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  • A bridge over the Rio Iztoca in southern Honduras. Though it is the rainy season, the river bed is dry. The river has dried up in recent years, along with many other rivers in the region, this is thought to be partly from stripping of vegetation and forest cover in the watersheds that feed the rivers in the south, and also due to the influence of climate change. The IPCC predicted a likelihood of reduced rainfall in the region. Agriculture has already been failing in the area for eight years because of drought conditions.
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  • The bridge over the Rio Choluteca at the entrance to Choluteca city. The river has been reduced to dry strips and puddles.
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  • Rio Gallo. One of many dry river beds in the region of northern Nicaragua. Climate change has brought prolonged droughts to the area, for several years the rain has been erratic and insufficient, causing loss of crops year after year, and a drop in the water table drying up rivers and wells. ELCA supports projects for the adaptation of communities to climate change, and the perforation of deep wells for drinking water and for irrigation.
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  • 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.
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  • Pedro Rodolfo Orteaga, a small farmer, walks along the bed of a river that has gone dry since a Canadian mining company installed a gold mine in the area and has monopolized the area's water, leaving small farms and riverbeds dry. Orteaga is a member of a group of area residents that oppose the mine's activities.
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  • Pedro Rodolfo Orteaga, a small farmer, stands on the bed of a river that has gone dry since a Canadian mining company installed a gold mine in the area and has monopolized the area's water, leaving small farms and riverbeds dry. Orteaga is a member of a group of area residents that oppose the mine's activities.
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  • Pedro Rodolfo Orteaga, a small farmer, stands on the bed of a river that has gone dry since a Canadian mining company installed a gold mine in the area and has monopolized the area's water, leaving small farms and riverbeds dry. Orteaga is a member of a group of area residents that oppose the mine's activities.
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  • Children run along the bed of a river in Honduras that has gone dry since a Canadian mining company installed a gold mine in the area and has monopolized the area's water, leaving small farms and riverbeds dry.
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  • Pedro Rodolfo Orteaga, a small farmer, stands on the bed of a river that has gone dry since a Canadian mining company installed a gold mine in the area and has monopolized the area's water, leaving small farms and riverbeds dry. Orteaga is a member of a group of area residents that oppose the mine's activities.
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  • 31 May 2019, Mokolo, Cameroon: After an eight-month dry season, the riverbed of Mayo Tsanaga ('Tsanaga River') lies dry at the outskirts of the city of Maroua in the Far North region of Cameroon.
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  • Cable bridge over the Rio Coco, Nicaragua's biggest river, now reduced to a small stream. Climate change, predicted by the IPCC, has brought drought to this region, known as the dry corridor, stretching from Nicaragua through El Salvador and Honduras to Guatemala.
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  • Phon Pheurn spreads out rice to dry in the sun in front of her house in the Cambodian village of Pheakdei.
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  • Phon Pheurn spreads out rice to dry in the sun in front of her house in the Cambodian village of Pheakdei.
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  • Phon Pheurn spreads out rice to dry in the sun in front of her house in the Cambodian village of Pheakdei.
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  • Phon Pheurn spreads out rice to dry in the sun in front of her house in the Cambodian village of Pheakdei.
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  • Phon Pheurn spreads out rice to dry in the sun in front of her house in the Cambodian village of Pheakdei.
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  • Juani Martinez, a Methodist woman in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, serves food to Cuban immigrants in that city’s Plaza Benito Juarez on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo.
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  • Juani Martinez cooks food for Cuban immigrants in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo, and is cooking in the city's Divino Salvador Methodist Church. <br />
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Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border.
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  • At the lagoon of Alegría, Usulután, El Salvador, water levels have dropped dramatically in the drought that is affecting the region. Here, the water has receded hundreds of metres, a man carries a 'cantaro' of water across the dry lagoon bed. The effect of climate changes in the central american region are already extreme.
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  • 13 June 2016, Tbilisi, Georgia: Laundry hanging to dry in the Tbilisi Old Town.
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  • Laura Rodriguez helps unload supplies at the Holding Institute in Laredo, Texas, on March 3, 2017. The clothing, food and other materials were donated by Cuban-Americans in other parts of the country and shipped by truck to Laredo for distribution to hundreds of Cuban immigrants stuck on the other side of the Mexican border, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don't want to return to Cuba. Many churches in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations there rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Rodriguez is a volunteer with Holding, an institution sponsored by United Methodist Women.
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  • Gerald Morales helps unload supplies at the Holding Institute in Laredo, Texas, on March 3, 2017. The clothing, food and other materials were donated by Cuban-Americans in other parts of the country and shipped by truck to Laredo for distribution to hundreds of Cuban immigrants stuck on the other side of the Mexican border, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don't want to return to Cuba. Many churches in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations there rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Morales is a volunteer with Holding, an institution sponsored by United Methodist Women.
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  • Gerald Morales helps unload supplies at the Holding Institute in Laredo, Texas, on March 3, 2017. The clothing, food and other materials were donated by Cuban-Americans in other parts of the country and shipped by truck to Laredo for distribution to hundreds of Cuban immigrants stuck on the other side of the Mexican border, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don't want to return to Cuba. Many churches in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations there rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Morales is a volunteer with Holding, an institution sponsored by United Methodist Women.
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  • Laura Rodriguez helps unload supplies at the Holding Institute in Laredo, Texas, on March 3, 2017. The clothing, food and other materials were donated by Cuban-Americans in other parts of the country and shipped by truck to Laredo for distribution to hundreds of Cuban immigrants stuck on the other side of the Mexican border, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don't want to return to Cuba. Many churches in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations there rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Rodriguez is a volunteer with Holding, an institution sponsored by United Methodist Women.
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  • Juani Martinez and Maria Natividad Granados, both Methodist women in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, serve food to Cuban immigrants in that city’s Plaza Benito Juarez on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo. Granados is a member of the El Ebenezer Methodist Church.
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  • Juani Martinez, a Methodist woman in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, serves food to Cuban immigrants in that city’s Plaza Benito Juarez on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo.
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  • Maria Natividad Granados, a Methodist woman in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, serves food to Cuban immigrants in that city's Plaza Benito Juarez on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Granados is a member of the El Ebenezer Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo.
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  • Juani Martinez, a Methodist woman in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, serves food to Cuban immigrants in that city’s Plaza Benito Juarez on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo.
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  • Maria Natividad Granados, a Methodist woman in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, serves food to Cuban immigrants in that city's Plaza Benito Juarez on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Granados is a member of the El Ebenezer Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo.
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  • Carisa Aquilar takes a photo of herself and other Methodists in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, after they served food to Cuban immigrants in that city's Plaza Benito Juarez on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don't want to return to Cuba. Many of the city's churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Aguilar is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo.
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  • Maria Natividad Granados (left) and Juani Martinez, both Methodist women in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, serve food to Cuban immigrants in that city's Plaza Benito Juarez on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don't want to return to Cuba. Many of the city's churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Granados is a member of the El Ebenezer Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo.
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  • Mario Hernandez, a Pentecostal pastor, plays the guitar and sings to Cuban immigrants waiting in line for food in a park in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Hernandez is pastor of the city's Dios Provera Church.<br />
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Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border.
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  • Mario Hernandez, a Pentecostal pastor, plays the guitar and sings to Cuban immigrants waiting in line for food in a park in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Hernandez is pastor of the city's Dios Provera Church.<br />
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Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border.
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  • Juani Martinez and other Methodists in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, serve food to Cuban immigrants in that city’s Plaza Benito Juarez on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo.
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  • Methodists prepare food for Cuban immigrants in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city's churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border.
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  • Juani Martinez and other Methodists in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, serve food to Cuban immigrants in that city’s Plaza Benito Juarez on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo.
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  • Juani Martinez and other Methodists in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, serve food to Cuban immigrants in that city’s Plaza Benito Juarez on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don't want to return to Cuba. Many of the city's churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo.
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  • Methodists prepare food for Cuban immigrants in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city's churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. <br />
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On left, Maria Natividad Granados. In the middle is the Rev. Jaser Davila. On the right is Juani Martinez. They are cooking in the Divino Salvador Methodist Church.
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  • Juani Martinez cooks food for Cuban immigrants in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo, and is cooking in the city's Divino Salvador Methodist Church. <br />
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Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border.
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  • Juani Martinez cooks food for Cuban immigrants in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo, and is cooking in the city's Divino Salvador Methodist Church. <br />
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Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border.
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  • Juani Martinez laughs as she cooks food for Cuban immigrants in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo, and is cooking in the city's Divino Salvador Methodist Church. <br />
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Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border.
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  • Cuban immigrants wait in a park in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don't want to return to Cuba. Many of the city's churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border.
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  • Anaivis Machado, a psychologist, and her 3-year old son Dario sit in the Plaza Benito Juarez in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. They left their home in Santa Clara, Cuba, bound for the United States, but are now waiting close to the U.S.-Mexico border, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don't want to return to Cuba. Many of the city's churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Machado's husband is a member of the Methodist Church in Cuba.
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  • Cuban immigrants wait in the Plaza Benito Juarez in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don't want to return to Cuba. Many of the city's churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border.
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  • Elizabeth Bermudez (left) and her son Kevin and husband Emilio Gonzalez pose in the Plaza Benito Juarez in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. They are among hundreds of Cubans stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don't want to return to Cuba. Many of the city's churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border.
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  • A refugee pulls on dry clothing after crossing the Aegean Sea in a small overcrowded boat from Turkey to Greece, landing on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 29, 2015. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums. They were received in Greece by local and international volunteers, then proceeded on their way toward western Europe.
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  • At the lagoon of Alegría, Usulután, El Salvador, water levels have dropped dramatically in the drought that is affecting the region. Here, the water has receded hundreds of metres, a man carries a 'cantaro' of water across the dry lagoon bed. The effect of climate changes in the central american region are already extreme.
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  • Laura Rodriguez helps unload supplies at the Holding Institute in Laredo, Texas, on March 3, 2017. The clothing, food and other materials were donated by Cuban-Americans in other parts of the country and shipped by truck to Laredo for distribution to hundreds of Cuban immigrants stuck on the other side of the Mexican border, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet most don't want to return to Cuba. Many churches in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations there rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans will be tested in coming months, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Rodriguez is a volunteer with Holding, an institution sponsored by United Methodist Women.
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  • Ana Rangel, a Methodist woman in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, hands out candy to Cuban immigrants in that city's Plaza Benito Juarez on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Rangel, a member of the Buen Pastor Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo, is passing the candy out after the immigrants have eaten.
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  • Junio Simon holds his 3-year old son Carlos, and he poses with his wife Anaivis Machado and their 17-year old son Josue in the Plaza Benito Juarez in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. They left their home in Santa Clara, Cuba, bound for the United States, but are now waiting on the U.S.-Mexico border, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don't want to return to Cuba. Many of the city's churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border. Machado's husband is a member of the Methodist Church in Cuba.
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  • Maira Bondejas sits in the Plaza Benito Juarez in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. She left her home in Cuba bound for the United States, but is now waiting close to the U.S.-Mexico border, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. She and other Cuban refugees are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don't want to return to Cuba. Many of the city's churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans. Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border.
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  • At the lagoon of Alegría, Usulután, El Salvador, water levels have dropped dramatically in the drought that is affecting the region. Here, the water has receded hundreds of metres, a man walks across the dry lagoon bed. The effect of climate changes in the central american region are already extreme.
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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: Laundry hangs to dry. 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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  • Pedro Rodolfo Orteaga, a small farmer, stands on the bed of a river that has gone almost completely dry since a Canadian mining company installed a gold mine in the area and has monopolized the area's water, leaving small farms and riverbeds with little water. Orteaga is a member of a group of area residents that oppose the mine's activities.
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  • Pedro Rodolfo Orteaga, a small farmer, with his meager corn crop from a field that has suffered from lack of water ever since a Canadian mining company installed a gold mine in the area and has monopolized the area's water, leaving small farms and riverbeds dry. Orteaga is a member of a group of area residents that oppose the mine's activities.
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  • Pedro Rodolfo Orteaga (left), a small farmer, harvests his meager corn crop from a field that has suffered from lack of water ever since a Canadian mining company installed a gold mine in the area and has monopolized the area's water, leaving small farms and riverbeds dry. Orteaga is a member of a group of area residents that oppose the mine's activities.
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  • A young woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas featuring a larger than life church prelate--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas of a dollar bill--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas of a dollar bill--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas of a dollar bill--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • 2 March 2017, Morija, Maseru district, Lesotho: Laundry hanging to dry, at Scott Hospital. Scott Hospital is run by the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa and is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Lesotho. It is located in the village of Morija, and operates and supervises clinics in the Maseru District of Lesotho. Scott started out as a dispensary in 1864, and today offers comprehensive healthcare Mondays-Fridays, as well as pharmaceutical services around the clock. Lesotho suffers from high numbers in Tuberculosis in disesase and mortality, and so the hospital screens all patients for TB. The hospital observes among many patients what they describe as ”low health-seeking behaviour”, services are increasing and demand rising, but space and human resources are a challenge, as is funding. I key concern is one of infrastructure, where the original design of the hospital matches poorly with current needs, as departments and buildings are scattered, posing a challenge for security. Another challenge is to adapt donation structures, so as to be able to receive payments electronically. The hospital has one ambulance, which they describe as not enough, but what they have. Another challenge is that lack of funds affects maintenance of buildings and infrastructure, as the immediate care of patients take priority. PLEASE NOTE: This photo is not to be used in social media.
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  • A woman breaks up soaked cassava and lays it on black plastic in the sun to dry in Karonga, an area in northern Malawi which has been hit hard by drought and hunger.
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  • A woman breaks up soaked cassava and lays it in the sun to dry in Karonga, an area in northern Malawi which has been hit hard by drought and hunger.
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  • Women break up soaked cassava and lay it in the sun to dry in Karonga, an area in northern Malawi which has been hit hard by drought and hunger.
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  • 16 September 2018, Sirsiya Tole, Jahada rural municipality, Nepal: Pots and pan lie to dry in the sun outside a home in Sirsiya Tole, a community inhabited by Santal and Dalit (Musahar) people, who find themselves as the very margin of society in Nepal. Through support from the Nepal Evangelical Lutheran Church, the community has been able to recover and develop flood resilience, and to mobilize to make their voices heard in the local government, as Nepal is transitioning into a federal government system.
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  • 27 January 2019,  Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: A riverbed lies dry in Seweyna woreda, near the Wada IDP site.
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  • A woman breaks up soaked cassava and lays it on black plastic in the sun to dry in Karonga, an area in northern Malawi which has been hit hard by drought and hunger.
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  • A woman arranges her laundry to dry in Santa Cruz, 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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  • Lorette Beauvoit hangs clean laundry to dry on a clothesline in front of her tent. She is one of thousands of survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake who today lives in the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas of a dollar bill--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A woman hangs laundry to dry on a fence 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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  • Miriana Daeli hangs her laundry to dry in front of her home in in Tugala, a village on the Indonesian island of Nias. 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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  • Tri Sabarian Hia, 11, hangs laundry to dry in front of her home in Tugala, a village on the Indonesian island of Nias. <br />
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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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  • 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 hangs laundry to dry in the home she shares in Mundri.
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  • Displaced by war, a woman hangs laundry to dry in the Makpandu refugee camp in Southern Sudan, 44 km north of Yambio, where more that 4,000 people took refuge in late 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army attacked their communities inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Attacks by the LRA inside Southern Sudan and in the neighboring DRC and Central African Republic have displaced tens of thousands of people, and many worry the attacks will increase as the government in Khartoum uses the LRA to destabilize Southern Sudan, where people are scheduled to vote on independence in January 2011. Catholic pastoral workers have accompanied the people of this camp from the beginning. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • A woman hangs laundry to dry in the sun 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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  • Lorette Beauvoit sets out her wet laundry to dry on the ground around her tent. She is one of thousands of survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake who today lives in the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
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  • A survivor of Haiti's devastating earthquake, Rosena Cheriben hangs laundry to dry in front of her 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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  • A survivor of Haiti's devastating earthquake, Rosena Cheriben hangs laundry to dry in front of her 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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  • A survivor of Haiti's devastating earthquake, Rosena Cheriben hangs laundry to dry in front of her 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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  • Fadia, who escaped fighting in Aleppo, Syria, hangs laundry to dry in front of her family's shelter in the Aamer al Sanad refugee settlement in Kab Elias, a town in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley which has filled with Syrian refugees. Two of her ten children were killed in Syria's civil war. <br />
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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 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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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas of a dollar bill--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas of a dollar bill--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas of a dollar bill--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas of a dollar bill--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas of a dollar bill--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A girl in Luwerzi works stringing together tobacco leaves which are then hung to dry. The cash crop is a key element of the rural economy in Malawi.
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  • A woman hangs laundry to dry on a fence 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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  • A woman hangs laundry to dry on a fence 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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  • A woman hangs laundry to dry on a fence 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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  • A woman hangs out laundry to dry on her fence in Khnach, a village in the Kampot region of Cambodia.
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  • Necmie Ahmed, 67, hangs laundry to dry in front of her home in a largely Roma, Turkish-speaking neighborhood of Dobrich, in the northeast of Bulgaria.
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  • Lorette Beauvoit sets out her wet laundry to dry on the ground around her tent. She is one of thousands of survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake who today lives in the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
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  • Oscar Alexis Maldonado Ramírez rides his horse 'Palomo' along a stretch of the Rio Nacaome. <br />
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"We're in the middle of the river, in the middle of what was the river, it shouldn't be like this should it? Even when it rains, which is rare now, the water disappears quickly, the crops fail without irrigation, but now the wells keep drying up so we can't irrigate. I've just taken my cattle away, they can't survive here without water. In fact we can't survive here without water."
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  • A bridge over the Choluteca River, also known as the Rio Grande. With the prolonged droughts in this region, because of climate change, the river frequently dries up except for ponds on the river bed.
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  • Children play under a bridge on the Rio Iztoca, Choluteca, Honduras. With the prolonged droughts affecting the area because of climate change, the river is mainly dried up.
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  • A woman cuts bananas into pieces which are then dried in the sun in the village of Baclog in the Compostela Valley on Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines. The dried banana pieces are turned into animal feed.
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