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  • A Dalit woman works carrying construction materials at a building site in Bangalore. Members of this low caste, the so-called "untouchables," are the ones who do the dirty work in Indian society.
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  • A Dalit woman works carrying construction materials at a building site in Bangalore. Members of this low caste, the so-called "untouchables," are the ones who do the dirty work in Indian society.
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  • A Dalit woman works carrying construction materials at a building site in Bangalore. Members of this low caste, the so-called "untouchables," are the ones who do the dirty work in Indian society.
    india-2004-jeffrey-women-10.jpg
  • A Dalit woman works carrying construction materials at a building site in Bangalore. Members of this low caste, the so-called "untouchables," are the ones who do the dirty work in Indian society.
    india-2004-jeffrey-misc-H059.jpg
  • A Dalit woman works carrying construction materials at a building site in Bangalore. In India's maze of caste and class, it's often these "untouchable" women who do the dirtiest jobs.
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  • A builder carries an adobe during the construction of a house with reinforcing canes and buttresses that increase the earthquake-resistance of the building
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Construction site at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, for what is to become a hostel for cancer patients to the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the ELCT. Having to undergo medical treatment for a long time, many cancer patients of the KCMC are known to struggle with accommodation during the period of their treatment. Particularly for children, even if the treatment itself is offered for free, offering accommodation is necessary to enable them to complete their treatment. To remedy this, the KCMC is undertaking the construction of a hostel for cancer patients, planned to offer a total of 60 rooms. An institution of the ELCT closely linked with the Lutheran World Federation from the outset in the early 1960s, the hospital serves today some 800-1,000 outpatients on a daily basis. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Lutheran World Federation General Secretary Rev. Anne Burghardt and Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania Presiding Bishop Dr Fredrick Shoo together with hospital staff and other colleagues gather around a  foundational stone at a construction site for what is to become a hostel for cancer patients to the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the ELCT. Having to undergo medical treatment for a long time, many cancer patients of the KCMC are known to struggle with accommodation during the period of their treatment. Particularly for children, even if the treatment itself is offered for free, offering accommodation is necessary to enable them to complete their treatment. To remedy this, the KCMC is undertaking the construction of a hostel for cancer patients, planned to offer a total of 60 rooms. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: Construction site at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, for what is to become a hostel for cancer patients to the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the ELCT. Having to undergo medical treatment for a long time, many cancer patients of the KCMC are known to struggle with accommodation during the period of their treatment. Particularly for children, even if the treatment itself is offered for free, offering accommodation is necessary to enable them to complete their treatment. To remedy this, the KCMC is undertaking the construction of a hostel for cancer patients, planned to offer a total of 60 rooms. An institution of the ELCT closely linked with the Lutheran World Federation from the outset in the early 1960s, the hospital serves today some 800-1,000 outpatients on a daily basis. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
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  • The sun behind him, a man hammers nails at a school under construction in Tabarre Issa, Haiti. The construction is supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), as part of its assistance to Haitians affected by the 2010 earthquake.
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  • A man adjusts concrete forms at a school under construction in Tabarre Issa, Haiti. The construction is supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), as part of its assistance to Haitians affected by the 2010 earthquake.
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  • A worker shovels gravel and dirt at a school under construction in the Puits Blain neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The construction is supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) and Volunteers in Mission, as part of their work in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake..
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  • A man pours cement at a school under construction in Tabarre Issa, Haiti. The construction is supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), as part of its assistance to Haitians affected by the 2010 earthquake.
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  • A man hammers nails at a school under construction in Tabarre Issa, Haiti. The construction is supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), as part of its assistance to Haitians affected by the 2010 earthquake.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-H327.jpg
  • A man mixes cement with a shovel at a school under construction in Tabarre Issa, Haiti. The construction is supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), as part of its assistance to Haitians affected by the 2010 earthquake.
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  • A man mixes cement with a shovel at a school under construction in Tabarre Issa, Haiti. The construction is supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), as part of its assistance to Haitians affected by the 2010 earthquake.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-H322.jpg
  • Cindy Johnson (left), a United Methodist deaconess, talks with Antonia Redonda, who lives along the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas. The U.S. government is building a border wall in Redonda's backyard, and both women--as well as many border area residents--are organizing to stop the barrier's construction. They believe the wall will do little to stop illegal immigration and is motivated to generate profits for the companies awarded lucrative construction contracts.
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  • Emma Saint Louis Telusma helps construct a school in the Puits Blain neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The construction is supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) and Volunteers in Mission, as part of their work in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake..
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  • Emma Saint Louis Telusma helps construct a school in the Puits Blain neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The construction is supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) and Volunteers in Mission, as part of their work in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake..
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  • Nixon Manigat (left) and Emma Saint Louis Telusma help construct a school in the Puits Blain neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The construction is supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) and Volunteers in Mission, as part of their work in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake..
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  • Cindy Johnson (left), a United Methodist deaconess, talks with Luis Govea and Antonia Redonda, a couple that lives along the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas. The U.S. government is building a border wall in Redonda's backyard, and both women--as well as many border area residents--are organizing to stop the barrier's construction. They believe the wall will do little to stop illegal immigration and is motivated to generate profits for the companies awarded lucrative construction contracts.
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  • Cindy Johnson (right), a United Methodist deaconess, talks with Antonia Redonda, who lives along the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas. The U.S. government is building a border wall in Redonda's backyard, and both women--as well as many border area residents--are organizing to stop the barrier's construction. They believe the wall will do little to stop illegal immigration and is motivated to generate profits for the companies awarded lucrative construction contracts.
    usa-2009-jeffrey-border-06.jpg
  • Emma Saint Louis Telusma (right) and Nixon Manigat help construct a new school in the Puits Blain neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The construction is supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) and Volunteers in Mission, as part of their work in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake..
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-H304.jpg
  • A worker helps construct a new school in the Puits Blain neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The construction is supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) and Volunteers in Mission, as part of their work in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake..
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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: Construction work rarely stops in the village. Horses help move wooden logs from one site to another, to help construction of new houses and homes. Following the 2016 peace treaty between FARC and the Colombian government, a group of ex-combatant families have purchased and now cultivate 36 hectares of land in the territory of San José de León, municipality of Mutatá in Antioquia, Colombia. A group of 27 families first purchased the lot of land in San José de León, moving in from nearby Córdoba to settle alongside the 50-or-so families of farmers already living in the area. Today, 50 ex-combatant families live in the emerging community, which hosts a small restaurant, various committees for community organization and development, and which cultivates the land through agriculture, poultry and fish farming. Though the community has come a long way, many challenges remain on the way towards peace and reconciliation. The two-year-old community, which does not yet have a name of its own, is located in the territory of San José de León in Urabá, northwest Colombia, a strategically important corridor for trade into Central America, with resulting drug trafficking and arms trade still keeping armed groups active in the area. Many ex-combatants face trauma and insecurity, and a lack of fulfilment by the Colombian government in transition of land ownership to FARC members makes the situation delicate. Through the project De la Guerra a la Paz (‘From War to Peace’), the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia accompanies three communities in the Antioquia region, offering support both to ex-combatants and to the communities they now live alongside, as they reintegrate into society. Supporting a total of more than 300 families, the project seeks to alleviate the risk of re-victimization, or relapse into violent conflict.
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  • 17 December 2016, Cairo, Egypt: Aed Atuf is an Egyptian construction worker laying the foundation of a concrete path, at the Coptic Orthodox Saint Bishoy Monastery.
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  • A guard directs truck traffic entering a gate of a new U.S. Marine Corps airbase being constructed at Henoko on the Japanese island of Okinawa on February 19, 2019. Dozens of protestors, who want the construction halted, had to be physically removed in order for trucks of fill to enter the base, which is filling in a huge section of sea in order to build a new airfield.
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  • 17 December 2016, Cairo, Egypt: Construction workers repair the interior of the Coptic Orthodox Monastery of the Holy Virgin Mary, Elsourian.
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  • Children anxiously observe construction of their new school in the Southern Sudanese village of Mankaro. The school is being constructed by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR). Families here are rebuilding their lives after returning from refuge in Uganda in 2006 following the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the north and south. . NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
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  • Children anxiously observe construction of their new school in the Southern Sudanese village of Mankaro. The school is being constructed by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR). Families here are rebuilding their lives after returning from refuge in Uganda in 2006 following the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the north and south. . NOTE: In July 2011, Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan
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  • 17 December 2016, Cairo, Egypt: Construction workers at the Coptic Orthodox Saint Bishoy Monastery.
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  • Workers unload building materials at the Loreto schools in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The schools have steadily grown in size, necessitating almost constant construction of new classrooms and other facilities.
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  • Heavy equipment being used in the construction of Israel's separation barrier, being built here through the middle of the West Bank village of Aboud.
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  • A woman carries bricks on her head at a construction site in Natham, a small town in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu.
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  • A woman piles bricks on her head at a construction site in Natham, a small town in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu.
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  • Galuak Kuon works on his home on April 15, 2017, in Poktap, a town in South Sudan's Jonglei State where conflict, drought and inflation have caused severe food insecurity. Like most here, he fled Poktap in 2013 when South Sudan's civil war broke out, and just returned in January 2017. <br />
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The blue fabric used to fasten many of the sticks together is torn from insecticide-treated bednets, which villagers have discovered provide a termite-resistant material for construction.<br />
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The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in the area tackle food problems, including with the provision of cash for the purchase of fishing line and hooks, as well as assisting with home construction.
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  • Local community members break rocks into gravel for construction at the Loreto School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland. The rocks they are breaking will be used in the construction of new classrooms.
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  • A woman piles bricks on her head at a construction site in Natham, a small town in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu.
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  • A woman carries bricks on her head at a construction site in Natham, a small town in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu.
    india-2010-jeffrey-women-164.jpg
  • A woman piles bricks on her head at a construction site in Natham, a small town in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu.
    india-2010-jeffrey-women-163.jpg
  • A woman carries bricks on her head at a construction site in Natham, a small town in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu.
    india-2010-jeffrey-women-162.jpg
  • A portion of the border wall under construction in Brownsville, Texas, along the U.S.-Mexico border. Critics claim the wall will do little to slow illegal immigration, but instead represents a boondoggle benefiting companies constructing the barrier.
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  • A portion of the border wall under construction in Brownsville, Texas, along the U.S.-Mexico border. Critics claim the wall will do little to slow illegal immigration, but instead represents a boondoggle benefiting companies constructing the barrier.
    usa-2009-jeffrey-border-01.jpg
  • A portion of the border wall under construction in Brownsville, Texas, along the U.S.-Mexico border. Critics claim the wall will do little to slow illegal immigration, but instead represents a boondoggle benefiting companies constructing the barrier.
    usa-2009-jeffrey-border-03.jpg
  • Local community members prepare construction material at the Loreto School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland. The mixture of cement and sand they are mixing will be used in the construction of new classrooms.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-J053.jpg
  • Local community members prepare construction material at the Loreto School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland. The mixture of cement and sand they are mixing will be used in the construction of new classrooms.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-J043.jpg
  • Billy Ratiza talks with Leopold Sindayigaya, a water and sanitation advisor for Norwegian Church Aid, about the construction of his new bathroom and septic system 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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  • Eirene Macalalad hands a cement block to her husband Imarito as he constructs a septic tank at their home 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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  • A "separation fence" under construction by the Israeli government near the West Bank town of Jayyous. The barrier is slicing up the West Bank into enclaves that Palestinian leaders claim make a viable Palestinian state impossible.
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  • Old construction pipe running into river.
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  • 28 February 2020, Jerusalem: Construction site in preparation on the Augusta Victoria Hospital campus on the Mount of Olives. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • 28 February 2020, Jerusalem: Construction site in preparation on the Augusta Victoria Hospital campus on the Mount of Olives. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • 28 February 2020, Jerusalem: Construction site in preparation on the Augusta Victoria Hospital campus on the Mount of Olives. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20200228_AH1_488...jpg
  • 28 February 2020, Jerusalem: Construction site in preparation on the Augusta Victoria Hospital campus on the Mount of Olives. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • 23 April 2018, Bogotá, Colombia. The Candelaria is the historic centre of Bogota, featuring old colonial architecture and narrow streets. Here, a man spins a wheel to lift buckets of gravel on a construction site.
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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.
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  • Wanida Sotkrang (left), a 50-year old woman living with HIV in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, works on her new home during a massive Habitat for Humanity home construction event that included former US President Jimmy Carter. Helping her is Noi Wongkum (right), a Burmese woman also living with HIV.
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  • Wanida Sotkrang, a 50-year old woman living with HIV in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, works on her new home during a massive Habitat for Humanity home construction event that included former US President Jimmy Carter.
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  • Wanida Sotkrang, a 50-year old woman living with HIV in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, works on her new home during a massive Habitat for Humanity home construction event that included former US President Jimmy Carter.
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  • Wanida Sotkrang, a 50-year old woman living with HIV in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, works on her new home during a massive Habitat for Humanity home construction event that included former US President Jimmy Carter.
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  • Wanida Sotkrang, a 50-year old woman living with HIV in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, works on her new home during a massive Habitat for Humanity home construction event that included former US President Jimmy Carter.
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  • A woman carries dirt on a construction site.
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  • A man works constructing a new house amid the rubble of his old dwelling in Tacloban, 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. The man's house lies within a controversial 40 meter "no build" zone that prohibits such construction. The ACT Alliance has been active here and in affected communities throughout the region helping survivors to rebuild their homes and recover their livelihoods.
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  • Imarito Macalalad 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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  • 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.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-203.jpg
  • 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.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-202.jpg
  • Efren Llegado 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.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-201.jpg
  • Efren Llegado 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.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-200.jpg
  • Efren Llegado 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.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-199.jpg
  • Efren Llegado 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.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-198.jpg
  • Efren Llegado 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.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-197.jpg
  • A woman walks through a portion of the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. Seen under construction here are transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
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  • A boy carries a basin above his head as he walks through a portion of the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. Seen under construction here are transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-345.jpg
  • A boy runs through a portion of the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. Seen under construction here are transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-343.jpg
  • Carrying heavy bags, a woman walks through a portion of the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. Seen under construction here are transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-341.jpg
  • A woman walks through a portion of the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. Seen under construction here are transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
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  • LH Priyanthi stands proudly in front of her home, under construction in Pallemalla on Sri Lanka's tsunami-ravaged southern coast. She lost her home to the waves, and the National Christian Council of Sri Lanka, with support from ACT International, is helping her build a new one.
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  • A man hammers during the construction of a school in Karonga, a town in northern Malawi which was hard hit by 2009 earthquakes. The ACT Alliance is helping residents of this community rebuild their homes and lives after the quake.
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  • Two men check the plumb of a wall during the construction of a school in Karonga, a town in northern Malawi which was hard hit by 2009 earthquakes. The ACT Alliance is helping residents of this community rebuild their homes and lives after the quake.
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  • Patrick Mulindwa constructs a temporary isolation unit for suspected Ebola patients at an entry of the Heal Africa Hospital in Goma, a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since a deadly outbreak of Ebola in 2018, health authorities in the region have instituted strict measures to prevent the spread of the disease. The construction is financed by IMA World Health. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
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  • Patrick Mulindwa constructs a temporary isolation unit for suspected Ebola patients at an entry of the Heal Africa Hospital in Goma, a city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since a deadly outbreak of Ebola in 2018, health authorities in the region have instituted strict measures to prevent the spread of the disease. The construction is financed by IMA World Health. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
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  • Scaffolding on the outside of a new building under construction.
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  • 19 September 2018, Kathmandu, Nepal: A man carries construction materials at the world heritate site of Hanuman-dhoka Durbar Square in Kathmandu, which was struck hard by the 2015 earthquake and is currently undergoing repair. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • 19 September 2018, Kathmandu, Nepal: Men carry construction materials at the world heritate site of Hanuman-dhoka Durbar Square in Kathmandu, which was struck hard by the 2015 earthquake and is currently undergoing repair. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Building construction in London
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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.
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  • 11 January 2018, Marrakesh, Morocco: Construction workers repairing a road in the Marrakesh Medina. The Marrakesh Medina, listed as a UNESCO World Heritate site, forms an old fortified city centre of narrow streets, shops and vendor stalls. The city of Marrakesh was founded in 1070-1072, and has long been a political, economic and cultural centre.
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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: Manuel and his friends have spent three days mounting a new wooden house construction in the community of San José de León. The wooden parts of the house are expected to be finalized within a period of two weeks. Following the 2016 peace treaty between FARC and the Colombian government, a group of ex-combatant families have purchased and now cultivate 36 hectares of land in the territory of San José de León, municipality of Mutatá in Antioquia, Colombia. A group of 27 families first purchased the lot of land in San José de León, moving in from nearby Córdoba to settle alongside the 50-or-so families of farmers already living in the area. Today, 50 ex-combatant families live in the emerging community, which hosts a small restaurant, various committees for community organization and development, and which cultivates the land through agriculture, poultry and fish farming. Though the community has come a long way, many challenges remain on the way towards peace and reconciliation. The two-year-old community, which does not yet have a name of its own, is located in the territory of San José de León in Urabá, northwest Colombia, a strategically important corridor for trade into Central America, with resulting drug trafficking and arms trade still keeping armed groups active in the area. Many ex-combatants face trauma and insecurity, and a lack of fulfilment by the Colombian government in transition of land ownership to FARC members makes the situation delicate. Through the project De la Guerra a la Paz (‘From War to Peace’), the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia accompanies three communities in the Antioquia region, offering support both to ex-combatants and to the communities they now live alongside, as they reintegrate into society. Supporting a total of more than 300 families, the project seeks to alleviate the risk of re-victimization, or relapse into violent conflict.
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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: Manuel and his friends have spent three days mounting a new wooden house construction in the community of San José de León. The wooden parts of the house are expected to be finalized within a period of two weeks. Following the 2016 peace treaty between FARC and the Colombian government, a group of ex-combatant families have purchased and now cultivate 36 hectares of land in the territory of San José de León, municipality of Mutatá in Antioquia, Colombia. A group of 27 families first purchased the lot of land in San José de León, moving in from nearby Córdoba to settle alongside the 50-or-so families of farmers already living in the area. Today, 50 ex-combatant families live in the emerging community, which hosts a small restaurant, various committees for community organization and development, and which cultivates the land through agriculture, poultry and fish farming. Though the community has come a long way, many challenges remain on the way towards peace and reconciliation. The two-year-old community, which does not yet have a name of its own, is located in the territory of San José de León in Urabá, northwest Colombia, a strategically important corridor for trade into Central America, with resulting drug trafficking and arms trade still keeping armed groups active in the area. Many ex-combatants face trauma and insecurity, and a lack of fulfilment by the Colombian government in transition of land ownership to FARC members makes the situation delicate. Through the project De la Guerra a la Paz (‘From War to Peace’), the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia accompanies three communities in the Antioquia region, offering support both to ex-combatants and to the communities they now live alongside, as they reintegrate into society. Supporting a total of more than 300 families, the project seeks to alleviate the risk of re-victimization, or relapse into violent conflict.
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  • 2 May 2016, Bethlehem, Palestine: Construction work underway inside the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem.
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  • Wanida Sotkrang, a 50-year old woman living with HIV in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, works on her new home during a massive Habitat for Humanity home construction event that included former US President Jimmy Carter.
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  • A man 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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  • As their 4-year old son Khainer looks on, Eirene Macalalad hands a cement block to her husband Imarito as he constructs a septic tank at their home 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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  • Wooden construction torn apart.
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  • A woman carries a brick on her head while working on a construction site in the village of Kundrathur Somangalam in southern India's state of Tamil Nadu.
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  • A woman carries bricks on her head while working on a construction site in the village of Kundrathur Somangalam in southern India's state of Tamil Nadu.
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  • A woman carries bricks that a man places on her head while working on a construction site in the village of Kundrathur Somangalam in southern India's state of Tamil Nadu.
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  • A woman carries bricks that a man places on her head while working on a construction site in the village of Kundrathur Somangalam in southern India's state of Tamil Nadu.
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  • A woman carries bricks on her head while working on a construction site in the village of Kundrathur Somangalam in southern India's state of Tamil Nadu.
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  • A woman carries bricks on her head while working on a construction site in the village of Kundrathur Somangalam in southern India's state of Tamil Nadu.
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