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  • Desire
  •  Jennifer Lazuta
  • Benju Rai’s house, in Mahadevsthan village, east of Kathmandu, was destroyed by the powerful earthquake that struck Nepal on 25 April 2015. Her husband was away working in Malaysia at the time but debts mean they cannot afford for him to come home and h
  • Women whose husbands were overseas working when the 25 April, 2015, earthquake struck Nepal, have been made especially vulnerable: homeless, indebted and without their menfolk in a society where gender discrimination is the norm.
  • A volunteer talks with community members about their situation since the earthquake on 1 May 2015 in Dalchowki, Nepal.
    Local NGOs have been more important than international ones in many areas
  • Flagpoles
  • A child at a demonstration against family detention in United States in July 2014
  • Migrants, among them many women and children, detained at a border patrol station in Texas, United States
  • Guinea from the sky
  • Children in a Guinean village wash their hands as a protective measure against Ebola
  • There are no paved roads in Gueckedou, southeast Guinea
  • A Red Cross volunteer in Guinea dons protective gear
    A Red Cross volunteer involved in Guinea's response to the Ebola outbreak dons protective gear
  • A billboard reading: Against Ebola - Let's protect ourselves. Hand-wash with soap
    A billboard reading: Against Ebola - Let's protect ourselves. Hand-wash with soap
  • Disinfecting handwashing stations sit outside many buildings and homes throughout Guinea
    Disinfecting hand-washing stations sit outside many buildings and homes throughout Guinea
  • A member of the ex-Seleka rebel coalition in a disused barracks in Bangui.
  • In Bhaktapur village, 12km from the capital Kathmandu, families dig through piles of rubble, trying to recover whatever they can from the ruins of their homes after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on 25 April.
  • In Bhaktapur village, 12km from the capital Kathmandu, families dig through piles of rubble, trying to recover whatever they can from the ruins of their homes after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on 25 April.
    Families dig through the rubble after the Nepal earthquake
  • Ebola prevention mural in Guinea
    How to avoid catching Ebola
  • For agencies that don't have the capacity, the World Food Programme (WFP) has hired local truck drivers to deliver humanitarian cargo in Nepal following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake on 25 April 2015.
    WFP has hired local truck drivers to deliver humanitarian cargo for agencies that do not have the capacity.
  • UKAid at the Humanitarian Forwarding Area in Kathmandu airport following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal on 25 April 2015.
    Tonnes of aid have arrived in Kathmandu over the past week
  • Olivier Brandner, left, loads supplies in Medecins Sans Frontieres' (MSF) mobile storage unit at the Humanitarian Forwarding Area in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu on 1 May 2015, after a 7.8-magnitude hit the country.
    Olivier Brandner, left, loads supplies into MSF's mobile storage unit at the airport's new Humanitarian Staging Area.
  • Residents of Bungamati, just outside the Nepali capital Kathmandu, stare at their old homes after a devastating earthquake
    Residents of Bungamati, just outside the Nepali capital Kathmandu, assess their former homes
  • Nepal Earthquake
  • To come - Nepal earthquake 2015
  • Urban search-and-rescue teams (USAR) are camped in a field next to the airport runway in Kathmandu, following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal on 25 April.
  •  Bir Bahadur Rai and his family in front of their two houses that were completely destroyed in Banghar village after a major earthquake struck Nepal on 25 April 2015.
  • The village of Banghar village,approximately 100km from Kathmandu, was badly damaged in the powerful earthquake that struck Nepal on 25 April .
  • Rita Rai, 50 years old, sitting near her totally destroyed home in Banghar village, Nepal. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal 25 April, 2015. Aid agencies faced severe challenges trying to reach remote villages.
  • Police look on as people demonstrate in Bujumbura against a decision by Burundi's ruling party to nominate President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a third term in elections slated for June  2015.
    Police look on as people demonstrate in Bujumbura against a decision by Burundi's ruling party to nominate President Pierre Nkurunziza to run for a third term in elections slated for June 2015.
  • Children living in a temporary camp listen to the radio on a smart phone after being displaced by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal 25 April 2015
    Des enfants vivant dans un camp temporaire utilisent un smartphone pour écouter les dernières nouvelles.
  • Children wait for their measles vaccine in Guinea's Gueckedou in April 2015. Vaccination teams had to overcome widespread fears related to the Ebola epidemic
  • A child receives a shot of measles vaccine in Gueckedou in Guinea in April 2015. Vaccination teams had to overcome Ebola fears.

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