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  • Claudia Cova, 29, quit her job so she could find medicine for her son, who was diagnosed with cancer in April. Free healthcare was guaranteed as a human right in the Venezuelan constitution adopted in 1999.
  • Map of Venezuela showing Caracas, Maracaibo, Cumana, and Cariaco
  • Store shelves sit empty across Venezuela. A shortage of foreign currency means the government hasn’t been able to import enough food, equipment, and medicine for the population.
  • A mother kisses her son on the cheek
    Claudia Cova, a 29-year-old photographer and designer, and her son, Gabriel, 13, share an apartment in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. Gabriel’s cancer diagnosis in April forced Claudia to quit her job so she could devote more time to finding medicine.
  • A woman holds up medical files
  • Antonia Martinez Lozada, 56, sits at her nearly empty home in Cariaco, Venezuela. Martinez sold nearly everything she owned to buy medicine for her lung cancer. Venezuelans are entitled to free healthcare, but drugs shortages have wracked the country.
  • A phone wiith a Whatsapp chat open
    Alfonso Brandt shows a list of drugs prices posted on a private WhatsApp group. A social media marketplace emerged amid Venezuela’s severe drugs shortage.
  • A man shows a photo on his phone
    Alfonso Brandt, 52, shows a picture of his son, Kenneth, who died from bone cancer in 2016. The small NGO he started, Fundación Kenneth, gives donated medicine to children with cancer, but Brandt says there is never enough.
  • Heba Aly selfie in front of sculpture at UNGA
  • Seven Keralan fisherman
    Disaster preparedness experts say the very communities affected by crises should also be equipped to respond. Fishermen in India’s Kerala State were credited with saving lives during severe flooding in August 2018.
  • Three people stand in a dusty landscape in front of equipment
    Amadou Siley Sow_Aliou Samba Ba
  • Timeline of a pastoral year in Senegal
  • An IDP wife holding ID of her detained husband.
  • Rehabilitated pumps and new water systems have helped people stay in their rural communities, rather than join the ranks of some 250,000 displaced by drought in Afghanistan this year
  • An older man in Afghanistan draws water from a well
    Community leader Saskidad, 65, draws water from a well in Qapchiq village in Abkamari District in western Afghanistan. "I've never seen such a year in all of my life," he says of a severe drought that forced him to sell his livestock.
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  • A man in Afghanistan picks from his vegetable plot
    Haji Bismillah, 45, works on his vegetable plot in western Afghanistan’s Abkamari District. There has been no rain, but a solar-powered water system helps him irrigate his fields and feed his large family.
  • An encampment in Afghanistan
    Tens of thousands of people displaced by drought have congregated in makeshift camps around cities like Herat and Qala-i-Naw in western Afghanistan. Having sold their assets, many families have no more than simple blankets for shelter.
  • Two men in Afghanistan in a farm field.
    In drought-hit Abkamari District in western Afghanistan’s Badghis Province, farmers work on a plot of land that is irrigated by a new solar-powered water system.
  • A Senegalese child with donkeys at a watering trough in a dusty landscape
    A borehole in Ranerou.
  • A Senegalese man walks away through low-lying greenery
    Saidou in Namarel.
  • Map of Senegal showing Ranerou and Namarel
  • A single minaret stands among hundreds of flattened houses in Mamboro district, Palu, in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province.
    A single minaret stands among hundreds of flattened houses in Mamboro district, Palu, in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province.

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