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  • Colonel Antonio Vamilton López de França Filho receives a hug from a young girl in a camp for Venezuelan refugees at Pacaraima, a Brazilian town on the country's border with Venezuela.  López de França supervises the government's response to the refugee crisis in Pacaraima. Critics have claimed the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is taking advantage of the refugee crisis to expand the role of the Brazilian military into areas previously managed by civilians.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-refugees-026.jpg
  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Activists demand attention to the climate crisis during a protest at the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.<br />
The Assembly's theme is "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
    germany-2022-jeffrey-wcc-assembly-90...jpg
  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Jessica Bwali of the United Church of Zambia speaks to activists demanding attention to the climate crisis during a protest at the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.<br />
The Assembly's theme is "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
    germany-2022-jeffrey-wcc-assembly-90...jpg
  • A man brings an ox-drawn cart along the dry river bed of the Choluteca river in Honduras, carrying firewood. As the prolonged drought here, linked to climate change, continues, farmers resort to chopping down their trees to sell as firewood to make ends meet, further exacerbating the environmental crisis.
    Honduras_Hawkey_BertaCaceres_2017022...jpg
  • A woman carries her child inside a camp for Venezuelan refugees at Pacaraima, a Brazilian town on the country's border with Venezuela. The Brazilian military supervises the government's response to the refugee crisis in Pacaraima. Critics have claimed the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is taking advantage of the refugee crisis to expand the role of the Brazilian military into areas previously managed by civilians.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-refugees-128.jpg
  • A Venezuelan refugee girl in a camp at Pacaraima, a Brazilian town on the country's border with Venezuela. The Brazilian military supervises the government's response to the refugee crisis in Pacaraima. Critics have claimed the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is taking advantage of the refugee crisis to expand the role of the Brazilian military into areas previously managed by civilians.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-refugees-135.jpg
  • A woman feeds her child inside a camp for Venezuelan refugees at Pacaraima, a Brazilian town on the country's border with Venezuela. The Brazilian military supervises the government's response to the refugee crisis in Pacaraima. Critics have claimed the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is taking advantage of the refugee crisis to expand the role of the Brazilian military into areas previously managed by civilians.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-refugees-115.jpg
  • Colonel Antonio Vamilton López de França Filho talks with Yesenia Huarique, whose daughter is in a wheelchair, in a camp for Venezuelan refugees at Pacaraima, a Brazilian town on the country's border with Venezuela. López de França supervises the government's response to the refugee crisis in Pacaraima. Critics have claimed the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is taking advantage of the refugee crisis to expand the role of the Brazilian military into areas previously managed by civilians.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-refugees-092.jpg
  • Newly arrived Venezuelan refugees are processed in a military-run camp at Pacaraima, a Brazilian town on the country's border with Venezuela. The military supervises the government's response to the refugee crisis in Pacaraima. Critics have claimed the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is taking advantage of the refugee crisis to expand the role of the Brazilian military into areas previously managed by civilians.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-refugees-005.jpg
  • Colonel Antonio Vamilton López de França Filho talks with Consolata Sister Inés Arciniegas in a camp for Venezuelan refugees at Pacaraima, a Brazilian town on the country's border with Venezuela. Arciniegas is Colombian. López de França supervises the government's response to the refugee crisis in Pacaraima, dubbed Operation Welcome. Critics have claimed the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is taking advantage of the refugee crisis to expand the role of the Brazilian military into areas previously managed by civilians.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-refugees-035.jpg
  • In northern Nicaragua, farming has been severely affected by lack of rainfall over recent years. The prolonged drought has dried up rivers and wells and has destroyed most crops before they get to harvest. ELCA is supporting the Nicaraguan Lutheran Church, ILFE, with community-based farming responses to this crisis, where small plots are farmed in groups, sometimes with irrigation, in an attempt to provide the basic nutritional requirements for the participating families. Here villagers near Somotillo work on a community plot supported by ELCA.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_ELCA_1073.jpg
  • "I'm John Sloane and I'm from Birmingham. I'm here because it's a humanitarian crisis, I've been here just over three months. There's a big response from ordinary people in the UK, Germany, Holland and Ireland. I help run this warehouse, everything that comes in we sort it, into sizes, male and female, we check quality too, and we put packages together for new arrivals at the camp, we get it all ready for distribution. A lot of people, once they've walked across Europe, they've lost a lot of weight, and so small sizes of trousers, from 26 to 32, are always in demand. And we always need walking boots and waterproof clothing."  John works with the volunteer network Care4Calais.
    France_Hawkey_The_Jungle_20150083.jpg
  • There is an energy crisis in most of the region because hydroelectric power doesn't work without rain, drought is causing powercuts. Here, most of bed of the dam at Las Canoas, Nicaragua, is now exposed because of a huge loss of water. The drought is affecting large areas of Central America. Across Nicaragua hundreds of cattle are dying, wells are drying up and the harvests have failed. Climate change is believed to be responsible for the drought.
    Nicaragua_Hawkey_drought_20140821_08...jpg
  • 13 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based organizations gather for a vigil, as COP25 is about to draw to a close, praying that negotiations will bear fruit, bringing about urgent and just action to find a way out of the climate crisis. [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_20191213_AH2_077...jpg
  • 13 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: A woman records video, as faith-based organizations gather for a vigil, as COP25 is about to draw to a close, praying that negotiations will bear fruit, bringing about urgent and just action to find a way out of the climate crisis. [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_20191213_AH2_068...jpg
  • 13 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based organizations gather for a vigil, as COP25 is about to draw to a close, praying that negotiations will bear fruit, bringing about urgent and just action to find a way out of the climate crisis. [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_20191213_AH1_027...jpg
  • 13 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based organizations gather for a vigil, as COP25 is about to draw to a close, praying that negotiations will bear fruit, bringing about urgent and just action to find a way out of the climate crisis. [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_20191213_AH1_025...jpg
  • 13 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based organizations gather for a vigil, as COP25 is about to draw to a close, praying that negotiations will bear fruit, bringing about urgent and just action to find a way out of the climate crisis. Here, two people join in holding a cross, which is a replica of a much larger cross from the Lutheran Cathedral of El Salvador, referred to as 'La Cruz Subversiva'. On the cross are written testimonies of people in El Salvador noting down the oppressions they suffer in their daily lives. The cross has a special history, in that it was confiscated by 'El Ejército' (The People's Revolutionary Army) in November 1989, while El Salvador was living through war. [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_20191213_AH2_077...jpg
  • 13 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based organizations gather for a vigil, as COP25 is about to draw to a close, praying that negotiations will bear fruit, bringing about urgent and just action to find a way out of the climate crisis. [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_20191213_AH2_074...jpg
  • 13 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based organizations gather for a vigil, as COP25 is about to draw to a close, praying that negotiations will bear fruit, bringing about urgent and just action to find a way out of the climate crisis. Here, Lutheran World Federation delegate Sebastian Ignacio Muñoz Oyarzo from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile (centre). [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_20191213_AH2_075...jpg
  • 13 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Faith-based organizations gather for a vigil, as COP25 is about to draw to a close, praying that negotiations will bear fruit, bringing about urgent and just action to find a way out of the climate crisis. Here, Lutheran World Federation delegate Fernanda Zuñiga from the Lutheran Church in Chile (right). [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_20191213_AH2_073...jpg
  • 13 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Latin American church leaders Rev. Nehemias Rivera Medina of the Lutheran Costa Rican Church (right) and Rev. Santiago de Jesús Rodríguez Lara from the Salvadoran Lutheran Church (left) hold crosses, as faith-based organizations gather for a vigil, as COP25 is about to draw to a close, praying that negotiations will bear fruit, bringing about urgent and just action to find a way out of the climate crisis. The crosses are replicas of a much larger cross from the Lutheran Cathedral of El Salvador, referred to as 'La Cruz Subversiva'. On the cross are written testimonies of people in El Salvador noting down the oppressions they suffer in their daily lives. The cross has a special history, in that it was confiscated by 'El Ejército' (The People's Revolutionary Army) in November 1989, while El Salvador was living through war. [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_20191213_AH2_063...jpg
  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Activists demand attention to the climate crisis during a protest at the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.<br />
The Assembly's theme is "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
    germany-2022-jeffrey-wcc-assembly-90...jpg
  • The climate crisis is making life difficult for James Kuony Malual. He's been a successful farmer in Akobo, South Sudan, growing crops to feed his six wives and send 18 of his children to school in Uganda and Ethiopia. But he says he can no longer depend on the weather. The rains don't come when they used to, and when they do come, they cause flooding worse than he's even seen. The last three years have been totally unpredictable, and he has lost more of his crops than he has been able to harvest. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has helped him diversify his crops, planting more vegetables that he can sell in the market in town, but it's a tough time to be a farmer in his part of the world.<br />
<br />
DanChurchAid is providing support for livelihood activities and food security in Akobo in partnership with Nile Hope, a South Sudanese organization. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0777.jpg
  • The climate crisis is making life difficult for James Kuony Malual. He's been a successful farmer in Akobo, South Sudan, growing crops to feed his six wives and send 18 of his children to school in Uganda and Ethiopia. But he says he can no longer depend on the weather. The rains don't come when they used to, and when they do come, they cause flooding worse than he's even seen. The last three years have been totally unpredictable, and he has lost more of his crops than he has been able to harvest. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has helped him diversify his crops, planting more vegetables that he can sell in the market in town, but it's a tough time to be a farmer in his part of the world.<br />
<br />
DanChurchAid is providing support for livelihood activities and food security in Akobo in partnership with Nile Hope, a South Sudanese organization. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0781.jpg
  • Mohamed Ag Aldjoumett, age 10, digs clay to make bricks for his family's home in 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. The Sahel region has been affected by a food crisis for years, often exacerbated by severe droughts.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-213.jpg
  • Flooded by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River, dead trees stick out of the water near Altamira, Brazil. In addition to the massive displacement of tens of thousands of people, many of them indigenous people, the flooding of the forest released high levels of greenhouse gases that contribute to the climate crisis.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-C...jpg
  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Activists demand attention to the climate crisis during a protest at the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.<br />
The Assembly's theme is "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
    germany-2022-jeffrey-wcc-assembly-90...jpg
  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Activists demand attention to the climate crisis during a protest at the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.<br />
The Assembly's theme is "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
    germany-2022-jeffrey-wcc-assembly-90...jpg
  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Activists demand attention to the climate crisis during a protest at the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.<br />
The Assembly's theme is "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
    germany-2022-jeffrey-wcc-assembly-90...jpg
  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Activists demand attention to the climate crisis during a protest at the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.<br />
The Assembly's theme is "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
    germany-2022-jeffrey-wcc-assembly-90...jpg
  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Activists demand attention to the climate crisis during a protest at the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.<br />
The Assembly's theme is "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
    germany-2022-jeffrey-wcc-assembly-90...jpg
  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Activists demand attention to the climate crisis during a protest at the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.<br />
The Assembly's theme is "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
    germany-2022-jeffrey-wcc-assembly-90...jpg
  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Activists demand attention to the climate crisis during a protest at the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.<br />
The Assembly's theme is "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
    germany-2022-jeffrey-wcc-assembly-90...jpg
  • The climate crisis is making life difficult for James Kuony Malual. He's been a successful farmer in Akobo, South Sudan, growing crops to feed his six wives and send 18 of his children to school in Uganda and Ethiopia. But he says he can no longer depend on the weather. The rains don't come when they used to, and when they do come, they cause flooding worse than he's even seen. The last three years have been totally unpredictable, and he has lost more of his crops than he has been able to harvest. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has helped him diversify his crops, planting more vegetables that he can sell in the market in town, but it's a tough time to be a farmer in his part of the world.<br />
<br />
DanChurchAid is providing support for livelihood activities and food security in Akobo in partnership with Nile Hope, a South Sudanese organization.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0781.jpg
  • The climate crisis is making life difficult for James Kuony Malual. He's been a successful farmer in Akobo, South Sudan, growing crops to feed his six wives and send 18 of his children to school in Uganda and Ethiopia. But he says he can no longer depend on the weather. The rains don't come when they used to, and when they do come, they cause flooding worse than he's even seen. The last three years have been totally unpredictable, and he has lost more of his crops than he has been able to harvest. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has helped him diversify his crops, planting more vegetables that he can sell in the market in town, but it's a tough time to be a farmer in his part of the world.<br />
<br />
DanChurchAid is providing support for livelihood activities and food security in Akobo in partnership with Nile Hope, a South Sudanese organization.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0777.jpg
  • The climate crisis is making life difficult for James Kuony Malual. He's been a successful farmer in Akobo, South Sudan, growing crops to feed his six wives and send 18 of his children to school in Uganda and Ethiopia. But he says he can no longer depend on the weather. The rains don't come when they used to, and when they do come, they cause flooding worse than he's even seen. The last three years have been totally unpredictable, and he has lost more of his crops than he has been able to harvest. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has helped him diversify his crops, planting more vegetables that he can sell in the market in town, but it's a tough time to be a farmer in his part of the world.<br />
<br />
DanChurchAid is providing support for livelihood activities and food security in Akobo in partnership with Nile Hope, a South Sudanese organization.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0743.JPG
  • The climate crisis is making life difficult for James Kuony Malual. He's been a successful farmer in Akobo, South Sudan, growing crops to feed his six wives and send 18 of his children to school in Uganda and Ethiopia. But he says he can no longer depend on the weather. The rains don't come when they used to, and when they do come, they cause flooding worse than he's even seen. The last three years have been totally unpredictable, and he has lost more of his crops than he has been able to harvest. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has helped him diversify his crops, planting more vegetables that he can sell in the market in town, but it's a tough time to be a farmer in his part of the world.<br />
<br />
DanChurchAid is providing support for livelihood activities and food security in Akobo in partnership with Nile Hope, a South Sudanese organization. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0743.JPG
  • Mohamed Ag Aldjoumett, age 10, pauses from digging clay to make bricks for his family's home in 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. The Sahel region has been affected by a food crisis for years, often exacerbated by severe droughts.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-218.jpg
  • Mohamed Ag Aldjoumett, age 10, pauses from digging clay to make bricks for his family's home in 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. The Sahel region has been affected by a food crisis for years, often exacerbated by severe droughts.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-215.jpg
  • Mohamed Ag Aldjoumett, age 10, digs clay to make bricks for his family's home in 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. The Sahel region has been affected by a food crisis for years, often exacerbated by severe droughts.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-217.jpg
  • Mohamed Ag Aldjoumett, age 10, pauses from digging clay to make bricks for his family's home in 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. The Sahel region has been affected by a food crisis for years, often exacerbated by severe droughts.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-214.jpg
  • Mohamed Ag Aldjoumett, age 10, digs clay to make bricks for his family's home in 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. The Sahel region has been affected by a food crisis for years, often exacerbated by severe droughts.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-212.jpg
  • Mohamed Ag Aldjoumett, age 10, digs clay to make bricks for his family's home in 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. The Sahel region has been affected by a food crisis for years, often exacerbated by severe droughts.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-211.jpg
  • Mohamed Ag Aldjoumett, age 10, digs clay to make bricks for his family's home in 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. The Sahel region has been affected by a food crisis for years, often exacerbated by severe droughts.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-210.jpg
  • Mohamed Ag Aldjoumett, age 10, pauses from digging clay to make bricks for his family's home in 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. The Sahel region has been affected by a food crisis for years, often exacerbated by severe droughts.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-209.jpg
  • A boy collects water from a muddy pond in 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. The Sahel region has been affected by a food crisis for years, often exacerbated by severe droughts.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-208.jpg
  • Flooded by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River, dead trees stick out of the water near Altamira, Brazil. In addition to the massive displacement of tens of thousands of people, many of them indigenous people, the flooding of the forest released high levels of greenhouse gases that contribute to the climate crisis.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-C...jpg
  • Flooded by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River, dead trees stick out of the water near Altamira, Brazil. In addition to the massive displacement of tens of thousands of people, many of them indigenous people, the flooding of the forest released high levels of greenhouse gases that contribute to the climate crisis.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-C...jpg
  • Flooded by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River, dead trees stick out of the water near Altamira, Brazil. In addition to the massive displacement of tens of thousands of people, many of them indigenous people, the flooding of the forest released high levels of greenhouse gases that contribute to the climate crisis.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-C...jpg
  • Flooded by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River, dead trees stick out of the water near Altamira, Brazil. In addition to the massive displacement of tens of thousands of people, many of them indigenous people, the flooding of the forest released high levels of greenhouse gases that contribute to the climate crisis.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-C...jpg
  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Sunemia Pranita Biswasi of the Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church speaks to activists demanding attention to the climate crisis during a protest at the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.<br />
The Assembly's theme is "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
    germany-2022-jeffrey-wcc-assembly-90...jpg
  • 2 September 2022, Karlsruhe, Germany: Activists demand attention to the climate crisis during a protest at the World Council of Churches' 11th Assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany.<br />
The Assembly's theme is "Christ's Love Moves the World to Reconciliation and Unity."
    germany-2022-jeffrey-wcc-assembly-90...jpg
  • Flooded by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River, dead trees stick out of the water near Altamira, Brazil. In addition to the massive displacement of tens of thousands of people, many of them indigenous people, the flooding of the forest released high levels of greenhouse gases that contribute to the climate crisis.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-C...jpg
  • The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, speaks during a meeting in Budapest with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The meeting was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
    hungary_2015_jeffrey_wcc08.JPG
  • Sherin Ibrahim, 11, and her sister Nesreen, 18, sit with their brother Rami, 27, outside Messstetten, Germany. The three fled Syria together and have applied for asylum in Germany and are awaiting word on the government's decision. Meanwhile, they share a room with another Syrian refugee family in a former army barracks in Messstetten.
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  • The Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit (left), general secretary of the World Council of Churches, talks with Bence Retvari, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Hungarian government Ministry of Human Resources on September 26, 2015. The conversation was part of a visit to Hungary by leaders of the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Conference of European Churches (CEC) and the Churches’ Commission for Migrants in Europe (CCME). The visit sought to strengthen efforts to support refugees and migrants. Members of the delegation met with Hungarian church leaders, government officials and members of international organizations.
    hungary_2015_jeffrey_wcc14.JPG
  • Ferianus Laia, 9, practices his football skills in front of his house in Tugala, a village on the Indonesian island of Nias. His family sits behind him. The village was struck by both a 2004 tsunami and a 2005 earthquake, leaving houses destroyed and lives disrupted. The ACT Alliance helped villagers here to construct new homes and latrines, build a potable water system, open a clinic and schools and get their lives going once again. For the residents of Tugala, the post-disaster mantra of "build back better" became a reality with help from the ACT Alliance.
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  • A woman walks along a sidewalk in Kuala Bubon, in Indonesia's Aceh province. The community of 118 houses was built by the ACT Alliance after the village's tsunami survivors refused to accept government plans to relocate them inland far from the sea. After the houses were built, the community then successfully fought a government plan to demolish part of the new village to make way for a new highway.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-142.jpg
  • Nurul Aina was just 8 years old in 2004 when a massive tsunami swept over Banda Aceh, Indonesia, killing her parents and two siblings and leveling their home. Aina was fortunately visiting relatives in a neighborhood far from the seashore when the tsunami hit. With assistance from the Katahati Institute and Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe, a new house was built and titled in Aina's name, an accomplishment that required considerable legal advocacy by Katahati staff. As a result, rental income from the house has paid for Aina's schooling while she lives with her grandmother. Now 18, Aina is studying English at a local university, and plans to move into her house some day. The tsunami killed 221,000 people in Aceh province and left more than 500,000 displaced.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-065.jpg
  • Misbah Teleumbanua (right) gets her leg checked by Dr. Ester Oksianita in Teleumbanua's work room at her home in Gamo, a village on the Indonesian island of Nias. Teleumbanua lost one leg as a baby, and spent most of her life hopping around on the other leg. Then following the 2005 earthquake on Nias, a mobile team from the Yakkum Emergency Unit, an ACT Alliance member agency, came to her neighborhood looking for people who'd been left disabled by the quake. They told her they'd help her as well. In a clinic they opened on the island, Teleumbanua learned to use crutches and was fitted with a proper prosthesis, then took a three-month tailoring class which allowed her to open her own business sewing clothes for her neighbors. Oksianita serves on the staff of the clinic, which has evolved over the years from a specialty center for people with disabilities into a clinic serving the entire population.
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  • When South Sudan's civil war spread to Malakal in late 2013, Rose Apol fled with her three children, walking through the bush for a month to arrive in Mundri, where she lives with a brother. She has survived thanks to the hospitality of her relatives and food and agricultural tools provided by the Mundri Relief and Development Association, which is supported by the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund. Here she gets her daughter Eunice ready for school in the morning.
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  • Alat Yai comforts her child Aguil in a ward for malnourished children in a health center in Majak Kar, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where a persistent drought has destroyed crops, left people hungry, and pushed up incidences of malnutrition. The clinic is run by Premiere Urgence, and works in coordination with local partners supported by the ACT Alliance.
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  • Nidia Panom carries water in Poktap, a town in South Sudan's Jonglei State where conflict, climate, and corruption have caused severe food insecurity. Panom and many others in this town have just returned from years of displacement. Catholic Relief Services, the humanitarian arm of the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference, works in Poktap providing a variety of services, including jerry cans for women and girls to carry clean water.
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  • Girls skipping rope during a school recess in the Gendrassa refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
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  • Girls skipping rope during a school recess in the Gendrassa refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
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  • Women walk through the partially-flooded Gendrassa refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
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  • Haram Jukin, a ten-year old girl living in the Yusuf Batil refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State, sweeps the ground in front of the family's shelter. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
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  • A staff member (name pending) of the Lutheran World Federation Emergency Hub based in Nairobi, interviews prospective teachers for a school which LWF will soon open in the Yusuf Batil refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E. LWF is in the process of establishing several schools and other activities for children in the camps.
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  • A woman carries water on her head in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
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  • A woman carries firewood across a flooded portion of the Gendrassa refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
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  • After the passage of Typhoon Bopha, Minnie Anne Calub, the emergency coordinator for the National Council of Churches of the Philippines, talks with children displaced by the storm in Iligan, on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao. The NCCP is a member of the ACT Alliance, which sponsored a food distribution in this community..
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  • The day after Typhoon Bopha raged through the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, people in the village of Maasin cross a bridge over the Cagayan River. A larger bridge that could accommodate vehicles washed away in 2011 during Typhoon Washi.  The ACT Alliance helped people in this village to recover from Typhoon Washi and thus reduce their vulnerability to Typhoon Bopha.
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  • A boy inspects a fishing net in Biñan, Laguna, in the Philippines. Residents here have been subjected to increased flooding from the Laguna de Bay in recent years, and with the help of the ACT Alliance are organizing to look for alternatives.
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  • Pedicab drivers pose with their new machines in Tacloban, a city in the southern Philippines that was ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. They lost their old equipment to the devastating storm. The new machines were provided by the ACT Alliance, allowing the men to continue working and supporting their families.
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  • A boy holds a small boat he crafted to carry a candle onto the sea that rose up and ravaged his small village on Jinamoc Island in the southern Philippines one year earlier. Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, killed 55 people on the small island.
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  • People pray during a special November 7 mass in a temporary sanctuary of Santo Niño Church in Tacloban, in the southern Philippines. The mass occured on the eve of the one-year commemoration of Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Typhoon Yolanda, which killed more than 7,000 people and left the historic Santo Niño Church heavily damaged.
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  • A woman raises her clenched fist as she joins protests the Philippines government's response to Typhoon Haiyan. She was one of more than 5,000 protestors who took to the streets of Tacloban, in the southern Philippines, on the eve of the one-year commemoration of the devastating storm. Known locally as Typhoon Yolanda, the storm killed more than 7,000 people dead and millions displaced.
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  • A woman cleans window panes as she prepares a new classroom for students in her village of May-it in the southern Philippines province of Samar. The community was ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, but has now constructed several new classrooms with assistance from the ACT Alliance.
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  • Seven-year old Mark Dave Mortiga, nicknamed Pipoy, jumps a gap in a walkway along the sea in Tacloban, a city in the Philippines that was hard hit by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. Known locally as Typhoon Yolanda, the storm surge buried this area with water, destroying the neighborhood. Despite a government prohibition on rebuilding within 40 meters of the shoreline, residents say they have nowhere else to go and have constructed new dwellings over the water. The ACT Alliance has accompanied survivors in this neighborhood and other areas impacted by the typhoon as they rebuild their communities and livelihoods.
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  • Demonstrators march through the streets of Durban, South Africa, demanding better funding for HIV and AIDS treatment around the world. The demonstration took place on the first day of the 2016 International AIDS Conference in Durban.
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  • Majlinda Kuci, a 10-year old refugee from Kosovo, does art in a government-run refugee center in Vamosszabadi, Hungary. Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides child care and other services to residents in the center, who come from Syria, Iraq and other countries and are bound for western Europe.
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  • Mayada Ari was a math teacher in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, when the fighting caused her eyesight to deteriorate, and she was constantly afraid for her children. So she and her husband and their four kids set off for western Europe. "We heard that the best life is in Germany," she said. They traversed Turkey and Greece and Macedonia and Serbia until arriving in Hungary. She said the journey has been difficult and dangerous. "But it was more dangerous to remain at home," she said.<br />
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In this image, she cuddles two of her children as they shiver in the cold night air as the family leaves the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom and prepares to cross the border into Austria. <br />
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At the border crossing, she and her family received food and blankets from Hungarian Interchurch Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. <br />
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Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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  • A small refugee receives food from the ACT Alliance at the border crossing into Austria near the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants--including many children--flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries. The ACT Alliance has provided food and other critical support for refugee and migrant families here and in other places along their journey.
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  • Refugees walk across the border into Austria near the Hungarian town of Hegyeshalom. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants--including many families--flowed through Hungary in 2015, on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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  • Begum Ali carries dirty dishes while her husband Moshaid washes up in the small restaurant they run in Budapest, Hungary. Refugees from Bangladesh, they came to Hungary in 2013, were granted refugee status, and opened the restaurant in 2014.<br />
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As Hungary dealt with a massive flow of new refugees in 2015, the country wrestled with its responsibility to the newcomers. Yet old-timers like the Ali family report they have felt welcomed during the years they have lived in Hungary.
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  • A man and child sit wait on a bus that will take them from a refugee-processing operation to the train station at Beremend, along Hungary's border with Croatia. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants flowed through Hungary in 2015 on their way to western Europe from Syria, Iraq and other countries.
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  • Tamang men in the village of Gatlang, in the Rasuwa District of Nepal near the country's border with Tibet.
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  • A girl carries a chicken through the village of Gatlang, in the Rasuwa District of Nepal near the country's border with Tibet.
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  • Sarita Majhi prepares food in her temporary shelter in Adamtar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided food, shelter, livelihood, winterization assistance and a variety of other support to Majhi and other indigenous villagers here in the wake of a devastating 2015 earthquake. Majhi has had to face the earthquake and its aftermath alone, as her husband is working in Saudi Arabia. He stopped sending money home and told Majhi to quit calling him.
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  • A boy walks to school in Pida, a village in Nepal's Dhading District where the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families to rebuild their lives in the wake of the 2015 earthquake that ravaged much of Nepal.
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  • Girls in class in Pida, a village in Nepal's Dhading District where the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families to rebuild their lives in the wake of the 2015 earthquake that ravaged much of Nepal. Their classroom was built by UMCOR after the existing school building was severely damaged by the quake. Villagers have yet to construct the walls.
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  • Two-year old Ayarina Maiga drinks porridge in a camp in Mopti, Mali, for families displaced by fighting in the north of the country. Islamist rebels seized control of Maiga's home town of Gossi and other areas of the north in 2012, but were chased out in early 2013 by French troops. Many displaced and refugee families have yet to return, preferring to wait for better security and improved economic conditions in the north.
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  • A girl gets water along a street in Timbuktu, the northern Mali city that was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013. During jihadist rule, women and girls were not allowed in public unless completely covered.
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  • Students in the Bahadon Second Cycle School in Timbuktu, a city in northern Mali which was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013. The jihadis first banned all schools, then under pressure from the community, allowed them to open but with separate classes for boys and girls.
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  • Boys harvest clean desert sand, loading it on donkeys for transport to construction sites in Timbuktu, the northern Mali city captured by Islamist forces in 2012 and liberated by French and Malian soldiers in 2013.
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  • Surafile Haiyle, 27, is an Eritrean asylum seeker who lives in a church-run shelter in Freudenstadt, Germany. The Freundesdreis Asyl is run by Christlicher Kirchen, and managed by a retired United Methodist pastor. The shelter has 18 asylum seekers from Eritrea and 10 from Gambia. They came to Europe via Sudan and Libya, crossing the Mediterranean to Italy.
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  • An Afghan refugee boy gets pushed by a volunteer in a children's play area in the Hauptbahnhof railroad station in Vienna, Austria, where asylum seekers--and the volunteers who welcome them--congregate.
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  • Abrahim Gel (left) and Amghed Hamsa, both asylum seekers from Afghanistan, study for their German language class in their bedroom at the Fluchtlingshaus Neu Albern, a transitional shelter for asylum seekers in Vienna, Austria, run by Diakonie, an ecumenical agency. About 130 men live in the shelter, some of them suffering from mental illness such as schizophrenia or post-traumatic stress syndrome.
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  • Jesus García walks through a crop of corn he lost during a prolonged drought caused by climate change in Langue, Valle, Honduras
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