At just 12 years old, Abdul has already experienced more loss than most people face in a lifetime.  Abdul is growing up in the midst of the protracted humanitarian crisis in Northeast Nigeria. Today, he is in JSS 2, living in an IDP camp and growing up without the family

“I like my school now.”  For Masho, a 10-year-old pupil at Nyaja Danbo Primary School, in Taraba state, these simple words capture a huge change.  For years, her school’s three-classroom building was in disrepair. The roof needed attention, the classrooms had deteriorated and broken desks made learning difficult.  Today, Masho walks

  In Geidam, Yobe State, when a borehole breaks down, people used to wait. Sometimes for weeks. Sometimes for months. Women and children would walk for hours in the sun just to fetch water, returning home exhausted. ‘‘That used to be my life. My name is Aisha. I’m a mother

Lucy Odo Ede still remembers the long days that seemed to never end. On her rice farm in Ihenyi community, planting season meant bending for hours under the sun, working slowly through the fields with nothing but her hands. “Before, I spent months planting rice by hand,” she says. “Sometimes