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Lebanon's crisis has devastating effects on education: Many parents can no longer afford to pay for school fees, and more and more children have dropped out. Community health workers are important for people all over the world, especially in rural areas where doctors and nurses are few and far between. We hear from one brave woman in Zambia who's trying to make a change in people's lives.

Worldwide, millions of Community Health Workers provide basic healthcare in rural areas. These trained health workers, often women, are especially important in the Global South where there aren't enough doctors and nurses, hospitals and medical facilities. In Zambia, for instance, these workers play a crucial role in the country's health care system, even though many are not getting paid.

Argentina made history by becoming the largest Latin American country to legalize abortion. Although now legal, finding a doctor who is willing to perform the procedure is a different matter altogether. In other Latin American countries, the procedure is still banned outright.

Mama Dschun was born in 1928 in the south of Iran. She witnessed the rise and fall of Persian rulers, lived through the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. She was deprived of an education by her father and was supposed to marry a cousin she was promised to when she was just a kid. But Mama Dschun survived it all and thrived.

Iraq is the fifth most vulnerable country in the world to extreme temperatures and water shortages. Farming in Iraq used to be very lucrative, but that has changed. Prospects in other areas are bad, too. The economy is not able to get off the ground, everything still revolves around oil.