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  • John Simba, a member of an ACT Alliance team, searches for unexploded ordnance in a civilian area near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
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  • The Rev. Henrik Stubkjaer, secretary general of Dan Church Aid, inspects a filter system that produces 160,000 liters of safe water a day in the Bel Air neighborhood of Port au Prince, Haiti, where cholera is epidemic almost one year after a devastating earthquake. The water program is sponsored by Viva Rio, a Brazilian organization carrying out earthquake recovery and community organizing in Port au Prince with support from Dan Church Aid and other members of the ACT Alliance. Behind Stubkjaer is Martin Wartchocs, a Brazilian water engineer in charge of Viva Rio's cholera prevention program.
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  • A Rohingya girl carries a tarp and blankets she received during a distribution of aid from several groups, including Dan Church Aid, in the Jamtoli Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Dan Church Aid is a member of the ACT Alliance.<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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  • A Rohingya boy carries a tarp and blankets he received during a distribution of aid from several groups, including Dan Church Aid, in the Jamtoli Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Dan Church Aid is a member of the ACT Alliance.<br />
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More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled government-sanctioned violence in Myanmar for safety in Bangladesh.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-refugees-M01...JPG
  • A Rohingya girl carries food supplies she received from Dan Church Aid in the Jamtoli Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Dan Church Aid is a member of the ACT Alliance.<br />
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More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled government-sanctioned violence in Myanmar for safety in Bangladesh.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-refugees-M01...JPG
  • A Rohingya woman carries food supplies she received from Dan Church Aid in the Jamtoli Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Dan Church Aid is a member of the ACT Alliance.<br />
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More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled government-sanctioned violence in Myanmar for safety in Bangladesh.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-refugees-M01...JPG
  • Members of an ACT Alliance team search for unexploded ordnance in the charred remains of a house near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor331101.JPG
  • Members of an ACT Alliance team search for unexploded ordnance in the charred remains of a house near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor331061.JPG
  • Members of an ACT Alliance team search abandoned houses for unexploded ordnance in a civilian area near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor331036.JPG
  • A member of an ACT Alliance team searches for unexploded ordnance in the charred remains of a house near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor331064.JPG
  • Members of an ACT Alliance team search for unexploded ordnance in the charred remains of a house near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor331078.JPG
  • Members of an ACT Alliance team search for unexploded ordnance in the charred remains of a house near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor331047.JPG
  • Members of an ACT Alliance team search for unexploded ordnance in a civilian area near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
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  • Hassan Kossar examines a hand grenade that an ACT Alliance team found as it searched for unexploded ordnance in a civilian area near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. Kossar, from Somaliland, is a senior technical advisor to the explosive ordnance disposal team, part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor329011.JPG
  • Hassan Kossar places hand grenades in a sandbag for transport to a safe disposal site. The grenades were found by an ACT Alliance team as it searched for unexploded ordnance in a civilian area near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. Kossar, from Somaliland, is a senior technical advisor to the explosive ordnance disposal team, part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor329012.JPG
  • Members of an ACT Alliance team search for unexploded ordnance in civilian areas around the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
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  • Members of an ACT Alliance team search for unexploded ordnance in civilian areas around the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
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  • Oyet Justin, a member of an ACT Alliance team, searches for unexploded ordnance in a civilian area near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor329008.JPG
  • A member of an ACT Alliance team searching for unexploded ordnance in Bor, South Sudan, raises his hand to signal he found something suspicious. The team is searching civilian areas around Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor329002.JPG
  • Newly trained masons and carpenters pose with their new toolboxes at the end of an ACT Alliance-sponsored course in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal. In the wake of the 2015 earthquake that ravaged the region, Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support for villagers here, including preparing these workers to build new houses once the Nepali government disburses funds for construction.
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  • Newly trained masons and carpenters receive their toolboxes at the end of an ACT Alliance-sponsored course in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal. In the wake of the 2015 earthquake that ravaged the region, Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support for villagers here, including preparing these workers to build new houses once the Nepali government disburses funds for construction.
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  • Bishnu Kumari Banjara holds a goat in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal. Following the 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, she received several baby goats from Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, as a way to earn a livelihood and restart the village economy. Helping people in this and other largely Dalit villages has been a priority for ACT Alliance agencies.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_308084.JPG
  • Bhagwati Tamang lays bricks in Jogimara, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Tamang, an experienced mason, has helped the ACT Alliance train other carpenters and masons in the community so they'll be ready to help construct permanent housing once the Nepali government begins to disburse funds.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307241.jpg
  • Bhagwati Tamang lays bricks in Jogimara, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Tamang, an experienced mason, has helped the ACT Alliance train other carpenters and masons in the community so they'll be ready to help construct permanent housing once the Nepali government begins to disburse funds.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307212.jpg
  • A woman pours water into a cistern at her home in Salang, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. The village's water system was destroyed by the quake, forcing women to walk two hours or more to a nearby river to fetch water. Working with a local organization, the Forum for Awareness and Youth Activity, the ACT Alliance rebuilt the village's water system.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307132.jpg
  • A woman washes her hair in Salang, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. The village's water system was destroyed by the quake, forcing women to walk two hours or more to a nearby river to fetch water. Working with a local organization, the Forum for Awareness and Youth Activity, the ACT Alliance rebuilt the village's water system.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307138.jpg
  • Women laugh together as they gather at a community water tap in Salang, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. The village's water system was destroyed by the quake, forcing women to walk two hours or more to a nearby river to fetch water. Working with a local organization, the Forum for Awareness and Youth Activity, the ACT Alliance rebuilt the village's water system.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307126.jpg
  • Tika Maya Pulami fetches water from a cistern in Salang, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. The village's water system was destroyed by the quake, forcing women to walk two hours or more to a nearby river to fetch water. Working with a local organization, the Forum for Awareness and Youth Activity, the ACT Alliance rebuilt the village's water system.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307110.jpg
  • Bhagwati Tamang lays bricks in Jogimara, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Tamang, an experienced mason, has helped the ACT Alliance train other carpenters and masons in the community so they'll be ready to help construct permanent housing once the Nepali government begins to disburse funds.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307077.JPG
  • Tika Maya Pulami holds a water pot as she fetches water from a cistern in Salang, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. The village's water system was destroyed by the quake, forcing women to walk two hours or more to a nearby river to fetch water. Working with a local organization, the Forum for Awareness and Youth Activity, the ACT Alliance rebuilt the village's water system.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307052.jpg
  • Tika Maya Pulami holds a water pot as she fetches water from a cistern in Salang, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. The village's water system was destroyed by the quake, forcing women to walk two hours or more to a nearby river to fetch water. Working with a local organization, the Forum for Awareness and Youth Activity, the ACT Alliance rebuilt the village's water system.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307046.JPG
  • Rebuilding supplies are carried by hand across a suspension bridge into Adamtar, an indigenous village in Nepal's Dhading District where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families to rebuild their homes and lives in the wake of the 2015 earthquake that ravaged much of Nepal.
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  • Gita Giri stands in her shop in Adamtar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided food, shelter, livelihood, winterization assistance and a variety of other support to indigenous villagers here in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Giri was chosen by her neighbors to sell warm clothes, blankets and shelter materials which they could purchase with cash vouchers provided by the ACT Alliance. Giri made no profit on the sales. "With people from around the world assisting our community, how could I make a profit on those supplies?" she asked.
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  • Sarita Majhi eats with her children, including 1-year old Sanira, in their temporary shelter in Adamtar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided food, shelter, livelihood, winterization assistance and a variety of other support to Majhi and other indigenous villagers here in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Majhi has had to face the earthquake and its aftermath alone, as her husband is working in Saudi Arabia. He stopped sending money home and told Majhi to quit calling him.
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  • Sarita Majhi eats with her children, 4-year old Sanir and 1-year old Sanira, in their temporary shelter in Adamtar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided food, shelter, livelihood, winterization assistance and a variety of other support to Majhi and other indigenous villagers here in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Majhi has had to face the earthquake and its aftermath alone, as her husband is working in Saudi Arabia. He stopped sending money home and told Majhi to quit calling him.
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  • Sarita Majhi prepares food in her temporary shelter in Adamtar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided food, shelter, livelihood, winterization assistance and a variety of other support to Majhi and other indigenous villagers here in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Majhi has had to face the earthquake and its aftermath alone, as her husband is working in Saudi Arabia. He stopped sending money home and told Majhi to quit calling him.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_306220.jpg
  • Sarita Majhi prepares food in her temporary shelter in Adamtar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided food, shelter, livelihood, winterization assistance and a variety of other support to Majhi and other indigenous villagers here in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Majhi has had to face the earthquake and its aftermath alone, as her husband is working in Saudi Arabia. He stopped sending money home and told Majhi to quit calling him.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_306215.jpg
  • With her sons Sandesh, 10, and Safal, 5, Maya Thapalyia sits in front of her family's transitional shelter with the ruins of her former house in the background. She and her family live in Majhitar, Nepal. Their home was damaged in an April 2015 earthquake that ravaged the region, but Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has helped the indigenous community to rebuild, including providing Thapalyia's family with their transitional home.
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  • Maya Thapalyia picks plants for her livestock to eat in front of a transitional house built for her family in Majhitar, Nepal, by Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. Her family's home collapsed completely in an April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal.
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  • With her sons Safal, 5, and Sandesh, 10, Maya Thapalyia sits in front of the ruins of her home in Majhitar, Nepal. The family's home was damaged in an April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, but Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has helped the indigenous community to rebuild, including providing Thapalyia's family with a transitional home.
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  • Maya Thapalyia picks plants for her livestock to eat in front of a transitional house built for her family in Majhitar, Nepal, by Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. Her family's home collapsed completely in an April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal.
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  • Rebuilding supplies are carried by hand across a suspension bridge into Adamtar, an indigenous village in Nepal's Dhading District where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families to rebuild their homes and lives in the wake of the 2015 earthquake that ravaged much of Nepal.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_306039.JPG
  • Rebuilding supplies are carried by hand across a suspension bridge into Adamtar, an indigenous village in Nepal's Dhading District where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families to rebuild their homes and lives in the wake of the 2015 earthquake that ravaged much of Nepal.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_306036.jpg
  • Members of an ACT Alliance team search for unexploded ordnance in a civilian area near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The explosive ordnance disposal team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys mine risk education teams to help villagers identify and understand the dangers of unexploded ordnance and land mines from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from decades of civil war.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor329003.JPG
  • Bishnu Kumari Banjara herds some of her goats in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal. Following the 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, she received several baby goats from Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, as a way to earn a livelihood and restart the village economy. Helping people in this and other largely Dalit villages has been a priority for ACT Alliance agencies.
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  • Bishnu Kumari Banjara holds two of her goats in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal. Following the 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, she received several baby goats from Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, as a way to earn a livelihood and restart the village economy. Helping people in this and other largely Dalit villages has been a priority for ACT Alliance agencies.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_308071.jpg
  • Bishnu Kumari Banjara holds two of her goats in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal. Following the 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, she received several baby goats from Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, as a way to earn a livelihood and restart the village economy. Helping people in this and other largely Dalit villages has been a priority for ACT Alliance agencies.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_308073.JPG
  • Bhagwati Tamang lays bricks in Jogimara, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Tamang, an experienced mason, has helped the ACT Alliance train other carpenters and masons in the community so they'll be ready to help construct permanent housing once the Nepali government begins to disburse funds.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307191.jpg
  • Pamfa Maya Pulami and her granddaughter pose in front of a latrine in Salang, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. The village's water system was destroyed by the quake, forcing women to walk two hours or more to a nearby river to fetch water. Working with a local organization, the Forum for Awareness and Youth Activity, the ACT Alliance rebuilt the village's water system and installed new latrines for residents.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307165.jpg
  • Bhagwati Tamang lays bricks in Jogimara, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Tamang, an experienced mason, has helped the ACT Alliance train other carpenters and masons in the community so they'll be ready to help construct permanent housing once the Nepali government begins to disburse funds.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307185.jpg
  • Bhagwati Tamang mixes mortar to use in laying bricks in Jogimara, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Tamang, an experienced mason, has helped the ACT Alliance train other carpenters and masons in the community so they'll be ready to help construct permanent housing once the Nepali government begins to disburse funds.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307181.jpg
  • Pamfa Maya Pulami helps a boy wash his hands after using a latrine in Salang, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. The village's water system was destroyed by the quake, forcing women to walk two hours or more to a nearby river to fetch water. Working with a local organization, the Forum for Awareness and Youth Activity, the ACT Alliance rebuilt the village's water system and installed new latrines for residents.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307154.jpg
  • A woman washes her hair in Salang, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. The village's water system was destroyed by the quake, forcing women to walk two hours or more to a nearby river to fetch water. Working with a local organization, the Forum for Awareness and Youth Activity, the ACT Alliance rebuilt the village's water system.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307144.JPG
  • Bhagwati Tamang lays bricks in Jogimara, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Tamang, an experienced mason, has helped the ACT Alliance train other carpenters and masons in the community so they'll be ready to help construct permanent housing once the Nepali government begins to disburse funds.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_307080.jpg
  • Women gather at a community water tap in Salang, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. The village's water system was destroyed by the quake, forcing women to walk two hours or more to a nearby river to fetch water. Working with a local organization, the Forum for Awareness and Youth Activity, the ACT Alliance rebuilt the village's water system.
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  • Tika Maya Pulami fetches water from a cistern in Salang, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. The village's water system was destroyed by the quake, forcing women to walk two hours or more to a nearby river to fetch water. Working with a local organization, the Forum for Awareness and Youth Activity, the ACT Alliance rebuilt the village's water system.
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  • Pamfa Maya Pulami holds a water pot as she fetches water from a cistern in Salang, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. The village's water system was destroyed by the quake, forcing women to walk two hours or more to a nearby river to fetch water. Working with a local organization, the Forum for Awareness and Youth Activity, the ACT Alliance rebuilt the village's water system.
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  • Pamfa Maya Pulami fetches water from a cistern in Salang, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. The village's water system was destroyed by the quake, forcing women to walk two hours or more to a nearby river to fetch water. Working with a local organization, the Forum for Awareness and Youth Activity, the ACT Alliance rebuilt the village's water system.
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  • Tika Maya Pulami and her neighbors carry water to their homes in Salang, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. The village's water system was destroyed by the quake, forcing women to walk two hours or more to a nearby river to fetch water. Working with a local organization, the Forum for Awareness and Youth Activity, the ACT Alliance rebuilt the village's water system. Now the women only have to carry the water for a minute or two to their homes.
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  • Bishnu Acharya (right), a community mobilizer for the ACT Alliance, talks with Sita Acharya in Adamtar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided food, shelter, livelihood, winterization assistance and a variety of other support to villagers here in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake.
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  • Men work constructing a new house in Adamtar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided food, shelter, livelihood, winterization assistance and a variety of other support to villagers here in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake.
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  • Mayily Majhi stands in front of her temporary home in Adamtar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided food, shelter, livelihood, winterization assistance and a variety of other support to Majhi and other indigenous villagers here in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake.
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  • Gita Giri sits in front of her shop in Adamtar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided food, shelter, livelihood, winterization assistance and a variety of other support to indigenous villagers here in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Giri was chosen by her neighbors to sell warm clothes, blankets and shelter materials which they could purchase with cash vouchers provided by the ACT Alliance. Giri made no profit on the sales. "With people from around the world assisting our community, how could I make a profit on those supplies?" she asked.
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  • Sarita Majhi eats with her children, including 1-year old Sanira, in their temporary shelter in Adamtar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided food, shelter, livelihood, winterization assistance and a variety of other support to Majhi and other indigenous villagers here in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Majhi has had to face the earthquake and its aftermath alone, as her husband is working in Saudi Arabia. He stopped sending money home and told Majhi to quit calling him.
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  • Sarita Majhi holds her one-year old daughter Sanira as she stands in front of what was once her home in Adamtar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided food, shelter, livelihood, winterization assistance and a variety of other support to Majhi and other indigenous villagers here in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Majhi has had to face the earthquake and its aftermath alone, as her husband is working in Saudi Arabia. He stopped sending money home and told Majhi to quit calling him.
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  • Sarita Majhi holds her one-year old daughter Sanira as she stands in front of what was once her home in Adamtar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided food, shelter, livelihood, winterization assistance and a variety of other support to Majhi and other indigenous villagers here in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Majhi has had to face the earthquake and its aftermath alone, as her husband is working in Saudi Arabia. He stopped sending money home and told Majhi to quit calling him.
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  • With help from her 5-year old son Safal, Maya Thapalyia picks plants for her livestock to eat in front of a transitional house built for her family in Majhitar, Nepal, by Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. Her family's home collapsed completely in an April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal.
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  • Maya Thapalyia looks out the window of her family's transitional house built in Majhitar, Nepal, by Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. Her family's home collapsed in an April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal.
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  • A man holds a saw in Majhitar, a village in Nepal's Dhading District where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families to rebuild their homes and lives in the wake of the 2015 earthquake that ravaged much of Nepal.
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  • Mohamed Al-Shawish, a 5-year old Palestinian boy, waters trees on a farm in Johor Al-Deek, a section of the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza. The water comes from a well and water pump provided by Dan Church Aid--a member of the ACT Alliance--to replace a well and pump destroyed by the Israeli military. Water resources in the Gaza Strip are critically insufficient. Almost two-thirds of Gaza's water is used for agriculture, but farmers are often forced to use salty and polluted water from shallow unlicensed wells..
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  • Bilal Al-Shawish (left), 7, and his brothers Mohanad (right), 9, and Mohamed (below), 5, climb on the twisted rubble of what was once a greenhouse before the Israeli bombing of their family's farm in Johor Al-Deek, a section of the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza. The farm is being reactivated today with help from a new well and water pump provided by Dan Church Aid--a member of the ACT Alliance--to replace a well and pump destroyed by the Israeli military during Operation cast Lead.
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  • Mohamed Ihab, 12, carries a new construction block in front of a pile of twisted rubble left from the Israeli bombing of his family's farm in Johor Al-Deek, a section of the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza. The farm is being reactivated today with help from a new well and water pump provided by Dan Church Aid--a member of the ACT Alliance--to replace a well and pump destroyed by the Israeli military during Operation cast Lead.
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  • Bilal Al-Shawish (left), 7, and his 9-year old brother Mohanad, climb on the twisted rubble of what was once a greenhouse before the Israeli bombing of their family's farm in Johor Al-Deek, a section of the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza. The farm is being reactivated today with help from a new well and water pump provided by Dan Church Aid--a member of the ACT Alliance--to replace a well and pump destroyed by the Israeli military during Operation cast Lead.
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  • Mousa Al-Shawish, a 18-year old Palestinian youth, waters crops on a farm in Johor Al-Deek, a section of the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza. The water comes from a well and water pump provided by Dan Church Aid--a member of the ACT Alliance--to replace a well and pump destroyed by the Israeli military. Water resources in the Gaza Strip are critically insufficient. Almost two-thirds of Gaza's water is used for agriculture, but farmers are often forced to use salty and polluted water from shallow unlicensed wells..
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  • Bilal Al-Shawish, a 7-year old Palestinian boy, waters trees on a farm in Johor Al-Deek, a section of the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza. The water comes from a well and water pump provided by Dan Church Aid--a member of the ACT Alliance--to replace a well and pump destroyed by the Israeli military. Water resources in the Gaza Strip are critically insufficient. Almost two-thirds of Gaza's water is used for agriculture, but farmers are often forced to use salty and polluted water from shallow unlicensed wells..
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  • A member of an ACT Alliance team talks with villagers about the dangers of unexploded ordnance near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The mine risk education team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys explosive ordnance disposal teams to locate and safely remove dangerous items from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from earlier decades of civil war.
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  • Members of an ACT Alliance team talk with villagers about the dangers of unexploded ordnance near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The mine risk education team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys explosive ordnance disposal teams to locate and safely remove dangerous items from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from earlier decades of civil war.
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  • Members of an ACT Alliance team talk with villagers about the dangers of unexploded ordnance near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The mine risk education team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys explosive ordnance disposal teams to locate and safely remove dangerous items from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from earlier decades of civil war.
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  • A member of an ACT Alliance team talks with villagers about the dangers of unexploded ordnance near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The mine risk education team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys explosive ordnance disposal teams to locate and safely remove dangerous items from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from earlier decades of civil war.
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  • Members of an ACT Alliance team talk with villagers about the dangers of unexploded ordnance near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The mine risk education team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys explosive ordnance disposal teams to locate and safely remove dangerous items from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from earlier decades of civil war.
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  • Members of an ACT Alliance team talk with villagers about the dangers of unexploded ordnance near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The mine risk education team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys explosive ordnance disposal teams to locate and safely remove dangerous items from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from earlier decades of civil war.
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  • Members of an ACT Alliance team talk with villagers about the dangers of unexploded ordnance near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The mine risk education team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys explosive ordnance disposal teams to locate and safely remove dangerous items from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from earlier decades of civil war.
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  • Members of an ACT Alliance team talk with villagers about the dangers of unexploded ordnance near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The mine risk education team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys explosive ordnance disposal teams to locate and safely remove dangerous items from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from earlier decades of civil war.
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  • A member of an ACT Alliance team talks with villagers about the dangers of unexploded ordnance near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The mine risk education team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys explosive ordnance disposal teams to locate and safely remove dangerous items from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from earlier decades of civil war.
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  • Members of an ACT Alliance team talk with villagers about the dangers of unexploded ordnance near the South Sudan town of Bor, which has been the scene of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels since a dispute within the ruling party turned violent in December 2013 and quickly ripped the newly independent nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The mine risk education team is part of the humanitarian mine action program of Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The program also deploys explosive ordnance disposal teams to locate and safely remove dangerous items from this most recent conflict as well as ordnance left over from earlier decades of civil war.
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  • Mithe, a blacksmith in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal, works on a metal pot. In Nepal's caste system, blacksmiths are near the bottom, but helping them recover their livelihoods after a 2015 earthquake ravaged their community has been a priority for some aid agencies.
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  • Mithe, a blacksmith in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal, works on a metal pot in his workshop. In Nepal's caste system, blacksmiths are near the bottom, but helping them recover their livelihoods after a 2015 earthquake ravaged their community has been a priority for some aid agencies.
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  • Blacksmiths in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal, work together fabricating metal knives. In Nepal's caste system, blacksmiths are near the bottom, but helping them recover their livelihoods after a 2015 earthquake ravaged their community has been a priority for some aid agencies.
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  • Blacksmiths in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal, work together fabricating metal knives. In Nepal's caste system, blacksmiths are near the bottom, but helping them recover their livelihoods after a 2015 earthquake ravaged their community has been a priority for some aid agencies.
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  • Mithe, a blacksmith in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal, works on a metal pot with assistance from his wife, Mankumari. In Nepal's caste system, blacksmiths are near the bottom, but helping them recover their livelihoods after a 2015 earthquake ravaged their community has been a priority for some aid agencies.
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  • Women and children practice proper hand washing techniques during the gathering of an emotional support group in Makaising, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. ACT Alliance psycho-social workers have helped villagers recover from the quake both physically and emotionally.
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  • Children line up to begin the day at the Shri Pashupati Praja Primary School in the village of Tanglichowk, in the Gorkha District of Nepal. In the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, Dan Church Aid, the ACT Alliance helped people in this village with a variety of services, including latrines, emergency shelter, livelihood projects and school construction.
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  • Ram Kumari Pariyar, a hygiene promoter for the ACT Alliance, discusses hygiene with people in Makaising, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal that was hard hit by the country's 2015 earthquake. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers, including water, sanitation and hygiene support.
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  • Gita Dhital (left), a psycho-social volunteer for the ACT Alliance, talks with Binita Pariyar and her 9-year old son Kabin in Makaising, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal that was hard hit by the country's 2015 earthquake. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers, including emotional support for families like this one struggling with the emotional aftermath of the quake.
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  • Women and children practice proper hand washing techniques during the gathering of an emotional support group in Makaising, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. ACT Alliance psycho-social workers have helped villagers recover from the quake both physically and emotionally.
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  • Women practice proper hand washing techniques during the gathering of an emotional support group in Makaising, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. ACT Alliance psycho-social workers have helped villagers recover from the quake both physically and emotionally.
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  • Sapana Lamichhone (right), a pyscho-social volunteer for the ACT Alliance in Makaising, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal, explains to neighbors the variety of options they have for constructing houses to replace the homes they lost in a devastating 2015 earthquake. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of the quake, including the training of carpenters and masons who can build the new dwellings once the government disburses funds for their construction.
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  • Gita Dhital (left), a psycho-social volunteer for the ACT Alliance, talks with Binita Pariyar and her 9-year old son Kabin in Makaising, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal that was hard hit by the country's 2015 earthquake. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers, including emotional support for families like this one struggling with the emotional aftermath of the quake.
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  • Sapana Lamichhone (right), a pyscho-social volunteer for the ACT Alliance in Makaising, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal, explains to a neighbor the variety of options she has for constructing a house to replace the home she lost in a devastating 2015 earthquake. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of the quake, including the training of carpenters and masons who can build the new dwellings once the government disburses funds for their construction.
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  • Sapana Lamichhone (right), a pyscho-social volunteer for the ACT Alliance in Makaising, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal, explains to a neighbor the variety of options she has for constructing a house to replace the home she lost in a devastating 2015 earthquake. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of the quake, including the training of carpenters and masons who can build the new dwellings once the government disburses funds for their construction.
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