In July 2021, the Al-Ashur family tent burned down in the Om Elhadage internally displaced persons camp in Marib, home to 150 people. The Al-Ashurs – a grandfather, two parents and 7 children – had come to the camp when fighting near their home close to the front lines intensified, forcing them to leave. The family slept in the open air until a UNFPA-led Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) team, while distributing emergency relief, volunteered to help rebuild the family’s temporary home, completing it in 48 hours.

Above, the family patriarch and his granddaughter search for anything they can salvage among the ashes of what used to be their home. They were able to find items for cooking but not much else, losing all their clothes and bedding they had brought when they fled to the camp. © UNFPA Yemen

A RRM team began to lend a hand in rebuilding the family’s tent by erecting the bones of the home. The RRM provides assistance to the newly displaced, distributing women’s dignity kits from the UNFPA, food from the World Food Programme and family hygiene kits from UNICEF, within 72 hours from the onset of displacement. The RRM is funded by the European Union Humanitarian Aid, Central Emergency Response Fund and Yemen Humanitarian Fund.© UNFPA Yemen

After the tent took two days to complete, RRM team members brought basic necessities to the family as well as to other families in the camp. UNFPA also supports the camp with mobile outreach teams consisting of a doctor, midwife, nurse, pharmacist, medical assistant and psychologist that provide reproductive health services including antenatal and postnatal care and family planning, psychosocial counselling and other gender-based violence support services. © UNFPA Yemen

Said Al-Ashur and one of his granddaughters, Kholoud, 11, carry supplies back to their new home. Children in the camp are currently not attending school and mostly help with household chores.© UNFPA Yemen

Sisters (from left) Kholoud, 11, and Asma, 13, tend to cooking with pots provided in the RRM relief package. Girls are often responsible for fetching water and firewood for cooking fuel. © UNFPA Yemen

In Om Elhadage camp, UNFPA distributed relief boxes to the 25 families living there. Since January 2021, the RRM has provided emergency relief to nearly 30,000 people in Marib Governorate, a hotspot of intense fighting. In addition, UNFPA has reached nearly 100,000 people with reproductive health and gender-based violence services there. © UNFPA Yemen

The family in the doorway of their new home, thatched with straw. © UNFPA Yemen

After a long day helping rebuild her family’s tent, Faten, 10, combs her hair with items from the RRM kit. Tonight will be the first night in three weeks she once again has a home to call her own. © UNFPA Yemen

Mother, Umm Asmaa, prepares dinner for her family. An estimated 73 per cent of the more than 4 million people displaced in Yemen are women and children. © UNFPA Yemen

Already contending with political instability, gang violence that has displaced thousands and COVID-19, Haiti now faces the cruel aftermath of the 14 August 7.2-magnitude earthquake that has so far claimed 1,400 lives and injured more than 6,900 while hundreds remain missing, according to OCHA. The epicentre was recorded about 125 kilometres west of the capital, Port-au-Prince; the southern and western parts of the country were hardest hit. Hospitals were damaged or destroyed, overwhelming those still standing. Needs for food, shelter, safe water, sanitation and hygiene and medicines will continue to grow. Tropical Storm Grace has complicated relief efforts here, which is under a one-month national state of emergency. Cartagena Street (above) is in the seaport and commune of Les Cayes, which bore a significant brunt of the quake. Buildings including schools, hospitals and churches were flattened or smashed, roads were rendered impassable and more than 37,000 homes have been destroyed and 46,000 damaged throughout affected areas, according to the Haitian Civil Protection General Directorate. Updated 18 August: The death toll stands near 2,000 and injured approaching 10,000. Almost 61,000 homes have been destroyed and more than 76,000 damaged in the three most affected areas. © UNFPA Haiti/Ralph Tedy Erol

Families try to salvage anything they can from beneath the rubble. Remote communities closer to the epicentre are feared to be devastated. An estimated 1.2 million people have been affected; the 2010 earthquake affected three million people. © UNFPA Haiti/Ralph Tedy Erol

Hundreds of families have settled at football field Land des Gabions in Les Cayes. Tens of thousands of homes have been leveled, leaving many homeless. Some 19,000 Haitians are already displaced due to gang violence. Further displacement coupled with compromised access to health care is fueling concern on containing COVID-19. Gender-based violence is another worry, so protection services must always be part of emergency response. © UNFPA Haiti/Ralph Tedy Erol

Workers at the site of the Catholic bishop's residence extricate a victim of the collapse in Les Cayes. Efforts by search-and-rescue teams and volunteers are ongoing days after the disaster. © UNFPA Haiti/Ralph Tedy Erol

A woman is evacuated by family members at Immaculate Conception Hospital in Les Cayes. Hospitals still standing are in desperate need of personnel and medical supplies. © UNFPA Haiti/Ralph Tedy Erol

With houses in ruins, residents of Gelée, a village in Les Cayes, are leaving for temporary shelters. Gangs and road blockages have hampered relief efforts, and humanitarian partners are exploring alternatives, including by sea, to deliver aid. © UNFPA Haiti/Ralph Tedy Erol

The earthquake toppled buildings on Boulevard des 4 Chemins in Les Cayes, which is in the Sud department, one of the three most heavily damaged areas. The other two are Grand’Anse and Nippes departments. © UNFPA Haiti/Ralph Tedy Erol

UNFPA distributed solar lanterns and dignity kits that include basic hygiene supplies like soap, toothbrushes, water purification tablets, underwear, menstrual pads, flashlights, hand sanitizer and masks to families in Les Cayes. © UNFPA Haiti

<p>Torrential monsoon rains on July 26 and 27 flooded Rohingya camps in Cox&#39;s Bazar, Bangladesh, killing six, displacing more than 13,000 and destroying nearly 4,000 shelters. UNFPA is on the ground, supporting a field hospital for new mothers and their babies, providing sexual and reproductive health and rights services and distributing basic hygiene supplies.&nbsp;&copy; UNFPA Bangladesh/Nelson Halder</p>

<p>HOPE Field Hospital in Camp 4, the only comprehensive emergency obstetric and neonatal care and sexual and reproductive health and rights facility in the Rohingya camps, was hit hard. Flooding&nbsp;damaged medicine supplies, patient records,&nbsp;and medical equipment in the neonatal ward (above) so newborns needing care were evacuated&nbsp;to a partner facility. Beds were waterlogged, and the water filtration and drainage system was compromised when the fuel drum for the generator was destroyed. UNFPA is supporting the facility with health personnel, supplies and resources to help keep it operational. &copy;UNFPA Bangladesh/Fahima Tajrin</p>

<p>Midwives are still delivering babies at HOPE Field Hospital even as cleanup efforts are underway in affected parts of the hospital. With roads washed away, some patients and providers cannot reach a health facility. &copy;UNFPA Bangladesh/Fahima Tajrin</p>

<p>A temporary tent installed in Camp 9 provides sexual and reproductive health and rights services, including family planning and gender-based violence protection,&nbsp;to vulnerable women and girls. There are 27 other women-friendly spaces providing a range of support, from counselling&nbsp;to dignity kits to midwifery services. &copy; UNFPA Bangladesh/Fahima Tajrin</p>

<p>Standing water is a boon for breeding mosquitoes, exacerbating&nbsp;mosquito-borne illnesses. HOPE Field Hospital staff working in dirty water are experiencing skin irritations. &copy; UNFPA Bangladesh/Fahima Tajrin&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>Referral hub teams, supported by UNFPA, relocated&nbsp;patients to nearby facilities with emergency transport and referral services.&nbsp;&copy; International Rescue Committee</p>

<p>Learning centres run by UNFPA partners housed displaced households, including this one in Camp 1E that sheltered 14 people. The Gender-Based Violence Sub-Sector Coordination&nbsp;conducts field visits to observe safety concerns, including&nbsp;gender-based violence risks.&nbsp;&copy; UNFPA/Sofia Canovas</p>