphanage in district 12.

A priest leads the children of the Mai Am Hoa Hue Orphanage to church for their weekly Sunday mass at a church located near the orphanage in district 12.

A boy from an orphanage holds a kitten.= in the grounds of the home.

Unia Ataya (51) from Yei has, since spring 2017, been the women's representative for Zone 5 in Bidibidi. In South Sudan she was a social worker for the department of gender and social development. ''H...

As Esther Minella prepares vegetables from her garden, neighbour Rona Halima holds Minella's grandson. Halima feeds and clothes 11 children, some of them orphans, by selling meals she cooks to workers...

Children from an orphanage wait for a cake made in the shape of the Titanic, a gift from journalists.

Destitute mothers, with their malnourished children, are fed at the Agoheld clinic. The Agoheld Primary school, where the clinic is held, provides free education to orphans and destitute children.

Children use potties in an orphanage.

A girl at the Notre Dame orphanage and school pumps water from the school's newly installed water pump for a nun who works with the children.

Pupils drinking water from the newly installed pump at the orphange Notre Dame orphanage and school.

Two boys play on the slides after the lesson in the playground at the orphange Notre Dame orphanage and school.

A dress hangs by a bed at the girl's dormitory in the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

A child drinking a cup of water at the entrance to the kitchen of the orphanage Notre Dame orphanage and school.

After lunch, a boy falls a sleep on a bench outside the canteen at the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

Two girls changing the nappy of a little boy on the floor of a dormitory in the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

Children wash their clothes at the end of the day at the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

Students chatting in the classroom after a lesson at the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

Children at their desks for a lesson at the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

Pupils at the Notre Dame orphanage and school pumps water from the school's newly installed water pump.

An boy climbs a wall to check if lunch is ready at the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

Young girls cleaning and pots and dishes after lunch in the kitchen at the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

An older boy cutting the nails of a young girl at the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

Children eating lunch in the canteen at the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

A teacher explains standard hygiene mesures to her class at the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

A student stands in the classroom as he is in charge and must keep the class quiet while the teacher is away at the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

A student plays with a teacher's daughter after a lesson at the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

Pupils at the Notre Dame orphanage and school pumps water from the school's newly installed water pump.

Sisters Yvette and Anne Asso-o help a boy to fill a cup with water from the new pump installed in the yard of the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

Children dancing in the schoolyard after the lesson at the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

Children wash their clothes at the end of the day at the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

A volunteer looks after children, washing and dressing them in their night clothes before bedtime at the Notre Dame orphanage and school.

Wilmer Espino (13) bandages the cast covering the left arm of his younger brother Angel Espino (4) as they sit outside the Office for Assistance to Migrants. Both children, undocumented migrants origi...

Five year old Adama, who was orphaned during the 2017 mudslide in Regnet, sits in a corner in a house rented by her older sister. Adama was rescued from the mudslide by her brother in law.

A woman takes the the temperature of a child who is resident at the 'Akkari' centre, a home for abandoned children and orphans. The centre offers a shelter to 225 boys from 5 to 18 years old.

A dentist examines the teeth of a child who is resident at the 'Akkari' centre, a home for abandoned children and orphans. The centre offers a shelter to 225 boys from 5 to 18 years old.

Two boys use a computer at the 'Akkari' centre, a home for abandoned children and orphans. The centre offers a shelter to 225 boys from 5 to 18 years old.

Buddhist novice monks watch a cartoon called Moana as part of an English lesson at Shwe Gu Buddhist monastery. Shwe Gu monastery and philanthrophic orphanage is home to around 85 Buddhist novices and...

Novice monks, many of whom are orphans, watch a cartoon, as part of an English language course, at the Shwe Gu Buddhist monastery.

Novice monks, many of whom are orphans, watch a cartoon, as part of an English language course, at the Shwe Gu Buddhist monastery.

Novice monks, many of whom are orphans, taking an afternoon nap at the Shwe Gu monastery.

Mbuti pygmies at Don Foster's orphanage prepare for school in the morning.

A boy sits on a bed in the light of a large window at the Kabul Orphanage.

Care workers at the Antoshka orphanage come to pick up lunch for the children. There are 83 orphans from the age of two months to four years. Most of them are disabled and many of them need special ca...

A teacher with her students in an orphanage.

Al Haj Boukar, 46, was a wealthy business owner who fled the conflict and is now plunged into poverty with his family of eleven, including his mother Hadjia, who is estimated to be about 100 years-old...

Massah with some of her adopted children. In total she has adopted six children, three of whom were orphaned my maternal deaths.

A young girl dressed in blue at the Sanatan Seva Mandal school and orphanage (about half of the children are orphans) in Dwarka which provides an education for 435 students whose parents can't afford...

Mbuti pygmies at Don Foster's orphanage prepare for school in the morning.

A boy dressed in blue studying at the Sanatan Seva Mandal school and orphanage (about half of the children are orphans) in Dwarka which provides an education for 435 students whose parents can't affor...

A boy revising his school lessons in his bed at an orphanage.

Adanesh Gebrehiwo serves lunch to some of the 12 children living in a group home for orphans.

Al Haj Boukar, 46, with eight of his sons and daughter in Maroua. Boukar was a wealthy business owner who fled the conflict and is now plunged into poverty with his family of eleven, including his m...

Boys sit on their beds in an orphanage.

Children at the Antoshka orphanage where there are 83 orphans from the age of two months to four years. Most of them are disabled and many of them need special care.

A girl who lost her parents to Ebola, stands outside her home in Njala Ngiema village.

A boy eating breakfast at the Sanatan Seva Mandal school and orphanage in Dwarka which provides an education for 435 students whose parents can't afford government schools. Around half the students, m...

A group of young boys sit on the floor in an orphanage's bare room and watch television.

Children eating a meal of chicken and a staple made of manioc (yuca, cassava).

Alpha Jalloh, 43, and his wife, Isatusesay, 37, pictured with some of their children and adopted orphans. The family spent 180 days in quarantine part of which was spent in the school pictured in the...

Dongwei Arop, the head of one of the many child-headed households in the country, and his four siblings outside their temporary accommodation in Yida. (L-R): Simon Marieng Arop, 4, Nyamei Arop, 10, Do...

Betsy (12) sits on her bed. She survived the Ebola virus but lost many members of her family. She now lives in an orphanage. Since the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone in 2014, about 3,500 people, inc...

Children play on the swings at an orphanage run by Miriam Mason Sesay, a British woman of Sierra Leonean descent. The orphanage has an isolation ward where children need to stay for 21 days when they...

Children in one of the dorm rooms in an orphanage run by Miriam Mason Sesay, a British woman of Sierra Leonean descent. The orphanage has an isolation ward where children need to stay for 21 days when...

Children play in an orphanage run by Miriam Mason Sesay, a British woman of Sierra Leonean descent. The orphanage has an isolation ward where children need to stay for 21 days when they arrive to moni...

Nine year old Idris Conteh, whose mother died from ebola, at the Interim Child Centre a children's home run by the St George Foundation. Currently 21 children live in the home, all there as a result o...

Eight year old Momoh (red t-shirt) stands in a doorway at the Interim Child Centre a children's home run by the St George Foundation. Currently 21 children live in the home, all there as a result of t...

Nine year old Idris Conthe, whose mother recently died from ebola, lies on a bench in his family home which is under quarantine along with 46 households on the main street of Grafton after at least 17...

Peterson (12, right), a 'restavek' ran away from his master after the 'gudu-gudu' (the Creole name for the 2010 earthquake), because she would beat him almost every day. He lives on the street with a...

16 year old Sabine, an orphan who looks after her five brothers and sisters, prepares a meal.

16 year old Sabine, an orphan who looks after her five brothers and sisters, prepares a meal.

Children lie in their beds at the Solnyshko ('Little Sunshine') centre for underprivileged children in the village of Chilchi. The centre looks after orphans and children of alcoholic or ill parents....

Children playing basketball at an SOS Children's Village, an NGO for orphans.

Boys playing football at an SOS Children's Village, an NGO for orphans.

Anastasie Mukaramukaka1996: 50 years old, with two orphans, Claudine and Francoise, whom she cares for. In 1994, during the Rwandan genocide, Anastasie was hacked as she tried to protect her children,...

Dancille Mukandoli.1995: Dancille Mukandoli with 12 of the 15 children she cared for, on her meager civil servant's wages, after the 1994 genocide (four are hers, the rest orphaned relatives) 1. Girur...

Anastasie Mukaramukaka (50) with two orphans, Claudine and Francoise, whom she cares for. In 1994, during the Rwandan genocide, Anastasie was hacked as she tried to protect her children, sustaining de...