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Collaboration between Uğur Gallenkuş and WHO Foundation (#WHOFoundation)
 
"A woman carries containers across a water ditch and past tents set up to home displaced people following a massive earthquake last month, in Adiyaman on March 25, 2023. - On February 6, 2023, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed more than 50,000 in southeastern Turkiye and nearly 6,000 over the border in Syria, leaving entire cities in ruins. Hundreds of thousands of Turkish quake survivors have been moved into tents and container homes across the disaster region, which covers 11 provinces across Turkiye's southeast."
 

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Collaboration between Uğur Gallenkuş and WHO Foundation (#WHOFoundation)
 
"An emaciated cow stands at the bottom of the water pan that has been dried up for 4 months in Iresteno, a bordering town with Ethiopia, on September 1, 2022. - The devastating Horn of Africa drought is set to get even worse with a fifth consecutive failed rainy season, the UN's weather agency forecasted, fearing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are already going through their worst drought for 40 years and another poor rainy season is now highly likely, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned."
 

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Collaboration between Uğur Gallenkuş and Doctors Without Borders (#MSF)
 
"In the former Olympic village in Elliniko, Athens, about 900 refugees are living in tents in the middle of the baseball stadium, where there is no shade in 2016. In 2016, an estimated 50,000 people were stranded in Greece, living in appalling conditions."
 

Collaboration between Uğur Gallenkuş and WHO Foundation (#WHOFoundation)
 
"While many around the world begin to look forward to the warm days of summer, millions of children in the region worry ever more about rising seasonal temperatures and the further impact this will have on their access to food and safe drinking water. The Horn of Africa is facing its longest drought in four decades, and early warning systems are estimating that it is on the brink of famine, with projections of a sixth consecutive below-average rainy season. In South Sudan alone, it’s estimated that there are more than 3 million children currently suffering from malnutrition, while 4.9 million children are expected to require urgent humanitarian assistance in 2023. The time to help is now. WHO has mobilized to provide urgent screening for acute malnutrition and to provide vital immunizations to prevent diseases like measles spreading, but they need your support."
 

Photo by Yasin Akgül

"This aerial photograph taken on June 8, 2021, on the Caddebostan shore of Turkey's Marmara Sea, shows a boat sailing among mucilage, a jelly-like layer of slime that develops on the surface of the water due to the excessive proliferation of phytoplankton, gravely threatening the marine biome. - The mucilage has been informally referred to as "sea snot" and was first documented in Turkey's waters in 2007. Experts warn the mucilage will occur more often because of global warming."

Photo by Hamza Al-Ajweh

"A Syrian man and a woman mourn over the body of one of their children (R) in the rebel-held besieged town of Douma following air strikes on the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on January 8, 2018. - The toddler, named Amir, was wounded during air strikes on the town of Saqba and was evacuated to Douma where he passed away."

Photo by Cemal Yurttaş
Collaboration between Uğur Gallenkuş and WHO Foundation (#WHOFoundation)
 
"A citizen walks through ruined buildings on February 12, 2023, in Hatay, Turkey."
 

Collaboration between Uğur Gallenkuş and WHO Foundation (#WHOFoundation)
 
"Beyond Measure – Caption focus: the food crises detrimental impact on children’s ability to access education when their health is under threat, against a generation of talent is under threat.
 
More than 76 million people across the Sahel and greater Horn of Africa regions are experiencing extreme hunger, making them increasingly vulnerable to health risks. The impact of the climate crisis has led to drought and flooding across the regions, and people living in poorer and marginalized communities in these areas feel the impact most acutely, with so many of these communities dependent on agriculture and pastoralism for their livelihoods. In Somalia, an estimated 43,000 excess deaths occurred due to the deepening drought, with half of these deaths occurring among children under the age of 5.
 
Children growing up in the Sahel and greater Horn of Africa are facing significant challenges, missing out on critical educational opportunities, limiting them from reaching their full potential. The African continent offers the highest percentage of entrepreneurs in the world amongst working-age adults, but instead of shaping their futures, millions of young people are displaced, facing extreme hunger and risk of disease.
 
WHO is working to strengthen health worker capacity in these regions to help prevent the spread of disease, provide essential medicines and emergency nutrition, vaccinations, and set up mobile health centres for people forced to leave their homes."

Photo by Yasin Akgül

"This aerial photograph taken on May 30, 2021, shows mucilage, a thick, viscous fluid produced by phytoplankton, in Turkey's Marmara Sea at a harbor on the shoreline of Istanbul. - The mucilage has been informally referred to as 'sea snot' and was first documented in Turkey's waters in 2007.

In Marmara Sea outbreak is the largest on record, blamed by experts on a combination of pollution and global warming, which speeds up the growth of algae responsible for the slimy sludge."

Photo by Johannes Moths

"Refugees warming up around their fire at a makeshift camp at the Greek-N. Macedonian border near the Greek village of Idomeni in March 2016. In 2016, As Turkish and EU leaders gather in Brussels for an emergency summit on tackling Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War Two, 13,000 migrants stranded on Greece's border with Macedonia."

Photo by Viktoriia Filipchenko

"Monuments fortifying and protected with sandbags to avoid damage in a possible air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine in June, 2022."

Photo by Алесь Усцінаў

"People walk past destroyed buildings in the town of Borodianka, northwest of Kyiv, on April 6, 2022."

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Collaboration between Uğur Gallenkuş and WHO Foundation (#WHOFoundation)
 
"A soldier sits devastated near the collapsed building on February 07, 2023 in Hatay, Turkey. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit near Gaziantep, Turkey, in the early hours of Monday, followed by another 7.5-magnitude tremor just after midday. The quakes caused widespread destruction in southern Turkey and northern Syria and were felt in nearby countries."
 

Collaboration between Uğur Gallenkuş and WHO Foundation (#WHOFoundation)
 
"Weight of the World – Caption focus: is on the health impact of this food crises especially on young children, causing severe malnutrition and a loss of opportunity for a whole generation.
 
The greater Horn of Africa is facing a humanitarian crisis. Rising international food prices and political conflict has led to millions of people in the region struggling to access clean water and food.
 
This healthcare emergency has been exacerbated by climate change, with a lack of rainfall and extreme droughts leading to widespread damage to crops and livestock in countries like Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. Meanwhile, severe flooding is devastating regions like South Sudan and Sudan, causing destruction of homes, infrastructure, and pasture. Millions are in a vulnerable position and being forced to leave their homes to look for food and clean water. WHO estimates that nearly 12 million children will face acute malnutrition and the risk of disease outbreaks including cholera, malaria, measles, and COVID-19 is increasing. Life-saving medical supplies, vaccines, and equipment are urgently required. WHO is working on the ground to increase the capacity of health workers, prevent the spread of disease, and provide medical supplies, essential care, and emergency nutrition for people forced to leave their homes."

Photo by Alexis Huguet
Collaboration between Uğur Gallenkuş and Doctors Without Borders (#MSF)
 
"On November 11, 2018, in Congo, After their decontamination work, and a visit to a risk area, the men in turn are decontaminated with chlorine. Decontamination is an essential step in controlling an #Ebola outbreak. Transmitted by bodily fluids, the virus must be destroyed wherever a confirmed patient has passed. This is regularly the case in the health centers in North Kivu that supports and for which its decontamination teams intervene as soon as possible to prevent new infections. In some less accessible areas, the choice was made to train community relays in this practice so that they in turn could put in place these essential protection measures."
 

Photo by Guillermo Arias

"Aerial view of Honduran migrants taking part in a caravan heading to the US, resting in San Pedro Tapanatepec, southern Mexico on October 28, 2018."

U.S. Marine Corps, photo taken by Lance Cpl. George Melendez

"The Patriots Jet Team performs aerial acrobatics as pyrotechnics provided by the Tora Bomb Squad of the Commemorative Air Force explode, forming a 'Wall Of Fire' during the 2017 Yuma Airshow at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., Saturday, March 18, 2017."