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75 images Created 19 Dec 2019

Preparing food, eating food, storing food, food aid
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  • At the "House for the Dying", a hospice for AIDS patients and other seriously ill patients run by the Sisters of Charity in Port au Prince, Haiti, Guerto Toussaint enjoys a package of Plumpy'nut, a a high protein and high energy peanut-based paste that is used as a ready-to-use therapeutic food. The boy suffers from glandular tuberculosis. .
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  • A Maya Chortí woman preparing food in her kitchen in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • 21 September 2016, Coatbridge, Scotland: Indonesian spices formed the basis of reflection during the day's prayers at the World Council of Churches consultation on spirituality, worship and mission - Searching for ecumenical spirituality of the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace. The consultation was convened by the World Council of Chuches, at the Conforti Institute in Coatbridge, Scotland.
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  • A girl eats sorghum porridge as she sits in the dirt in Chidyamanga, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest.
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  • A man removes the flesh of a coconut on Finca La Alemania, Sucre. Rogelio Martinez, the community leader on this farm, was killed by hooded men a month before the photo was taken.
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  • 28 February 2017, Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho: Peace Akili farms a small plot of land in the village of Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho, where he lives with his wife and their four-year-old daughter Mpho. Thaba Bosiu is a sandstone plateau some 24 kilometers east of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. The name means Night Mountain, and surrounding the plateau is a small village and open plains. Thaba Bosiu was once the capital of Lesotho, and the mountain was the stronghold of the Basotho king when the kingdom of Lesotho was formed.
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  • A Rohingya woman in the Balukhali Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, carries a bag of rice she received from the Bangladesh government. <br />
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More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled government-sanctioned violence in Myanmar for safety in Bangladesh.
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  • Hands reach for a shared Bolivian lunch including potatoes and oca tubers
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  • 1 March 2017, Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho: Nako Makhemeng leads oxen as they plough the field, in the village of Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho. Following the oxen is David Moshoeshoe, 33 years old. Nako and David live on the hillside of Thaba Bosiu, ”Night Mountain” in Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho. They grow vegetables, mainly cabbage and spinach. Thaba Bosiu is a sandstone plateau some 24 kilometers east of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. The name means Night Mountain, and surrounding the plateau is a small village and open plains. Thaba Bosiu was once the capital of Lesotho, and the mountain was the stronghold of the Basotho king when the kingdom of Lesotho was formed.
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  • Five-year old Saliha Mussa, a recently arrived refugee from Eritrea, enjoys spaghetti for dinner in her family's apartment in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The girl's family was resettled in the United States by Church World Service. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • A man stand atop piles of food aid provided through the World Food Programme at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
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  • 6 December 2017, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Zainab (left) from Côte d'Ivoire takes orders, as a food truck, named "Bon Appetit" parked near the Global Village provides food to participants in ICASA 2017. The 19th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) 2017 gathers thousands of researchers, medical professionals, academics, activists and faith-based organizations from all over the world, all looking to overcome the HIV epidemic and eliminate AIDS as a public health threat.
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  • Children eating in a nutrition center in Kamina, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The center, which offers meals to malnourished children and their mothers, along with nutrition and agriculture education, is funded by United Methodist Women, with training provided by the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
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  • Men work in a world Food Programme warehouse in Dadaab
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  • 3 March 2017, Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho: Farmer David Moshoeshoe is 33 years old. He lives on the hillside of Thaba Bosiu, ”Night Mountain” in Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho, where he grows vegetables, mainly cabbage and spinach. Here, he tends to cabbages that are one month old. They are ready to be harvested after a total of three months. Thaba Bosiu is a sandstone plateau some 24 kilometers east of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. The name means Night Mountain, and surrounding the plateau is a small village and open plains. Thaba Bosiu was once the capital of Lesotho, and the mountain was the stronghold of the Basotho king when the kingdom of Lesotho was formed.
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  • Mohammed Nayef shops for groceries in a supermarket inside the Zaatari refugee camp near Mafraq, Jordan. Nayef, who fled his home war-torn Daraa, Syria, in 2013, receives a monthly food allowance from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, issued to him on an electronic debit card. He can then shop for the food he wants and pay with the debit card. Aid workers say the process affords more dignity and freedom of choice to refugee families than lining up at warehouses to receive food rations.<br />
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Established in 2012 as Syrian refugees poured across the border, the camp held more than 80,000 refugees by 2015, and was rapidly evolving into a permanent settlement. The ACT Alliance provides a variety of services to refugees living in the camp.
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  • A woman and her daugher de-hulling rice at home
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  • 12 January 2018, Marrakesh, Morocco: Baker Said at work in his bakery in the area of Aset Ihiri in the Marrakesh Medina. The Marrakesh Medina, listed as a UNESCO World Heritate site, forms an old fortified city centre of narrow streets, shops and vendor stalls. The city of Marrakesh was founded in 1070-1072, and has long been a political, economic and cultural centre.
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  • A child eats in an emergency feeding program for malnourished children at the Loreto Girls School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school, run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland, has opened its compound to hundreds of nearby villagers facing hunger because of ongoing conflict and climate change.
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  • Dinners in this school near Ranchi in Jharkhand province, India, are subsidised by an aid agency working on nutrition and health. Under Informed Consent rules, the parents of the children in the picture would all have to be talked to in order for them to give their consent for this photo to be taken or used, it's not feasible to do that.
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  • 14 September 2018, Laxmipur, Nepal: Food is served after the service, as more than 800 congregants, guests and dignitaries celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Nepal Evangelical Lutheran Church, a member of the Lutheran World Federation. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • A girl enjoys her meal at the Good Neighbor Settlement House in Brownsville, Texas. The Settlement House, a project of United Methodist Women, provides a variety of services in the U.S.-Mexico border region, including free meals for hungry and homeless families.
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  • Dinners in this school near Ranchi in Jharkhand province, India, are subsidised by an aid agency working on nutrition and health. Under Informed Consent rules, the parents of the children in the picture would all have to be talked to in order for them to give their consent for this photo to be taken or used, it's not feasible to do that.
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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: “The difference is in our everyday life,” says Joni Pertuz as he feeds a school of 300 Tilapia fish just outside his house. “To not have to get up at six in the morning and check the map to see where the enemy is. Now things have changed. We get up in the morning to look after our kids, to check on the animals that we have. But what has not changed is our sense of collective. We stay united.” Joni is one of some 10 families who have their own stocks of fish, apart from the community collective's larger schools of farmed fish. Following the 2016 peace treaty between FARC and the Colombian government, a group of ex-combatant families have purchased and now cultivate 36 hectares of land in the territory of San José de León, municipality of Mutatá in Antioquia, Colombia. A group of 27 families first purchased the lot of land in San José de León, moving in from nearby Córdoba to settle alongside the 50-or-so families of farmers already living in the area. Today, 50 ex-combatant families live in the emerging community, which hosts a small restaurant, various committees for community organization and development, and which cultivates the land through agriculture, poultry and fish farming. Though the community has come a long way, many challenges remain on the way towards peace and reconciliation. The two-year-old community, which does not yet have a name of its own, is located in the territory of San José de León in Urabá, northwest Colombia, a strategically important corridor for trade into Central America, with resulting drug trafficking and arms trade still keeping armed groups active in the area.
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  • Displaced by war, a boy savors the last of his porridge in the Makpandu refugee camp in Southern Sudan, 44 km north of Yambio, where more that 4,000 people took refuge in late 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army attacked their communities inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Attacks by the LRA inside Southern Sudan and in the neighboring DRC and Central African Republic have displaced tens of thousands of people, and many worry the attacks will increase as the government in Khartoum uses the LRA to destabilize Southern Sudan, where people are scheduled to vote on independence in January 2011. Catholic pastoral workers have accompanied the people of this camp from the beginning. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • Purple maize or sweetcorn, near San Juan, Intibucá.
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  • 17 September 2018, Biruwa, Kavre district, Nepal: Rev. Joseph Soren from Nepal Evangelical Lutheran Church blesses the food before the meal starts. What may appear an ordinary lunch is in fact quite special. As Dalits find themselves among the most marginalized in Nepal society, members of other castes will often not receive food from them even if offered. Today, however, a range of visitors, including local authority officials sit and eat with them, to affirm the equality and dignity of all people, no matter their ethnic group, economic situation, or caste. The Lutheran World Federation World Service programme runs a Post-Earthquake Rehabilitation and Livelihood Recovery Project, in which Biruwa is one of the supported communities. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • A woman bows while being blessed after offering food to two Buddhist monks in the morning in Prey Pkosh, Cambodia.
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  • Sasal, a traditional food of the Pech indigenous people in Honduras, made from cassava.
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  • 31 May 2019, Mokolo, Cameroon: People queue for food at a distribution point in the Minawao camp for Nigerian refugees. The Minawao camp for Nigerian refugees, located in the Far North region of Cameroon, hosts some 58,000 refugees from North East Nigeria. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • A man unloads sorghum for displaced families in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies. The sorghum being unloaded here, a donation by the U.S. government, is part of an aid distribution by the World Food Programme.
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  • Jennis Tejera, El Tule, Olancho: "We began working together a year ago, with support from World Renew and INFOP. There are twelve women in our group, we got trained to make different types of bread and cake, and biscuits and snacks, new types of baking that we weren’t used to. We built an oven and we bake together once a month, and we do it to sell the produce, and at the moment we are saving the profits as a group, we’ll decide later what to do with the money, maybe at the end of the year. We’ve never had savings before. Some of us also bake at other times, I bake to sell quite frequently on my own now as well. Women in this area often don’t have their own money, the man has the money, but having our own money, and having savings, in this area, where there are no paid jobs, is a big change for us".
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  • 30 May 2019, Mokolo, Cameroon: Today is market day, and refugees and host communities alike gather to sell and buy goods in Minawao. The Minawao camp for Nigerian refugees, located in the Far North region of Cameroon, hosts some 58,000 refugees from North East Nigeria. The refugees are supported by the Lutheran World Federation, together with a range of partners. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Eritrean asylum seekers pray before eating in their room in a church-run shelter in Freudenstadt, Germany. The Freundesdreis Asyl is run by Christlicher Kirchen, and managed by a retired United Methodist pastor. The shelter has 18 asylum seekers from Eritrea and 10 from Gambia. They came to Europe via Sudan and Libya, crossing the Mediterranean to Italy.
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  • Baked snacks are withdrawn from the oven by the womens group in El Tule
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  • 22 September 2016, Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland: Mary Malone sells fruit for non-profit, here at the Bridging the Gap project, an initiative to offer free lunch and a meeting place for those in need, in the area of Gorbals, Glasgow. She has been selling fruit at low prices to support those in need for some 15 years.
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  • Juani Martinez, a Methodist woman in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, serves food to Cuban immigrants in that city’s Plaza Benito Juarez on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo.
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  • Jennis Tejera, El Tule, Olancho: We began working together a year ago, with support from World Renew and INFOP. There are twelve women in our group, we got trained to make different types of bread and cake, and biscuits and snacks, new types of baking that we weren’t used to. We built an oven and we bake together once a month, and we do it to sell the produce, and at the moment we are saving the profits as a group, we’ll decide later what to do with the money, maybe at the end of the year. We’ve never had savings before. Some of us also bake at other times, I bake to sell quite frequently on my own now as well. Women in this area often don’t have their own money, the man has the money, but having our own money, and having savings, in this area, where there are no paid jobs, is a big change for us.
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  • 31 January 2019, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia: Chef cooks an evening meal over an open fire at the Hossana school for the deaf, run by the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, make food over a fire. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • School children in Tuixcajchis, a small Mam-speaking Maya village in Comitancillo, Guatemala, learn about nutrition as they prepare and cook vegetables during class. The special program is sponsored by the Maya Mam Association for Investigation and Development (AMMID).
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  • 18 April 2019, Yatta, Hebron, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Beekeeper Abed from Yatta in the Hebron Governorate of the West Bank tends to his bees. Today is a good day, as he has two new queens ready to populate new hives.
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  • Displaced children eat a meal in a house shared by several internally displaced families in Bamako, Mali. Thousands of families displaced by the fighting in northern Mali have taken refuge in the capital and other areas of the country's south, most living with relatives or renting small spaces. Many have received support from the ACT Alliance.
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  • Children play in the forest and collect blackberries and blueberries to eat at La Jarcia, near Intibucá. Their mothers were arrested and put in jail for defending the forest and indigenous rights.
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  • 14 September 2018, Laxmipur, Nepal: Food is served after the service, as more than 800 congregants, guests and dignitaries celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Nepal Evangelical Lutheran Church, a member of the Lutheran World Federation. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • A woman cooks in a roadside cafe in Suihari in northern Bangladesh.
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  • Children play in the forest and collect blackberries and blueberries to eat at La Jarcia, near Intibucá. Their mothers were arrested and put in jail for defending the forest and indigenous rights.
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  • 15 September 2018, Laxmipur, Nepal: Food is served after worship. "You are the light of the world" was the theme, based on Matthew 5:14, as hundreds gathered at the Nepal Evangelical Lutheran Church in Laxmipur on 15 September to worship together with ecumenical guests and visitors from the Lutheran World Federation. The Nepal Evangelical Lutheran Church was established in 1943, and celebrated its 75th anniversary on 14 September. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • A boy pulls on a mango in Mundri, South Sudan.
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  • 17 September 2018, Kavre district, Nepal: A woman works her field in a valley in the Kavre district, Nepal. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Wunrock Langar carries home sorghum meal from a Caritas-sponsored grinding mill run by widows in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
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  • 3 October 2018, Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: Two men share a simple night meal outside the school building in Khan al Ahmar. Khan al Ahmar is a Bedouin community located within the East Jerusalem Periphery, in E1 area. It is home to 32 families, 173 persons in total, including 92 children and youths. The community has a mosque and a school, which was built in 2009 and serves more than 150 children between the ages of six and fifteen, from Khan al Ahmar and other nearby communities. With due date 1 October 2018, Israeli authorities threaten to demolish the site, thereby making room for nearby Israeli settlements to expand.
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  • Perna Jacob dries cassava in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
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Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
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  • 8 October 2018, Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories: A man sells bread and eggs on the Palestinian side of the checkpoint – breakfast for some, lunchbox material for others. Qalandiya is the main checkpoint between the northern West Bank and Jerusalem, where thousands upon thousands of Palestinians try to make their way to Jerusalem each day. Ecumenical accompaniers (EAs) from the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (WCC-EAPPI) visit regularly in the early mornings. Their task is to be an international presence and to show solidarity, offer basic support to anyone denied passage, and collect documentation of the situation at the checkpoint. EAs’ reports feed into the UN system, providing ongoing monitoring of the human rights situation in Israel and Palestine.
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  • Men unload food from the World Food Program in the Habile Camp for internally displaced persons outside the village of Koukou Angarana, Chad. Some 28,000 people live in precarious conditions in this camp. More than 180,000 residents of eastern Chad have been displaced by violence spilling over from neighboring Darfur, inter-ethnic conflict, and fighting between rebels and the Chadian government.
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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: Mayerlis serves 48-year-old Ivan a meal of sarapa – rice and chicken wrapped in a Cachibou leaf. Ivan walks on crutches as he is missing a leg. He lived 31 years as a FARC guerilla combatant, before settling in San José de León after the 2016 peace treaty in Colombia. Following the 2016 peace treaty between FARC and the Colombian government, a group of ex-combatant families have purchased and now cultivate 36 hectares of land in the territory of San José de León, municipality of Mutatá in Antioquia, Colombia. A group of 27 families first purchased the lot of land in San José de León, moving in from nearby Córdoba to settle alongside the 50-or-so families of farmers already living in the area. Today, 50 ex-combatant families live in the emerging community, which hosts a small restaurant, various committees for community organization and development, and which cultivates the land through agriculture, poultry and fish farming. Though the community has come a long way, many challenges remain on the way towards peace and reconciliation. The two-year-old community, which does not yet have a name of its own, is located in the territory of San José de León in Urabá, northwest Colombia, a strategically important corridor for trade into Central America, with resulting drug trafficking and arms trade still keeping armed groups active in the area. Many ex-combatants face trauma and insecurity, and a lack of fulfilment by the Colombian government in transition of land ownership to FARC members makes the situation delicate.
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  • Louise Justine cooks for her family in a camp in rebel-held territory in the eastern Congo. Families displaced by fighting between rebel Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese military took refuge in this camp they established in the shadow of a United Nations base in the village of Kiwanja. According to aid workers and human rights groups, rebel soldiers executed some 150 people here in a 24-hour period in early November. The killings took place half a mile from the UN base, yet the 120 UN peacekeepers, part of the largest UN peacekeeping contingent in the world, did not take any action to stop the violence. ..
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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: Woman leader Aida, who was part of the first group of ex-combatant families to settle in San José de León, tends to the community's poultry, caring for the chickens and hens, and collecting the eggs they provide. Following the 2016 peace treaty between FARC and the Colombian government, a group of ex-combatant families have purchased and now cultivate 36 hectares of land in the territory of San José de León, municipality of Mutatá in Antioquia, Colombia. A group of 27 families first purchased the lot of land in San José de León, moving in from nearby Córdoba to settle alongside the 50-or-so families of farmers already living in the area. Today, 50 ex-combatant families live in the emerging community, which hosts a small restaurant, various committees for community organization and development, and which cultivates the land through agriculture, poultry and fish farming. Though the community has come a long way, many challenges remain on the way towards peace and reconciliation. The two-year-old community, which does not yet have a name of its own, is located in the territory of San José de León in Urabá, northwest Colombia, a strategically important corridor for trade into Central America, with resulting drug trafficking and arms trade still keeping armed groups active in the area. Many ex-combatants face trauma and insecurity, and a lack of fulfilment by the Colombian government in transition of land ownership to FARC members makes the situation delicate. Through the project De la Guerra a la Paz (‘From War to Peace’), the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia accompanies three communities in the Antioquia region, offering support both to ex-combatants and to the communities they now live alongside, as they reintegrate into society. Supporting a total of more than 300 families, the project seeks to alleviate the risk of re-victimization, or relapse into violent conflict.
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  • Alefa Soloti carries a 50 kg bag of corn provided by the ACT Alliance in Dickson, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest. In addition to providing emergency food, the ACT Alliance is working with farmers in this village to switch to alternative, drought-resistant crops, as well as installing an irrigation system and utilizing other improved techniques to increase agricultural yields.
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  • 31 January 2019, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia: Chefs at the Hossana school for the deaf, run by the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, make food over a fire. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Recently arrived immigrants from different parts of the world learn about the nuances of cooking with foods available in the United States, during a cooking class sponsored by Tacoma Community House in Tacoma, Washington. Held at a public library, the class familiarizes immigrants with new foods and the English words they'll need to buy them and prepare them. Teaching the class is Liesl Ches (second from left), a community outreach worker for the Multicare Center for Healthy Living. TCH is a mission institution sponsored by United Methodist Women.
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  • 4 June 2019, Meiganga, Cameroon: Nouhou Rafiatou and her son Hamadou work a field near the Ngam refugee camp. Rafiatou is part of a group of CAR refugees trained by the Lutheran World Federation in modern farming techniques. By keeping a strict ratio of how many seeds to sow per hectare, and by sowing Cassava and Groundnut together, they are able to both increase harvests and retain soil fertility over a longer time. Supported by the Lutheran World Federation, the Ngam refugee camp, located in the Meiganga municipality, Adamaoua region of Cameroon, hosts 7,228 refugees from the Central African Republic, across 2,088 households. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Four-year old Vivian helps Reese Blasky package grapes at the Homer Community Food Pantry, located in the Homer United Methodist Church in Homer, Alaska. Both are volunteers at the food pantry.
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  • 2 November 2019, Ganta, Liberia: A male patient at the Ganta United Methodist Hospital prepares a meal. The hospital provides kitchen facilities for patients who wish to cook for themselves during their stay. Located in Nimba county, the Ganta United Methodist Hospital serves tens of thousands of patients each year. It is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Liberia. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • A Venezuelan refugee family sits on a curb in Boa Vista, Brazil, eating breakfast provided by Consolata Missionary Sisters.
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  • 2 November 2019, Ganta, Liberia: a woman holds a handful of sliced pumpkin, to be made into food for patients at Ganta Hospital. Located in Nimba county, the Ganta United Methodist Hospital serves tens of thousands of patients each year. It is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Liberia. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Monique Lohmeyer, a case manager for Church World Service, helps Casmil Ngundakumana, a refugee from Rwanda, to experience basil and other products available in the Durham Farmers' Market in Durham, North Carolina. The market's Double Bucks program allows consumers with EBT cards to double their purchasing power.<br />
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Church World Service resettles refugees in North Carolina and throughout the United States.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • 4 November 2019, Montserrado, Liberia: Students gather to receive a hot meal during recess. Started as a school for internally displaced children during the First Liberian Civil War, Mother Tegeste Stewart Apostolic Pentecostal Mission School in Montserrado county currently teaches 486 students from kindergarten up through 12th grade. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Bev Manifold (right) inspects donated food in the Food Pantry of Urban Ministries of Wake County in Raleigh, North Carolina. Manifold, a Unitarian Universalist, is doing community service as part of her sentence for civil disobedience on a "Moral Monday" at the state legislature, a series of protests against measures that hurt the state's poor.
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  • 4 November 2019, Montserrado, Liberia: Students gather to receive a hot meal during recess. Started as a school for internally displaced children during the First Liberian Civil War, Mother Tegeste Stewart Apostolic Pentecostal Mission School in Montserrado county currently teaches 486 students from kindergarten up through 12th grade. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Shushan Andreasyan sorts peppers drying outside her home in Hovtashat, Armenia. She participates in an agricultural training program sponsored by the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
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  • Muslims throughout the world break their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan by sharing the iftar, the evening meal celebrated just after sunset, often in community. The iftar also demonstrates hospitality, and faithful Muslims often provide the meal at no cost as an act of charity. In this photo, an iftar is celebrated on a narrow street in the Egyptian city of Cairo.
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  • Zaitun and her daughter Nizria bake pastries in their home in Banda Aceh, on Indonesia's Sumatra Island. The family lost their house and belongings in the 2004 tsunami. The government provided them with a new house. Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, loaned the women in the neighborhood the money they needed to purchase new equipment and ingredients to restart their businesses. The women repaid their loans to a revolving fund that they jointly manage. Zaitun has used the profits from her pastry business to keep her four children in school. Nizria recently graduated from a local university with a degree in economics, but while she's looking for employment she assists her mother with the pastry making.
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  • Regina Abuk displays wild fruits on which she and her neighbors survive in Yang Kuel, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where a persistent drought has destroyed crops and left people hungry. The fruit--a so-called "hunger food"--must be dried, pulverized, and boiled before it can be eaten.<br />
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A local partner of Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, dug a new well for the community in 2016, providing a source of safe water and saving Abuk a one-hour walk to a well. The organization has also distributed food vouchers to hungry families in the region.
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