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  • An official of the International Committee of the Red Cross helps 11-year-old Akuch Ajak Bol with fitting an artificial leg to replace one that was amputated in 2006. Around 80,000 people in Southern Sudan are thought to require artificial limbs, mainly a
  • Merri Oviana of Lampulo village in Banda Aceh city lost 33 immediate relatives in the 2004 Asian tsunami. Working in Brunei to raise money for her family, it took her a year to return home and discover the full extent of the human and physical loss
  • 15.7 percent of Yemen's 21 million population lives on less than US$1 a day and 45.2 percent lives on less than US$2 a day, according to UNDP
  • High rates of poverty and lack of education make Yemenis vulnerable to HIV/AIDS
  • Olongapo, Philippines - A worker dries up fish under the mid-morning sun at a UNFPA funded MDG project site in Olangapo, Philippines
  • The water supply in Brazzaville is so unreliable that most citizens stock up using jerry-cans to see them through the long periods when taps run dry
  • Daisy Balingit at work in a smoked fish drying deck in a riverside village of Santa Rita in Olongapo province. The project funded by UNFPA has been touted as one of the small successes of the UN's MDG initiatives in the the impoverished Philippines
    Daisy Balingit at work in a smoked fish drying deck in a riverside village of Santa Rita in Olongapo province, Phillipines
  • Aid workers in Gaza unload new supplies. Hospitals are struggling to cope with casualties during Israel's military offensive
    Aid workers in Gaza unload new supplies. Their work in the Strip is becoming increasingly dangerous to undertake
  • Palestinian children suffer tremendous psychological trauma in the midst of Israeli bombardment
  • Young girl in Benin's largest market in Cotonou. Whether she is an economic migrant or victim of trafficking is central to a regional mobility study of children's migration in West Africa
  • Relief workers outside Al-Quds hospital in Gaza. Medical supplies have been running low since Israel's military offensive in the Strip began
  • Relief workers outside Al-Quds hospital in Gaza. Medical supplies have been running low since Israel's military offensive in the Strip began
    Relief workers outside Al-Quds hospital in Gaza, one of the Strip's 27 hospitals
  • Many children have been killed or injured in Israel's military offensive in Gaza
    The hospitals are overwhelmed with casualties since the latest fighting began on 27 December
  • A new house under construction through the World Bank funded programme in Jaffna and other districts of north and east Sri Lanka. Typhoon Nisha did extensive damage to the rooves of thousands of newly built homes inducing the Bank to turn to more traditio
  • Mariam Mohamed, another Mogadishu resident unable to flee because of poverty
  • Paul Thiao, farmer and regional coordinator of the Senegalese Federation of NGOs (FONGS) that represents 32 farmer associations
  • Eight months after Cyclone Nargis, this year's monsoon paddy harvest is less than hoped
  • Lower rice yields and lower prices in the wake of Nargis could further hamper the recovery of thousands of farmers in Myanmar's badly affected Ayeyarwady Delta
    Lower rice yields and lower prices in the wake of Nargis could further hamper the recovery of thousands of farmers in Myanmar's badly affected Ayeyarwady Delta
  • Poverty trap; Fadumo Mohamed Hassan in one of hundreds of families unable to leave Mogadishu despite escalating violence. She can not afford the fare to take her family out of the city
  • By 31 December 2008, 504 people with HIV/AIDS were registered in Afghanistan with 2000-2500 suspected cases nationwide
  • Kassim Kalukwete says families in his village do not have enough food
  • Sheikh Muhamad Kibudde, 43, is the deputy imam of Masjid Takwa in Kitende on the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda
  • A map of Yemen highighting Amran Governorate
    Hundreds of children are fighting in Amran Governorate, northern Yemen
  • Advocates in Bangladesh have been working to raise awareness of acid throwing in the country
  • Acid Survivors Foundation workers express their solidarity with acid victims to raise social awareness against acid throwing on women and children
  • Gul Bigum, 48, is the sole breadwinner for her three children in the northern province of Sar-i-Pul. She lost her cattle and had to leave her village three months back because of the drought
  • Supporters of John Evans Atta Mills, newly elected president of Ghana, just after the 3 January 2009 announcement that he won the tight presidential run-off
  • Villagers in Boura, Mauritania head out at sunrise for the almost daily search for water, a trip that takes them over longer distances starting in January until the rainy season arrives in June
  • Herder Alioune Ould Modhi digs a well in Boura, Mauritania
  • Nigel Chigudu, 15, lost five siblings to cholera in one night, reports UNICEF
  • Helen Samilo, one of the first people to go public with her status
  • Helen Samilo, one of the first people to go public with her status

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