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In November 2021, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) will be held in Glasgow, UK. To ensure that the topic of disability and the voices of people with disabilities are strongly represented, HI is taking part in the Voices for Change campaign. Find out how you can add your voice!

HI has mobilised its teams to help people affected by the earthquake that struck Haiti on 14th August. The organisation has already transported tonnes of material to support the most affected families.

Helen Grant visited Nepal to see the work being done with the support of UK aid to help girls get a quality education.

Since November 2014, Handicap International has been training Mozambique’s police force in basic techniques for neutralising explosive devices. This is one way in which the organisation is seeing through to completion the demining work it began in the country in 1998, and which ended last March.

Humanity & Inclusion launches mission to evaluate the impact of devastating cyclone Rai on affected populations.

Thousands of residents of Beira city live in poverty in densely packed slums. Their makeshift homes could not withstand the force or cyclone Idai. Humanity & Inclusion (HI) is coordinating clean-up and reconstruction efforts for these hardest-hit communities.

Typhoon Mangkhut, which struck the Philippines on the night of 14th September, affected more than one million people. As part of its relief effort, HI is helping people affected by the storm clear debris from roads.

Russian-made cluster munitions, including models used for the first time in this conflict, were deployed in the region of Aleppo in early October, according to reports by the NGO Human Rights Watch , although it has not been determined if they were used by Russian or Syria troops.

Anwar is 9 years old. Four years ago, as his family was fleeing the bombing in Sana'a, Yemen, his leg was hit by a shard of metal and had to be amputated a few hours later.

A few kilometres south of Misrata in Libya, Tawergha has been a ghost town since it was hit by intense fighting in 2011. Humanity & Inclusion teams are taking action.

Sharif (not his real name) is a surgeon from an HI partner hospital in northern Syria near the Turkish border. He recounts what he has seen following the February 6 earthquake.

Humanity & Inclusion, in partnership with IFI, is assisting people affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Sulawesi province in Indonesia on 28th September.

Sami (not his real name) manages a rehabilitation team in a hospital in the Idlib region. He describes the dramatic situation after the earthquake.

As the world marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December, Handicap International reports that 75% of people with disabilities believe they are excluded from humanitarian response. Closely involved in international forums such as the World Humanitarian Summit and the current Conference on Climate Change (COP21), Handicap International is calling on the international community to ensure people with disabilities are taken into account when preparing and implementing humanitarian response to crises.

At the start of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, many people with disabilities did not know about Ebola because the national public awareness campaign did not share information in formats they could understand.

Handicap International, present in Sierra Leone since 1996, stepped in to ensure people with different kinds of disabilities knew how to prevent the disease.