Wheat growing on a government farm in Ethiopia in 2011. Large tracts of land in Ethiopia have been leased to foreign companies who export the harvest while many Ethiopians don't have enough to eat. Recent protests indicate that the situation seems to have worsened since 2011. #humanrights #Ethiopia #oromo #oromoprotests
Today is World Humanitarian Day. As I reflect on the last six years that I have spent working in different countries as I communication specialist I realise that neither words nor images will ever be able to completely convey the beauty and the sorrow of the things I have seen. Most of my work has been with people affected by conflict and the only thing that I can say for sure is that the rules have changed. There are no rules and, today, everyone is damaged by war. No one is left unscathed. #whd #whd2016 #humanitarian #conflict
Today is World Elephant Day. This fellow lost the tip of his friends trunk to a poacher's snare. My thoughts are with the thousands of park rangers across Africa who often risk their lives, or lose their lives, protecting beasts like this. #worldelephantday #nofilter #kenya #elephant
Women walking through a rice field in the Philippines 2007. 3.2 million people, or the population of Madrid, has been affected by drought. A total of 60 million people across the world are suffering from the affects of El Nino making the crisis of the same scale as the migrant crisis. #elnino #farmer #drought #humanitarian #hungerfree (at Bontoc)
John is 36 and an IT programmer. He is from Eastern Cape and last job ended 7 months ago. It was in an ice cream shop. Now he sleeps on the street. He says that half of all South African youth are unemployed and he's probably right. The jobless rate in South Africa is 25% and the International Labour Organisation says that for youth it is usually twice the national average. #southafrica #unemployment #youth #streetlife #poverty #inequality (at Cape Town, South Africa)
Communism is still crumbling. More than the buildings are left behind. (at Budapest, Hungary)
Somali girls in school. In Somalia, only a quarter of women and girls can read and write. Refugee camps often present opportunities, such as the chance to read, for women and girls. #literacy #book #books #education #girls #girlsgeneration #conflict #somali #somalia #dadaab 2012 (at Dadaab, Kenya)
Traditional Somali shoes on the feet of a refugee in Djibouti in 2012. A tiny country in the Horn of Africa, in Djibouti, refugees are not confined to camps. They are free to move around the country, get jobs and children can go to Djiboutian schools. There are approximately 23,000 refugees in the country and 5,000 more asylum seekers. #refugees #Djibouti #refugeecamp #refugeecrisis #journey #flee #shoes #shoestagram #feet #somali (at `Ali `Addé, Ali Sabieh, Djibouti)
Two young girls take a break from carrying their younger siblings up a hill. The year this was taken, the International Labour Organisation estimated that 100 million girls around the world are involved in child labour. In countries like South Sudan, young girls are sent away from their homes to help other family members with small children. Many of these girls miss school for years. As the girls do household chores or look after babies and toddlers, their brothers go to school, widening the gender divide. @ilo #childlabor #children #Vietnam #girls #girl #education #gender @iamagirl (at Sapa - Lào Cai)
THIS is how you wear a Wiggles onesie #Southsudan #Wiggles #children #child (at Juba, South Sudan)
Not that any of you have been wondering, but I'm on holiday. #newzealand #view #mountains #hiking #vacation
Boy soldier - Sana'a, Yemen 2011. I wonder if he's a man now.
Once you've fled a civil war, this is where you end up.
Prayers answered
Outdoor seating in a camp for people fleeing #war in #Southsudan #children
Ken the Kenyan. Ken is one of the Masaai tribe who used to populate much of the Rift Valley from Tanzania through Kenya. He learnt to fly in the Masaai Mara, a National Park where a huge migration of mammals occurs every year. As the tribal land of the Masaai shrink, they adapt, as Ken has. In many parts of Eastern Africa, air is not only the most reliable, but sometimes the only way to travel. #tribes #Africa #airtravel #Masaai #aviation @everydayafrica @dynamicafrica
Monica is a medical for the Sudan People's Liberation Movement. She has been with the SPLM since she was 16.
