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The warming climate melts the snow peak on Mount Klimanjaro and increasingly impacts the lives of local people and their environment.

In the past 50 years, they've saved millions of people, providing medical aid in dangerous situations and the worst conflicts across the world and they've also been outspoken when many other humanitarian helpers haven't: Doctors without Borders, or Medicins sans Frontières, MSF.

When the world went into lockdown last year, schools in many countries experienced a once in a lifetime kind of shutdown. It was unprecedented. But for the children in the valley of Kashmir, that was nothing new. For the last decade, uprisings and violence have shut down schools indefinitely, affecting their upbringing and future, as Furkan Latif Khan has been finding out.

Some have come up with the idea of using tech such as drones to help deliver vaccines and other health-related supplies. Getting enough COVID vaccines to inoculate their populations has been a struggle for many countries in Africa. Case in point is the Democratic Republic of Congo where only 0.1 % of all people have been fully vaccinated. Elliot Douglas has this story by Caroline Hoffmann.

Villagers in remote places in the cental Indian state of Chhattisgarh caught in the cross hairs of Maoist rebels and security forces have little access to medical facilities, let alone COVID-19 vaccines. The state's official count of COVID infections now stands at over one million, with a death toll of over 13,000. Murali Krishnan visited several remote villages and sent us this report.

COVID-19 has disrupted children's education all over the world. Lockdowns and shutdowns have caused much more than kids missing out on school's curriculums though — it's taken a toll on their mental health, too. Can drones help in getting medicine and vaccines to remote areas? And how to best tackle COVID misinformation — volunteers in India try to encourage people to take the vaccine.

Only a few people live on the Aeolian islands in Italy during winter. The population is declining – if the school closes, the village will become nothing more than a pretty backdrop. That's why every effort is being made to keep these mini-schools alive – and digitalization is proving to be a great help. Natalie Muller has this story by Lisa Weiß.

In this edition: The textile patterns designes by indigenous weavers in Oaxaca, Mexico are hip with fashion companies who don't always compensate the designers. And: Meet Canadian First Nations activist Freda Huson who just received an alternative Nobel prize for her defending her people's culture and land.

We take you along to listen to a musical genre called AmaPiano that emerged in South Africa's townships. And we go to Turkey where young people are trying to carve out a living despite all odds — unemployment, inflation and a lack of freedom are taking a toll on their future.

One in 4 young people under 24 are without a job. Inflation keeps driving up prices and going abroad to study or to travel seems like a distant dream for many. Unemployment rates are especially high in the Kurdish regions in the country's southeast. And then there's politics that's dividing the country. Karin Senz reports from Turkey.