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  • Urmila Kumar and her husband Uday Kumar say their sugarcane crops have dwindled after years of rain shortages in the growing season; their rain-fed tapwater routinely runs dry: “There’s no rain. How can we plant? How can we get our income here?”
  • Jaimati Prasad says two rooms of her home were blown away during Cyclone Winston. She believes more attention would be paid to what women and children actually need if more women were involved in disaster response planning.
  • Fane Lomani Boseiwaqa places posters on the wall before meeting with a group of rural women in Ba, Fiji.
  • Leba Volau’s home collapsed during 2016’s Cyclone Winston. She remembers pushing her grandchildren out of the house as the walls caved in.
  • IRIN Director Heba Aly (middle), in discussion with CEO of IKEA Foundation Per Heggenes (left) and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Kelly Clements (right).
  • Najat Rochdi, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Central African Republic
  • A harrowing string of events led Mary Poni to attempt suicide, twice.
  • The team often run short of basic essentials for dead body management, including body bags.
  • Red Crescent volunteers use ropes to pull a salvaged migrant body up the cliff-face on the beach at Tajoura - a Tripoli suburb.
  • Libyan Red Crescent volunteers find another migrant body on Garibouli beach, near Tripoli, which has become increasingly used by people smugglers to launch boats.
  • A grieving woman wipes a tear from her eyes
    Ludi Fernandez
  • Ennio Prince, 70, sits in a home for elderly people in Carúpano. Malnutrition rates are rising across Venezuela. Local humanitarian groups say impoverished elderly people often do not have enough food to eat: “I am always hungry,” Prince says.
  • Elderly people queue for food at a public kitchen in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
  • A portrait of a smiling, bearded man sitting
    Jesus Villarroel, a priest and director for Caritas in the eastern Venezuelan city of Carúpano, says the country’s economic crisis has forced the Catholic charity to take on humanitarian work.

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