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  • The countryside outside Lucknow, India.
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  • The countryside outside Lucknow, India.
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  • 26 September 2015, Trinidad, Cuba: An old but functional commuter train runs through the countryside villages near Trinidad.
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  • 26 September 2015, Trinidad, Cuba: An old but functional commuter train runs through the countryside villages near Trinidad. Here, passengers have got off and are heading home.
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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: “I dream of seeing a Colombia truly in peace, a peace that includes social justice, and including a developed countryside, in education, in health, and in all aspects that affect the country,” says Luz Ledis López.  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.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20181116_AH2_555...jpg
  • Georgia 18 June 2016: Countryside views on the way towards the 12th century Cave Town of Vardzia, a cave monastery site in southern Georgia, excavated from the slopes of the Erusheti Mountain on the left bank of the Kura River, thirty kilometres from Aspindza.
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  • A woman carries walks in the countryside near the Haitian village of Foret des Pins.
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  • Women are seen riding a bus out of Haiti's capital city, Port-au-Prince, near Leogane, a week after a January 12 earthquake killed tens of thousands and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Capital residents are reportedly fleeing the city in search of safety and better food security in the countryside and smaller towns.
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  • Cold brick wall in Irish countryside.
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  • Georgia 18 June 2016: Countryside views on the way towards the 12th century Cave Town of Vardzia, a cave monastery site in southern Georgia, excavated from the slopes of the Erusheti Mountain on the left bank of the Kura River, thirty kilometres from Aspindza.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20160618_DSC_355...jpg
  • The countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest by logging companies and cattle ranchers. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang was assassinated by local ranchers near here in 2005.
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  • Syrian refugees walk through the countryside near Messstetten, Germany. They have applied for asylum in Germany and are awaiting word on the government's decision. Meanwhile, they live in a room in a former army barracks in Messstetten.
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  • A boy rests in a hammock in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest.
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  • Sister Jane Dwyer, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur from the United States, talk with farmers in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang, a close collaborator of Dwyer, was assassinated by local ranchers in 2005.
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  • Sister Kathryn "Katy" Webster, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur from the United States, hands out a calendar that promotes the Synod of the Amazon to farmers in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang was assassinated by local ranchers in 2005.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sister Jane Dwyer, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur from the United States, talk with farmers in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang, a close collaborator of Dwyer, was assassinated by local ranchers in 2005.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sister Jane Dwyer, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur from the United States, talk with farmers in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang, a close collaborator of Dwyer, was assassinated by local ranchers in 2005.
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  • Sister Jane Dwyer, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur from the United States, hugs a farmer after a meeting in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang, a close collaborator of Dwyer, was assassinated by local ranchers in 2005.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • The countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest by logging companies and cattle ranchers. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang was assassinated by local ranchers near here in 2005.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sindy Kelly Saraiva, 4, feed animals at her home in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. <br />
<br />
Parental consent obtained.
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  • Sindy Kelly Saraiva, 4, feed animals at her home in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. <br />
<br />
Parental consent obtained.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sindy Kelly Saraiva, 4, does her first grade homework outside her home in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. In the background, her mother, Fabiana do Nacimiento, prepares food. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. <br />
<br />
Parental consent obtained.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sindy Kelly Saraiva, 4, does her first grade homework outside her home in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. In the background, her mother, Fabiana do Nacimiento, prepares food. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. <br />
<br />
Parental consent obtained.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Ahmade Alkalil hangs on to the hand of his 3-year old son Suleiman on they wait for his wife Farhan Othman to catch up in the countryside near Messstetten, Germany. They have applied for asylum in Germany and are awaiting word on the government's decision. Meanwhile, they live in a room in a former army barracks in Messstetten.
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  • Syrian refugees walk through the countryside outside Messstetten, Germany. They have applied for asylum in Germany and are awaiting word on the government's decision. Meanwhile, they live in a former army barracks in Messstetten.
    germany_2015_jeffrey_messstetten_097.JPG
  • A farmer talks during a meeting in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest by loggers and ranchers. The Catholic Church works with small farmers in the region, helping them defend their rights and what's left of the forest.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sister Kathryn "Katy" Webster, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur from the United States, talk with farmers in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang was assassinated by local ranchers in 2005.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Dyan Lima da Silva feed chickens at her home in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • The countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest by logging companies and cattle ranchers. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang was assassinated by local ranchers near here in 2005.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sindy Kelly Saraiva, 4, feed animals at her home in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. <br />
<br />
Parental consent obtained.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • With help from her mother, Fabiana do Nacimiento, Sindy Kelly Saraiva, 4, does her first grade homework outside her home in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. <br />
<br />
Parental consent obtained.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sindy Kelly Saraiva, 4, does her first grade homework outside her home in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. In the background, her mother, Fabiana do Nacimiento, prepares food. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. <br />
<br />
Parental consent obtained.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Rope, a saw, horse tack and other gear hang on the outside of a peasant's home in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction by logging companies and cattle ranchers of this part of the Amazon's rain forest.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • The countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest by logging companies and cattle ranchers. Church activists have been at the forefront of defending the Amazon and its people, but they've paid a heavy price. Sister Dorothy Stang was assassinated by local ranchers near here in 2005.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sindy Kelly Saraiva, 4, does her school homework outside her home in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. <br />
<br />
Parental consent obtained.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Two children ride a horse along a dirt road in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest.
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  • Blanca Viracocha, a Methodist pastor, walks in Romerillos, Ecuador.
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  • Blanca Viracocha, a Methodist pastor, walks in Romerillos, Ecuador.
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  • A woman walks along a path in the Haitian village of Mizak.
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  • Women walk across the semi-arid landscape near Toya, a village in northern Mali near Timbuktu. The region was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013.
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  • A family returning to Toya, a village in northern Mali near Timbuktu. The region was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013. In the weeks since, families have begun to return from other cities in Mali and refugee camps in neighboring countries.
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  • Women walking across the arid landscape near Toya, a village in northern Mali near Timbuktu. The region was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013.
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  • Women walking across the arid landscape near Toya, a village in northern Mali near Timbuktu. The region was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013.
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  • Blanca Viracocha (right), a Methodist pastor, walks with Rebecca Dean, a United Methodist mission intern, in Romerillos, Ecuador. Three young friends accompany them.
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  • Rebecca Dean, a United Methodist mission intern, walks in Romerillos, Ecuador.
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  • A family returning to Toya, a village in northern Mali near Timbuktu. The region was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013. In the weeks since, families have begun to return from other cities in Mali and refugee camps in neighboring countries.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-199.jpg
  • Women walking across the arid landscape near Toya, a village in northern Mali near Timbuktu. The region was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-198.jpg
  • Women walking across the arid landscape near Toya, a village in northern Mali near Timbuktu. The region was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013.
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  • 12 September 2015: Mud road and old cottage barn in the UNESCO world heritage site of Vinales, Cuba.
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  • A hillside farm in Nuevo Chapulín, Senahu, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.<br />
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World Renew supports projects in this Q'ekchi' indigenous community including poultry raising, education and agriculture.
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  • A woman in the village of Gobindapurchal, in the Indian state of Assam.
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  • Natividad Rios inspects the crop in a community farm in El Bonete, a small village in northwestern Nicaragua, accompanied by Marina Guerrero, a staffer of the Lutheran World Federation.
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  • Adriana Alvarez in front of her home in La Pacaira, a small village in northwestern Nicaragua.
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  • A family in the village of Gobindapurchal, in the Indian state of Assam.
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  • Students from the Isabella Thoburn College, a women's college in Lucknow, India, walk to a rural village outside the city where they carry out a popular education program.
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  • A girl in the peace community of San Jose de Apartado, Colombia.  In 1997, 1400 war-weary peasants declared they would no longer cooperate with any of the armed parties in the hemisphere’s longest-running war. They paid a heavy price for their witness; more than 200 members of the community have been killed. In 2013, two army generals were indicted for a 2005 massacre in the community, and on December 10, 2013, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Calderon, in the name of the state, publicly asked the community for forgiveness.
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  • Monica Ata washes dishes in the morning in Pisak, a village in Southern Sudan, while her 8-month old daughter Tabu watches from her back. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • A child in the Haitian village of Foret des Pins.
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  • A girl on the way to school in the Haitian village of Foret des Pins.
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  • In the Haitian village of Foret des Pins, fog settles on a hillside as two men hoe a steep farm field.
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  • A woman and her child sit in front of their home in the Haitian village of Mizak.
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  • Simon Peter Kaweesi, 8, raises his hand in class in the Buyikuuzi Primary School in Lukaya, Uganda, where the Good Samaritan Women's Project has helped rural women improve their financial literacy, thus improving the quality of life for the women, many of whom are widows who also care for children who lost their parents to AIDS. The program was funded by the Call to Prayer and Self-Denial of United Methodist Women. The boy's mother is an enthusiastic participant in the program.
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  • Children raise their hands in class in the Buyikuuzi Primary School in Lukaya, Uganda, where the Good Samaritan Women's Project has helped rural women improve their financial literacy, thus improving the quality of life for the women, many of whom are widows who also care for children who lost their parents to AIDS. The program was funded by the Call to Prayer and Self-Denial of United Methodist Women.
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  • Children bathe in the morning in Lukaya, Uganda, where the Good Samaritan Women's Project has helped rural women improve their financial literacy, thus improving the quality of life for the women, many of whom are widows who also care for children who lost their parents to AIDS. The program was funded by the Call to Prayer and Self-Denial of United Methodist Women. These children belong to an extended family, where a widow with three children has adopted four children of her sister who died.
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  • Soni Lama gathers feed for her goats near her home in Chandragiri, Nepal. Lama, 18, receives a scholarship from Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh (the YWCA of Nepal) to go to school in Kathmandu, where she travels two and a half hours each way for her studies. She wants to be a cardiologist when older and serve poor communities like her own.
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  • Soni Lama studies at her home in Chandragiri, Nepal. Lama, 18, receives a scholarship from Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh (the YWCA of Nepal) to go to school in Kathmandu, where she travels two and a half hours each way for her studies. She wants to be a cardiologist when older and serve poor communities like her own.
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  • Soni Lama feeds goats at her home in Chandragiri, Nepal. Lama, 18, receives a scholarship from Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh (the YWCA of Nepal) to go to school in Kathmandu, where she travels two and a half hours each way for her studies. She wants to be a cardiologist when older and serve poor communities like her own.
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  • Irene Mparutsa, right, a United Methodist missionary, discusses the proper use of a water filter with women in the Cambodian village of Talom. Mparutsa works with the Community Health and Agricultural Development program of the Methodist Mission in Cambodia.
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  • Katherine Parker, right, a United Methodist missionary, leads a Bible study in the Cambodian village of Bour. Parker works with the Community Health and Agricultural Development program of the Methodist Mission in Cambodia.
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  • Children sing during Sunday School activities of the Methodist Church in the Cambodian village of O Kroich. The people of this village are from the Kouy indigenous group.
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  • Children sing during Sunday School activities of the Methodist Church in the Cambodian village of O Kroich. The people of this village are from the Kouy indigenous group.
    cambodia-2009-jeffrey-rural-084.jpg
  • Mip Mach builds a rice bank storage structure in the Cambodian village of Char. The structure is part of a program sponsored by the Community Health and Agricultural Development program of the Methodist Mission in Cambodia.
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  • In the Cambodian village of Somrith, men work constructing a community rice bank sponsored Community Health and Agricultural Development program of the Methodist Mission in Cambodia.
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  • Mean Thorn, a woman in the Cambodian village of Somrith, works harvesting rice. She is a member of a community rice bank organized by the Community Health and Agricultural Development program of the Methodist Mission in Cambodia.
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  • A woman in the Cambodian village of Somrith walks through a rice field.
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  • Children walk to school in Khnach, a village in the Kampot region of Cambodia.
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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: “My dream is that my children will have a better future than the one we are living, that they will continue to study, not become a man without letters, like me,” says Edilberto Reyes. 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: Woman leader Aida, who was part of the first group of ex-combatant families to settle in San José de León, tends to the community's poultry, caring for the chickens and hens, and collecting the eggs they provide. 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.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20181116_AH2_548...jpg
  • Redheaded Ruth Maydelin, 10, surrounded by coffee bushes loaded with coffee beans. UCA Unidad Santa Maria de Pantasma, Jinotega, Nicaragua, is a Fairtrade-certified coop.
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  • A Fairtrade coffee nursery run by Central de Cooperativas in Pueblo Nuevo, Nicaragua. Varieties of coffee that are resistant to drought and leaf-rust are being promoted, though farmers are resistent to plant them if they don't taste as good as the more fragile varieties.
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  • Julio Zeledón, coffee farmer and member of COOMPROCOM in Payacuca, Terrabona, Matagalpa, here he shows broca damage on his coffee. COOMPROCOM Coop was founded in 2003 and fairtrade certified by FLO in the same year.
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  • Trees with red flowers
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  • Los Laureles, one of two reservoirs that serve the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, is currently at approximately half capacity, the water level drops more frequenty than ever and the driest months of the year bring the water level to previously unseen levels. The reservoir, according to the national water authority, SANAA, serves around 210,000 people with drinking water. The UN climate change panel, IPCC, have repeatedly predicted likelihood of reduced precipitation for the region, and cities as well as smaller rural communities are in danger of running out of water.
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  • Laura Zúñiga Cáceres, Berta Cáceres daughter, swims in the Gualquarque river in Intibucá. Her mother campaigned and organised indigenous communities in Intibucá to defend the river valley from being used for a hydroelectric dam. The dam construction that was begun at this site was stopped, but Berta Cáceres - campaigner for environmental and indigenous rights - was assassinated as the leader of opposition to the dam.
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  • Early morning mountain scene in Intibucá.
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  • Matalben weeding a cotton field in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
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Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
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RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
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  • 17 September 2018, Kavre district, Nepal: Children are on the way home through the valley, after a day at the Bindabasini Secondary School in Majhigaon, Kavre district, Nepal. The LWF World Service has supported the school in establishing running water and the building of toilets, as part of the Post-Earthquake Rehabilitation and Livelihood Recovery Project, of which the school has become one of the beneficiaries and partners. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • 17 September 2018, Biruwa, Kavre district, Nepal: Rev. Joseph Soren from Nepal Evangelical Lutheran Church blesses the food before the meal starts. What may appear an ordinary lunch is in fact quite special. As Dalits find themselves among the most marginalized in Nepal society, members of other castes will often not receive food from them even if offered. Today, however, a range of visitors, including local authority officials sit and eat with them, to affirm the equality and dignity of all people, no matter their ethnic group, economic situation, or caste. The Lutheran World Federation World Service programme runs a Post-Earthquake Rehabilitation and Livelihood Recovery Project, in which Biruwa is one of the supported communities. [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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  • 17 September 2018, Kavre district, Nepal: In the community of Maidan, Kavre district, villagers have started to practice semi-commercial vegetable farming, through support from the LWF World Service programme's Post-Earthquake Rehabilitation and Livelihood Recovery Project. Through a collection centre, villagers gather what surplus they have, and bring it collectively to the market in the nearby town of Kuntabesi. [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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  • 17 September 2018, Kavre district, Nepal: Maiya Devi Tiwari (centre), chair of the collection centre in Maidan, and her fellow community members receive Lutheran World Federation general secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge. In the community of Maidan, villagers have started to practice semi-commercial vegetable farming, through support from the LWF World Service programme's Post-Earthquake Rehabilitation and Livelihood Recovery Project. Through a collection centre, villagers gather what surplus they have, and bring it collectively to the market in the nearby town of Kuntabesi. [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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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: 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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  • Students from Isabella Thoburn College walk to a remote village outside Lucknow, India, where they will teach rural Indian children about HIV and AIDS.
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  • A woman in the village of Gobindapurchal, in the Indian state of Assam.
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  • A man in the village of Gobindapurchal, in the Indian state of Assam.
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  • Two women in the village of Gobindapurchal, in the Indian state of Assam.
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  • A woman in the village of Gobindapurchal, in the Indian state of Assam.
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  • 5 January 2018, Azzaden Valley, Morocco.
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  • Carlos Rios waters the crops in a community farm in El Bonete, a small village in northwestern Nicaragua.
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  • Natividad Rios inspects the corn in a community farm in El Bonete, a small village in northwestern Nicaragua.
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