World Vision's Jamila Isaac wants children to reach for the stars.

"I want her to fulfil her dreams. I don't want her to end up like me."

Anu spent 14 hours a day sewing leather but now she has a shot at "becoming someone".

Sapna, 14, works up to 16 hours a day making anklets to sell to tourists.

Yadanar was betrayed by her own mother and sold to an elderly Chinese man.

Khin believed she had a new job singing in a restaurant, but it was too good to be true.

"I realised I'd been sold. For the next three years, I would be enslaved."

Prabha resents being married off at 16: "Girls should study and become doctors".

Sania was just 12. But when her friend was to be married off, she stepped in.

The new NZ Herald-World Vision campaign to save the young women.

Barbara Dreaver has been released by Nauru authorities after being detained earlier today.

"They lack adequate healthcare, education, and protection from sexual and physical abuse."

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NZ Herald Focus discusses the struggles of the people in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

First impressions are of an idyllic paradise. But it soon becomes obvious that this village is living barely one step ahead of hand to mouth

Leaving home is the only option for many as the atoll faces the same fate as five islands that have already disappeared.

A teen's recovery from a second bout of TB is rare bright spot in battle to rein in the disease.

Some 60 per cent of Papua New Guinea's population live in areas where malaria is endemic.

Just one thing going wrong had a devastating effect on an entire village in Papua New Guinea.

The people of Rarata village in the Solomon Islands were walking up to 7km every day to quench their thirst.

In the village of Hanuabada, children swim among soiled nappies and unsafe water kills. But there is hope.

The Herald's latest appeal with World Vision will help our Pacific neighbours.

For five years Syria has suffered through a civil war that has tortured its people and destroyed the country, writes World Vision's Chris Clarke. For five years too long children have witnessed things no one should ever see.

Former Shortland Street star Kimberley Crossman recalls the terrible bathmat her ex-boyfriend gave her to keep his feet warm.

NZ journalist and radio host Rachel Smalley has completed the Beirut Marathon with a team of Kiwis, running as part of World Vision's Forgotten Millions campaign.

Today the Herald restarts its campaign The Forgotten Millions to help refugees from the Syrian crisis.

It is an image that challenges me emotionally every time I look at it, and the more I look, the more it challenges me.

Sometimes Fatma's granddaughters want to talk about their old life in Syria. They lived in a nice house in Aleppo and went to school every day.

World Vision chief executive Chris Clarke travelled with broadcaster Rachel Smalley to the Middle East to meet some of the millions affected by the Syrian conflict, and was struck by the number of fathers having to make impossible choices for their families.