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  • It takes a village to build a well. Residents of the Khamsadegaig Camp for internally displaced persons look down a well they built with help from the Darfur Emergency Response Operation, a joint program of Caritas Internationalis and Action by Churches Together (ACT). The Catholic and Protestant aid networks have pooled their resources since 2004 in order to help some of the 2.5 million people displaced by violent conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region.
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  • Jonas Halvorsen, an official with Norwegian Church Aid, speaks to a community meeting on peacebuilding in Nakubuse, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <br />
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The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, which includes this community, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities.
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  • 24 May 2022, Rostov-on-Don, Russia: Refugee families from Ukraine peruse items of clothing offered free of charge at the main humanitarian aid centre of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) diocese of Rostov-on-Don in southwest Russia, located by the Protection of the Theotokos Church in Rostov-on-Don. The aid centre serves as a collection and distribution point for aid to refugees arriving from neighbouring Ukraine, close to a million of whom have fled to Russia according to mid-May figures from the United Nations (UNHCR) following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. While some refugees receive temporary accommodation and meals through the Russian state, the church’s main aid centre in Rostov-on-Don offers bi-weekly packages of food and other essentials for refugee families housed on their own in and around Rostov-on-Don, as well as supplying pampers, clothing and other items upon request. The centre serves some 130 refugee families daily. [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
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  • 24 May 2022, Shakhty, Russia: A church volunteer distributes clothing to a refugee woman from Ukraine at the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) Shakhty diocese's aid centre for Ukrainian refugees at the Church of the Don Icon of the Mother of God, in Shakhty, southwest Russia. Following the eruption of war in Ukraine, many refugees from the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine have taken refuge across the border in neighbouring Russia. Located close to the border, Shakhty diocese receives refugees mainly from the Luhansk area of Donbas, the majority of whom are women and children. The aid centre serves as a collection and distribution point for aid to refugees arriving from neighbouring Ukraine, close to a million of whom have fled to Russia according to mid-May figures from the United Nations (UNHCR) following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
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  • U.S. military personnel load a U.S. Navy Blackhawk helicopter in Port-au-Prince on January 22 with emergency aid for the isolated town of Jacmel on Haiti's southern coast. The aid was provided by Diakonie, part of the ACT Alliance, in a joint operation with Caritas Internationalis.
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  • U.S. military personnel load a U.S. Navy Blackhawk helicopter in Port-au-Prince on January 22 with emergency aid for the isolated town of Jacmel on Haiti's southern coast. The aid was provided by Diakonie, part of the ACT Alliance, in a joint operation with Caritas Internationalis.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-107.jpg
  • A Rohingya woman carries home a bag of food from an aid distribution by Caritas in the Mainerghona Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on October 27, 2017. Since August more than 600,000 Rohingya have fled government-sanctioned violence in Myanmar for safety in Bangladesh.
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  • A Rohingya woman carries home a bag of food from an aid distribution by Caritas in the Mainerghona Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on October 27, 2017. Since August more than 600,000 Rohingya have fled government-sanctioned violence in Myanmar for safety in Bangladesh.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-refugees-C04...JPG
  • 8 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: In Budafok, Budapest, a dozen volunteers work daily to service a collection point for donations and other material support for Ukrainian refugees, organized by Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA). HIA receives, sorts and logs donations from the public, and channels them onward to the border areas between Ukraine and Hungary, as well as into Ukraine, where as an early response the HIA have set up two refugee support centres in the subcarpathian region. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February, hundreds of thousands of people have crossed the border into Hungary to seek refuge. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 8 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: A man weighs outgoing packages of supplies for refugees from Ukraine. In Budafok, Budapest, a dozen volunteers work daily to service a collection point for donations and other material support for Ukrainian refugees, organized by Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA). HIA receives, sorts and logs donations from the public, and channels them onward to the border areas between Ukraine and Hungary, as well as into Ukraine, where as an early response the HIA have set up two refugee support centres in the subcarpathian region. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February, hundreds of thousands of people have crossed the border into Hungary to seek refuge. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 17 March 2022, Siret, Romania: Aid workers provide support to incoming refugees from Ukraine at the Vama Siret border crossing, Romania. The Vama Siret border crossing connects northeast Romania with Ukraine. Located north of Siret and further in the south the city of Suceava, the crossing connects Romania with the Ukrainian village of Terebleche and further north the city of Chernivtsi. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military starting on 24 February 2022, close to half a million refugees have fled across the Ukrainian border into Romania. In the past 24 hours, government figures indicate more than 50,000 people have crossed the border in search of refuge, an estimated 20 percent of whom are expected to stay in Romania, rather than transit into other European countries. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
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  • 8 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: A man logs incoming donations. In Budafok, Budapest, a dozen volunteers work daily to service a collection point for donations and other material support for Ukrainian refugees, organized by Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA). HIA receives, sorts and logs donations from the public, and channels them onward to the border areas between Ukraine and Hungary, as well as into Ukraine, where as an early response the HIA have set up two refugee support centres in the subcarpathian region. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February, hundreds of thousands of people have crossed the border into Hungary to seek refuge. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
    Hungary-2022-Hillert-20220308_AH2_74...jpg
  • 8 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: In Budafok, Budapest, a dozen volunteers work daily to service a collection point for donations and other material support for Ukrainian refugees, organized by Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA). HIA receives, sorts and logs donations from the public, and channels them onward to the border areas between Ukraine and Hungary, as well as into Ukraine, where as an early response the HIA have set up two refugee support centres in the subcarpathian region. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February, hundreds of thousands of people have crossed the border into Hungary to seek refuge. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
    Hungary-2022-Hillert-20220308_AH2_74...jpg
  • A girl walks across a foot bridge in the Suburban neighborhood of Rodriguez, Rizal, in the Philippines. Most of the community's families were relocated here from other area of Manila and the nearby countryside to make way for urban renewal projects or to move them out of harm's way. Yet the new community was hit hard by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, and Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency relief supplies. Over the years since, with help from Christian Aid and other groups, community members have organized themselves and engaged in a process of disaster risk reduction, including identifying and mapping high-risk zones and evacuation routes in their area. Christian Aid has also assisted with financial and technical support for income generating livelihood projects and community enterprises.
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  • 9 March 2022, Barabás, Hungary: Aid workers for Caritas Hungary  load a van full of supplies at a Caritas Hungary support centre for incoming refugees in the small border crossing village of Barabás in northeast Hungary. Following the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, more than 200,000 refugees from Ukraine have fled across the border into neighbouring Hungary, where a range of church and civil society organizations are now mobilizing support, ranging from arranging accommodation, providing information and donating diapers for the children, sanitizers, hygiene supplies and other necessities for people on the move. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 8 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: Volunteer workers pack bags of supplies, including articles like diapers, toothpaste, food and other necessities, for people seeking refuge from Ukraine. In Budafok, Budapest, a dozen volunteers work daily to service a collection point for donations and other material support for Ukrainian refugees, organized by Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA). HIA receives, sorts and logs donations from the public, and channels them onward to the border areas between Ukraine and Hungary, as well as into Ukraine, where as an early response the HIA have set up two refugee support centres in the subcarpathian region. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February, hundreds of thousands of people have crossed the border into Hungary to seek refuge. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
    Hungary-2022-Hillert-20220308_AH1_43...jpg
  • Girls use a piece of cloth to net small fish in a polluted stream in the Suburban neighborhood of Rodriguez, Rizal, in the Philippines. Most of the community's families were relocated here from other area of Manila and the nearby countryside to make way for urban renewal projects or to move them out of harm's way. Yet the new community was hit hard by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, and Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency relief supplies. Over the years since, with help from Christian Aid and other groups, community members have organized themselves and engaged in a process of disaster risk reduction, including identifying and mapping high-risk zones and evacuation routes in their area. Christian Aid has also assisted with financial and technical support for income generating livelihood projects and community enterprises.
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  • A boy grins as he walks across a foot bridge in the Suburban neighborhood of Rodriguez, Rizal, in the Philippines. Most of the community's families were relocated here from other area of Manila and the nearby countryside to make way for urban renewal projects or to move them out of harm's way. Yet the new community was hit hard by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, and Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency relief supplies. Over the years since, with help from Christian Aid and other groups, community members have organized themselves and engaged in a process of disaster risk reduction, including identifying and mapping high-risk zones and evacuation routes in their area. Christian Aid has also assisted with financial and technical support for income generating livelihood projects and community enterprises.
    philippines-2012-jeffrey-U16.jpg
  • A girl walks to school in the Suburban neighborhood of Rodriguez, Rizal, in the Philippines. Most of the community's families were relocated here from other area of Manila and the nearby countryside to make way for urban renewal projects or to move them out of harm's way. Yet the new community was hit hard by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, and Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency relief supplies. Over the years since, with help from Christian Aid and other groups, community members have organized themselves and engaged in a process of disaster risk reduction, including identifying and mapping high-risk zones and evacuation routes in their area. Christian Aid has also assisted with financial and technical support for income generating livelihood projects and community enterprises.
    philippines-2012-jeffrey-U11.jpg
  • Two girls walk across a foot bridge in the Suburban neighborhood of Rodriguez, Rizal, in the Philippines. Most of the community's families were relocated here from other area of Manila and the nearby countryside to make way for urban renewal projects or to move them out of harm's way. Yet the new community was hit hard by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, and Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency relief supplies. Over the years since, with help from Christian Aid and other groups, community members have organized themselves and engaged in a process of disaster risk reduction, including identifying and mapping high-risk zones and evacuation routes in their area. Christian Aid has also assisted with financial and technical support for income generating livelihood projects and community enterprises.
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  • Under the watch of United Nations troops from Argentina, earthquake survivors in the quake-ravaged Haitian city of Leogane unload emergency supplies provided by Caritas Internationalis and Diakonie, a member of the ACT Alliance, on January 20. Hundreds of families in the town are homeless following a January 12 earthquake, and the two church-sponsored agencies worked together to bring them help. The aid groups organized an air cargo shipment of 34 tons of relief supplies from Europe, along with basic medicines for 80,000 people. The plane wasn't allowed to land in Port-au-Prince until January 20, yet it was unloaded within hours and aid was shipped immediately to Leogane in United Nations trucks, where it was unloaded by residents and quickly distributed.
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  • Under the watch of United Nations troops from Argentina, earthquake survivors in the quake-ravaged Haitian city of Leogane unload emergency supplies provided by Caritas Internationalis and Diakonie, a member of the ACT Alliance, on January 20. Hundreds of families in the town are homeless following a January 12 earthquake, and the two church-sponsored agencies worked together to bring them help. The aid groups organized an air cargo shipment of 34 tons of relief supplies from Europe, along with basic medicines for 80,000 people. The plane wasn't allowed to land in Port-au-Prince until January 20, yet it was unloaded within hours and aid was shipped immediately to Leogane in United Nations trucks, where it was unloaded by residents and quickly distributed.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-053.jpg
  • Two women and a girl carry a tarp, blankets and other items that they received from a church-sponsored aid group across a rice field in the Jamtoli Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. <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-A00...JPG
  • Women walk along a street in the Suburban neighborhood of Rodriguez, Rizal, in the Philippines. Most of the community's families were relocated here from other area of Manila and the nearby countryside to make way for urban renewal projects or to move them out of harm's way. Yet the new community was hit hard by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, and Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency relief supplies. Over the years since, with help from Christian Aid and other groups, community members have organized themselves and engaged in a process of disaster risk reduction, including identifying and mapping high-risk zones and evacuation routes in their area. Christian Aid has also assisted with financial and technical support for income generating livelihood projects and community enterprises.
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  • People playing a card game in the Suburban neighborhood of Rodriguez, Rizal, in the Philippines. Most of the community's families were relocated here from other area of Manila and the nearby countryside to make way for urban renewal projects or to move them out of harm's way. Yet the new community was hit hard by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, and Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency relief supplies. Over the years since, with help from Christian Aid and other groups, community members have organized themselves and engaged in a process of disaster risk reduction, including identifying and mapping high-risk zones and evacuation routes in their area. Christian Aid has also assisted with financial and technical support for income generating livelihood projects and community enterprises.
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  • Virgina Aguino runs a small store in the front of her home in the Suburban neighborhood of Rodriguez, Rizal, in the Philippines. Most of the community's families were relocated here from other area of Manila and the nearby countryside to make way for urban renewal projects or to move them out of harm's way. Yet the new community was hit hard by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, and Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency relief supplies. Over the years since, with help from Christian Aid and other groups, community members have organized themselves and engaged in a process of disaster risk reduction, including identifying and mapping high-risk zones and evacuation routes in their area. Christian Aid has also assisted with financial and technical support for income generating livelihood projects and community enterprises, including loaning money to Ms. Aguino to start her store.
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  • A woman in front of her home in the Suburban neighborhood of Rodriguez, Rizal, in the Philippines. Most of the community's families were relocated here from other area of Manila and the nearby countryside to make way for urban renewal projects or to move them out of harm's way. Yet the new community was hit hard by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, and Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency relief supplies. Over the years since, with help from Christian Aid and other groups, community members have organized themselves and engaged in a process of disaster risk reduction, including identifying and mapping high-risk zones and evacuation routes in their area. Christian Aid has also assisted with financial and technical support for income generating livelihood projects and community enterprises.
    philippines-2012-jeffrey-U06.jpg
  • Two girls play in the Suburban neighborhood of Rodriguez, Rizal, in the Philippines. Most of the community's families were relocated here from other area of Manila and the nearby countryside to make way for urban renewal projects or to move them out of harm's way. Yet the new community was hit hard by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, and Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency relief supplies. Over the years since, with help from Christian Aid and other groups, community members have organized themselves and engaged in a process of disaster risk reduction, including identifying and mapping high-risk zones and evacuation routes in their area. Christian Aid has also assisted with financial and technical support for income generating livelihood projects and community enterprises.
    philippines-2012-jeffrey-U04.jpg
  • One of several volunteers building a new community center in the Suburban neighborhood of Rodriguez, Rizal, in the Philippines. Most of the community's families were relocated here from other area of Manila and the nearby countryside to make way for urban renewal projects or to move them out of harm's way. Yet the new community was hit hard by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, and Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency relief supplies. Over the years since, with help from Christian Aid and other groups, community members have organized themselves and engaged in a process of disaster risk reduction, including identifying and mapping high-risk zones and evacuation routes in their area. Christian Aid has also assisted with financial and technical support for income generating livelihood projects and community enterprises.
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  • A man takes down the names of people in line for the distribution of emergency supplies by Caritas Internationalis and Diakonie, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the Haitian city of Leogane. Hundreds of families in the town are homeless following a January 12 earthquake, and the two church-sponsored agencies worked together to bring them help. The aid groups organized an air cargo shipment of 34 tons of relief supplies from Europe, along with basic medicines for 80,000 people. The plane wasn't allowed to land in Port-au-Prince until January 20, yet it was unloaded within hours and aid was shipped immediately to Leogane in United Nations trucks, where it was unloaded by residents and quickly distributed.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-049.jpg
  • Rohingya refugees unload a truck carrying tarps, blankets and other items in the Jamtoli Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. The relief items were provided by Christian Aid, 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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  • Canadian military personnel unload emergency supplies from a U.S. Navy Blackhawk helicopter in the earthquake-ravaged Haitian city of Jacmel on January 22. The aid was provided by Diakonie, part of the ACT Alliance, in a joint operation with Caritas Internationalis.
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  • Displaced women dig a trench to install a water distribution point in the eastern Congo village of Nzulu, which is hosting hundreds of families left homeless by war by war. Norwegian Church Aid, a member of Action by Churches Together, is providing safe water, latrines, and hygiene support for the displaced and residents of the host community.
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  • 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.
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  • A boy living in a camp for homeless families helps unload food aid in Jacmel, a town on Haiti's southern coast that was ravaged by the January 12 earthquake.
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  • People receive food from the ACT Alliance on April 7, 2017, in Rumading, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where more than 5,000 people, displaced by drought and conflict, remain in limbo. In early 2017, they set out walking for Sudan, seeking better conditions, but were stopped from crossing the border. They remain camped out under the trees at Rumading, eating wild leaves as the rainy season approaches. <br />
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In early April, Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, began drilling a well in the informal settlement and distributed sorghum, beans and cooking oil to the most vulnerable families. The man, a resident of a nearby community who will receives a handful of food for his work, carries a 100 kilogram bag of sorghum that will be divided between several vulnerable families. <br />
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The ACT Alliance is carrying out the emergency assistance in coordination with government officials and the local Catholic parish.
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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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  • 17 March 2022, Siret, Romania: Aid worker from AIDRom at the Vama Siret border crossing, Romania. The Vama Siret border crossing connects northeast Romania with Ukraine. Located north of Siret and further in the south the city of Suceava, the crossing connects Romania with the Ukrainian village of Terebleche and further north the city of Chernivtsi. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military starting on 24 February 2022, close to half a million refugees have fled across the Ukrainian border into Romania. In the past 24 hours, government figures indicate more than 50,000 people have crossed the border in search of refuge, an estimated 20 percent of whom are expected to stay in Romania, rather than transit into other European countries. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
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  • 17 March 2022, Siret, Romania: Aid worker from AIDRom and a fireman in conversation at the Vama Siret border crossing, Romania. The Vama Siret border crossing connects northeast Romania with Ukraine. Located north of Siret and further in the south the city of Suceava, the crossing connects Romania with the Ukrainian village of Terebleche and further north the city of Chernivtsi. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military starting on 24 February 2022, close to half a million refugees have fled across the Ukrainian border into Romania. In the past 24 hours, government figures indicate more than 50,000 people have crossed the border in search of refuge, an estimated 20 percent of whom are expected to stay in Romania, rather than transit into other European countries. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
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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.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor329001.JPG
  • Adut Dheiu holds the wild leaves she feeds her family in Pamat, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where a persistent drought has destroyed crops, left people hungry, and pushed up incidences of malnutrition. Dheiu's five children, three of whom are pictured here, often don't go to school because without food they are too weak to study. The family has received food vouchers from a local aid organization supported by Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The vouchers allowed families like hers to buy the food they needed, while supporting local traders and markets. Yet it wasn't enough, and Dheiu goes into the bush to harvest the so-called "hunger foods" so her children have something to eat.
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  • Roy Ocop, assisted by his son Randall, 11, hauls in his fishing net off Jinamoc Island, part of the municipality of Basey in the Philippines province of Samar that was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. The ACT Alliance has been providing a variety of forms of assistance to survivors here, including a cash for work program that pays local residents to saw up downed and damaged coconut trees to provide lumber for shelter construction. Coordinated by the National Council of Churches in the Philippines, the recovery program includes shelter construction, livelihood generation, reforestation, and assistance to women's and farmers' groups. Finn Church Aid will assist with school construction, and Norwegian Church Aid will help residents build permanent comfort rooms (toilets).
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  • Men carry lumber to be used in the construction of temporary houses on Jinamoc Island, part of the municipality of Basey in the Philippines province of Samar that was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. The ACT Alliance has been providing a variety of forms of assistance to survivors here, including a cash for work program that pays local residents to saw up downed and damaged coconut trees to provide lumber for shelter construction. Coordinated by the National Council of Churches in the Philippines, the recovery program includes shelter construction, livelihood generation, reforestation, and assistance to women's and farmers' groups. Finn Church Aid will assist with school construction, and Norwegian Church Aid will help residents build permanent comfort rooms (toilets).
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  • Men carry lumber to be used in the construction of temporary houses on Jinamoc Island, part of the municipality of Basey in the Philippines province of Samar that was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. The ACT Alliance has been providing a variety of forms of assistance to survivors here, including a cash for work program that pays local residents to saw up downed and damaged coconut trees to provide lumber for shelter construction. Coordinated by the National Council of Churches in the Philippines, the recovery program includes shelter construction, livelihood generation, reforestation, and assistance to women's and farmers' groups. Finn Church Aid will assist with school construction, and Norwegian Church Aid will help residents build permanent comfort rooms (toilets).
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  • Mohammed Adnan talks with his mother, Fripat Bibi, on Skype from a government-run refugee center in Vamosszabadi, Hungary. Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides child care and other services to residents in the center, who come from Syria, Iraq and other countries and are bound for western Europe. Adnan's mother is in Pakistan, which he left to seek employment in Europe.
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  • A refugee girl from Sudan plays in a child care program in a government-run refugee center in Vamosszabadi, Hungary. Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides the child care and other services to residents in the center, who come from Syria, Iraq and other countries and are bound for western Europe.
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  • A refugee family from Deir ez-Zor, Syria, crosses from Hungary into Austria at night near the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom. <br />
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While her husband walks ahead, Mayada Ari follows behind, shepherding her four children. She was a math teacher in Syria. When the fighting caused her eyesight to deteriorate, and she was constantly afraid for her children, she and her husband decided to take their kids and set off for western Europe. "We heard that the best life is in Germany," she said. They traversed Turkey and Greece and Macedonia and Serbia until arriving in Hungary. She said the journey has been difficult and dangerous. "But it was more dangerous to remain at home," she said.<br />
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At the border crossing, the family received food and blankets from Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. <br />
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Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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  • Daniel Fekete (left) from ACT Alliance member Hungarian Interchurch Aid greets a young refugee at Beremend, along Hungary's border with Croatia. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015 on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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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  • Rohingya women wait in line for tarps and blankets provided by Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the Jamtoli Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.<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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  • Umjuma Ramadan pours cooking oil into individual containers during the distribution of food and non-food items to displaced families in Kotobi, South Sudan. The families were displaced by political violence that broke out in December 2013 and quickly fractured regions of the young nation along ethnic and tribal lines. Ramadan fled from the nation's capital, Juba. Finn Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided materials for this aid distribution. The ACT Alliance is providing a variety of services to internally displaced families throughout the country.
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  • Umjuma Ramadan pours cooking oil into individual containers during the distribution of food and non-food items to displaced families in Kotobi, South Sudan. The families were displaced by political violence that broke out in December 2013 and quickly fractured regions of the young nation along ethnic and tribal lines. Ramadan fled from the nation's capital, Juba. Finn Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided materials for this aid distribution.
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  • Three-year old Pajal Deng savors the flavor of wild leaves as he eats with his family in Pamat, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where a persistent drought has destroyed crops, left people hungry, and pushed up incidences of malnutrition. His family has received food vouchers from a local aid organization supported by Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The vouchers allowed the families to buy the food they needed, while supporting local traders and markets. Yet it wasn't enough, and Pajal's mother goes into the bush to harvest so-called "hunger foods" so her children have something to eat.<br />
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Parental Consent obtained.
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  • Adut Dheiu eats wild leaves with two of her children in Pamat, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where a persistent drought has destroyed crops, left people hungry, and pushed up incidences of malnutrition. Dheiu and her five children, who often don't go to school because without food they are too weak to study, have received food vouchers from a local aid organization supported by Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. The vouchers allowed families like hers to buy the food they needed, while supporting local traders and markets. Yet it wasn't enough, and Dheiu goes into the bush to harvest the so-called "hunger foods" so her children have something to eat.
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  • Men carry lumber to be used in the construction of temporary houses on Jinamoc Island, part of the municipality of Basey in the Philippines province of Samar that was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. The ACT Alliance has been providing a variety of forms of assistance to survivors here, including a cash for work program that pays local residents to saw up downed and damaged coconut trees to provide lumber for shelter construction. Coordinated by the National Council of Churches in the Philippines, the recovery program includes shelter construction, livelihood generation, reforestation, and assistance to women's and farmers' groups. Finn Church Aid will assist with school construction, and Norwegian Church Aid will help residents build permanent comfort rooms (toilets).
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  • Daniel Fekete from ACT Alliance member Hungarian Interchurch Aid offers water to a refugee at Beremend, along Hungary's border with Croatia. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015 on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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  • Daniel Fekete from ACT Alliance member Hungarian Interchurch Aid offers water to a young refugee at Beremend, along Hungary's border with Croatia. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015 on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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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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  • A family relaxes in their temporary "home" in a spontaneous camp for quake survivors being established in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, north of the capital Port-au-Prince. Survivors of the January 12 quake continue to move as aftershocks continue, and reports of aid deliveries in one camp will provoke families from other camps to migrate there.
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  • A man uses his teeth to rip strips of cloth to fasten together a temporary shelter for his family in a spontaneous camp for quake survivors being established in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, north of the capital Port-au-Prince. Quake survivors continue to move as aftershocks continue, and reports of aid deliveries in one camp will provoke families from other camps to migrate there.
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  • A woman in the Belair neighborhood of Port-au-Prince who survived Haiti's devastating January 12 earthquake carries safe water to her temporary shelter for the first time on January 21 after Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, installed a water system that provides homeless families in the ravaged neighborhood with piped in water points.
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  • In a transition camp, or so called "satellite camp", Ugandans displaced by two decades of war sort grain as they take one step closer to returning home. They have left the huge displacement camps where they've been sheltered for years and moved into small clusters of huts closer to their original villages, but still receive support from the government and international aid organizations. A peace process that began in 2006 has brought hope to almost two million people displaced by the war that they can soon return all the way home.
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  • A man fastens sticks together with strips of cloth as he builds a temporary home in a spontaneous camp for quake survivors being established in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, north of the capital Port-au-Prince. Quake survivors continue to move as aftershocks continue, and reports of aid deliveries in one camp will provoke families from other camps to migrate there.
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  • A boy carries pieces of earthquake rubble for his family to construct a temporary shelter in a spontaneous camp for quake survivors being established in Croix-des-Bouguets, Haiti, north of the capital Port-au-Prince. Quake survivors continue to move as aftershocks continue, and reports of aid deliveries in one camp will provoke families from other camps to migrate there.
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  • A boy in the Belair neighborhood of Port-au-Prince who survived Haiti's devastating January 12 earthquake carries safe water to his temporary shelter for the first time on January 21 after Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, installed a water system that provides homeless families in the ravaged neighborhood with piped in water points.
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  • People in the Belair neighborhood of Port-au-Prince who survived Haiti's devastating January 12 earthquake enjoyed safe water for the first time on January 21 after Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, installed a water system that provides homeless families with piped in water points.
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  • Women walk through a camp for more than 12,000 internally displaced persons located on the grounds of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced in June, 2016, when armed conflict engulfed Wau.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau.
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  • Women walk at the edge of a camp in rebel-held territory in the eastern Congo. Families displaced by fighting between rebel Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese military took refuge in this camp they established in the shadow of a United Nations base in the village of Kiwanja. According to aid workers and human rights groups, rebel soldiers executed some 150 people here in a 24-hour period in early November. The killings took place half a mile from the UN base, yet the 120 UN peacekeepers, part of the largest UN peacekeeping contingent in the world, did not take any action to stop the violence. ..
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  • 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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  • Jonas Halvorsen, an official with Norwegian Church Aid, speaks to a community meeting on peacebuilding in Nakubuse, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <br />
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The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, which includes this community, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities.
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  • Displaced women watch through a fence as food is distributed on April 7, 2017, to hungry people in Rumading, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where more than 5,000 people, chased from their homes by drought and conflict, remain in limbo. In early 2017, they set out walking for Sudan, seeking better conditions, but were stopped from crossing the border. They remain camped out under the trees at Rumading, eating wild leaves as the rainy season approaches. <br />
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In early April, Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, began drilling a well in the informal settlement and distributed sorghum, beans and cooking oil to the most vulnerable families. The ACT Alliance is carrying out the emergency assistance in coordination with government officials and the local Catholic parish.
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  • People walk through a camp for more than 12,000 internally displaced persons located on the grounds of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced in June, 2016, when armed conflict engulfed Wau.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau.
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  • Five-year old Rimar Sebit sells peanuts in a camp for more than 12,000 internally displaced persons located on the grounds of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced in June, 2016, when armed conflict engulfed Wau.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau.
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  • Morning in a camp for over 5,000 internally displaced persons in an Episcopal Church compound in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced by violence early in 2017, after a larger number took refuge in other church sites when widespread armed conflict engulfed Wau in June 2016.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau.
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  • Araj Madut shows some wild leaves she has harvested to feed her family in a camp for over 5,000 internally displaced persons in an Episcopal Church compound in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced by violence early in 2017, after a larger number took refuge in other church sites when widespread armed conflict engulfed Wau in June 2016.<br />
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The leaves are a common "hunger food," eaten by people when no other food is available. Conflict, climate change and corruption have contributed to widespread hunger in South Sudan, and many living in this camp will be unable to leave to cultivate their fields this year.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau.
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  • Jonalyn Caliñao digs a ditch for a water pipe as part of a cash for work program in the village of Cambayan in the Philippines province of Samar. The region was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. Known locally as Yolanda, the storm left much of the community's infrastructure a shambles. Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping the community rehabilitate its potable water system as well as build new toilets.
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  • A man digs a ditch for a water pipe as part of a cash for work program in the village of Cambayan in the Philippines province of Samar. The region was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. Known locally as Yolanda, the storm left much of the community's infrastructure a shambles. Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping the community rehabilitate its potable water system as well as build new toilets.
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  • Clifford Blaise (right) is a psycho-social monitor for the Social Mission of the Haitian Church (MISSEH), which has helped 1200 people move out of the crowded Prophecie camp for survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake. Among them is Yvette Chery (left) and her three boys, seen here living in their one-room apartment in Port-au-Prince which they abandoned after the quake. MISSEH has accompanied Chery and other families returning to their damaged former homes, helping them deal with fear that the earth will start trembling once again. "We helped them understand that they were better off at home than dealing with the constant problems in the camps,"  he says. "I am still afraid, though not every day. I'm trying to live with it,"  she says. Blaise leads the program' s hygiene emphasis, which has taken on new urgency with last year's cholera outbreak. "Our main message was ' Wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands. After using the toilet, wash your hands. After shaking hands, wash your hands. After cleaning the baby, wash your hands. It's pretty simple. And we have had very few cases of cholera," he says.  MISSEH's work is supported by Norwegian Church Aid and Church World Service, members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A vehicle from a United Nations peacekeeping contingent drives through a camp in rebel-held territory in the eastern Congo. Families displaced by fighting between rebel Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese military took refuge in this camp they established in the shadow of the UN base in the village of Kiwanja. According to aid workers and human rights groups, rebel soldiers executed some 150 people here in a 24-hour period in early November. The killings took place half a mile from the UN base, yet the 120 UN peacekeepers, part of the largest UN peacekeeping contingent in the world, did not take any action to stop the violence. ..
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  • Louise Justine cooks for her family in a camp in rebel-held territory in the eastern Congo. Families displaced by fighting between rebel Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese military took refuge in this camp they established in the shadow of a United Nations base in the village of Kiwanja. According to aid workers and human rights groups, rebel soldiers executed some 150 people here in a 24-hour period in early November. The killings took place half a mile from the UN base, yet the 120 UN peacekeepers, part of the largest UN peacekeeping contingent in the world, did not take any action to stop the violence. ..
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  • 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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  • Sornolota Kisku harvests plants to feed her pigs in Suihari in northern Bangladesh. Devastating floods in August 2017 affected thousands of families across the region, and Christian Aid and the Christian Commission for Development Bangladesh, both members of the ACT Alliance, worked together to provide emergency food packages to vulnerable families, including Kisku.
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  • Atouc Dut sifts sorghum she had ground in Malek Miir, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where a persistent drought has destroyed crops and left people hungry. A local partner of Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, drilled a well for the community and has provided food vouchers to hungry families, including Dut and her husband and four children. With food vouchers instead of bulk food, beneficiaries were able to buy the exact food they wanted, while at the same time supporting local traders and markets.
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  • A family sleeps outside their makeshift shelter in a camp for more than 12,000 internally displaced persons located on the grounds of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced in June, 2016, when armed conflict engulfed Wau.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau.
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  • Children in a camp for more than 12,000 internally displaced persons located on the grounds of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Mary in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced in June, 2016, when armed conflict engulfed Wau.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau.
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  • A mother and two of her children wake up after sleeping in the open in a camp for over 5,000 internally displaced persons in an Episcopal Church compound in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced by violence early in 2017, after a larger number took refuge in other church sites when widespread armed conflict engulfed Wau in June 2016.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau.
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  • People waking up the morning after sleeping in the open in a camp for over 5,000 internally displaced persons in an Episcopal Church compound in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced by violence early in 2017, after a larger number took refuge in other church sites when widespread armed conflict engulfed Wau in June 2016.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau.
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  • Three-year old Kaban Kon relishes the asida he eats from the stick his mother used to stir the pot in a camp for over 5,000 internally displaced persons in an Episcopal Church compound in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced by violence early in 2017, after a larger number took refuge in other church sites when widespread armed conflict engulfed Wau in June 2016.<br />
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Made from sorghum or other grains, asida is a kind of thick porridge or mush, called ugali or other names in other parts of Africa.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • Antonio Sacorate constructs a septic tank in Bacubac, a seaside neighborhood in Basey in the Philippines province of Samar that was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is sponsoring the construction of bathrooms with septic systems for houses in the village where existing systems were destroyed by the typhoon's unusually high storm surge.
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  • Jaime Papiyona digs a ditch for a water pipe as part of a cash for work program in the village of Cambayan in the Philippines province of Samar. The region was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. Known locally as Yolanda, the storm left much of the community's infrastructure a shambles. Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping the community rehabilitate its potable water system as well as build new toilets.
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  • This woman survived the devastating January 2010 Haitian earthquake and today lives with her young daughter in the Michicu camp for elderly and people living with disabilities, located in Cite Soleil, a poor section of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Some 320 people live in the camp, which receives support from Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • People in the Belair neighborhood of Port-au-Prince who survived Haiti's devastating January 12 earthquake enjoyed safe water for the first time on January 21 after Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance,  installed a water system that provides homeless families with piped in water points.
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  • An Indian soldier, part of a United Nations peacekeeping contingent, drives through a camp in rebel-held territory in the eastern Congo. Families displaced by fighting between rebel Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese military took refuge in this camp they established in the shadow of the UN base in the village of Kiwanja. According to aid workers and human rights groups, rebel soldiers executed some 150 people here in a 24-hour period in early November. The killings took place half a mile from the UN base, yet the 120 UN peacekeepers, part of the largest UN peacekeeping contingent in the world, did not take any action to stop the violence. ...
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  • A woman and her daughter prepare food in their hut in a camp in rebel-held territory in the eastern Congo. Families displaced by fighting between rebel Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese military took refuge in this camp they established in the shadow of a United Nations base in the village of Kiwanja. According to aid workers and human rights groups, rebel soldiers executed some 150 people here in a 24-hour period in early November. The killings took place half a mile from the UN base, yet the 120 UN peacekeepers, part of the largest UN peacekeeping contingent in the world, did not take any action to stop the violence. ...
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  • 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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  • 24 May 2022, Rostov-on-Don, Russia: Church volunteers prepare aid packages in a storage room at the main humanitarian aid centre of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) diocese of Rostov-on-Don in southwest Russia, located by the Protection of the Theotokos Church in Rostov-on-Don. The aid centre serves as a collection and distribution point for aid to refugees arriving from neighbouring Ukraine, close to a million of whom have fled to Russia according to mid-May figures from the United Nations (UNHCR) following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.While some refugees receive temporary accommodation and meals through the Russian state, the church’s main aid centre in Rostov-on-Don offers bi-weekly packages of food and other essentials for refugee families housed on their own in and around Rostov-on-Don, as well as supplying pampers, clothing and other items upon request. The centre serves some 130 refugee families daily. [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
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  • 24 May 2022, Rostov-on-Don, Russia: Church volunteers prepare aid packages in a storage room at the main humanitarian aid centre of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) diocese of Rostov-on-Don in southwest Russia, located by the Protection of the Theotokos Church in Rostov-on-Don. The aid centre serves as a collection and distribution point for aid to refugees arriving from neighbouring Ukraine, close to a million of whom have fled to Russia according to mid-May figures from the United Nations (UNHCR) following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. While some refugees receive temporary accommodation and meals through the Russian state, the church’s main aid centre in Rostov-on-Don offers bi-weekly packages of food and other essentials for refugee families housed on their own in and around Rostov-on-Don, as well as supplying pampers, clothing and other items upon request. The centre serves some 130 refugee families daily. [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
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  • 24 May 2022, Rostov-on-Don, Russia: Church volunteers prepare aid packages in a storage room at the main humanitarian aid centre of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) diocese of Rostov-on-Don in southwest Russia, located by the Protection of the Theotokos Church in Rostov-on-Don. The aid centre serves as a collection and distribution point for aid to refugees arriving from neighbouring Ukraine, close to a million of whom have fled to Russia according to mid-May figures from the United Nations (UNHCR) following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. While some refugees receive temporary accommodation and meals through the Russian state, the church’s main aid centre in Rostov-on-Don offers bi-weekly packages of food and other essentials for refugee families housed on their own in and around Rostov-on-Don, as well as supplying pampers, clothing and other items upon request. The centre serves some 130 refugee families daily. [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
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