In photos: Atom Araullo's work with UNHCR

Throughout 2017, broadcast journalist and UNHCR High Profile Supporter Atom Araullo has joined field missions in the Philippines and has staunchly advocated for campaigns of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

In Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, UNHCR Senior Emergency Policy Officer Alvin Gonzaga coordinates his activities that day with broadcast journalist and UNHCR High Profile Supporter Atom Araullo. This is a file photo taken November 2017

In this file photo taken November 2017, UNHCR High Profile Supporter Atom Araullo (left) joins UNHCR humanitarian workers to document the rapid influx of Rohingya refugees trying to enter the Bangladesh border after escaping violence in Myanmar.

UNHCR High Profile Supporter Atom Araullo interacts with school children at the Saguiaran Elementary School in the southern Philippines. Saguiarantown is the closest municipality to MarawiCity, where conflict broke out in May 2017

UNHCR High Profile Supporter Atom Araullo shares a light moment with Fatima, who lost four of her seven children to the conflict in MarawiCity. This photo was taken more than six months since armed conflict broke out. Fatima tries to become resilient by focusing on her livelihood.

"As a journalist, I have also witnessed that no action is ever too small. All of us can act as individuals, either through a donation or an expression of solidarity; every action counts. The world needs a collective commitment to help those fleeing conflict, violence, persecution, and natural disasters," said Atom Araullo on World Refugee Day, 2017.

On World Refugee Day in 2017, broadcast journalist Atom Araullo joined UNHCR Philippines for the first time as High Profile Supporter and advocate. With him are former UNHCR Philippines Head of Office Yasser Saad (middle) and former Philippine Undersecretary Manuel L. Quezon III. Mr. Quezon is the grandson of a former President who helped rescue 1300 Jewish refugees from the Nazi persecution in the late 1930s.

"Rohingya refugees cross the border in Anjuman Para, Bangladesh. Many have walked for weeks in the forest to hide from the military. They are weak and exhausted upon reaching the border," writes UNHCR High Profile Supporter Atom Araullo of this scene he photographed whilst on mission with UNHCR, November 2017.

"A little girl plays with a ball at a community-based evacuation centerin Iligan City," writes Atom Araullo of this image he shot whilst on mission with UNHCR.