Refugees from abuse, now abandoned “street children.”  Fleeing extreme poverty and domestic violence, the street children suffer constant hunger and neglect.

Nicaragua ranks among the poorest countries in the western hemisphere, with high birth rates and high mortality rates. Its population is about 5,000,000, with more than half of its inhabitants under 18 years of age. [...]

Informal waste collection systems have many environmental and economic advantages. They reduce the need for landfill and save natural resources while providing an important lifeline for some of the world’s poorest people. In Buenos Aires, informal waste collectors known as “scavengers” recover 9 – 17% of municipal waste, representing an estimated savings for the municipality [...]

Almost 100.000 legal Moldovians live in Italy, plus an estimation of almost 500.000 living illegally. Around 70% of them are women, that move to another country in order to look for better opportunities for them and their family. The fathers are often absent, because they are divorced, busy to work in farms or alcoholics. The [...]

Child labour is not a new issue in Bangladesh. Children remain one of the most vulnerable groups living under threats of hunger, illiteracy, displacement, exploitation, trafficking, physical and mental abuse. Although the issue of child labour has always been discussed, there is hardly any tangible progress in terms of mitigation
17.5 percent of children of the [...]

Leprosy in Nepal still affects thousands of people and is closely related to the widespread poverty the country faces. Insufficient diet, contaminated water and generally poor living conditions are among the contributing factors to it’s prevalence and new cases of leprosy emerge on a daily basis. To add insult to injury, the age-old social stigma [...]