Garment workers in Indonesia are eligible for generous severance if they're laid off — although that law could be changing. Muhammad Fadli/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption

An employee walks past a power plant's electricity pylons in Lagos, Nigeria. Power shortages are particularly a problem for Nigeria's booming tech industry, which accounts for nearly 14% of the country's GDP. Georgie Osodi/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption

Ugali, a staple starch in many parts of Africa, is filling but lacking in micronutrients. Julia Gunther for NPR hide caption

Displaced Kurdish and Arab women, who fled from violence after a Turkish offensive in northeastern Syria, sit with their children at a public school used as shelter where they now live in Hasakah, Syria. Muhammad Hamed/Reuters hide caption

A blood transfusion bag hangs in an operating room in a hospital in the Republic of Congo. Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa have a huge gap between blood supply and demand, new research found. Godong/Universal Images Group/Getty Images hide caption

Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Tal Abyad, where a hospital was shuttered because of the fighting. Bulent Kilic/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Gulalai Ismail, the Pakistani activist who fled the country after being threatened for taking a stand against sexual violence perpetrated by security forces. She was photographed in Brooklyn, where she is now seeking asylum. Tim McDonnell/NPR hide caption

A man stands in his wrecked home in Macomia, Mozambique, after Cyclone Kenneth in April. It was the second intense cyclone to strike the country in six weeks. Tommy Trenchard for NPR hide caption

Eulalio Barrera Barrera's family was one of 6,000 to receive a monthly stipend funded by USAID that was cut off last month because of President Trump's foreign aid funding freeze. Like many families in the program, he spent the last cash on chickens. Tim McDonnell for NPR hide caption

A child in a neighborhood in Kampala, Uganda, fills a container with water. Ute Grabowsky/Photothek via Getty Images hide caption

Children in the study were given a twice-yearly dose of the antibiotic azithromycin. Researchers found that their mortality rate was significantly lower than that of untreated children. Science Stock Photography/Science Source hide caption

Residents of the city of Beira, which was nearly destroyed by Cyclone Idai, salvage what is left of their belongings. Denis Onyodi/International Red Cross via AP hide caption

Meat at a butcher's shop in a Moroccan market. Lack of refrigeration contributes to Africa's high rate of foodborne illnesses. Raquel Maria Carbonell Pagola/Getty Images hide caption

A staffer at the Right to Care AIDS clinic in Johannesburg administers an HIV test on a young boy. South Africa is one of the countries that receives funds from the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Gallo Images/Getty Images hide caption

Sale Tambaya, a cattle herder in central Nigeria, grazes his cows. After his home state criminalized open grazing in November 2017, he and his family fled with their livestock to a neighboring state where grazing is allowed. Two of his sons died on the journey. Tim McDonnell for NPR hide caption

Kuba women decorating woven cloth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, photographed in 1970. In the past, women were the main creators of the legendary Kuba textiles. Eliot Elisofon/Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art hide caption

In Kiribati, an island republic in the Central Pacific, large parts of the village Eita (above) have succumbed to flooding from the sea. Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption

Baobab trees along a dirt road called the Avenue of the Baobabs in Morondava, Madagascar. Panoramic Images/Getty Images hide caption

A Somali fisherman carries a fish to the market near the port in Mogadishu. One of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals calls for the world to "conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development." Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images hide caption