After 16 months in the all-out crossfire of two warlord-led forces, Sudan is devastated by the largest displacement crisis in the world, and one of the most neglected. There, children endure a 480 percent increase in grave violations, and the weapon of sexual violence is brutally wielded against women and girls—all with impunity, and dangerously inadequate levels of humanitarian funding from the international community. “My daughter and I were baking when we heard gunshots,”

Photos by Walaa Alshaer and words by Elle Kurancid Intro: Caught between natural and man-made disasters — major earthquakes and ongoing war — Syrian families who sought refuge in southeastern Turkey years ago must now en- dure repeated displacement and fresh traumas. Here are some of their stories from Turkish cities devastated by February’s quakes, which the World Health Organization calls Europe’s worst natural disaster in a century. *Name changed to protect safety. Omar,

The Smoking and preparing of smoking Renga fish. Kafr Aldawar Egypt

Words by Elle Kurancid, photography by Walaa Alshaer As the sun sets, a group of girls in colourful saris perform an original dance routine near a rugged fire pit – where, come sunrise, they will already be mining the dirtiest of fossil fuels for up to 250 rupees (£2.70) per day. “When they dance, these girls feel there is something else in life other than burnt earth and toxic smoke,” reflects UAE-based, Egyptian photographer Walaa Alshaer. Last July, she captured stories of

Peter and Ambrose 12 and 7 your old are brothers, lives in a village close to Wakisi in Uganda. before Peter was born his mother knew she had HIV, before even she got pregnant with him, it was a terrifying fact that she had to hide even from her husband and everyone she knew . Nevertheless, she became pregnant with Peter and transferred her disease to him . After 5 years more she gave birth to another child. Ambrose, also inherited her disease. then both parents died of HIV a

Cox's Bazaar, Balukhali refugee camp and Kutupalong refugee camp - Bangladesh

Poems in the captions by : Dilna Avinash​ ​ ​ Courage is defined as being able to do what is right knowing how hard you can fall from the consequences, it sometimes means putting your life in danger because someone is in need. We learn about life from those who strive to exist and to be heard, what if you can see and learn that from a 16 years old girl! Rather than putting numbers and statistics on how many women/ girls struggle for life in many countries, I will just g

Bricks Industry is one of the informal/unorganized industries in India. The industry employs millions of workers. Big number of the workers is women. They live at the work place provided by the employer with their children and husbands, usually all the family participate in the same job even children are involved too starting from the age 3 or 4. Those who are too young to work just sit there close to the mother to be watched while she’s working. The process of making the bri

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” - Eleanor Roosevelt .. Words that absolutely speak to my heart and soul, I needed to enrich my life with new experience and that led me to choose a unique destination not knowing exactly what I would be facing there, But the decision was made and implemented. In July 5th 2016 Tajikistan was the place I choose for a new experience, desp

That is one of the oldest areas in Alexandria, where you can find many crafts done by their bare hands, In a time where technology replaced people with machines. The people work there from morning till night in their own workshops which they consider as home too. They are a bit isolated from the world that WE know. They don’t allow you to photograph them unless they trust you. I was just lucky to have a good friend with me whom they trusted, By the second time we went t

The day before Eid AL Adha holiday, everyone goes back to their home villages hundreds and hundreds of people travel at the same time hoping to go home and spend the holiday with their families. A train comes every 30 minutes as i noticed.the minute the train stops people rush and jump all over the train to catch a good spot inside or on top , Behind each window there are different faces different plans and different emotions. Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Love, perhaps is a phenomenon that keeps the human race going. As of today, in a world where love or relationships are short lived or in other words the concept of growing old together is long forgotten. What if a couple happened to be living together for the past 60 years, taking care of each other. Most of all, having gone through different stages of life, not leaving each other during bad times and instead being there for one another: this is Chuan (93) and Dong (87) from

I wandered around in the streets of my home city Alexandria tryig to get back some of the memories on what the Holy month of Ramadan was when i was young, as we go around i found that it is still the same it's all about reading Qura'n and praying to God, still Mosques are like a sanctuary for all Muslims to find inner peace and salvation, stillPEOPLE decorate the streets eat the traditional food behave in good manners to each other .. and this is when i truly felt am HOME. s