With the launch of our 2025 Annual Report, we’re taking a retrospective look at all the challenges we faced in 2025 and the pockets of hope you made possible. 

More than 1.9 million people across Gaza are still displaced, living in overcrowded tents and makeshift shelters. But after months of summer heat, those shelters have become almost unlivable.  The sweltering sun turns thin fabric and sheet metal into ovens by midmorning. There is nowhere cooler to go—no air conditioning, no shade, and often, no second set of walls. And for the…

In Deir al-Balah, Mahmoud delivers UNFPA Mama Kits to new mothers across Gaza—and he’s living through the same war they are.

LA GUAIRA, Venezuela — “I saw the building collapse, floor by floor. You could hear people screaming and calling for help,” said Roberto, who survived two catastrophic earthquakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 that struck the central-northern region of Venezuela…