Photo Essay
Myanmar - Three Months On
Education offers children like Min Min hope for the future
Ethiopia Food Crisis 1. A combination of drought and escalating food prices has left 4.6 million people urgently in need of food in Ethiopia. Around 759,000 of these are children under the age of five. (Copyright: Frederic Courbet , Panos)

Min Min, 6, lives in a village surrounded by rice fields and huge trees, his home was destroyed when Cyclone Nagris tore through Myanmar in May this year.

It is hard for us to imagine the strength of a cyclone, one which can obliterate houses and uproot trees but Min Min doesn't have to imagine. He can remember what it felt like to run from its power.

Now three months on we return to Min Min, while his family are still struggling to cope, we can see how returning to school is helping Min Min overcome the experience of the storm

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