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  • A girl in a doorway in the Cambodian village of Att Su.
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  • A girl eats in the doorway of her home in the Chamroen neighborhood of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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  • A girl eats in the doorway of her home in the Chamroen neighborhood of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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  • Shoes left outside the doorway to a small Pentecostal church in Mizak, a small village in the south of Haiti.
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  • A Honduran girl in the doorway of her adobe house.
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  • A Maya indigenous woman in the doorway of a store in Victoria 20 de enero, a village of former Guatemalan refugees in Mexico who returned home as a group in 1993, while the country's bloody civil war still raged.
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  • A Maya indigenous woman in the doorway of a store in Victoria 20 de enero, a village of former Guatemalan refugees in Mexico who returned home as a group in 1993, while the country's bloody civil war still raged.
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  • A Honduran girl in the doorway of her adobe house.
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  • A Honduran girl in the doorway of her adobe house.
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  • A Honduran girl in the doorway of her adobe house.
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  • A Honduran woman in doorway of her adobe house.
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  • Detail over doorway in St John the Baptist Church in Byblos, a Mediterranean city in Lebanon. The church dates from the 12th Century. The city's Arabic name is Jbeil, and was referred to as Gibelet during the Crusades. Founded around 5000 BCE, it is believed by many to be the oldest continually inhabited city in the world.
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  • A woman sits in the doorway of her home in the Chamroen neighborhood of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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  • The doorway of an old building in East St. Louis, Illinois.
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  • A family in the doorway of their Chennai, India, home.
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  • A child watches its family in the doorway of their house in the Guatemalan village of Santa Elena, located in the Peten region along the Salinas River where it forms a border with Mexico.
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  • A Maya indigenous woman in the doorway of a store in Victoria 20 de enero, a village of former Guatemalan refugees in Mexico who returned home as a group in 1993, while the country's bloody civil war still raged.
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  • A woman in the doorway of her home in Las Flores, Ixcan, Guatemala.
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  • Two Honduran girls in the doorway of their adobe house.
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  • A Honduran girl in the doorway of her adobe house.
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  • A Honduran girl in the doorway of her adobe house.
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  • A Honduran woman in doorway of her adobe house.
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  • A woman in the doorway to her tent home in the Petionville Camp at the edge of Port au Prince, Haiti. With some 50,000 residents packed onto what was once a golf course, it's the largest camp of hundreds of locales hosting more than a million people left homeless by the January 12, 2010 quake.
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  • Samina Khafagi (in doorway holding baby) and her husband Hussein pose with their children in the door of their one-room basement apartment in Beirut, Lebanon. They are refugees from Iraq, and receive assistance from the Caritas Lebanon Migrant Center, which is funded by Catholic Relief Services, the relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community.
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  • A woman sits in the doorway of her home in the Chamroen neighborhood of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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  • A woman sits in the doorway of her home in the Chamroen neighborhood of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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  • A Honduran woman in doorway of her adobe house.
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  • Omba Dimoke, a nurse, stands in the doorway of the United Methodist hospital in the Congolese village of Tunda.
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  • Caroline Mandishona climbs into her wheelchair in the doorway of her home in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Mandishona suffered cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
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  • A member of the Legion of Mary stands guard during mass in the doorway of the Catholic Church in Riimenze, South Sudan.
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  • A member of the Legion of Mary stands guard during mass in the doorway of the Catholic Church in Riimenze, South Sudan.
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  • A woman gestures in the doorway of her shelter in a displaced persons camp at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Wau, South Sudan. The church has provided food, shelter material, and health care, and the presence of clergy and religious has fostered a sense of relative safety for the families who first occupied the church grounds when fighting enveloped the city in 2016.
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  • Nigenson Dupres, 15, holds his younger brother Jefte in the doorway to their home in Despagne, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life.
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  • Ashmita Lama (right) poses in the doorway of her home in Chandragiri, Nepal, with her mother Kanchi and her sister Mandira.<br />
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Lama, 19, receives a scholarship from Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh (the YWCA of Nepal) to go to school in Kathmandu. She was the first girl from her village to pass the 10th grade exam, and is studying to be a hotel manager, saying she wants to earn lots of money and help build her community, while encouraging other girls to get an education. <br />
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When the 2015 earthquake hit, her old home was destroyed. With support from United Methodist Women, Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh provided the family with a tent. Then UMCOR provided the metal roofing for what will eventually become their new home.
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  • A man stands in a doorway in the Beach Refugee Camp in Gaza.
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  • A woman sits in a doorway alongside a street in Sathangudi, a village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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  • A woman carries her child in the doorway of her home on a street in Sathangudi, a village in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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  • Two men--Muslim and Hindu--converse in a doorway in Nallur, a small village in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India.
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  • In the coastal village of Moawo, on the Indonesian island of Nias, a girl looks out the doorway of a new house in 2007, part of an ACT Alliance reconstruction project in the community, which was hit by both the 2004 tsunami and a massive earthquake three months later.
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  • A woman watches from the doorway of her home during November 2014 flooding in Meulaboh in Indonesia's Aceh province. Flooding in the region has grown worse because of climate change and the proliferation of palm oil plantations.
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  • A girl drinks tea in the doorway of her family's shelter in a displaced persons camp at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Wau, South Sudan. The church has provided food, shelter material, and health care, and the presence of clergy and religious has fostered a sense of relative safety for the families who first occupied the church grounds when fighting enveloped the city in 2016.
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  • A girl drinks tea in the doorway of her family's shelter in a displaced persons camp at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Wau, South Sudan. The church has provided food, shelter material, and health care, and the presence of clergy and religious has fostered a sense of relative safety for the families who first occupied the church grounds when fighting enveloped the city in 2016.
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  • A woman greets a visitor from the doorway of her shelter during a heavy rainstorm in a displaced persons camp at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Wau, South Sudan. The church has provided food, shelter material, and health care, and the presence of clergy and religious has fostered a sense of relative safety for the families who first occupied the church grounds when fighting enveloped the city in 2016.
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  • Anouk Noel, 30, is one of 600 people living with disabilities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who have received a six-month, US$75 per month grant from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance. Working with Service Chretien d´Haiti and the Cuban Council of Churches, CWS has provided a variety of emergency services to people living with disabilities since the devastating January 2010 quake ravaged the capital city and nearby areas. Noel's family has used the CWS grant to purchase cosmetic items that family members have then resold on the market, earning a profit to support the family. The home Noel shares with her family has also been partially repaired as part of the CWS program, allowing Noel to return to her home in November following nine months in one of Port-au-Prince's crowded tent cities. "I had given up hope that we'd be able to come back," she says. Noel has also joined other disabled persons during regular emotional recovery events, often singing solo during the gatherings. Noel is an achondroplastic dwarf, and has lost the use of her legs. Here she sits in the doorway of her rebuilt home.
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  • Nigenson Dupres, 15, holds his younger brother Jefte in the doorway to their home in Despagne, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-197.jpg
  • Jean Manuel Dupres stands in the doorway of his family's kitchen in Despagne, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life.
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  • Imaculador Dupres in the doorway of her kitchen in Despagne, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life.
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  • Survivors of Haiti's devastating earthquake, two children play in the doorway of their family's new house in Leogane, south of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. The houses here were built with assistance from the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, a member of the ACT Alliance. CRWRC is planning more than 1700 houses in the community, and had about half that number completed by the first anniversary of the January 21, 2010 quake. The houses are built on the foundations of the residents' former homes, and are transitional--designed to be improved by residents as they are able. The houses have yet to receive their first coat of paint. CRWRC has also worked with community members on water and sanitation issues in response to the cholera outbreak, and is providing psycho-social support for residents as they rebuild their lives.
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  • Christivie Mulonda, a 5-year old survivor of Ebola, sits in the doorway of her family's home in Beni, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has been hard hit by the Ebola outbreak that began in 2018. Although the virus left her an orphan, she survived in part because of intervention by community health promoters from the Programme de Promotion de Soins Santé Primaires, a local faith-based partner of IMA World Health. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
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  • Christivie Mulonda, a 5-year old survivor of Ebola, sits in the doorway of her family's home in Beni, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has been hard hit by the Ebola outbreak that began in 2018. Although the virus left her an orphan, she survived in part because of intervention by community health promoters from the Programme de Promotion de Soins Santé Primaires, a local faith-based partner of IMA World Health. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
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  • Christivie Mulonda, a 5-year old survivor of Ebola, sits in the doorway of her family's home in Beni, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has been hard hit by the Ebola outbreak that began in 2018. Although the virus left her an orphan, she survived in part because of intervention by community health promoters from the Programme de Promotion de Soins Santé Primaires, a local faith-based partner of IMA World Health. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
    drc-2019-jeffrey-ima-ebola-1008-148.jpg
  • Christivie Mulonda, a 5-year old survivor of Ebola, sits in the doorway of her family's home in Beni, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has been hard hit by the Ebola outbreak that began in 2018. Although the virus left her an orphan, she survived in part because of intervention by community health promoters from the Programme de Promotion de Soins Santé Primaires, a local faith-based partner of IMA World Health. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
    drc-2019-jeffrey-ima-ebola-1008-140.jpg
  • Ashmita Lama poses in the doorway of her home in Chandragiri, Nepal. Lama, 19, receives a scholarship from Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh (the YWCA of Nepal) to go to school in Kathmandu. She was the first girl from her village to pass the 10th grade exam, and is studying to be a hotel manager, saying she wants to earn lots of money and help build her community, while encouraging other girls to get an education. When the 2015 earthquake hit, her old home was destroyed. With support from United Methodist Women, Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh provided the family with a tent. Then UMCOR provided the metal roofing for what will eventually become their new home.
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  • Ashmita Lama poses in the doorway of her home in Chandragiri, Nepal. Lama, 19, receives a scholarship from Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh (the YWCA of Nepal) to go to school in Kathmandu. She was the first girl from her village to pass the 10th grade exam, and is studying to be a hotel manager, saying she wants to earn lots of money and help build her community, while encouraging other girls to get an education. When the 2015 earthquake hit, her old home was destroyed. With support from United Methodist Women, Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh provided the family with a tent. ThenUMCOR provided the metal roofing for what will eventually become their new home.
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  • Ashmita Lama studies in the doorway of her home in Chandragiri, Nepal. Lama, 19, receives a scholarship from Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh (the YWCA of Nepal) to go to school in Kathmandu. She was the first girl from her village to pass the 10th grade exam, and is studying to be a hotel manager, saying she wants to earn lots of money and help build her community, while encouraging other girls to get an education. When the 2015 earthquake hit, her old home was destroyed. With support from United Methodist Women, Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh provided the family with a tent. Then UMCOR provided the metal roofing for what will eventually become their new home.
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  • A woman in the doorway to her home in Batey Bombita, a community in the southwest of the Dominican Republic whose population is composed of Haitian immigrants and their descendents.
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  • As Meisier Genise sits in the doorway with her four-month old child, Deravil Samile roofs her house in Picmy, a village on the Haitian island of La Gonave, one of many houses built by Service Chrétien d’Haïti for survivors of the 2016 Hurricane Matthew. SCH is a member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • Meisier Genise sits in the doorway of he new home with her four-month old child in Picmy, a village on the Haitian island of La Gonave, one of many houses built by Service Chrétien d’Haïti for survivors of the 2016 Hurricane Matthew. SCH is a member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • As Meisier Genise sits in the doorway with her two childen, Deravil Samile roofs her house in Picmy, a village on the Haitian island of La Gonave, one of many houses built by Service Chrétien d’Haïti for survivors of the 2016 Hurricane Matthew. SCH is a member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • A Rohingya woman and her child sit in the doorway of their shelter in the sprawling Kutupalong Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled government-sanctioned violence in Myanmar for safety in this and other camps in Bangladesh.
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  • A Buddhist nun sits in the doorway of a temple in the Angkor Wat complex in Cambodia, which dates to the 12th Century.
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  • A Buddhist nun stands in the doorway of a temple in the Angkor Wat complex in Cambodia, which dates to the 12th Century.
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  • A woman poses in the doorway of her house in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
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  • Fathiya Qasem and her family stand in the doorway of their transitional house in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. The house was provided by the local government after her home was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in 2014. The family received a water tank and hygiene supplies from International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance. Before the water tank was installed, the children of the family had to walk 15 minutes to a United Nations school to carry back water. Now, according to their mother, they can spend their time studying.
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  • Fatmir Kruezi and his wife Sabahata in the doorway of their home in the Zemun Polje neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. Refugees from Serbia in 1980, the Roma couple still face obstacles to full participation in Serbian society. They can't afford regular school fees, so their son attends the Branko Pesic School, an educational center for Roma children and families which is supported by Church World Service. The family is Muslim in a predominantly Christian Orthodox country.
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  • Beatriz dos Santos Rodrigues, 18, holds the dress she wore to her school prom as she stands in the doorway of her family's floating house, tied to a riverbank in Manaus, Brazil. Caritas, the social ministry of the Catholic Church, bought her the dress, which she will hand down to her little sister. The two girls participate in a Caritas program aimed at preventing sexual abuse and exploitation of children and adolescents.
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  • Elizangela Ribero Pereira poses for a photo with some of her children in the doorway of their crowded home in Manaus, Brazil. She shares the house with nine children, ages 7 months to 22 years. Her minor children participate in a program sponsored by Caritas, the social ministry of the Catholic Church, to prevent sexual abuse and exploitation of children and adolescents.<br />
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  • Elizangela Ribero Pereira poses for a photo with some of her children in the doorway of their crowded home in Manaus, Brazil. She shares the house with nine children, ages 7 months to 22 years. Her minor children participate in a program sponsored by Caritas, the social ministry of the Catholic Church, to prevent sexual abuse and exploitation of children and adolescents.<br />
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  • Celestina Fernandes da Silva, a Catholic activist, poses for a photo with a church-produced calendar about the Amazon. She is standing in the doorway of her home in the Wapishana indigenous village of Tabalascada, in the Amazon region of Brazil.
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  • A shopkeeper stands in the doorway of his shop in the Palestinian village of Shuqba, in the West Bank.
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  • A woman in a doorway in Chennai, a city in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu.
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  • An HIV positive woman talks to a counselor at the doorway to a testing and counseling facility located within the Central Railway Station in Chennai, India.
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  • A woman stands in the doorway of her home in Lhok Me, in Indonesia's Aceh province. She was left homeless by the 2004 tsunami, but YEU, a member of the ACT Alliance, worked with the village to build new houses in a safer area, as well as help revitalize their income generating activities. The tsunami killed 221,000 people in Aceh province and left more than 500,000 displaced.
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  • A woman stands in the doorway of her shelter in a displaced persons camp at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Wau, South Sudan. The church has provided food, shelter material, and health care, and the presence of clergy and religious has fostered a sense of relative safety for the families who first occupied the church grounds when fighting enveloped the city in 2016.
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  • A man in the doorway of a hut 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 girl sits in the doorway of her home in a displaced persons camp in Agok, South Sudan. Tens of thousands of residents of Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan, remain displaced in Agok. Under a 2005 peace agreement, Abyei was supposed to have a referendum to decide which country it would join, but the two countries have yet to agree on who can vote. In 2011, militias aligned with Khartoum drove out most of Abyei's Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. More than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned to Abyei with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled wells, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet continuing insecurity means a greater number remain in Agok, where they remain dependant on Caritas and other organizations for food and other support.
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  • A young displaced woman stands in the doorway of her house in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum.
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  • A woman and her child stand in the flooded doorway of her home 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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  • Nigenson Dupres, 15, holds his younger brother Jefte in the doorway to their home in Despagne, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life.
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  • Imaculador Dupres in the doorway of her kitchen in Despagne, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life.
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  • Imaculador Dupres in the doorway of her kitchen in Despagne, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life.
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  • Charlie Peter, a school teacher in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti, poses in the doorway of his class. The Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents of Les Palmes, to experience more abundant life. The LWF sponsors this school.
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  • A child in the doorway of a shelter in the Aamer al Sanad refugee settlement in Kab Elias, a town in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley which has filled with Syrian refugees. Lebanon hosts some 1.5 million refugees from Syria, yet allows no large camps to be established. So refugees have moved into poor neighborhoods or established small informal settlements, such as Aamer al Sanad, in border areas. International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides support for refugees in Kab Elias, including a community clinic.
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  • Christivie Mulonda, a 5-year old survivor of Ebola, sits in the doorway of her family's home in Beni, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has been hard hit by the Ebola outbreak that began in 2018. Although the virus left her an orphan, she survived in part because of intervention by community health promoters from the Programme de Promotion de Soins Santé Primaires, a local faith-based partner of IMA World Health. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
    drc-2019-jeffrey-ima-ebola-1008-145.jpg
  • Ashmita Lama studies in the doorway of her home in Chandragiri, Nepal. Lama, 19, receives a scholarship from Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh (the YWCA of Nepal) to go to school in Kathmandu. She was the first girl from her village to pass the 10th grade exam, and is studying to be a hotel manager, saying she wants to earn lots of money and help build her community, while encouraging other girls to get an education. When the 2015 earthquake hit, her old home was destroyed. With support from United Methodist Women, Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh provided the family with a tent. Then UMCOR provided the metal roofing for what will eventually become their new home.
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  • Mariam Mohammed is a woman who fled Timbuktu, a city in northern Mali, when it was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012. She returned home in May, 2013, after the city and region had been liberated by French and Malian soldiers. Here she sits in the doorway of her one-room home in Timbuktu.
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  • A woman and her child sit in the doorway of their home in Tuingo, an ethnic Chin village in Myanmar.
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  • Rosa Antesano and her husband Jose Ortega in the doorway of their house in the Guarani indigenous village of Choroquepiao, in the Chaco region of Bolivia. They and their neighbors started family gardens with assistance from Church World Service, supplementing their corn-based diet with nutritious vegetables and fruits.
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  • Fathiya Qasem and her family stand in the doorway of their transitional house in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. The house was provided by the local government after her home was destroyed by an Israeli air strike in 2014. The family received a water tank and hygiene supplies from International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance. Before the water tank was installed, the children of the family had to walk 15 minutes to a United Nations school to carry back water. Now, according to their mother, they can spend their time studying.
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  • A man sitting in the door of his home in the Chamroen neighborhood of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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  • A child in Quilombo Tiningu, near Santarem, Brazil. Quilombos are Brazilian hinterland settlements founded by people of African origin, mostly slaves.
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: Local contractor Olexander Sviridov works on bomb shelter renovation at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16. The school is currently empty of its students, with classes taught online only, until secure bomb shelters can be restored at the school. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces in February 2022, Ukrainian schools are no longer allowed to undertake onsite schooling without functional bomb shelters available in case or air raids or other attacks. The Lutheran World Federation collaborates with the municipality of Ichnya to help renovate existing but not-yet-functional shelters in the school basement, intended to secure protection for at least 1,000 people in case of emergency. [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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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: 'Exit' reads letters on a door in an underground bomb shelter undergoing renovation at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16. The school is currently empty of its students, with classes taught online only, until secure bomb shelters can be restored at the school. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces in February 2022, Ukrainian schools are no longer allowed to undertake onsite schooling without functional bomb shelters available in case or air raids or other attacks. The Lutheran World Federation collaborates with the municipality of Ichnya to help renovate existing but not-yet-functional shelters in the school basement, intended to secure protection for at least 1,000 people in case of emergency. [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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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: Local contractor Olexander Sviridov works on bomb shelter renovation at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16. The school is currently empty of its students, with classes taught online only, until secure bomb shelters can be restored at the school. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces in February 2022, Ukrainian schools are no longer allowed to undertake onsite schooling without functional bomb shelters available in case or air raids or other attacks. The Lutheran World Federation collaborates with the municipality of Ichnya to help renovate existing but not-yet-functional shelters in the school basement, intended to secure protection for at least 1,000 people in case of emergency. [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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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: Underground bomb shelter undergoing renovation at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16. The school is currently empty of its students, with classes taught online only, until secure bomb shelters can be restored at the school. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces in February 2022, Ukrainian schools are no longer allowed to undertake onsite schooling without functional bomb shelters available in case or air raids or other attacks. The Lutheran World Federation collaborates with the municipality of Ichnya to help renovate existing but not-yet-functional shelters in the school basement, intended to secure protection for at least 1,000 people in case of emergency. [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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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: 41-year-old Victoria Hlushko pushes a small rock in place as a way of closing the door to what used to be her family home in the village of Bil’machivka, until Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and the apartment was destroyed in the fighting that ensued. Inheriting the apartment from her father eight years ago, Victoria lived in the apartment with her husband, their son (3 years) and daughter (13 years) until the day it was destroyed. She recalls the family being just about to enter the apartment when an explosion hit the building as fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces took place at the road outside. They sought shelter in the basement, but as it became filled with smoke, they had to exit through an emergency back door and take shelter in another building in the village. The village of Bil’machivka, a community of just over 500 people north of Ichnya, Chernihiv Oblast, was just on the route taken by Russian military forces as they marched towards Kyiv following the invasion of Ukraine in the early spring of 2022. Many people lost their homes in this period, as fighting and attacks led to houses being either severely damaged, or simply razed to the ground. [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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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: Local contractor Olexander Sviridov works on bomb shelter renovation at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16. The school is currently empty of its students, with classes taught online only, until secure bomb shelters can be restored at the school. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces in February 2022, Ukrainian schools are no longer allowed to undertake onsite schooling without functional bomb shelters available in case or air raids or other attacks. The Lutheran World Federation collaborates with the municipality of Ichnya to help renovate existing but not-yet-functional shelters in the school basement, intended to secure protection for at least 1,000 people in case of emergency. [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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  • 22 May 2022, Moscow, Russia: Gate to the Danilov monastery compound of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
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  • 13 October 2022, Ichnya, Ukraine: Underground bomb shelter undergoing renovation at the Ichnya school of Vasilchenko in the Ichnya municipality of Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine — home to 540 students (boys and girls) aged 6-16. The school is currently empty of its students, with classes taught online only, until secure bomb shelters can be restored at the school. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces in February 2022, Ukrainian schools are no longer allowed to undertake onsite schooling without functional bomb shelters available in case or air raids or other attacks. The Lutheran World Federation collaborates with the municipality of Ichnya to help renovate existing but not-yet-functional shelters in the school basement, intended to secure protection for at least 1,000 people in case of emergency. [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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  • 24 May 2022, Rostov-on-Don, Russia: Refugee families from Ukraine queue to receive aid packages at the main humanitarian aid centre of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) diocese of Rostov-on-Don in southwest Russia, located by the Protection of the Theotokos Church in Rostov-on-Don. The aid centre serves as a collection and distribution point for aid to refugees arriving from neighbouring Ukraine, close to a million of whom have fled to Russia according to mid-May figures from the United Nations (UNHCR) following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. While some refugees receive temporary accommodation and meals through the Russian state, the church’s main aid centre in Rostov-on-Don offers bi-weekly packages of food and other essentials for refugee families housed on their own in and around Rostov-on-Don, as well as supplying pampers, clothing and other items upon request. The centre serves some 130 refugee families daily. [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
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