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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.