Lominesh, a mother of two, smiles balancing her toddler in her arms. Just a few months ago, a smile was hard to muster. "My child had health problems very often; the most serious was pneumonia...."

Did you know that armed conflict still rages on the doorstep of the European Union? Just 2,000 kilometres from Berlin, 4.4 million people live in dire humanitarian circumstances due to ongoing fighting, over 10,000 people have been killed (nearly 3,000 of whom are civilians) and 1.2 million people lack proper access to food.

“Around 8 pm, I returned home from the field. I went to the kitchen to prepare dinner and saw the empty water jar. I didn’t have the courage to go to fetch water,” explained Sukmaya Bomjom...