HOPES, RESILIENCE, AND BIG DREAMS

2025 Year in Pictures

Our 2025 Year in Pictures capture childhood, its threats, and its defenders in 2025. A golden-shawled girl gets her first jab. Best friends float belly up in their fragile ocean. A young father kisses his precious son. Heartwarming stories told by children, their families, and the award-winning photojournalists we’re proud to work with. Proof that even in the most difficult years, childhood is always worth fighting for.

Books, Bravery and Big Dreams 

For so many of us, school is an obligation, a rite of passage, a given. It's easy to forget that for many girls around the world, it's still something they have to fight for. In the Kasaï region of DRC, Shelter For Kids and partners are helping  some very brave, determined and resilient girls' turn their dreams of getting an education into a reality.

2024 Year in Pictures 

Our 2024 Year in Pictures explore recovery and resilience. An eight-year-old boy helps his mum with the chores. A trusted midwife comforts a mum-to-be. Two friends walk to school together laughing. A boy, scarred by violence, starts to dream of his future. Moments like this can pass us by. But every childhood should be full of them and these photos reminds us why.

Children in Gaza capture life and hope

After attending a workshop by award-winning photographer and Shelter For Kids ambassador Misan Harriman, refugee children from Gaza filled scrapbooks with photographs, drawings and writings. They learned new skills, made happy memories - and told the stories of their lives, hopes and dreams during the war on their homeland. The results are beautiful, moving and uplifting.

2023 Year in Pictures

Our 2023 Year in Pictures show people choosing action and hope, community and collaboration. A volunteer stands outside a food bank. Beekeepers in training carry their hives. A girl stands in front of the mirror she uses to practice her speeches about child marriage. This collection celebrates the children fighting for their futures – and the people that stood with them.

Potential Not Poverty

Empathy, rather than pity. That's what this brilliant group of teenagers wanted to inspire with their film about child poverty. Their powerful film – influenced by their own experiences of poverty – challenged perceptions and called on the government to take action to end child poverty. Here's how it was made.

2022 Year in Pictures 

Our 2022 Year in Pictures show children growing up in a closely interconnected world, as global events collide These powerful and tender images – of determined girls and dancing boys, local activists and loving families – remind us that each child is the subject of their world. And from that understanding and feeling of connection comes hope and inspiration.

SAM Stopper

Meet Fadumo. She is a S.A.M stopper.  S.A.M stands for severe acute malnutrition, and right now it threatens 386,000 lives in Somalia where she lives. Step into her shoes and hear how she describes her life on the frontline against S.A.M..

2021 Year in Pictures

Covid. Conflict. Climate change. Three great crises combined in 2021 to throw children’s lives and futures into chaos. But as our leaders floundered, it was children who so often showed us the way, who showed us the best of who we are. Our 2021 Year in Pictures showcases our most evocative images of 2021. It captures moments of reflection. Moments of defiance. Moments of exhilaration.

Little ripples make big waves

Water is a way of life for Tenneh and her family. Every morning she climbs into her canoe and rows to school, but it wasn't always that way. Follow her journey back into education.

In the shadows of War

When searching for hope in a desperate situation we look to the sky. For children in conflict zones - often reacting to the sounds of shelling, planes or gunfire - the sky becomes both a symbol of hope and of potential danger. To mark World Children's Day, photographers Jim Huylebroek, Oksana Parafeniuk and Hugh Kinsella Cunningham worked with six children from Ukraine, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, to document the impact of conflict on their lives.

Forever changed. Forever hopeful.

200 million girls live in conflict zones across the world. Every day, they experience the horrors of war – horrors compounded by the particular challenges girls face. They are more vulnerable to sexual violence and early marriage. They’re more likely to be denied their basic rights, like healthcare and education. Photographers Lynsey Addario, Alessandra Sanguinetti and Esther Mbabazi worked with nine girls from Afghanistan, Gaza and the Democratic Republic of Congo to capture this rarely told, rarely heard story.

Vanilla for Change

Vanilla is at the heart of communities in the Sava region of Madagascar. Families depend on it to survive, and thrive.

Learn about the partnership helping these families to create a brighter future - and meet the young people who are benefitting from better prices, and an increased focus on children's rights in their community.

Catching Alices

In a Liberian village, over 800 babies have been named in honour of the Shelter For Kids-trained midwife who delivered them. 

Alice’s story is about love, survival and hope - and the difference one person can make. 

2019 Year in Pictures

Our 2019 Year in Pictures celebrate children’s uniquely compelling stories and personalities. It shows moments of grace, acts of hope, exhausting journeys, agonising waits. And celebrates the private moments so easily taken for granted. It recognises the bravery it takes to be yourself – especially when you’re young: to play football when people say you can’t, to show love when people have failed you, to play and to speak out – even if it could be dangerous.