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  • Damaged buildings in the old city of Mosul, Iraq. This portion of the city was heavily damaged in 2016 and 2017 when Iraqi forces, supported by U.S. air strikes, combated Islamic State fighters who held residents of the old city as human shields.
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  • A man carries plastic pipes past damaged buildings in the old city of Mosul, Iraq. This portion of the city was heavily damaged in 2016 and 2017 when Iraqi forces, supported by U.S. air strikes, combated Islamic State fighters who held residents of the old city as human shields.
    iraq-2018-jeffrey-mosul-726.jpg
  • Months of fighting between rebels and troops loyal to strongman Moammar Gadhafi have left much of the Libyan city of Misrata destroyed. Ruined buildings also contain unexploded ordnance, and a team from the ACT Alliance is working with local residents to remove dangerous items before civilians move back in and attempt to rehabilitate the structures.
    libya-2011-jeffrey-war-107.jpg
  • Mirjava Memetovic in front of her makeshift home in Palilula, a neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. She and her two daughters are Roma, also known as Gypsies, and were expelled in 2012 from the center of Belgrade to make way for new apartments and office buildings. Because Memetovic had no identity documents, she was sent with her daughters to her native village in the south of the country, but soon returned as she had no way to survive there. She and her daughters beg for money at a fast food restaurant near their squatter settlement..
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  • 5 January 2018, Azzaden Valley, Morocco: Villagers in the Azaden valley in Morocco are building a concrete water conduit, to lead part of the water from the valley’s central river down to the village of Azrafsan. The construction is undertaken with support from the Moroccan government, in an effort to support life in the countryside and make sure more people can stay in their home villages, rather than to move to the country’s urban areas.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180105_AH1_497...jpg
  • 5 January 2018, Azzaden Valley, Morocco: Villagers in the Azaden valley in Morocco are building a concrete water conduit, to lead part of the water from the valley’s central river down to the village of Azrafsan. The construction is undertaken with support from the Moroccan government, in an effort to support life in the countryside and make sure more people can stay in their home villages, rather than to move to the country’s urban areas.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180105_AH1_496...jpg
  • A mosque and a church dominate the skyline of Bethlehem.
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  • Cranberry farm near Bandon, Oregon.
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  • 16 February 2020, Irbid, Jordan: View of the densely populated Al Shaheed Azmi Almofti Camp in Irbid, originally grown out of a refugee camp for Palestinian refugees, it is now also home to many Syrian refugees to Jordan.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20200216_AH2_337...jpg
  • 16 February 2020, Irbid, Jordan: View of the densely populated Al Shaheed Azmi Almofti Camp in Irbid, originally grown out of a refugee camp for Palestinian refugees, it is now also home to many Syrian refugees to Jordan.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20200216_AH2_335...jpg
  • A listening station of the United States National Security Agency, north of Yakima, Washington.
    usa-2013-jeffrey-nsa-base.jpg
  • A runner exercises in Seattle, Washington.
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  • Seattle, Washington.
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  • Seattle, Washington.
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  • Seattle, Washington, reflected at night in Puget Sound.
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  • Seattle, Washington.
    usa-2005-jeffrey-seattle-3.jpg
  • 5 January 2018, Tizi Oussem, Morocco: Hussein runs a small guesthouse in the village of Tizi Oussem, at an altitude of 1,850 meters in the Azaden Valley in Morocco. While Hussein’s guesthouse is only five years old, hospitality in the village runs back a long time, and visitors have been welcomed to stay at guesthouses here for at least 80-90 years.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180105_AH1_507...jpg
  • 5 January 2018, Azzaden Valley, Morocco: The village of Azrafsan.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180105_AH1_495...jpg
  • 10 January 2018, Merzouga, Morocco.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180110_AH1_546...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_475...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_473...jpg
  • 7 January 2018, Imlil, Morocco: Although heavy snowfall means heavy work for the villagers in cleaning up rooftops and roads, it is also a welcome contribution, as the snow helps attract tourists to the area, as well as secure water supplies to local agriculture.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180107_AH1_516...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco: Located on a high ridge in the Atlas Mountains, the name of the Berber village Isgen means "sheepsheds". When a new place is populated in this part of the Moroccan countryside, it is not uncommon for sheepsheds to be the first permanent constructions on the site, making sure livestock can continue to support people's livelihoods.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_467...jpg
  • 4 October 2018, Jerusalem: Church in Jerusalem Old City.
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  • 4 October 2018, Jerusalem: Yeusefiya cemetery.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20181004_AH2_977...jpg
  • View of Jerusalem.
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  • Isabella Thoburn College, a women's school in Lucknow, India.
    india-2018-jeffrey-itc-026.jpg
  • Students in front of Isabella Thoburn College, a women's college in Lucknow, India.
    india-2018-jeffrey-itc-020.jpg
  • The Shamshatoo refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan. Some 70,000 or more Afghan refugees lived here in 2001.
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  • Construction of new facilities at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the College trains teachers from throughout the nation.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-sttc-68.jpg
  • A woman accompanies her sheep through Tuixcajchis, a small Mam-speaking Maya village in Comitancillo, Guatemala.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-mam-276.jpg
  • A boy stands in front of a shuttered rice mill in Guayaman, Honduras. Once free trade brought imported rice to Honduras in the 1990s, it became more difficult for farmers to earn a living growing rice.
    honduras-2007-jeffrey-38.jpg
  • A boy walks past a shuttered rice mill in Guayaman, Honduras. Once free trade brought imported rice to Honduras in the 1990s, it became more difficult for farmers to earn a living growing rice.
    honduras-2007-jeffrey-35.jpg
  • Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong practice for a beauty contest on Chater Road on a Sunday, their only day off. The contests, echoing similar events back home, are popular among the Filipina overseas workers in Hong Kong. <br />
<br />
There are about 370,000 foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong–about 5 percent of the population–and just under half are from the Philippines. More than 98 percent of the workers are women, most of whom leave their families behind so that they can earn money to help their families survive.
    hong-kong-2018-jeffrey-A237.jpg
  • The moon over the Egyptian city of Alexandria.
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  • A street devastated by fighting in the center of Misrata, the besieged Libyan city where civilians and rebel forces are surrounded on three sides by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
    libya-2011-jeffrey-war-085.jpg
  • 8 January 2018, Kalatemguna, Morocco: Sunset outside the town of Kalatemguna.
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  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers. In the valley below is the village of Marigha.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH2_459...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: View over the village of Marigha, from the village of Tinzert. The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH2_459...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_483...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco: The Berber village of Tagadirt Naita3li is home to some 500-550 people, most of them farmers. Although the trend is for young people to move to urban areas in pursuit of a job, increases in tourism has helped support livelihoods in the area in recent years.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_459...jpg
  • 7 January 2018, Imlil, Morocco: Although heavy snowfall means heavy work for the villagers in cleaning up rooftops and roads, it is also a welcome contribution, as the snow helps attract tourists to the area, as well as secure water supplies to local agriculture.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180107_AH1_511...jpg
  • Zoodochos Pigi is an Orthodox women's monastery on the Greek island of Samos. In 2015 it became a common destination for refugees from Syria and elsewhere who crossed the Aegean Sea in small boats from Turkey. The nuns living here helped the visitors with water and bread until authorities could arrive to transport them to a reception center. Yet the massive influx taxed the monastery's resources. International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance, is going to provide the monastery with a water tank so the nuns can give water to the refugees without running out of water for themselves.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_samos11.JPG
  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_475...jpg
  • 4 June 2019, Meiganga, Cameroon: Supported by the Lutheran World Federation, the Ngam refugee camp, located in the Meiganga municipality, Adamaoua region of Cameroon, hosts 7,228 refugees from the Central African Republic, across 2,088 households.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190604_AH1_456...jpg
  • 3 June 2019, Djohong, Cameroon: The Borgop refugee camp is located in the municipality of Djohong, in the Mbere subdivision of the Adamaoua regional state in Cameroon. Supported by the Lutheran World Federation since 2015, the camp currently holds 12,300 refugees from the Central African Republic.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190603_AH1_364...jpg
  • 2 March 2020, Hebron: View of the Old City, Hebron, West Bank.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20200302_AH2_810...jpg
  • 16 February 2020, Irbid, Jordan: View of the densely populated Al Shaheed Azmi Almofti Camp in Irbid, originally grown out of a refugee camp for Palestinian refugees, it is now also home to many Syrian refugees to Jordan.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20200216_AH2_338...jpg
  • 16 February 2020, Irbid, Jordan: View of the densely populated Al Shaheed Azmi Almofti Camp in Irbid, originally grown out of a refugee camp for Palestinian refugees, it is now also home to many Syrian refugees to Jordan.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20200216_AH2_336...jpg
  • 16 February 2020, Irbid, Jordan: View of the densely populated Al Shaheed Azmi Almofti Camp in Irbid, originally grown out of a refugee camp for Palestinian refugees, it is now also home to many Syrian refugees to Jordan.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20200216_AH1_160...jpg
  • 19 February 2020, Zarqa, Jordan: Evening view over Zarqa.
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  • A member of United Methodist Women holds a sign during a May 17, 2018, public witness at the state capitol in Columbus, Ohio, where she and hundreds of other United Methodist Women urged the state legislature to pass a bill requiring a fair living wage. The demonstration came on the eve of the 2018 Assembly of United Methodist Women.
    usa-2018-jeffrey-umw-assembly-106.jpg
  • A member of United Methodist Women holds a sign during a May 17, 2018, public witness at the state capitol in Columbus, Ohio, where she and hundreds of other United Methodist Women urged the state legislature to pass a bill requiring a fair living wage. The demonstration came on the eve of the 2018 Assembly of United Methodist Women.
    usa-2018-jeffrey-umw-assembly-105.jpg
  • A man in a wheelchair navigates along the edge of Puget Sound in Seattle, Washington.
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  • Seattle, Washington.
    usa-2005-jeffrey-seattle-4.jpg
  • 5 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180105_AH2_460...jpg
  • 5 January 2018, Azzaden Valley, Morocco: The village of Azrafsan.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180105_AH1_493...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_474...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_472...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_472...jpg
  • 7 January 2018, Imlil, Morocco: Although heavy snowfall means heavy work for the villagers in cleaning up rooftops and roads, it is also a welcome contribution, as the snow helps attract tourists to the area, as well as secure water supplies to local agriculture.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180107_AH1_516...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco: Located on a high ridge in the Atlas Mountains, the name of the Berber village Isgen means "sheepsheds". When a new place is populated in this part of the Moroccan countryside, it is not uncommon for sheepsheds to be the first permanent constructions on the site, making sure livestock can continue to support people's livelihoods.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_466...jpg
  • 8 January 2018, Kalatemguna, Morocco: Sunset outside the town of Kalatemguna.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180108_AH1_521...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco: Berbers are believed to have inhabited the Maghreb region in North Africa for more than 12,000 years. Here, the small village of Imi Oughlad.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_456...jpg
  • 4 October 2018, Jerusalem: Yeusefiya cemetery.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20181004_AH2_977...jpg
  • 4 October 2018, Jerusalem.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20181004_AH2_977...jpg
  • Students in front of Isabella Thoburn College, a women's college in Lucknow, India.
    india-2018-jeffrey-itc-019.jpg
  • Students in front of Isabella Thoburn College, a women's college in Lucknow, India.
    india-2018-jeffrey-itc-018.jpg
  • Construction of new facilities at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the College trains teachers from throughout the nation.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-sttc-66.jpg
  • Jerry Cabranilla fishes for crabs at sunrise near Jinamoc Island, which was hard hit in 2013 by Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Typhoon Yolanda. The ACT Alliance has been present since the first moments of the emergency, accompanying the people of Jinamoc to rebuild their lives and livelihoods. In the background is the nearby town of Basey.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-274.jpg
  • A shuttered rice mill in Guayaman, Honduras. Once free trade brought imported rice to Honduras in the 1990s, it became more difficult for farmers to earn a living growing rice.
    honduras-2007-jeffrey-37.jpg
  • A boy stands in front of machinery in a shuttered rice mill in Guayaman, Honduras. Once free trade brought imported rice to Honduras in the 1990s, it became more difficult for farmers to earn a living growing rice.
    honduras-2007-jeffrey-36.jpg
  • Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong participate in a beauty contest on Chater Road on a Sunday, their only day off. The contests, echoing similar events back home, are popular among the Filipina overseas workers in Hong Kong. <br />
<br />
There are about 370,000 foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong–about 5 percent of the population–and just under half are from the Philippines. More than 98 percent of the workers are women, most of whom leave their families behind so that they can earn money to help their families survive.
    hong-kong-2018-jeffrey-A214.jpg
  • Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong participate in a beauty contest on Chater Road on a Sunday, their only day off. The contests, echoing similar events back home, are popular among the Filipina overseas workers in Hong Kong. <br />
<br />
There are about 370,000 foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong–about 5 percent of the population–and just under half are from the Philippines. More than 98 percent of the workers are women, most of whom leave their families behind so that they can earn money to help their families survive.
    hong-kong-2018-jeffrey-A079.jpg
  • Maya Devi Adhikari, 80, dries plants in the sun in Makaising, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal that was hard hit by a devastating 2015 earthquake.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_309196.jpg
  • Sunset over a Buddhist pagoda in the Prek Pnov neighborhood of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. One of the pagodas is under construction.
    cambodia-2012-jeffrey-urban-1.jpg
  • 5 January 2018, Tizi Oussem, Morocco: Hussein runs a small guesthouse in the village of Tizi Oussem, at an altitude of 1,850 meters in the Azaden Valley in Morocco. While Hussein’s guesthouse is only five years old, hospitality in the village runs back a long time, and visitors have been welcomed to stay at guesthouses here for at least 80-90 years.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180105_AH2_465...jpg
  • 4 January 2018, Atlas Mountains, Morocco: The Berber village of Tagadirt Naita3li is home to some 500-550 people, most of them farmers. Although the trend is for young people to move to urban areas in pursuit of a job, increases in tourism has helped support livelihoods in the area in recent years.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180104_AH1_460...jpg
  • 7 January 2018, Imlil, Morocco: Although heavy snowfall means heavy work for the villagers in cleaning up rooftops and roads, it is also a welcome contribution, as the snow helps attract tourists to the area, as well as secure water supplies to local agriculture.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180107_AH1_513...jpg
  • 4 September 2017, Kampala, Uganda.
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  • Zoodochos Pigi is an Orthodox women's monastery on the Greek island of Samos. In 2015 it became a common destination for refugees from Syria and elsewhere who crossed the Aegean Sea in small boats from Turkey. The nuns living here helped the visitors with water and bread until authorities could arrive to transport them to a reception center. Yet the massive influx taxed the monastery's resources. International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance, is going to provide the monastery with a water tank so the nuns can give water to the refugees without running out of water for themselves.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_samos20.JPG
  • A nun walks inside Zoodochos Pigi, an Orthodox women's monastery on the Greek island of Samos. In 2015 it became a common destination for refugees from Syria and elsewhere who crossed the Aegean Sea in small boats from Turkey. The nuns living here helped the visitors with water and bread until authorities could arrive to transport them to a reception center. Yet the massive influx taxed the monastery's resources. International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance, is going to provide the monastery with a water tank so the nuns can give water to the refugees without running out of water for themselves.
    greece_2015_jeffrey_samos26.JPG
  • 5 January 2018, Azzaden Valley, Morocco: The village of Azrafsan.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180105_AH1_493...jpg
  • 5 January 2018, Tinzert, Morocco: The village of Tinzert is at least 600 years old. Built on the mountainside at 1600 meters, the village was originally used only in the summers, when warm weather made life too hot in the valley below. Inhabited mostly by farmers, the village has grown to become the full-year residence of a couple of hundred Moroccan Berbers.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180105_AH1_485...jpg
  • 8 January 2018, Kalatemguna, Morocco: Sunset outside the town of Kalatemguna.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180108_AH1_523...jpg
  • 3 June 2019, Djohong, Cameroon: A woman does her dishes in the Borgop refugee camp. The Borgop refugee camp is located in the municipality of Djohong, in the Mbere subdivision of the Adamaoua regional state in Cameroon. Supported by the Lutheran World Federation since 2015, the camp currently holds 12,300 refugees from the Central African Republic.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190603_AH1_365...jpg
  • 3 June 2019, Djohong, Cameroon: The Borgop refugee camp is located in the municipality of Djohong, in the Mbere subdivision of the Adamaoua regional state in Cameroon. Supported by the Lutheran World Federation since 2015, the camp currently holds 12,300 refugees from the Central African Republic.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190603_AH1_350...jpg
  • 3 June 2019, Djohong, Cameroon: The Borgop refugee camp is located in the municipality of Djohong, in the Mbere subdivision of the Adamaoua regional state in Cameroon. Supported by the Lutheran World Federation since 2015, the camp currently holds 12,300 refugees from the Central African Republic.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190603_AH1_337...jpg
  • 2 March 2017, Morija, Maseru district, Lesotho: This building at Scott Hospital used to be a chapel, where staff would meet every morning, except fridays, when they'd meet outside in the garden. All staff gathered to pray for the patients. Devotion together have been practiced for many years, since the early 1980s. Scott Hospital is run by the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa and is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Lesotho. It is located in the village of Morija, and operates and supervises clinics in the Maseru District of Lesotho. Scott started out as a dispensary in 1864, and today offers comprehensive healthcare Mondays-Fridays, as well as pharmaceutical services around the clock. Lesotho suffers from high numbers in Tuberculosis in disesase and mortality, and so the hospital screens all patients for TB. The hospital observes among many patients what they describe as ”low health-seeking behaviour”, services are increasing and demand rising, but space and human resources are a challenge, as is funding. I key concern is one of infrastructure, where the original design of the hospital matches poorly with current needs, as departments and buildings are scattered, posing a challenge for security. Another challenge is to adapt donation structures, so as to be able to receive payments electronically. The hospital has one ambulance, which they describe as not enough, but what they have. Another challenge is that lack of funds affects maintenance of buildings and infrastructure, as the immediate care of patients take priority. PLEASE NOTE: This photo is not to be used in social media.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170302_AHP_570...jpg
  • 2 March 2017, Morija, Maseru district, Lesotho: Scott Hospital is run by the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa and is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Lesotho. It is located in the village of Morija, and operates and supervises clinics in the Maseru District of Lesotho. Scott started out as a dispensary in 1864, and today offers comprehensive healthcare Mondays-Fridays, as well as pharmaceutical services around the clock. Lesotho suffers from high numbers in Tuberculosis in disesase and mortality, and so the hospital screens all patients for TB. The hospital observes among many patients what they describe as ”low health-seeking behaviour”, services are increasing and demand rising, but space and human resources are a challenge, as is funding. I key concern is one of infrastructure, where the original design of the hospital matches poorly with current needs, as departments and buildings are scattered, posing a challenge for security. Another challenge is to adapt donation structures, so as to be able to receive payments electronically. The hospital has one ambulance, which they describe as not enough, but what they have. Another challenge is that lack of funds affects maintenance of buildings and infrastructure, as the immediate care of patients take priority. PLEASE NOTE: This photo is not to be used in social media.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170302_AHP_188...jpg
  • Buildings in Jerusalem.
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  • The flag of South Sudan flies over the ruins of a government office in Abyei, a town at the center of the contested Abyei region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan. Buildings here were looted and burned in 2011 when soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan swept through the area, chasing out more than 100,000 Dinka Ngok residents. A few thousand families have returned since northern combatants withdrew in 2012, yet their life is precarious. Although Ethiopian peacekeepers today patrol the region, renewed attacks by northern-backed Misseriya militias in 2013 have many worried. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum.
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  • Prelok Pierre Louis, a community health worker for Oganizasyon Sante Popilè (OSAPO), speaks amid earthquake-damaged buildings to residents of Montrouis, Haiti, about steps they can take to prevent the spread of cholera, which appeared on the quake-ravaged Caribbean island nation in late 2010. OSAPO's work is supported by Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe and the Lutheran World Federation, both members of the ACT Alliance. Health workers from OSAPO go out to surrounding neighborhoods and communities in teams of three, providing education, distributing anti-bacterial soap and oral rehydration salts, and referring ill patients to the OSAPO clinic...
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  • A newly arrived family builds a shelter in the Hassa Hissa Camp for internally displaced persons, outside Zalingei in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region.
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  • Domingo Ichich (in blue) and Mario Chub (in red). "The weather here changes quickly" says Mario, "we need a dryer, we've wanted one for ages, a guardiola dryer that doesn't use much firewood. We haven't got enough for the door and scales yet but we've saved our fairtrade premium for 6 years. Now we're building the dryer building and the dryer is being built in Cobán. We began organising to sell our coffee together, with APODIP, six years ago. There are 22 people in our group and now were building this another nine are joining. We bought this land as a group. Even people who aren't in the group have come here to help us build this shed for the dryer."  APODIP is a certified fairtrade producer and is made up of mainly indigenous Pokomchi and Qeqchi Mayan members in the Alta Verapaz area of Guatemala.
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  • Domingo Ichich (in blue) and Mario Chub (in red). "The weather here changes quickly" says Mario, "we need a dryer, we've wanted one for ages, a guardiola dryer that doesn't use much firewood. We haven't got enough for the door and scales yet but we've saved our fairtrade premium for 6 years. Now we're building the dryer building and the dryer is being built in Cobán. We began organising to sell our coffee together, with APODIP, six years ago. There are 22 people in our group and now were building this another nine are joining. We bought this land as a group. Even people who aren't in the group have come here to help us build this shed for the dryer."  APODIP is a certified fairtrade producer and is made up of mainly indigenous Pokomchi and Qeqchi Mayan members in the Alta Verapaz area of Guatemala.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_APODIP_20120310_199.jpg
  • A man builds a new boat in Tanauan, a city in the Philippines province of Leyte that was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. Hundreds of families here have received water filters from the United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance. UMCOR is also working with city officials to help residents here build permanent houses to replace those they lost in the storm.
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  • A man builds a new boat in Tanauan, a city in the Philippines province of Leyte that was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. Hundreds of families here have received water filters from the United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance. UMCOR is also working with city officials to help residents here build permanent houses to replace those they lost in the storm.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-224.jpg
  • A man builds a new boat in Tanauan, a city in the Philippines province of Leyte that was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. Hundreds of families here have received water filters from the United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance. UMCOR is also working with city officials to help residents here build permanent houses to replace those they lost in the storm.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-223.jpg
  • Marnel Leporada (left) and Randy Espina work to build a temporary house in Tanauan, a city in the Philippines province of Leyte that was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. Their families have received emergency assistance from the United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance. UMCOR is working with city officials to help residents here build permanent houses to replace those they lost in the storm.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-216.jpg
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