"When ISIL was here, I wasn’t studying and couldn’t go to school. We missed our studies for three years because they were teaching children in their system, which was so violent. We were scared. There was war and bombing everywhere," recalls 14 years old Hanah from Mosul...

Tarekegn never had a job and a jobless life was never easy for 20-year-old man. In the remote district Damot Fulasa in Wolaita Zone of Southern Ethiopia, he didn’t have the opportunity to attend university; soon he was struggling to find a way to make a living. Until he heard about a new training opportunity for small joint businesses...

Under the shade of a tree, and spread across a large straw mat covering the sandy ground, women talk about recent changes in their lives in Mabuto village in Zambia’s Western province. “I’m seeing the difference, because now we have enough food for the children, for the families”, says Moya...