Parachute has one principal aim: to get humanitarian stories and issues on to the mainstream international media agenda.

Our journalism is pro-active, not re-active. We focus on ordinary people not politicians. And, breaking with the norms of traditional journalistic coverage of the Third World, we portray "survivors" not "victims".

Aided by the latest generation of high-tech, low-profile equipment, Parachute photojournalists and video crews get closer than ever before.