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  • Ten-month old Johan gets an IV inserted in his hand by Nurse Jazmine Gino-Gino (right) in the emergency room of the Mary Johnston Hospital in Manila, Philippines. Holding the boy down is Nurse Brian Grape Maningding. Johan's mother, Mirakel Guarin, comforts the boy.<br />
<br />
The hospital is supported by United Methodist Women.
    philippines-2018-jeffrey-mjh-641.JPG
  • Misbah Teleumbanua (right) gets her leg checked by Dr. Ester Oksianita in Teleumbanua's work room at her home in Gamo, a village on the Indonesian island of Nias. Teleumbanua lost one leg as a baby, and spent most of her life hopping around on the other leg. Then following the 2005 earthquake on Nias, a mobile team from the Yakkum Emergency Unit, an ACT Alliance member agency, came to her neighborhood looking for people who'd been left disabled by the quake. They told her they'd help her as well. In a clinic they opened on the island, Teleumbanua learned to use crutches and was fitted with a proper prosthesis, then took a three-month tailoring class which allowed her to open her own business sewing clothes for her neighbors. Oksianita serves on the staff of the clinic, which has evolved over the years from a specialty center for people with disabilities into a clinic serving the entire population.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-005.jpg
  • A girl living in a camp for homeless families helps unload bleach, part of an emergency shipment of relief supplies delivered to quake survivors in Jacmel, a town on Haiti's southern coast that was ravaged by the January 12 earthquake.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-266.jpg
  • A protestor carries a sign that reads: Moorland is on firs right now in Yorkshire and Scotland, This is a Climate Emergency.
    UK_Hawkey_ExtinctionRebellion_201904...jpg
  • A woman signs a receipt book upon receiving a package of food and other emergency supplies from the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate. The material provided here by LWF included material provided by Church World Service, another member of the ACT Alliance.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-363.jpg
  • Servjan, a survivor of the October 2005 quake that almost completely destroyed her city of Balakot, Pakistan, still lives in the rubble today, sheltered by a motley collection of scrap materials and emergency tents and tarps.
    pakistan-2006-jeffrey-quake-response...jpg
  • Children use a piece of cloth to net small fish in a polluted stream in the Suburban neighborhood of Rodriguez, Rizal, in the Philippines. Most of the community's families were relocated here from other area of Manila and the nearby countryside to make way for urban renewal projects or to move them out of harm's way. Yet the new community was hit hard by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, and Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency relief supplies. Over the years since, with help from Christian Aid and other groups, community members have organized themselves and engaged in a process of disaster risk reduction, including identifying and mapping high-risk zones and evacuation routes in their area. Christian Aid has also assisted with financial and technical support for income generating livelihood projects and community enterprises.
    philippines-2012-jeffrey-U37.jpg
  • Women bathing and washing laundry along a stream that flows through the Suburban neighborhood of Rodriguez, Rizal, in the Philippines. Most of the community's families were relocated here from other area of Manila and the nearby countryside to make way for urban renewal projects or to move them out of harm's way. Yet the new community was hit hard by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, and Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency relief supplies. Over the years since, with help from Christian Aid and other groups, community members have organized themselves and engaged in a process of disaster risk reduction, including identifying and mapping high-risk zones and evacuation routes in their area. Christian Aid has also assisted with financial and technical support for income generating livelihood projects and community enterprises.
    philippines-2012-jeffrey-U19.jpg
  • In a camp for the displaced near Bilel, families displaced by the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan have taken refuge from the violence, and are assisted by ACT-Caritas with a variety of emergency services, including seeds and agricultural tools, schools and pre-schools for their children, and health care. Mohammed Husain, 4, here sleeps under a blanket provided by ACT-Caritas.
    sudan-2007-jeffrey-darfur-079.jpg
  • Lovius Joseph pulls a donkey in Picmy, a village on the Haitian island of La Gonave, where Service Chrétien d’Haïti is working with survivors of Hurricane Matthew, which struck the region in 2016. SCH is a member of the ACT Alliance. <br />
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Donkeys are an important part of SCH's emergency response on La Gonave. They provide families with transportation along rocky hillsides, helping them get their agricultural harvest to market and helping women carry water long distances.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-5069.JPG
  • Rehena Akhter gets her son Borna ready for school in Suihari in northern Bangladesh. Devastating floods in August 2017 affected thousands of families across the region, and Akter and her family lost their home. Today they live with a neighbor, and she's hopeful she can soon borrow the money from a local savings group in order to start construction of her own home.<br />
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While families in the area were still displaced by high waters, Christian Aid and the Christian Commission for Development Bangladesh, both members of the ACT Alliance, worked together to provide emergency food packages to vulnerable residents, including Akter and her family.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-flooding-C35...JPG
  • In order to raise her home a few inches, Shosida Begum carries dirt in a basket in West Fasura, a village on an island in the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh. Severe flooding in August 2017 destroyed the island's crops but RDRS Bangladesh, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency cash grants to vulnerable island families so they could reestablish their household economies and restart their lives.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-flooding-B26...JPG
  • A street scene in the Suburban neighborhood of Rodriguez, Rizal, in the Philippines. Most of the community's families were relocated here from other area of Manila and the nearby countryside to make way for urban renewal projects or to move them out of harm's way. Yet the new community was hit hard by Typhoon Ketsana in 2009, and Christian Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency relief supplies. Over the years since, with help from Christian Aid and other groups, community members have organized themselves and engaged in a process of disaster risk reduction, including identifying and mapping high-risk zones and evacuation routes in their area. Christian Aid has also assisted with financial and technical support for income generating livelihood projects and community enterprises.
    philippines-2012-jeffrey-U59.jpg
  • 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 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 her wheelchair just outside her rebuilt home.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-092.jpg
  • 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 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 her wheelchair just outside her rebuilt home.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-006.jpg
  • Children sing a song in class at the Shri Pashupati Praja Primary School in the village of Tanglichowk, in the Gorkha District of Nepal. In the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, the ACT Alliance helped people in this village with a variety of services, including latrines, emergency shelter, livelihood projects and school construction.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_310192.jpg
  • Children line up to begin the day at the Shri Pashupati Praja Primary School in the village of Tanglichowk, in the Gorkha District of Nepal. In the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, the ACT Alliance helped people in this village with a variety of services, including latrines, emergency shelter, livelihood projects and school construction.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_310055.jpg
  • Rohan, a 7-year old boy in Suihari in northern Bangladesh, sits in the rubble of what was once his family's home. Devastating floods in August 2017 affected thousands of families across the region, and Rohan's family lost theirs. Today they live with a neighbor, and his mother is hopeful she can soon borrow the money from a local savings group in order to start construction of her own home.<br />
<br />
While families in the area were still displaced by high waters, Christian Aid and the Christian Commission for Development Bangladesh, both members of the ACT Alliance, worked together to provide emergency food packages to vulnerable residents, including Rohan and his family.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-flooding-C36...JPG
  • In order to raise her home a few inches, Shosida Begum carries dirt in a basket in West Fasura, a village on an island in the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh. Severe flooding in August 2017 destroyed the island's crops but RDRS Bangladesh, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided emergency cash grants to vulnerable island families so they could reestablish their household economies and restart their lives.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-flooding-08.JPG
  • Nurse Jazmine Gino-Gino (right) checks the flow on an IV she just inserted in the hand of ten-month old Johan in the emergency room of the Mary Johnston Hospital in Manila, Philippines. Holding the boy down is Nurse Brian Grape Maningding. Johan's mother, Mirakel Guarin, comforts the boy.<br />
<br />
The hospital is supported by United Methodist Women.
    philippines-2018-jeffrey-mjh-647.JPG
  • Ten-month old Johan gets an IV inserted in his hand in the emergency room of the Mary Johnston Hospital in Manila, Philippines. The hospital is supported by United Methodist Women.
    philippines-2018-jeffrey-mjh-638.JPG
  • Dr. Bhurtel Prajwol talks with Mirakel Guarin as she hold her 10-month old con Johan in the emergency room of the Mary Johnston Hospital in Manila, Philippines. The boy was suffering from diarrhea.<br />
<br />
The hospital is supported by United Methodist Women.
    philippines-2018-jeffrey-mjh-616.JPG
  • Ten-month old Johan gets an IV inserted in his hand by Nurse Jazmine Gino-Gino in the emergency room of the Mary Johnston Hospital in Manila, Philippines. Holding the boy down is Nurse Brian Grape Maningding. <br />
<br />
The hospital is supported by United Methodist Women.
    philippines-2018-jeffrey-mjh-623.JPG
  • Ten-month old Johan gets an IV inserted in his hand by Nurse Jazmine Gino-Gino in the emergency room of the Mary Johnston Hospital in Manila, Philippines. Holding the boy down is Nurse Brian Grape Maningding. <br />
<br />
The hospital is supported by United Methodist Women.
    philippines-2018-jeffrey-mjh-619.JPG
  • Dr. Bhurtel Prajwol talks with Mirakel Guarin as she hold her 10-month old con Johan in the emergency room of the Mary Johnston Hospital in Manila, Philippines. The boy was suffering from diarrhea.<br />
<br />
The hospital is supported by United Methodist Women.
    philippines-2018-jeffrey-mjh-613.JPG
  • Dr. Bhurtel Prajwol examines 10-month old Johan in the emergency room of the Mary Johnston Hospital in Manila, Philippines. The boy was suffering from diarrhea.<br />
<br />
The hospital is supported by United Methodist Women.
    philippines-2018-jeffrey-mjh-610.JPG
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0870.jpg
  • 8 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: Hungarian Interchurch Aid staff Boaz Kis overviews an old wine cellar in Budafok, Budapest, repurposed to serve as a storage and emergency support facility, where a dozen volunteers work daily to form a collection point for donations and other material support for Ukrainian refugees following the Russian invasion of the country in February 2022. HIA receives, sorts and logs donations from the public in Hungary, and channels them onward to the border areas between Ukraine and Hungary, as well as into Ukraine, where as an early response the HIA have set up two refugee support centres in the subcarpathian region. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February, hundreds of thousands of people have crossed the border into Hungary to seek refuge. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
    Hungary-2022-Hillert-20220308_AH2_74...jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-1440.JPG
  • A woman unloads emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-1439.JPG
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0913.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0887.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0884.JPG
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0845.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0833.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0824.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0816.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0824.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0870.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0887.jpg
  • A woman helps another woman up a muddy bank as they unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0904.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0913.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
<br />
Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-1440.JPG
  • Misbah Teleumbanua (right) measures Amy Zendrato for a blouse in Teleumbanua's work room at her home in Gamo, a village on the Indonesian island of Nias. Teleumbanua lost one leg as a baby, and spent most of her life hopping around on the other leg. Then following the 2005 earthquake on Nias, a mobile team from the Yakkum Emergency Unit, an ACT Alliance member agency, came to her neighborhood looking for people who'd been left disabled by the quake. They told her they'd help her as well. In a clinic they opened on the island, Teleumbanua learned to use crutches and was fitted with a proper prosthesis, then took a three-month tailoring class which allowed her to open her own business sewing clothes for her neighbors.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-006.jpg
  • Misbah Teleumbanua (right) visits with Dr. Ester Oksianita in Teleumbanua's work room at her home in Gamo, a village on the Indonesian island of Nias. Teleumbanua lost one leg as a baby, and spent most of her life hopping around on the other leg. Then following the 2005 earthquake on Nias, a mobile team from the Yakkum Emergency Unit, an ACT Alliance member agency, came to her neighborhood looking for people who'd been left disabled by the quake. They told her they'd help her as well. In a clinic they opened on the island, Teleumbanua learned to use crutches and was fitted with a proper prosthesis, then took a three-month tailoring class which allowed her to open her own business sewing clothes for her neighbors. Oksianita serves on the staff of the clinic, which has evolved over the years from a specialty center for people with disabilities into a clinic serving the entire population.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-004.jpg
  • KG Mathaikutty, an emergency specialist with the Lutheran World Federation, rides a boat to Jinamoc Island, part of the municipality of Basey in the Philippines province of Samar that was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. LWF is a member of the ACT Alliance, which has been providing a variety of forms of assistance to survivors here, and Mathaikutty and other ACT Alliance leaders spent several days in this and other affected communities learning first hand about the network's emergency response and long-term plans for recovery and rehabilitation.
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  • 17 March 2022, Siret, Romania: Emergency support tent at the Vama Siret border crossing, Romania. The Vama Siret border crossing connects northeast Romania with Ukraine. Located north of Siret and further in the south the city of Suceava, the crossing connects Romania with the Ukrainian village of Terebleche and further north the city of Chernivtsi. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military starting on 24 February 2022, close to half a million refugees have fled across the Ukrainian border into Romania. In the past 24 hours, government figures indicate more than 50,000 people have crossed the border in search of refuge, an estimated 20 percent of whom are expected to stay in Romania, rather than transit into other European countries. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH2_93...jpg
  • 8 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: Hungarian Interchurch Aid staff Boaz Kis overviews an old wine cellar in Budafok, Budapest, repurposed to serve as a storage and emergency support facility, where a dozen volunteers work daily to form a collection point for donations and other material support for Ukrainian refugees following the Russian invasion of the country in February 2022. HIA receives, sorts and logs donations from the public in Hungary, and channels them onward to the border areas between Ukraine and Hungary, as well as into Ukraine, where as an early response the HIA have set up two refugee support centres in the subcarpathian region. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February, hundreds of thousands of people have crossed the border into Hungary to seek refuge. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
    Hungary-2022-Hillert-20220308_AH2_74...jpg
  • A woman helps another woman up a muddy bank as they unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
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The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
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DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
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  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
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The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
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DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0816.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
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DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0833.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0845.jpg
  • Women unload emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0884.JPG
  • A woman unloads emergency food aid in Akobo, South Sudan, on October 6, 2021. Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity. <br />
<br />
The 50 pound bags of sorghum, provided by the United Nations' World Food Program, were transported by river barge to the remote community, a lengthy and dangerous process. On October 2, as it was traveling in a convoy of boats carrying relief supplies, the boat was fired upon and two people were wounded. They were hospitalized after the boat arrived in Akobo, which is near the Ethiopian border. <br />
<br />
DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
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  • An emergency worker for the ACT Alliance gives instructions to a crowd gathered for a food distribution in the Santa Teresa camp in Petionville, Haiti, on February 1. Hundreds of families left homeless by the devastating January 12 earthquake live here. The ACT Alliance sponsored this distribution of food, buckets, and hygiene kits.
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  • Clutching her ticket that guarantees provisions, a woman waits for food and other emergency supplies to be distributed in the Santa Teresa camp in Petionville, Haiti, on February 1. Hundreds of families left homeless by the devastating January 12 earthquake live here. The ACT Alliance sponsored this distribution of food, buckets, and hygiene kits.
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  • People move buckets of food and other emergency supplies into the Santa Teresa camp in Petionville, Haiti, on February 1. Hundreds of families left homeless by the devastating January 12 earthquake live here. The ACT Alliance sponsored this distribution of food, buckets, and hygiene kits.
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  • People move buckets of food and other emergency supplies into the Santa Teresa camp in Petionville, Haiti, on February 1. Hundreds of families left homeless by the devastating January 12 earthquake live here. The ACT Alliance sponsored this distribution of food, buckets, and hygiene kits.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-423.jpg
  • A distribution of food, tents and other emergency supplies dissolved into chaos when a group of men from a neighboring village invaded a January 30 distribution organized by the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Here a Haitian police officer holds the crowd back at gunpoint. A police woman eventually fired two shots into the air, motivating the crowd to flee. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate.
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  • A distribution of food, tents and other emergency supplies dissolved into chaos when a group of men from a neighboring village invaded a January 30 distribution organized by the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Here a Haitian police officer pushes the crowd back with his shotgun. A police woman eventually fired two shots into the air, motivating the crowd to flee. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-370.jpg
  • A man receives a package of food and other emergency supplies from the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate. The material provided here by LWF included material provided by Church World Service, another member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • Lucien Joseph, 44, lines up to receive a package of food and other emergency supplies from the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate.
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  • In Port-au-Prince, emergency workers for the ACT Alliance unload tons of relief material brought into earthquake-ravaged Haiti from the Dominican Republic on January 25.
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  • In Port-au-Prince, Don Tatlock (center), an emergency worker for Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, unloads tons of relief material brought into earthquake-ravaged Haiti from the Dominican Republic on January 25.
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  • Earthquake survivors in the southern Haitian city of Jacmel load emergency supplies onto a truck at the town's airstrip. The supplies were provided by Diakonie, part of the ACT Alliance, in a joint operation with Caritas Internationalis, and were transported to Jacmel from Port-au-Prince by a U.S. Navy helicopter. In Jacmel, the cargo was unloaded by Canadian troops.
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  • Canadian military personnel unload emergency supplies from a U.S. Navy Blackhawk helicopter in the earthquake-ravaged Haitian city of Jacmel on January 22. The aid was provided by Diakonie, part of the ACT Alliance, in a joint operation with Caritas Internationalis.
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  • Earthquake survivors in the southern Haitian city of Jacmel load emergency supplies onto a truck at the town's airstrip. The supplies were provided by Diakonie, part of the ACT Alliance, in a joint operation with Caritas Internationalis, and were transported to Jacmel from Port-au-Prince by a U.S. Navy helicopter. In Jacmel, the cargo was unloaded by Canadian troops.
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  • U.S. military personnel load a U.S. Navy Blackhawk helicopter in Port-au-Prince on January 22 with emergency aid for the isolated town of Jacmel on Haiti's southern coast. The aid was provided by Diakonie, part of the ACT Alliance, in a joint operation with Caritas Internationalis.
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  • U.S. military personnel load a U.S. Navy Blackhawk helicopter in Port-au-Prince on January 22 with emergency aid for the isolated town of Jacmel on Haiti's southern coast. The aid was provided by Diakonie, part of the ACT Alliance, in a joint operation with Caritas Internationalis.
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  • U.S. military personnel load a U.S. Navy Blackhawk helicopter in Port-au-Prince on January 22 with emergency aid for the isolated town of Jacmel on Haiti's southern coast. The aid was provided by Diakonie, part of the ACT Alliance, in a joint operation with Caritas Internationalis.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-106.jpg
  • U.S. military personnel load a U.S. Navy Blackhawk helicopter in Port-au-Prince on January 22 with emergency aid for the isolated town of Jacmel on Haiti's southern coast. The aid was provided by Diakonie, part of the ACT Alliance, in a joint operation with Caritas Internationalis.
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  • Women share tea in the Sri Gnangbhasa Yogasramaya Buddhist temple in the southern Sri Lankan city of Galle, where homeless victims of the December 26, 2004, tsunami were sheltered with support from the National Christian Council of Sri Lanka, a member of Action by Churches Together (ACT). Religious groups on the island nation cooperated well together in meeting the emergency needs of the 900,000 people whose homes were destroyed by the towering waves. The tsunami left devastation behind along most of the island nation's coastline.
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  • Asha Ibrahim Musa sits with her 23 month old son, Alyas Adam, in a ward for malnourished children in a hospital in Garsila. The children, all displaced by Darfur's ethnically-motivated violence, receive therapeutic feeding here. The ward is supported by the ACT-Caritas Darfur Emergency Response, a joint response of the world's Protestant and Catholic communities to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
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  • Gabriela Iseni, 4, a Roma girl whose family was displaced by a severe cold spell, gets her face cleaned by her mother, Juntena Iseni, in a temporary shelter established by the Red Cross in Smederevo, Serbia. Church World Service has provided this family and others with food and other emergency supplies.
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  • Gabriela Iseni, 4, a Roma girl whose family was displaced by a severe cold spell, eats a meal in a temporary shelter established by the Red Cross in Smederevo, Serbia. Church World Service has provided her family and others with food and other emergency supplies.
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  • Gabriela Iseni, 4, a Roma girl whose family was displaced by a severe cold spell, eats a meal in a temporary shelter established by the Red Cross in Smederevo, Serbia. Church World Service has provided her family and others with food and other emergency supplies.
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  • A Roma family displaced by a severe cold spell eats a meal in their temporary shelter at the Red Cross in Smederevo, Serbia. Church World Service has provided this and other affected families with food and other emergency supplies. In the photo are (left to right) Gabriela Iseni, 4; Juntena Iseni; Dzustin Stoyanovic, 6; Dzulvidana Iseni; Mirsena Iseni; Elvis Ismailov; and Elmedina Ismailov, 10 months.
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  • Welders prepare a makeshift support for collapsing tunnels in Sebaco, Nicaragua. Central America has been hit by torrential rains since last week after the succession of five hurricanes and tropical storms. Nicaragua has declared a state of emergency with 25,000 people affected by the floods.
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  • People gather around a charging station in La Lima, brought in to allow people to be in touch with family during the emergency. In this area of La Lima many people were still stranded in their houses with water covering the ground floor.
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  • In this 2007 photo from the coastal village of Moawo, 5-year old Jefrin Zendrato (right) and his 10-year old brother Fajrin plant mangrove seedlings, part of a project on the Indonesian island of Nias to improve habitat for sea life and provide some protection from future tsunamis. The project is sponsored by the Yakkum Emergency Unit (YEU), a member of the ACT Alliance.<br />
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  • People move buckets of food and other emergency supplies into the Santa Teresa camp in Petionville, Haiti, on February 1. Hundreds of families left homeless by the devastating January 12 earthquake live here. The ACT Alliance sponsored this distribution of food, buckets, and hygiene kits.
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  • People unload buckets of food and other emergency supplies before distributing them in the Santa Teresa camp in Petionville, Haiti. Hundreds of families left homeless by the devastating January 12 earthquake live here. The ACT Alliance sponsored this February 1 distribution of food, buckets, and hygiene kits.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-422.jpg
  • A distribution of food, tents and other emergency supplies dissolved into chaos when a group of men from a neighboring village invaded a January 30 distribution organized by the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A police woman fired two shots into the air, motivating the crowd to flee. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-376.jpg
  • A distribution of food, tents and other emergency supplies dissolved into chaos when a group of men from a neighboring village invaded a January 30 distribution organized by the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A police woman fired two shots into the air, motivating the crowd to flee. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-374.jpg
  • A distribution of food, tents and other emergency supplies dissolved into chaos when a group of men from a neighboring village invaded a January 30 distribution organized by the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A police woman fired two shots into the air, motivating the crowd to flee. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-373.jpg
  • A distribution of food, tents and other emergency supplies dissolved into chaos when a group of men from a neighboring village invaded a January 30 distribution organized by the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Here a Haitian police officer holds the crowd back at gunpoint. A police woman eventually fired two shots into the air, motivating the crowd to flee. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-372.jpg
  • A distribution of food, tents and other emergency supplies dissolved into chaos when a group of men from a neighboring village invaded a January 30 distribution organized by the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Here Haitian police officers hold the crowd back. A police woman eventually fired two shots into the air, motivating the crowd to flee. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-368.jpg
  • A distribution of food, tents and other emergency supplies dissolved into chaos when a group of men from a neighboring village invaded a January 30 distribution organized by the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Here a man argues with Haitian police officers who are holding the crowd back. A police woman eventually fired two shots into the air, motivating the crowd to flee. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-369.jpg
  • A man receives a package of food and other emergency supplies from the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate. The material provided here by LWF included material provided by Church World Service, another member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • A woman receives a package of food and other emergency supplies from the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate. The material provided here by LWF included material provided by Church World Service, another member of the ACT Alliance.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-364.jpg
  • Workers unload tents and other emergency supplies in preparation for a distribution by the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate.
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  • A woman plugs her ears as a man announces how villagers should line up for the distribution of food and other emergency supplies by the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate.
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  • Women line up to receive packages of food and other emergency supplies from the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate.
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  • Lucien Joseph, 44, and other women line up to receive packages of food and other emergency supplies from the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in the village of Gressier outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A January 12 earthquake ravaged the Caribbean nation, leaving hundreds of thousands hungry and increasingly frustrated and desperate.
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  • In Port-au-Prince, Don Tatlock (center), an emergency worker for Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, unloads relief material from Lutheran World Relief, also an ACT Alliance member, brought into earthquake-ravaged Haiti from the Dominican Republic on January 25.
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  • Emergency workers for the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, carry a water bladder into a crowded soccer stadium in the Santa Teresa area of Petionville, Haiti, where hundreds of families have constructed shelters. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were left homeless by the January 12 quake.
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  • A U.S. soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division on patrol in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. A January 12 earthquake quake killed more than 150,000 and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless. The U.S. military has played a dominant role in the emergency response, provoking both praise and criticism.
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  • Emergency workers of Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, carry a 10,000 liter water bladder into a makeshift tent city in the yard of a partially destroyed school in the Pean district of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, which was ravaged by a January 12 earthquake.
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  • Emergency workers of Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, unroll piping in Port-au-Prince as they set up a potable water system for families left homeless by Haiti's January 12 earthquake. ACT is working with a local partner, Viva Rio, which had installed a rainwater harvesting system in a neighborhood school. Although the school was partially destroyed, the system remains, and ACT personnel set up a system to make the water stored there available to families living in a makeshift tent city in the school yard.
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  • Canadian military personnel unload emergency supplies from a U.S. Navy Blackhawk helicopter in the earthquake-ravaged Haitian city of Jacmel on January 22. The aid was provided by Diakonie, part of the ACT Alliance, in a joint operation with Caritas Internationalis.
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