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Thailand: A tale of two cities
In one part of Thailand, there's a thriving, bustling Bangkok hospital. They're so well-resourced that they can afford to...

14 million face masks help internationally
"Before the economic collapse and Covid-19, we used to live a normal life," says Tatiana, a 31-year-old mother of...

Matching school uniforms from UK to Nigeria
“Many villages here are in a serious struggle to get out of the poverty cycle created by the civil...

Battling Covid-19 together
COVID: SAME STORM, DIFFERENT BOATS “This pandemic has magnified every existing inequality in our society,” Melinda Gates said of Covid-19....

Helping the Covid battle in Sri Lanka
For homeless children in Kandy, Sri Lanka's second largest city, life is one serious risk after another. "Many live...

Nigeria: Equipping those at the grassroots
It's at the grassroots level that things start to grow. Projects such as village water initiatives, child nutrition in local schools, or training...

No Man’s Land: Do refugees face a ‘never-ending story’?
When our world was summoning its resources to battle Covid-19, it was easy to lose sight of people displaced...

FROM OREGON TO IRAQ: Support for refugees
SHIPMENT FEEDBACK "ISIS came," tells, Basema, aged approx 11. "We went to one farm, then another, and then to the mountains. We left without...

FROM THE NETHERLANDS TO ROMANIA: Medical care for Holocaust survivors
Her face has been protected, but, pictured below, is a 94-year-old Holocaust resident at a Romanian hospice, in the...