A Salvadoran refugee girl is pursuing an education in the United States. A Nigerian woman is creating her own business despite the male-dominated society of her native country. A Rohingya activist in Bangladesh is helping to end violence against women.

After losing her family to insurgency, Hafsat now lives in Bakassi, the largest displacement camp in northeast Nigeria.

Samia's striving for a better world for her daughters.

When Salem, 39, and his family of six became sick with cholera, they didn’t know what had hit them. As a fisherman by trade, he thought the fish he had brought home might have caused them to fall ill.

These three stories show the devastating reality of people living in Niger.