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  • A refugee family approaches the border into Croatia near the Serbian village of Berkasovo. Hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and other countries have flowed through the Balkans on their way to western Europe.
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  • 13 August 2016, Norrbyskär, Umeå, Sweden: Happy dancers, during a workshop on Zumba fitness, held by Maria Zaitunah at the Kul-Tur Fest ("Culture Festival"). The event, which attracted hundreds of people, set out to offer a meeting place for Swedish culture and new forms of cultural expression, and featured baking competitions, dance workshops, book discussions, fingernail painting and music, among other things.
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  • Olman Paz, from Progreso, Yoro, Honduras, climbs the wall that divides the US and Mexico at the Tijuana border.
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  • Tens of thousands of migrants and refugees cross the Rio Suchiate on rafts each year, the river is the natural border between Guatemala and Mexico. Many cross the river on rafts.
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  • An exhausted migrant rests on the rails of the freight train network known as La Bestia. Apizaco, Tlaxcala, Mexico.
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  • A Honduran migrant, waits for the train known as La Bestia in Apizaco, Mexico. Behind him, graffiti on the wall says 'Migrar no es delito'... migrating isn't a crime.
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  • Following a double murder in San Pedro Sula, Honduras one body lays inside the car, another outside the vehicle.
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  • Honduran migrants resting outside the migrant refuge in Apizaco, Mexico.
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  • Migrants wait in line for food in a migrant refuge near the railway line in Apizaco, Mexico. The refuge is run by lay people and supported mainly by church groups. Migrants often arrive in exhausted, dehydrated, hungry and in need of medical attention. This point on the migrant journey from Honduras takes about a month to reach, including about two weeks walking in southern Mexico, then long and dangerous train rides on the rail network known as La Bestia. The refuge allows migrants to stay up to 48 hours.
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  • Honduran migrants walk the rail tracks their way to stow away between carriages on a freight train known to many as La Bestia. Apizaco, Mexico.
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  • Dilma Pilar Escobar Medina holds a photo of her daughter Olga Romero Medina in El Progreso, Honduras. The young woman left for the United States in 2009, but her mother hasn't heard from her since a few months later when she phoned from southern Mexico. Escobar Medina cares for five children that her daughter left behind, and is a member of a group of mothers of migrants who have disappeared on their journey north.
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  • The migrant caravan made its way between Querétaro and Irapauto on Sunday 11th November, but being a Sunday there was little commercial traffic on the roads and it was hard for the migrants to find lifts. Most of the migrants walked for several hours and some of the transport was overcrowded.
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  • 14 September 2018, Damak, Nepal:  Supported by the Lutheran World Federation, the Beldangi refugee camp in the Jhapa district of Nepal hosts more than 5,000 Bhutanese refugees. [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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  • Anti-trafficking activist Lorena Euceda talks with a truck driver at the El Amatillo border crossing between Honduras and El Salvador. Euceda, a school teacher in nearby Goascoran, spends time at the border educating others and keeping her eyes open for incidents of human trafficking. She is a leader of the Catholic Church's immigration ministry in the province of Valle.
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  • 14 September 2018, Damak, Nepal:  “I want to take off like a bird, I want to serve my country, I want to be somebody,” exclaims a young Bhutanese man in the Beldangi refugee camp. Supported by the Lutheran World Federation, the Beldangi refugee camp in the Jhapa district of Nepal hosts more than 5,000 Bhutanese refugees. Here, inside one of the camp's many homes. [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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  • Refugees land on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on November 3, 2015, after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey. Local and international volunteers welcomed the arriving refugees with food and medical care and dry clothes before the newcomers proceeded on their way toward western Europe. Their boat to Greece was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece.
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  • In Matamoros, Mexico, food is distributed to people living in a camp at the base of the International Bridge. Under the implementation of the MPP protocol, most asylum seekers are now returned to Mexico to wait for their hearing, and many have been left waiting in this camp. Volunteer and faith-based groups are providing support to the people waiting at the bridge.
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  • Migrants on bunks at a migrant refuge in Apizaco, Mexico. Most arrive at the refuge after three or four weeks travel from Honduras, much of it on foot and on the dangerous freight rail network known as La Bestia. Most arrive exhausted, many haven't eaten for days, many have suffered violence along the way, often at the hands of Mexican Police and criminal gangs.
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  • 14 September 2018, Damak, Nepal: A young man works on constructing a house in the Beldangi refugee camp in the Jhapa district of Nepal, which hosts more than 5,000 Bhutanese refugees. On 12-19 September 2018, the Lutheran World Federation General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge visits Nepal. He will participate in the 75th anniversary celebrations of the Nepal Evangelical Lutheran Church, an LWF member church, and visit development projects run by the church. He will also visit the LWF country program, which is involved in humanitarian relief and development work in a range of areas, supporting refugees, offering relief work to those most affected by the 2015 earthquake, flood victims, among other projects. [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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  • Refugees and migrants study a map in the city park on the Greek island of Chios. The park is full of tents sheltering refugees who crossed the Aegean Sea in small boats from Turkey. They were registered and provided with food and shelter in a reception center built with support from International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance. Many of them then move to the city park where they await a ferry to take them to Athens and then on toward western Europe. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants have passed through Greece in 2015.
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  • On the Mexican side of the Rio Bravo at Matamoros, Tamaulipas, a collection of crosses remember asylum seekers who have drowned in the river here recently. One cross says 'unknown' another says 'sin nombre' - without name.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: Hussein Ibrahim, an internally displaced person from the Somali region,  demonstrates how the Oromo people make beehives by carving out logs of wood, to be hung in trees. Ibrahim lives in the Burka Dare IDP site. He is 65 years old, and one of the community elders. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate. [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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  • Rohingya refugee women line up to receive food from ICCO Cooperation in the Chakmarkul Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, where ICCO and other members of the ACT Alliance provide a variety of humanitarian support for the refugees. <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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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: A group of Oromo internally displaced people move through the Burka Dare IDP site. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate. [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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  • Kang Uk Yi, an immigrant from South Korea, at work in a factory in Tacoma, Washington, on February 21, 2018. He was placed in his job with assistance from Tacoma Community House, a United Methodist Women-supported agency that helps new immigrants with language, employment and a variety of other services.<br />
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The factory manufactures large concrete beams for bridges and construction.
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  • Under a bridge at Querétaro, migrants sit atop a flatbed truck on a lift out of the city.
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  • 4 June 2019, Meiganga, Cameroon: A group of CAR refugees of the Ngam refugee camp, trained by the Lutheran World Federation in modern farming techniques, work their fields. 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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  • Sabah Mohamed (left), a refugee from Somalia, and Senait Araya, a refugee from Eritrea, work in a restaurant in Durham, North Carolina, where they were resettled with assistance from Church World Service.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • A father carries his baby at the Aguas Calientes border post between Honduras and Guatemala. Behind him are several lines of police, riot police and army. Not far down the road is a military road block. No undocumented migrant was allowed out of Honduras or into Guatemala, and anyone with an arrest warrant on either side of the border was taken into custody. The process at the border was tense and took several hours, some small scuffles took place. Many migrants slept on the street.
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  • 4 June 2019, Meiganga, Cameroon: CAR refugee Moussa Inoussa (right) and Dengui Amadou (left) mount a steel plate as roof of a latrine in the Ngam refugee camp. 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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  • Carefully watched by police, refugees and migrants wait to walk through the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom on their way to the border where they will cross into Austria. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way from Syria, Iraq and other countries to western Europe.
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  • 5 June 2019, Gado, Cameroon: CAR refugee Hawaou (centre) has come to a water point in the Gado refugee camp to fetch water. Supported by the Lutheran World Federation, the Gado refugee camp in he East region of Cameroon hosts more than 25,000 refugees from neighbouring Central African Republic. [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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  • The Rev. Marie Sol Villalon (right) is a United Methodist pastor in the Philippines who works with victims and survivors of human trafficking. Here she visits with Zeny Santos, a woman she helped escape from captivity at a job in Malaysia.
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  • Honduran migrants on a migrant caravan in January 2018 slept in the street as they waited to be let into Guatemala at the Aguas Calientes border post.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: Oromo woman Halima Ismael caresses her child outside their home in the Burka Dare IDP site. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate. [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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  • 3 June 2019, Djohong, Cameroon: A group of women walk towards the Borgop refugee camp. The Borgop refugee camp is located in the municipality of Djohong, in the Mbere subdivision of the Adamaoua regional state in Cameroon. Supported by the Lutheran World Federation since 2015, the camp currently holds 12,300 refugees from the Central African Republic. [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 fills a container with muddy water in the Ajuong Thok Refugee Camp in South Sudan. The camp, in northern Unity State, hosts thousands of refugees from the Nuba Mountains, located across the nearby border with Sudan.
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  • Central American migrants from the migrant caravan climb on top of a tanker vehicle to ride the road between Querétaro and Irapauto, Guanajuato.
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  • 31 May 2019, Mokolo, Cameroon: A young boy holds a toy consisting of a small stick and a bike wheel. One of 20 sites for Internally Displaced People in the Far North region of Cameroon, Zamay currently hosts 4,102 IDPs from the border area between Nigeria and Cameroon. Fleeing the atrocities of Boko Haram, and cross-border fighting between Boko Haram and Cameroonian coalition forces, the IDPs have settled alongside the host community of 32,000 people in Zamay. [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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  • Lisbeth Sagen Lundin, a volunteer from Norway, hugs a frightened Syrian refugee on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 30, 2015. The woman was on a boat full of refugees that traveled to Lesbos from Turkey. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece. Lundin is one of hundreds of volunteers on the island who receive the refugees and provide them with warm clothing and medical care before they continue their journey toward western Europe.
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  • 31 May 2019, Mokolo, Cameroon: 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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  • A refugee woman clutches her baby after landing on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on November 2, 2015. Part of a boatful of refugees that arrived from Turkey, she and her family were received by local and international volunteers, then proceeded on their way toward western Europe. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece.
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  • A young Honduran migrant looks out the window of a bus to the Guatemalan border.
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  • 3 June 2019, Djohong, Cameroon: A young man kicks a ball in the Borgop refugee camp. The Borgop refugee camp is located in the municipality of Djohong, in the Mbere subdivision of the Adamaoua regional state in Cameroon. Supported by the Lutheran World Federation since 2015, the camp currently holds 12,300 refugees from the Central African Republic. [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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  • Honduran migrants on a bus to the Guatemalan border begin to crouch down to avoid detection by the police. This attempt was unsuccessful and everyone was taken off the bus.
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  • 14 April 2016: The Souda Camp in the island of Chios, one of the few refugee camps in the Greek islands where refugees can still move freely. Both refugees and volunteer workers report lack of information, long waiting times for the little food available, and poor nutrition and sanitation.
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  • 30 May 2019, Mokolo, Cameroon: A young boy rides his bike towards the market 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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  • 30 May 2019, Mokolo, Cameroon: Two young girls walk through the Minawao camp. 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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  • I've met this man from Ocotepeque, Honduras since the border at Tapachula. Here he walks on the road to Irapauto, Guanajuato.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: A group of Oromo IDPs walk on the dry riverbed near Burka Dare IDP site in Seweyna woreda (administrative unit), Bale Zone, Ethiopia. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate. [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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  • Since the implementation of the MPP protocol, thousands of asylum seekers in the southern border of the US in Texas have been deported into Mexico. Here in Matamoros, just south of the International Bridge, a camp has grown up of people who are living in the street and alongside the Rio Bravo. They are attended by volunteer groups like the Angry Tias and Abuelas, and Team Brownsville, who provide food and drink, medical assistance, tents, blankets and legal advice.<br />
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Here people living at the camp dry off after a downpour.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: A group of Oromo internally displaced people move through the Burka Dare IDP site. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate. [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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  • Eulalia Miguel and son Cristopher sleep as they ride a Greyhound bus at night through Texas on December 2, 2015. Miguel and her son fled Guatemala in 2015 because of domestic violence. After requesting political asylum in the United States, they were held for several days by immigration officials and then released, after which they stayed in a shelter run by the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), and supported by a coalition of San Antonio churches. After that, they traveled by bus to a new location in the United States, where they will live pending a final decision on her request for asylum.
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  • The Rio Bravo flows between Tamaulipas, Mexico and Texas, USA. Teh US side is heavily fortified, with fencing and security.<br />
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At this point, between Matamoros and Brownsville, the controversial new MPP protocol has changed the way asylum requests are dealt with, and asylum seekers are sent to Mexico for the duration of the process, which is for months. Approximately 5% of requests are granted, the rest rejected, but now nearly all of those requesting asylum must fend for themselves in territory known to be extremely dangerous, most of them have no resources and live just beyond the international bridge in Matamoros. Many of the asylum seekers sent into Tamaulipas are kidnapped for ransom, those who can't find someone to pay normally lose their life. Young women are vulnerable to other forms of abuse. Assistance is given to many vulnerable people in desperate need, through voluntary and faith-based groups, including groups supported by Church World Service.
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  • 13 August 2016, Norrbyskär, Umeå, Sweden: Issam, a refugee child from Syria practices walking on stilts, helped on by his father, during the Kul-Tur Fest ("Culture Festival"). The event, which attracted hundreds of people, set out to offer a meeting place for Swedish culture and new forms of cultural expression, and featured baking competitions, dance workshops, book discussions, fingernail painting and music, among other things. Parental consent obtained orally.
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  • A mother and her children--newly arrived refugees--carry their belongings through the Dadaab camp in northeastern Kenya. Already the world's world's largest refugee settlement, Dadaab has swelled in recent weeks with tens of thousands of recent arrivals fleeing drought in Somalia. The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is manager of the camp, and in July opened a new extension to begin housing the newest refugees.
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  • 13 August 2016, Norrbyskär, Umeå, Sweden: Obeida Mehmed, a Syrian refugee recently arrived in Sweden, practices walking on stilts, helped on by Adnan Al Mousa from Syria, during the Kul-Tur Fest ("Culture Festival"). The event, which attracted hundreds of people, set out to offer a meeting place for Swedish culture and new forms of cultural expression, and featured baking competitions, dance workshops, book discussions, fingernail painting and music, among other things.
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  • Children play football during an October 2012 rainstorm in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees had come to camps in Maban County from Sudan's Blue Nile region, where the Sudanese military was bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency.
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  • 14 September 2018, Damak, Nepal: Children in the Beldangi refugee camp in the Jhapa district of Nepal, which hosts more than 5,000 Bhutanese refugees. [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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  • Syrian refugees walk through the countryside outside Messstetten, Germany. They have applied for asylum in Germany and are awaiting word on the government's decision. Meanwhile, they live in a former army barracks in Messstetten.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: Internally displaced people live in small houses or huts, shared by up to eight households under a single roof. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate. [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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  • 30 May 2019, Mokolo, Cameroon: On market day, women carry their goods home from the marketplace 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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  • Women carry water in the Kaya Refugee Camp in Maban County, South Sudan. The camp shelters thousands of refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan, and Jesuit Refugee Service, with support from Misean Cara, provides educational and psycho-social services to both refugees and the host community.
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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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  • Children participate in a rally outside a federal detention center in Sheridan, Oregon. Participants protested the Trump administration's policy of separating parents from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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  • 30 May 2019, Mokolo, Cameroon: Aisha Bukar closes the metal container in which biomass is burnt, in preparation to become charcoal. At the Minawao camp for Nigerian refugees, degradable and non-degradable waste are separated, so that biomass can be burnt in metal containers, processed and finally transformed into charcoal briquettes as a source of recycled energy to be used as firewood for cooking. With the support of an environment monitor  from the Lutheran World Federation World Service programme, the full process from waste to charcoal is managed and run by the refugees themselves. 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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  • Leonardo Cantillo and his son Fabian erect a shelter at Tarau-Paru, a Pemon indigenous village just inside Brazil. Cantillo and his family are refugees, having fled from Venezuela early in 2019 after new outbreaks of violence between the Venezuelan military and Pemon villagers.
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  • 3 June 2019, Djohong, Cameroon: 17-year-old refugee Honeisatou Hamadou from Botoga in CAR works on an embroidered blanket. She is one of five trainees learning embroidery at a shop in the Borgop refugee camp, as part of a vocational training effort by the Lutheran World Federation's World Service programme, intended to help particularly young refugees make an income. The Borgop refugee camp is located in the municipality of Djohong, in the Mbere subdivision of the Adamaoua regional state in Cameroon. Supported by the Lutheran World Federation since 2015, the camp currently holds 12,300 refugees from the Central African Republic. [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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  • Evanis Gatunzi, a refugee from Rwanda, rides a bike for the first time in Durham, North Carolina, on July 22, 2017. She’s helped by Greg Garneau, a volunteer who coordinates the refugee bike program for the Durham Bicycle Co-op, and Monique Lohmeyer, a case manager for Church World Service. In the background, Yosef Birhane, a refugee from Eritrea, cheers her on.<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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  • Grace Hernandez (left) hugs Dayanara Lopez as she says goodbye to the woman and her children Josue Isaac and Genesis in the Greyhound Bus Station in San Antonio, Texas, on December 3, 2015. Lopez and her children, along with two teenage nephews, fled Honduras in October 2015 because of domestic violence and threats and assaults against her nephews from gangs. After requesting political asylum in the United States, they were held for several days by immigration officials and then released. The nephews were turned over to their mother, who already lived in the U.S. Lopez and her children stayed at first in a shelter run by the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) and supported by a coalition of San Antonio churches. They then traveled by bus to another location in the U.S. while they await a final decision on their asylum petition. Hernandez is a volunteer with RAICES.
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  • 4 June 2019, Meiganga, Cameroon: Issa Hawaou is one 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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  • 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 (center), 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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  • Larisa and Veaceslav Cosoi, immigrants from Moldova, in the front yard of their Tacoma, Washington, house, with their children Anna, Daniel, Andre (in front) and David. The family came to the United States in 2006 with assistance from Lutheran Immigration Services and were helped locally by Tacoma Community House, a mission institution of United  Methodist Women.
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  • Dayanara Lopez and her children Josue Isaac and Genesis pose in a shelter in San Antonio, Texas, on December 2, 2015. Lopez and her children, along with two teenage nephews, fled Honduras in October 2015 because of domestic violence and threats and assaults against her nephews from gangs. After requesting political asylum in the United States, they were held for several days by immigration officials and then released. The nephews were turned over to their mother, who already lived in the U.S. Lopez and her children stayed at first in the shelter, which is run by the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) and supported by a coalition of San Antonio churches. They then traveled by bus to another location in the U.S. while they await a final decision on their asylum petition. In the photo, Lopez holds a Bible which she brought on the journey to the U.S.
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