Strains of ‘If you’re happy and you know it’ ring out as groups of children are gathered together laughing, singing and playing. It could be a scene from any nursery school in the UK but what makes this scene remarkable is that it’s in a refugee camp in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince – a city devastated by a terrifying earthquake just a few months earlier.

Action Aid UK gives African children a better life through their sponsorship scheme. So meet Sia…

Sia’s mother died when she was one and now she lives with her aunt, uncle and cousins in one tiny room. Her family cannot afford to send her to school and Sia spends her days collecting yams.