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  • An Egyptian girl gets her face painted like her country's flag in Cairo's Tahrir Square, where protests rage against President Mohamed Morsi's expansion of executive powers.
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  • 26 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A nurse holds a face mask in her hands as she sits in the pews during a moment of prayer in the chapel of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. An institution of the ELCT closely linked with the Lutheran World Federation from the outset in the early 1960s, the hospital serves today some 800-1,000 outpatients on a daily basis. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
    Tanzania-2022-Hillert-20220326_AH2_0...jpg
  • 8 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: A sign gives instructions on the use of face masks in public transport, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [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 student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, has ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D026.jpg
  • Gatliah Chan Koam, a student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, has ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D033.jpg
  • Gatliah Chan Koam, a student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, has ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D031.JPG
  • A student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, wipes ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D011.jpg
  • A student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, wipes ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D014.jpg
  • A student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, wipes ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D006.JPG
  • Chalk dust adorns the face of seven-year old Gloria Minisere, a student at the St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan. The school is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...jpg
  • Chalk dust adorns the face of seven-year old Coleta Ninegu, a student at the St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan. The school is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...JPG
  • Chalk dust adorns the face of a boy in the kindergarten of the St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan. The school is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • A young participant had her face painted before the CROP Hunger Walk, held October 27, 2013, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
    usa-2013-jeffrey-crop-walk-hunger-45.jpg
  • A girl gets her face painted before the CROP Hunger Walk, held October 27, 2013, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
    usa-2013-jeffrey-crop-walk-hunger-43.jpg
  • A girl with medicine on her face in the southern Haiti village of Despagne
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-118.jpg
  • Water is a scarce commodity in Port-au-Prince, the dusty capital of Haiti, which was ravaged by a January 12 earthquake. Here a boy gets his face washed with water from a project sponsored by Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-164.jpg
  • A girl washes her brother's face in the morning in the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya. Tens of thousands of newly arrived Somalis who have swelled the population of what was already the world's largest refugee camp.
    kenya-2011-jeffrey-dadaab-092.jpg
  • A student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, wipes ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D017.JPG
  • A student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, wipes ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D007.jpg
  • A student at the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, wipes ash on his face in preparation for tribal dancing with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. <br />
<br />
The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D002.jpg
  • Chalk dust adorns the face of seven-year old Gloria Minisere, a student at the St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan. The school is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...jpg
  • Chalk dust adorns the face of seven-year old Bigimi, a student at the St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan. The school is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...jpg
  • Chalk dust adorns the face of seven-year old Bigimi, a student at the St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan. The school is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...JPG
  • Chalk dust adorns the face of six-year old Anthony Bahkindo, a student at the St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan. The school is supported by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A4...jpg
  • A girl gets her face painted before the CROP Hunger Walk, held October 27, 2013, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
    usa-2013-jeffrey-crop-walk-hunger-42.jpg
  • Mission Dzongololo, 10, washes his face as he prepares to go to school in the morning in Chidyamanga, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-030.jpg
  • Joseph Dzongololo washes the face of his son Matthew, 4, in Chidyamanga, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-029.jpg
  • Gota Dzongololo, 11, washes his face in the morning before getting dressed to go to school. He lives in Chidyamanga, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-016.jpg
  • A mother paints her daughter's face with urucum before a march by indigenous people through the streets of Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region on March 27, 2019. They were protesting a central government plan to turn control of health care over to municipalities, in effect destroying a federal program of indigenous health care. Indian rights activists are worried that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is reducing or eliminating protections for the country's indigenous people.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-atalaia-B112.jpg
  • 26 September 2021, Paldiski, Estonia: Face masks sit next to a model of the church building itself, as they are offered to congregants at the entrance to St. Nicholas' Church in Paldiski, Estonia. For many years, the church was not accessible for worship by Lutheran congregants, as the town of Paldiski was closed off as after military base was built there in the Soviet era.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210926_AH2_157...jpg
  • 26 September 2021, Paldiski, Estonia: Face masks sit next to a model of the church building itself, as they are offered to congregants at the entrance to St. Nicholas' Church in Paldiski, Estonia. For many years, the church was not accessible for worship by Lutheran congregants, as the town of Paldiski was closed off as after military base was built there in the Soviet era.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210926_AH2_157...jpg
  • 28 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Face masks available at the entrance to the consistory building of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, next to a donations box in the shape of a church.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210928_AH2_212...jpg
  • Panditi Shanthi cleans the face of her 12-year old son Yesu Corneli as he prepares to leave their one-room home for school in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Shanthi is a widow. She's also HIV positive, as is her son. (Note restriction on use in Special Instructions below.)
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-335.jpg
  • A boy washes his face in a camp for homeless families set up on a golf course in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was ravaged by a January 12 earthquake.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-356.jpg
  • A Catholic procession with the face of Jesus during a peace parade in Porto Alegre
    Brazil_Hawkey_WCC_Assembly_20060221_...jpg
  • Brother Christopher Soosai, a De La Salle brother from India, gets ash painted on his face by students in the Solidarity Teacher Training Institute in Yambio, South Sudan, where they regularly share dances from their own tribal traditions with other students. To bridge cultural gaps that often lead people in the war-torn country to violence, students intentionally learn the songs and dances of the tribes of other students in the school. Putting ash on their faces is a common practice when dancing.<br />
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The school is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan. Brother Chris is the school's principal.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-D115.JPG
  • 30 October 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: 'Together for our planet', reads a United Nations banner on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, one of the main shopping streeets, as the city is about to host the UNFCCC Climate Change conference COP26. Underneath, a woman walks by wearing a face mask as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19, in response to what since 2020 has been a global pandemic.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211030_AH2_398...jpg
  • A boy makes a face in the child development center of the the United Methodist Community House in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The UMCH has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
    usa-2011-jeffrey-grand-rapids-21.jpg
  • A Hindu holy man in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu state in southern India. His face is marked with religious markings.
    india-2010-jeffrey-portraits-01.jpg
  • A boy's father washes his face in a camp for homeless families set up on a golf course in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was ravaged by a January 12 earthquake.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-344.jpg
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • Constance Langoya, a trauma healer, helps a man touch his face during a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A boy makes a face as he plays in the child care center of the Wesley House Community Center in Meridian, Mississippi. Wesley House provides a variety of educational and other services to the community.
    usa-2011-jeffrey-mississippi-communi...jpg
  • On the streets of their nation's capital of San Salvador, residents of the small Central American nation of El Salvador remember Oscar Romero, the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador who was murdered in 1980 by a government-sanctioned death squad. That remembrance takes a variety of forms, including shirts with his image which are here sold in a public park. The image of Romero, a conservative prelate who slowly took the side of the poor despite repeated threats from the U.S.-backed military, has grown more ubiqitious here than even that legendary shot of Ernesto "Che" Guevarra's face.
    el-salvador-2005-jeffrey-09.jpg
  • A participant, her face illuminated by a computer monitor, in the Cyberbridges project, a computer literacy project which works with youth in the Daheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The project receives support from Catholic Relief Services.
    palestine-2006-jeffrey-west-bank-B06...jpg
  • A survivor of the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, back home in her village of Khanian, where she and her neighbors still face innumerable challenges. The October 8, 2005, quake killed over 80,000 people.
    pakistan-2006-jeffrey-quake-response...jpg
  • In their trademark blue helmets and wearing face masks to ward off disease, United Nations soldiers patrol a camp for internally displaced families located inside a UN base in Juba, South Sudan. The camp holds Nuer families who took refuge there in December 2013 after a political dispute within the country's ruling party quickly fractured the young nation along ethnic and tribal lines. The ACT Alliance is providing a variety of services, including fresh water, sanitation and refuse collection services, to the more than 20,000 people living in the camp.
    south-sudan-2014-jeffrey-juba-idps-3...jpg
  • A woman washes here face in a camp for almost 500 internally displaced people located at the St. Vincent de Paul Catholic parish on the edge of Juba, the capital of South Sudan. The families here fled fighting that broke out in December 2013. More than 700,000 people have been internally displaced in the first three months.
    south-sudan-2014-jeffrey-juba-idps-0...jpg
  • Sister Joana Mai Hla Kyi, a member from Myanmar of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, applies ointment to the face of a boy in Riimenze, South Sudan. The health worker is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-riimenze-16.jpg
  • Sister Joana Mai Hla Kyi, a member from Myanmar of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, applies ointment to the face of a boy in Riimenze, South Sudan. The health worker is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-riimenze-17.jpg
  • Its face covered with flies, a displaced child sleeps in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-045.jpg
  • Gota Dzongololo, 11, rubs lotion on his face in the morning after getting dressed in his school uniform. He lives in Chidyamanga, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-024.jpg
  • A woman washes her face at a communal water tap in the Tamang village of Goljung, in the Rasuwa District of Nepal near the country's border with Tibet.<br />
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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 blankets, shelter and livelihood assistance.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_314055.jpg
  • Zano Begum in her makeshift shelter in the Chakmarkul Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Begum arrived in the sprawling camp one month earlier. She has thanaka on her face, a cosmetic common in parts of Myanmar. <br />
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More than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled government-sanctioned violence in Myanmar for safety in this and other camps in Bangladesh.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-refugees-M19...JPG
  • A Rohingya girl in the Jamtoli Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Her face is marked with thanakha, a traditional Burmese cosmetic.<br />
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MMore than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled government-sanctioned violence in Myanmar for safety in this and other camps in Bangladesh..
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-refugees-A29...JPG
  • A woman in Gaza City, most of her face covered with a Muslim niqab.
    palestine-2011-jeffrey-gaza-159.jpg
  • Fish buyers aggressively make their bids in the face of the auctioneer selling off the morning's catch at the wholesale fish market in  Gaza City. Under the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, the people of Gaza were allowed to fish out to 20 nautical miles from their coastline, yet since the Israeli military imposed a naval blockade in 2007 they have been limited to just three nautical miles. In practice, fishers who venture beyond two nautical miles are shot at by Israeli gunboats; several have been injured and some killed. Despite having 40 kilometers of coastline and a long tradition as fishers, many fishers are unemployed and the people of Gaza are forced to import fish from Israel. And what fishing they can do close to shore mostly involves the harvest of immature fish, which biologists warn has a negative impact on fish stocks in the region....
    palestine-2011-jeffrey-gaza-066.jpg
  • A girl covers her face as she prays during the children's class of the United Methodist Church in the largely Roma neighborhood of Gorno Ezerovo, part of the Bulgarian city of Burgas. Residents here don't self-identify much as Roma, because of the negative connotations associated with the word, so many refer to themselves as a Turkish-speaking minority.
    bulgaria-2012-jeffrey-roma-069.jpg
  • Yuiu Dominges, a Tikuna indigenous man, gets his face painted before a musical performance in Manaus, Brazil. His family moved to the city decades ago from a forest village in the Alto Solimoes region of the Amazon. Along with others from the Tikuna indigenous community, beginning in the 90s they centered their life in the Cidade de Deus neighborhood of Manaus. With assistance from the Catholic Church's Indigenous Mission Council, known as CIMI, they formed the Wotchimaucu Community, today a center for Tikuna culture and for Tikuna newcomers migrating to the city. Dominges is a drummer, one of several musicians in the community who seek to keep indigenous culture alive in the urban setting.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-manaus-C273.jpg
  • His face painted red with urucum, a man participates in a march by indigenous people through the streets of Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region on March 27, 2019. They were protesting a central government plan to turn control of health care over to municipalities, in effect destroying a federal program of indigenous health care. Indian rights activists are worried that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is reducing or eliminating protections for the country's indigenous people.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-atalaia-B358.jpg
  • His face painted red with urucum, a man participates in a march by indigenous people through the streets of Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region on March 27, 2019. They were protesting a central government plan to turn control of health care over to municipalities, in effect destroying a federal program of indigenous health care. Indian rights activists are worried that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is reducing or eliminating protections for the country's indigenous people.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-atalaia-B309.jpg
  • His face painted red with urucum, a man participates in a march by indigenous people through the streets of Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region on March 27, 2019. They were protesting a central government plan to turn control of health care over to municipalities, in effect destroying a federal program of indigenous health care. Indian rights activists are worried that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is reducing or eliminating protections for the country's indigenous people.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-atalaia-B306.jpg
  • A man paints his face with urucum before a march by indigenous people through the streets of Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region on March 27, 2019. They were protesting a central government plan to turn control of health care over to municipalities, in effect destroying a federal program of indigenous health care. Indian rights activists are worried that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is reducing or eliminating protections for the country's indigenous people.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-atalaia-B161.jpg
  • A man paints his face with urucum before a march by indigenous people through the streets of Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region on March 27, 2019. They were protesting a central government plan to turn control of health care over to municipalities, in effect destroying a federal program of indigenous health care. Indian rights activists are worried that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is reducing or eliminating protections for the country's indigenous people.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-atalaia-B147.jpg
  • Her face painted red with urucum, a woman participates in a march by indigenous people through the streets of Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region on March 27, 2019. They were protesting a central government plan to turn control of health care over to municipalities, in effect destroying a federal program of indigenous health care. Indian rights activists are worried that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is reducing or eliminating protections for the country's indigenous people.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-atalaia-B136.jpg
  • Three-year old Simon Tamakorih Kanamari had his face painted with urucum before a march by indigenous people through the streets of Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region on March 27, 2019. They were protesting a central government plan to turn control of health care over to municipalities, in effect destroying a federal program of indigenous health care. Indian rights activists are worried that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is reducing or eliminating protections for the country's indigenous people.<br />
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Written parental consent obtained.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-atalaia-B117.jpg
  • Her face painted red with urucum, a woman participates in a march by indigenous people through the streets of Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region on March 27, 2019. They were protesting a central government plan to turn control of health care over to municipalities, in effect destroying a federal program of indigenous health care. Indian rights activists are worried that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is reducing or eliminating protections for the country's indigenous people.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-atalaia-B104.jpg
  • Her face painted red with urucum, a young girl participates in a march by indigenous people through the streets of Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region on March 27, 2019. They were protesting a central government plan to turn control of health care over to municipalities, in effect destroying a federal program of indigenous health care. Indian rights activists are worried that the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is reducing or eliminating protections for the country's indigenous people.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-atalaia-B080.jpg
  • Joyce Charles taps her face during a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.<br />
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Charles is a teacher at the Rejaf School.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • Joyce Charles taps her face during a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.<br />
<br />
Charles is a teacher at the Rejaf School.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • Joyce Charles taps her face during a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.<br />
<br />
Charles is a teacher at the Rejaf School.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • Youth play football in Yambio, South Sudan. The photo was captured at the exact moment the ball passed in front of one player's face.
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  • A Toposa man near Nakubuse, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. His face has the traditional scarring of his tribe.<br />
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The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, which includes this community, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities.
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  • A girl touches her face during a song that involves hand movements in the Mitchell Woods Preschool run by InterServ Community Services in St. Joseph, Missouri. The preschool includes children from six weeks to 5 years of age. InterServ is an ecumenical ministry long supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • A girl touches her face during a song that involves hand movements in the Mitchell Woods Preschool run by InterServ Community Services in St. Joseph, Missouri. The preschool includes children from six weeks to 5 years of age. InterServ is an ecumenical ministry long supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Gary Moon, a United Methodist missionary in Thailand, helps a girl make a funny face in an orphanage he founded with his wife Cindy in Chiang Mai. The girls are orphans, and are all HIV positive.
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  • A man paints a political mural in Natham, a small town in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu. The face in sunglasses is that of the chief minister of the state, Muthuvel Karunanidhi, who is the leader of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party. He has been a key figure in Tamil Nadu politics for nearly five decades...
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  • Boys who work as scavengers in the municipal garbage dump in Chennai, India, are hosted in a nearby night shelter by the Madras Christian Council of Social Service. Here one of them washes his face in the facility's washroom.
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  • A survivor of the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, back home in his village of Khanian, where he and his neighbors still face innumerable challenges. The October 8, 2005, quake killed over 80,000 people.
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  • A young survivor of the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, back home in her mountain village of Khanian after spending months in tent camps at a lower elevation. She and her neighbors still face innumerable challenges. The quake measured 7.6 on the Richter scale and killed more than 80,000 people in northern Pakistan.
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  • A Nuer woman, with traditional tribal scarring on her face, participates in a Roman Catholic Mass on Easter morning, April 5, inside a United Nations base in Juba, South Sudan, where some 34,000 people have sought protection since violence broke out in December 2013. More than 112,000 people currently live on UN bases in the war-torn country, most of them afraid of tribally targeted violence. The Catholic Church has maintained a pastoral presence inside the camps.
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  • A woman washes her face in an internally displaced persons camp in Manangui, South Sudan. Families started arriving here shortly after fighting broke out in December 2013, and new arrivals continued to appear three months later as fighting drug on. Many are living in the open and under trees. The ACT Alliance is providing the displaced families and the host communities affected by their presence with a variety of support.
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  • Bertaleno Alex, 7, washes his face in a displaced persons camp at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Wau, South Sudan. The church has provided food, shelter material, and health care, and the presence of clergy and religious has fostered a sense of relative safety for the families who first occupied the church grounds when fighting enveloped the city in 2016.
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  • Bertaleno Alex, 7, washes his face in a displaced persons camp at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Wau, South Sudan. The church has provided food, shelter material, and health care, and the presence of clergy and religious has fostered a sense of relative safety for the families who first occupied the church grounds when fighting enveloped the city in 2016.
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  • A girl covers her face as she prays during a Palm Sunday Mass at the Catholic Church in Abyei, a contested region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan. Under a 2005 peace agreement, the region 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 looted and destroyed much of the church and drove out most of the Dinka Ngok residents, pushing them across a river into the town of Agok. Yet more than 40,000 Dinka Ngok have since returned, with support from Caritas South Sudan, which has drilled well, built houses, opened clinics and provided seeds and tools for the returnees. Yet violence has continued, with a March 1 militia attack killing four residents, according to the United Nations.
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  • Flies explore the face of a small child as a displaced family sleeps on the ground early in the morning in Agok, a town in the contested Abyei region where tens of thousands of people fled in 2011 after an attack by soldiers and militias from the northern Republic of Sudan on most parts of Abyei. Although the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement called for residents of Abyei--which sits on the border between Sudan and South Sudan--to hold a referendum on whether they wanted to align with the north or the newly independent South Sudan, the government in Khartoum and northern-backed Misseriya nomads, excluded from voting as they only live part of the year in Abyei, blocked the vote and attacked the majority Dinka Ngok population. The African Union has proposed a new peace plan, including a referendum to be held in October 2013, but it has been rejected by the Misseriya and Khartoum. The Catholic parish of Abyei, with support from Caritas South Sudan and other international church partners, has maintained its pastoral presence among the displaced and assisted them with food, shelter, and other relief supplies.
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  • Rodelise Merville rubs powder onto the face of her daughter Gengy Badis as the girl bathes and prepares for school in a camp in Grand-Goave, Haiti, where families left homeless by the January 2010 earthquake continue to live. The ACT Alliance has supported families in this camp with a variety of services, and has rebuilt a school beside the tent city.
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  • A Syrian refugee woman in Kamid al lawz, a town in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, where the International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance are assisting refugees in a variety of ways. Her face displays deq, a traditional form of facial tattoos.
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  • Gota Dzongololo, 11, rubs lotion on his face in the morning after getting dressed in his school uniform. He lives in Chidyamanga, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest.
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  • A woman washes her face at a communal water tap in the Tamang village of Goljung, in the Rasuwa District of Nepal near the country's border with Tibet.<br />
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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 blankets, shelter and livelihood assistance.
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  • A boy makes a face in a camp for internally displaced families in Ankawa, near Erbil, Iraq. Residents of the camp, mostly Christians, were displaced from Mosul, Qaraqosh and other communities in Iraq when ISIS swept through the area in 2014.
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  • A Rohingya woman in the Jamtoli Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Her face is marked with thanakha, a traditional Burmese cosmetic.<br />
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More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled government-sanctioned violence in Myanmar for safety in Bangladesh.
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  • A Rohingya girl in the Jamtoli Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Her face is marked with thanakha, a traditional Burmese cosmetic.<br />
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More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled government-sanctioned violence in Myanmar for safety in Bangladesh.
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  • A Rohingya girl in the Jamtoli Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Her face is marked with thanakha, a traditional Burmese cosmetic.<br />
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More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled government-sanctioned violence in Myanmar for safety in Bangladesh.
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