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People receiving cash assistance. Some standing at a table, others seated at the table.

Since 2023, a consortium of 6 international humanitarian organisations has been carrying out a comprehensive cash distribution programme to empower individuals and families in several regions in Ethiopia, based on an assessment of the most acute needs.

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  • Field blog
Juleta is showing the T-shirts that she sewed in the centre.

Displacement is not just migrating from one place to another. You also leave your identity and the characteristics that make you who you are behind you. While facing many challenges during the route, you must rebuild your life and yourself in the place you came to.

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Photo of Emmanuela in front of a bright pink wall.

Kenya is home to nearly 820,000 registered refugees and asylum seekers, many of whom have fled war-torn countries such as Somalia, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Sudan. For them, escaping conflict often means enduring unimaginable hardships and rebuilding lives far from home.

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3 children standing in front of a window.

Intisar, 40, and her 4 children had no choice but to flee after an airstrike completely destroyed their home in Anbar, Iraq. At the same time, her husband went missing during the attacks by the group known as ISIS in their city and was presumed dead. These events left her distraught and uncertain.

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The Jenin refugee camp is located in the outskirts of the namesake city in the northern West Bank. Established in 1953 to house Palestine refugees forcibly displaced by Israeli forces in 1948, the camp hosts nowadays some 25,000 people.

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Delivery of goods in a street. At the back a truck.

Life in Lebanon has always been marked by resilience, but the challenges faced by its people today are unprecedented.

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  • Photo story
Photo of Deyloul in front of a wall.

According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), some 330,713 people were internally displaced in Mali in May 2024. In the Timbuktu region, more than 5 out of 10 displaced people, including children, lack identification documents. This was the case for Deyloul’s 2 nephews.

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  • Field blog
Women and children fetching water at the newly constructed water platform.

Access to clean, safe water is a fundamental part of any effort toward providing a stable and healthy life for communities impacted by conflict and climate change.

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  • Field blog
Alvard holding up an embroidery while seated in her living room.

Evelina and Alvard. They are 2 mothers who faced the same nightmare during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. They ran away for safety twice to the neighbouring Armenia during the conflicts

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4 children hugging eachother.

In North-West Syria, 13 years of conflict have left over 4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance to survive, and the situation only continues to deteriorate with no end to the conflict in sight.

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  • Field blog
A family sitting on a beach looking out to a boat.

In 2023, an unprecedented 520,000 people crossed the Darién Gap, a dangerous stretch of hostile jungle connecting Colombia to Panama, to seek refuge in North America.

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