Stories

“They called it ‘Black September’. Two months afterwards, you could still smell the acrid smoke in the air.” The...

“Meet my colleague. He has been to prison seven times”, says the director of the Kazakh rehab centre. He...

Maama Emanuel is a walking example of the hope that a gift of simple items can bring to people...

Chi Kin should be running and climbing like any other energetic preschooler but at 3 years old, the little...

At just 5 years old, Khang*, of Vietnam, had almost no way to ‘make it’ with the options life...

When we think of ‘slavery’, we easily picture 18th century shiploads or Roman times. Yet, today, the BBC tells...

Mubalama, a small boy living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, suffered tragedy before he had even reached school...

Mr Chen*, at the age of 94, has lived through his fair share of tragedy, war and economic hardship....

Mrs Tse* was inconsolable. She was standing with one of our staff, in charge of Hong Kong goods distribution,...