, Dec. 19 -- This year brought immense challenges to communities in need of assistance around the world.

Cuts to humanitarian aid funding by the US government and other international donors disrupted care and key programs safeguarding the health and wellbeing of vulnerable people, while conflicts, natural disasters, and climate-related events continued to put communities at risk. But as Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) teams responded to many of these crises, they also bore witness to moments of hope shining a light on the prevailing human spirit in moments of adversity.

The taro leaf, and its accompanying proverb-"We are like water on a taro leaf"-is a powerful metaphor for the Rohingya experience of statelessness...