Four photographers Tom Stoddart, Olly Burn, Veronique de Viguerie and Dougie Wallace joined with disaster relief charity ShelterBox to produce Hope and Strength. These pictures are showing the strength of families living through the worst days of their lives in disaster zones across the world.
From twelve-year-old Hossion Juhar wrapped up in a blanket to keep warm on a cold morning at Kutupalong refugee camp to 20-years-old Hosna Ara who just gave birth to her 3rd child at IOM medical centre in Kutupalong camp, all these photos will amaze you.
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Rohingya refugees, Bangladesh
Twelve-year-old Hossion Juhar wrapped up in a blanket to keep warm on a cold morning at Kutupalong refugee camp. Hossion and his family fled in October and don’t want to return to Myanmar. He says: ‘They are killing us. If they acknowledge us as Rohingya then we will go back’
Photograph: Tom Stoddart
Rohingya girls study the Qur’an at dawn outside a mosque in Kutupalong refugee camp. ShelterBox is supporting 4,000 families with blankets for warmth, tarpaulins, rope, solar lights and water carriers
Photograph: Tom Stoddart
Rohingya children slide down a hill on plastic canisters in Kutupalong refugee camp. Over 655,000 Rohingya have arrived in the area since August 2017 fleeing persecution in neighbouring Myanmar
Photograph: Tom Stoddart
Supia Katun photographed in Kutupalong refugee camp. She was carried by relatives for three days over the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh to escape the violence
Photograph: Tom Stoddart
The impact of drought, Somaliland
Nimo Mohamed Haibe is 35 and lives with her husband and seven children in a small community about 50 kms south of Hargeisa
Photograph: Olly Burn
Farmer Muna Yusuf Adan, 29, lives with her husband, five children, and disabled brother-in-law. Their home is surrounded by arid land, it is extremely windy and there are dead animal carcasses only metres away
Photograph: Olly Burn
13-year-old Rahma used the ShelterBox solar lights to study in the evening when it gets dark. Her favourite subject is English
Photograph: Olly Burn
It was the incredible character, warmth and resilience of the people we met that made the essence of hope & strength almost impossible not to capture, says Olly Burn
Photograph: Olly Burn
Rohingya refugees, Bangladesh
More than 700 000 Rohingya who fled violence in Myanmar are living in Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar
Photograph: Veronique de Viguerie
Refugees use fire to cook their food. They are stripping the mountains nearby of their forest. Each morning thousands walk for three hours and pay Bangladeshi guards for access to the wood
Photograph: Veronique de Viguerie
A big crowd watches as a dentist puts a fake tooth inside the mouth of his patient. Two dollars for a tooth to smile again. Life carries on at Kutapalong camp
Photograph: Veronique de Viguerie
20-years-old Hosna Ara just gave birth to her 3rd child at IOM medical centre in Kutupalong camp. Her mother, Minarva is proudly holding her granddaughter
Photograph: Veronique deVeronique de Viguerie Viguerie