International stories

Au Lac Designs
These items were made by rural craftspeople in Duyen Thai, a picturesque Vietnamese village south of Hanoi. The area...

Artisans Association of Cambodia
Enabling ethical producers in Cambodia to connect with the outside world. After decades of violent warfare, Cambodia has finally...

Po Leung Kok Elderly Home, Hong Kong
That point had come for the Chen family. Four months after Mrs Chen’s stroke, her speech had not returned...

Hope is the hardest thing to find…
“Hope is the hardest thing to find…” say those trying to rebuild Uganda’s northern areas devastated by two decades...

RWANDA: Still battling a deadly legacy
When Rwanda suffered its inimitable ethnic fighting, the result was not simply war. It was genocide. In 100 days,...

Re-building after Typhoon Sendong
When Typhoon Sendong hit the Philippines in December 2011, Merlinda and her husband knew they were looking death in...

Oasis Workshop, Bethlehem
In the dusty refugee camps, towns and villages around Bethlehem, people with mental disabilities can often be shunned and...

New Life from Dried Grass in Swaziland
“This epidemic is creating a nation of widows,” said an NGO worker in Swaziland, speaking of the AIDS crisis...

Hope in Rural Cameroon
There are between 1 million and 4 million child labourers in Cameroon aged between 5-14. Some of them work...