Smartphones, wifi and messaging apps are playing an important role
in the refugee crisis, and in the way we are providing aid.

Violence has uprooted and displaced at least 2.3 million people near the
already fragile and drought-afflicted Lake Chad water basin, which
includes portions of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad.

Syria’s civil war is the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. Half the
country’s pre-war population — more than 11 million people —
have been killed or forced to flee their homes.