There are roughly 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24 living in the world today. Despite growing up in wildly different national, economic, and cultural circumstances, their underlying goals tend to be the same: dignity, real opportunity, meaningful participation, and a future wor...

Nina Paoliello is a nursing student from New York. She is also a single mother of two, returning to school later in life, and someone who has spent years working in patient care before deciding to pursue her BSN. She is, by any measure, someone who already understands what it means to show up for ot...

A new mother in a highland community outside Huancayo has delivered her baby at home. There was no lactation consultant in the room. No postnatal nurse to check the latch. No one to answer the questions that arrive in the first hours of a newborn's life, the ones that determine whether breastfeeding...

Every 30 seconds, someone in the world dies from complications related to chronic hepatitis — including cirrhosis and liver cancer.

Not because the tools to prevent it do not exist. Effective vaccines, accurate diagnostics, curative treatments for hepatitis C, and long-term therapies for hepatitis ...

 In 1736, Benjamin Franklin founded America's first volunteer fire brigade after a ship fire tore through a wharf, warehouses, and neighboring houses in Philadelphia. Twenty-six neighbors signed up. More followed.

That instinct, to organize, to show up, to solve a problem together rather than wait ...

Every June 24, something extraordinary happens across the Andes.

Everything begins very early, when the entourage of the Inca and the Qoya set out in procession. In the gardens of Qoricancha, a ceremony greeting the sun is held with the music of quenas and drums, the most spiritual moment, with the...

Seventy-five years ago, after the Second World War, the world made a promise: people forced to flee have the right to seek safety and protection. It was never meant for a few. It was meant for all of us.

That promise has not been kept.

The number of forcibly displaced people worldwide has reached ...

A woman delivers her baby in a rural health post in Bududa. There are complications. She is hemorrhaging. The nearest blood bank is hours away, and even if a vehicle were available right now, the roads make the journey uncertain.

This is not a hypothetical. It is a scenario that plays out across lo...

In Uganda, youth smoking prevalence sits at 5.7%. In Peru, e-cigarette use among adolescents has shown a significant increase in recent years. In Costa Rica and Ecuador, flavored nicotine products are moving fast through markets that were not ready to regulate them.

Behind every one of those number...

A woman in Bududa has had headaches for months. She assumes it is exhaustion, she wakes before sunrise, tends to her crops, cooks, cleans, and cares for four children. She has never had her blood pressure checked.

In Huancayo, a man in his forties has not seen a doctor in years. The nearest clinic ...