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  • Srey Mao, 14, with her grandmother Nou in Khnach, a village in the Kampot region of Cambodia. Along with another sister, Srey Mao lives with and takes care of her aging grandmother. Her parents died of AIDS.
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  • Srey Mao, 14, combs the hair of her grandmother Nou in Khnach, a village in the Kampot region of Cambodia. Along with another sister, Srey Mao lives with and takes care of her aging grandmother. Her parents died of AIDS.
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  • Srey Mao, 14, with her grandmother Nou in Khnach, a village in the Kampot region of Cambodia. Along with another sister, Srey Mao lives with and takes care of her aging grandmother. Her parents died of AIDS.
    cambodia-2009-jeffrey-kampot-195.jpg
  • Srey Mao, 14, combs the hair of her grandmother Nou in Khnach, a village in the Kampot region of Cambodia. Along with another sister, Srey Mao lives with and takes care of her aging grandmother. Her parents died of AIDS.
    cambodia-2009-jeffrey-kampot-199.jpg
  • Nurul Aina (right) and her grandmother in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Aina was just 8 years old in 2004 when a massive tsunami swept over the city, killing her parents and two siblings and leveling their home. Aina was fortunately visiting relatives in a neighborhood far from the seashore when the tsunami hit. With assistance from the Katahati Institute and Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe, a new house was built and titled in Aina's name, an accomplishment that required considerable legal advocacy by Katahati staff. As a result, rental income from the house has paid for Aina's schooling while she lives with her grandmother. Now 18, Aina is studying English at a local university, and plans to move into her house some day. The tsunami killed 221,000 people in Aceh province and left more than 500,000 displaced.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-070.jpg
  • Hilda Simon, 57, prepares her granddaughter Annie, 10, for school in Dickson, a village in southern Malawi. Annie and her sister and brother are orphans, and were taken in by their grandmother when their parents died four years ago. Many African villages like this have been hard hit by disease, including HIV and AIDS, leaving children to be cared for by relatives. Yet this village has also 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. In addition to providing emergency food, the ACT Alliance is working with farmers in this village to switch to alternative, drought-resistant crops, as well as installing an irrigation system and utilizing other improved techniques to increase agricultural yields.
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  • Hilda Simon prepares her granddaughter Chrissy, 8, for school in Dickson, a village in southern Malawi. Beside Chrissy is her sister Annie, 10, and her brother Love, 13. All are orphans, and were taken in by their grandmother when their parents died four years ago. Many African villages like this have been hard hit by disease, including HIV and AIDS, leaving children to be cared for by relatives. Yet this village has also 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-089.jpg
  • Hilda Simon prepares her granddaughter Annie, 10, for school in Dickson, a village in southern Malawi. Beside Annie is her sister Chrissy, 8, and her brother Love, 13. All are orphans, and were taken in by their grandmother when their parents died four years ago. Many African villages like this have been hard hit by disease, including HIV and AIDS, leaving children to be cared for by relatives. Yet this village has also 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. In addition to providing emergency food, the ACT Alliance is working with farmers in this village to switch to alternative, drought-resistant crops, as well as installing an irrigation system and utilizing other improved techniques to increase agricultural yields.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-090.jpg
  • Hilda Simon prepares her granddaughter Chrissy, 8, for school in Dickson, a village in southern Malawi. Beside Chrissy is her sister Annie, 10, and her brother Love, 13. All are orphans, and were taken in by their grandmother when their parents died four years ago. Many African villages like this have been hard hit by disease, including HIV and AIDS, leaving children to be cared for by relatives. Yet this village has also 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-088.jpg
  • Nurul Aina (right) talks with her grandmother in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Aina was just 8 years old in 2004 when a massive tsunami swept over the city, killing her parents and two siblings and leveling their home. Aina was fortunately visiting relatives in a neighborhood far from the seashore when the tsunami hit. With assistance from the Katahati Institute and Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe, a new house was built and titled in Aina's name, an accomplishment that required considerable legal advocacy by Katahati staff. As a result, rental income from the house has paid for Aina's schooling while she lives with her grandmother. Now 18, Aina is studying English at a local university, and plans to move into her house some day. The tsunami killed 221,000 people in Aceh province and left more than 500,000 displaced.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-069.jpg
  • Sivamma is the grandmother of 12-year old Amarnadh, an orphan who is HIV positive. They are members of the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. (See Special Instructions below.)
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  • Marthamma is the grandmother of 8 year old Priyanka, an orphan who is HIV positive. They are members of the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. (See Special Instructions below.)
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  • Sivamma is the grandmother of 12-year old Amarnadh, an orphan who is HIV positive. They are members of the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. (See Special Instructions below.)
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-237.jpg
  • Lucia Muñoz finishes picking the first ripe coffee beans at the Santo Domingo Coop, Telpaneca, Nicaragua. Her granddaughter, Concepción Picado, 7, likes to help her grandmother for half an hour after school.
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  • Maya Chortí indigenous girls with their grandmother, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras
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  • Eight-year old Zacarias Moses is carried unconscious into the Wau Teaching Hospital, in Wau, South Sudan, by his grandmother on September 27, 2012. Suffering from malaria, he died the next day. The health care system in the world's newest country remains woefully deficient, suffering a lack of trained personnel and resources.
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  • Eight-year old Zacarias Moses is carried unconscious into the Wau Teaching Hospital, in Wau, South Sudan, by his grandmother on September 27, 2012. Suffering from malaria, he died the next day. The health care system in the world's newest country remains woefully deficient, suffering a lack of trained personnel and resources.
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  • Aleska Garcia, 17, poses with her grandmother, Petronila Reyes, at their home in Goascoran, Honduras. The teenager left Honduras in June 2014 to travel north to be with her mother, who has lived in the United States for 12 years, but she was detained by Mexican immigration officials and returned to Honduras. For now she says she wants to remain at home and finish her high school studies.
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  • Three-year old Anas, who suffered a severe burn to her chest, is comforted by her mother Ola Yasin and her 8-year old brother Zeki as the girl sits in a therapeutic bath in the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City. The girl's grandmother looks on. <br />
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The Anglican Church-affiliated hospital is a member of the ACT Alliance.<br />
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The 2014 war provoked serious damage to Gaza's health infrastructure. Seventeen hospitals, 56 primary health care facilities and 45 ambulances were damaged or destroyed. Sixteen health care workers were killed and 83, most of them ambulance drivers and volunteers, were injured.
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  • Martin Hristov gets ready for school in the morning with help from his  mother, Yuliana Marinovah. Roma immigrants from Bulgaria, they live in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Nine-year old Martin participates in an after school program sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church. It focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood. In the background is his grandmother Alveda.
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  • Aleska Garcia, 17, poses with her grandmother, Petronila Reyes, at their home in Goascoran, Honduras. The teenager left Honduras in June 2014 to travel north to be with her mother, who lives in the United States, but she was detained by Mexican law enforcement officials and returned to Honduras. For now she says she wants to remain at home and finish her high school studies.
    honduras-2014-jeffrey-immigration-09.jpg
  • Estherline Dominique, 13, here getting her hair braided by her grandmother, Ermith LeRoi, is a Peace Pal in the southern Haitian village of Mizak. Peace Pals is a program of the World Peace Prayer Society, which promotes the message "May Peace Prevail on Earth" as a simple, universal expression to unite the hearts of all people in a common desire and hope for peace on Earth. Peace Pals provides a safe and nurturing environment for children to gather to play and learn lessons that organizers hope will lead to generational changes in attitudes about self-worth, care for the environment, personal health & hygiene, conflict resolution, respect for all persons and encouragement to be "peacebuilders" at all levels. In Mizak, Peace Pals is sponsored by Haitian Artisans for Peace International (HAPI).
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  • A woman holds her two-day old grandson Chan, one of a set of twins born in St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Hari Maya Bhujel hugs her grandson, 5-year old Utsab, in Majhitar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal.<br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • A woman holds her two-day old grandson Chan, one of a set of twins born in St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
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  • Hari Maya Bhujel sits in her tent while her grandson, 5-year old Utsab, does his school homework in Majhitar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. The woman is living in the tent pending the construction of a permanent replacement dwelling.<br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • Nyayul Ruei Bol stands with her grandsons Country Gatwech, 8, and Marow Bayak, 7, as they hold two of the family's goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River near South Sudan's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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After months of near starvation, when all she had to feed her family was leaves of the Neem tree, Nyayul Ruei Bol says the family is starting to recover with help from the United Nations' World Food Program and DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance.<br />
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Unprecedented flooding left the family isolated and many of their animals died from starvation, Nyayul Ruei Bol said. The arrival of newly displaced families from other hard-hit areas only increased competition for already scarce resources. While the WFP provided some basic food supplies, DanChurchAid stepped in with cash grants, vegetable seeds, and pregnant goats--all provided through collaboration with Nile Hope, a South Sudanese organization.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0282.jpg
  • Tarisayi Zhanje stands with her grandson, Hailey Kushaya, outside their home in Harare, Zimbabwe. She cares for the 9 year old since his parents died. At school he uses an appropriately-designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
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  • Tarisayi Zhanje helps her grandson, Hailey Kushaya, feed himself in Harare, Zimbabwe. She cares for the 9 year old since his parents died. His appropriately-designed and fitted wheelchair was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-33...jpg
  • Tarisayi Zhanje carries her grandson, Hailey Kushaya, home from school in Harare, Zimbabwe. She cares for the 9 year old since his parents died. At school he uses an appropriately-designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-32...jpg
  • Tarisayi Zhanje carries her grandson, Hailey Kushaya, home from school in Harare, Zimbabwe. She cares for the 9 year old since his parents died. At school he uses an appropriately-designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-32...jpg
  • Tarisayi Zhanje carries her grandson, Hailey Kushaya, home from school in Harare, Zimbabwe. She cares for the 9 year old since his parents died. At school he uses an appropriately-designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-32...jpg
  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she sits on the porch of her house with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-09...jpg
  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she sits on the porch of her house playing with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-09...jpg
  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she sits on the porch of her house playing with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-08...jpg
  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she sits on the porch of her house playing with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-08...jpg
  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she sits on the porch of her house playing with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-08...jpg
  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she sits on the porch of her house playing with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-08...jpg
  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she moves along a street in her neighborhood with help from her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-08...jpg
  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she moves along a street in her neighborhood with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-08...jpg
  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she moves along a street in her neighborhood with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-07...jpg
  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she moves along a street in her neighborhood with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-07...jpg
  • Lakshmi Kanthamma and her 8-year old granddaughter, Anandan, an HIV-positive orphan in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. (See Special Instructions below.)
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-242.jpg
  • B. Marthainma and her 10-year old grandson, Anusha, an HIV-positive orphan in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. (See Special Instructions below.)
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-241.jpg
  • Meera B and her 10-year old grandson, Parveen, an HIV-positive orphan in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. (See Special Instructions below.)
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-239.jpg
  • Saridia Waruwu helps her grandson Jesta, 4, and her granddaughter Cari, 8, do their homework in front of her home in Tugala, a village on the Indonesian island of Nias. <br />
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The village was struck by both a 2004 tsunami and a 2005 earthquake, leaving houses destroyed and lives disrupted. The ACT Alliance helped villagers here to construct new homes and latrines, build a potable water system, open a clinic and schools and get their lives going once again. For the residents of Tugala, the post-disaster mantra of "build back better" became a reality with help from the ACT Alliance.
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  • Saridia Waruwu dries cacao in front of her home in Tugala, a village on the Indonesian island of Nias, as her grandson Jesta, age 4, does his homework behind her.<br />
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The village was struck by both a 2004 tsunami and a 2005 earthquake, leaving houses destroyed and lives disrupted. The ACT Alliance helped villagers here to construct new homes and latrines, build a potable water system, open a clinic and schools and get their lives going once again. For the residents of Tugala, the post-disaster mantra of "build back better" became a reality with help from the ACT Alliance.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-021.jpg
  • Saridia Waruwu dries cacao in front of her home in Tugala, a village on the Indonesian island of Nias, as her grandson Jesta, age 4, does his homework behind her.<br />
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The village was struck by both a 2004 tsunami and a 2005 earthquake, leaving houses destroyed and lives disrupted. The ACT Alliance helped villagers here to construct new homes and latrines, build a potable water system, open a clinic and schools and get their lives going once again. For the residents of Tugala, the post-disaster mantra of "build back better" became a reality with help from the ACT Alliance.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-020.jpg
  • A woman holds her grandson 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.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-G066.jpg
  • Iluminada Castillo holds her 3-year old grandson Ceyrus in his home in the Malate neighbohood of Manila, during a visit by several members of Kaisahan ng Magulang at Anak na Maykapansanan (Kaisaka), a mothers' group that carries out community based rehabilitation with families which have members with disabilities.
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  • Iluminada Castillo holds her 3-year old grandson Ceyrus outside his home in the Malate neighbohood of Manila. She is a member of Kaisahan ng Magulang at Anak na Maykapansanan (Kaisaka), a mothers' group that carries out community based rehabilitation with families which have members with disabilities.
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  • Iluminada Castillo holds her 3-year old grandson Ceyrus outside his home in the Malate neighbohood of Manila. She is a member of Kaisahan ng Magulang at Anak na Maykapansanan (Kaisaka), a mothers' group that carries out community based rehabilitation with families which have members with disabilities.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-disability-...jpg
  • Iluminada Castillo holds her 3-year old grandson Ceyrus outside his home in the Malate neighbohood of Manila. She is a member of Kaisahan ng Magulang at Anak na Maykapansanan (Kaisaka), a mothers' group that carries out community based rehabilitation with families which have members with disabilities.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-disability-...jpg
  • A woman who fled gang-related violence in El Salvador to seek political asylum in the United States prepares food in the kitchen of a shelter where she lives in San Antonio, Texas, on December 1, 2015. The woman, who asked not to be named, fled El Salvador after her son and daughter in law were murdered. She brought two grandchildren with her, but they were taken away by immigration officials upon arrival in the U.S. Since her release she has stayed in a shelter run by the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) and supported by a coalition of San Antonio churches. While awaiting a decision on her request for asylum, she submitted to a DNA exam in order to prove her relation with one grandchild who remained in government care.
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  • A woman (right) who fled gang-related violence in El Salvador to seek political asylum in the United States prepares food in the kitchen of a shelter where she lives in San Antonio, Texas, on December 1, 2015. The woman, who asked not to be named, fled El Salvador after her son and daughter in law were murdered. She brought two grandchildren with her, but they were taken away by immigration officials upon arrival in the U.S. Since her release she has stayed in a shelter run by the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) and supported by a coalition of San Antonio churches. While awaiting a decision on her request for asylum, she submitted to a DNA exam in order to prove her relation with one grandchild who remained in government care. Helping her in the kitchen is Isabel Zepeda, a volunteer at the shelter.
    usa-texas-2015-jeffrey-asylum-sanant...jpg
  • A woman who fled gang-related violence in El Salvador to seek political asylum in the United States cooks in the kitchen of a shelter where she lives in San Antonio, Texas, on November 30, 2015. The woman, who asked not to be named, fled El Salvador after her son and daughter in law were murdered. She brought two grandchildren with her, but they were taken away by immigration officials upon arrival in the U.S. Since her release she has stayed in a shelter run by the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) and supported by a coalition of San Antonio churches. While awaiting a decision on her request for asylum, she submitted to a DNA exam in order to prove her relation with one grandchild who remained in government care.
    usa-texas-2015-jeffrey-asylum-sanant...jpg
  • Genadi Hristov (with head covering) and his wife Yuliana Marinovah and her mother Alveda, along with their sons Martin, 9, and Zhivko, 12, pose in the family's apartment in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. They are Roma immigrants from Bulgaria. The couple's two sons participate in an after school program sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church. It focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood.
    germany-2012-jeffrey-berlin-23.jpg
  • A woman rice farmer in Guayaman, Honduras, sits with her granddaughter. Once free trade brought the introduction of imported rice in the 1990s, small farmers found it difficult to earn a living growing rice.
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  • Sand Khorshid, 74, an Iraqi refugee, helps her grandson Yousif, 7, with his school homework in their apartment in Damascus, Syria. More than one million Iraqi refugees are estimated to live in Syria, part of a large diaspora of families who have fled the violence of the U.S. occupation.
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  • Ayush Nadir sits watching television with her 9-year old grandson Mohamed in their tent in a settlement of Syrian refugees in Minyara, a village in the Akkar district of northern Lebanon. Lebanon hosts some 1.5 million refugees from Syria, yet allows no large camps to be established. So refugees have moved into poor neighborhoods or established small informal settlements in border areas. International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides support for families in this settlement.
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  • Evelyn Nkhambule, her grandson Jesse on her back, stirs chilies she has spread out to dry in the sun at her home in Edundu, Malawi. Families in the village have benefited from intercropping, crop rotation, and composting practices they learned from the Malawi Farmer-to-Farmer Agro-Ecology project of the Ekwendeni Mission Hospital AIDS Program, a program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian.
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  • Agnes Tembo (right) and her husband Geoffrey Nkhambule, along with her mother-in-law Evelyn Nkhambule, harvest peanuts they've grown on their farm in Edundu, Malawi. Families in the village have benefited from intercropping, crop rotation, and composting practices they learned from the Malawi Farmer-to-Farmer Agro-Ecology project of the Ekwendeni Mission Hospital AIDS Program, a program of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian.
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  • In a clinic of the United Methodist Church in Kananga, a town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wafua Tshiunza cares for her 3-year old granddaughter, Any Ngalula.
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  • In a clinic of the United Methodist Church in Kananga, a town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wafua Tshiunza cares for her 3-year old granddaughter, Any Ngalula.
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  • In a clinic of the United Methodist Church in Kananga, a town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wafua Tshiunza cares for her 3-year old granddaughter, Any Ngalula.
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  • A Yazidi family in a camp for internally displaced people at Dawodiya in Iraq's Kurdistan region. More than 600 Yazidi families living in the camp escaped from their communities in the Sinjar region during the attempted genocide by the Islamic State group. Although ISIS was militarily defeated in 2017, camp residents say it's still not safe for them to return home, nor do they have sufficient resources to rebuild their homes.<br />
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The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides water, sanitation, garbage collection, and psycho-social support for the families in the camp.
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  • Gole Yaqoub washes dishes while her mother-in-law, Adlane Saido, holds Yaqoub's 9-months old child Zylan in a camp for internally displaced Yazidis at Dawodiya in Iraq's Kurdistan region. More than 600 Yazidi families living in the camp escaped from their communities in the Sinjar region during the attempted genocide by the Islamic State group. Although ISIS was militarily defeated in 2017, camp residents say it's still not safe for them to return home, nor do they have sufficient resources to rebuild their homes.<br />
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The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides water, sanitation, garbage collection, and psycho-social support for the families in the camp.
    iraq-2018-jeffrey-dawodiya-288.jpg
  • Gole Yaqoub washes dishes while her mother-in-law, Adlane Saido, holds Yaqoub's 9-months old child Zylan in a camp for internally displaced Yazidis at Dawodiya in Iraq's Kurdistan region. More than 600 Yazidi families living in the camp escaped from their communities in the Sinjar region during the attempted genocide by the Islamic State group. Although ISIS was militarily defeated in 2017, camp residents say it's still not safe for them to return home, nor do they have sufficient resources to rebuild their homes.<br />
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The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides water, sanitation, garbage collection, and psycho-social support for the families in the camp.
    iraq-2018-jeffrey-dawodiya-262.jpg
  • Adlane Saido holds her 9-months old grandchild Zylan in a camp for internally displaced Yazidis at Dawodiya in Iraq's Kurdistan region. More than 600 Yazidi families living in the camp escaped from their communities in the Sinjar region during the attempted genocide by the Islamic State group. Although ISIS was militarily defeated in 2017, camp residents say it's still not safe for them to return home, nor do they have sufficient resources to rebuild their homes.<br />
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The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides water, sanitation, garbage collection, and psycho-social support for the families in the camp.
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  • Christiana Herard, 69, talks with her daughters and grandchildren on the porch of her new home in Djondgon, a village near Jean-Rabel in northwestern Haiti. The family's previous house was destroyed during Hurricane Matthew in 2016, and Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, helped the family build their sturdy new home.
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  • Cristina Erasto, a Wichi indigenous woman in Santa Victoria Este, Argentina, washes dishes with help from her granddaughter. The Wichi in this area have struggled for decades to recover land that has been systematically stolen from them by cattleraisers and large agricultural plantations.
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  • Juana Arroyo, a Guarani woman in El Bananal, Argentina, cooks a meal while a grandchild looks on.
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  • Virginia Centeno, a Guarani indigenous woman, sips mate while giving her two grandchildren something to eat before they go off to school.
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  • Zaher Elyan holds her 1-year old granddaughter Jena in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. Their home was damaged by Israeli air strikes during the war in 2014, and they took refuge in a United Nations school. When the war ended, International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided a large water tank as the family rebuilt part of their house where today 11 people sleep in one room.
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  • Zaher Elyan holds her 1-year old granddaughter Jena in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. Their home was damaged by Israeli air strikes during the war in 2014, and they took refuge in a United Nations school. When the war ended, International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided a large water tank as the family rebuilt part of their house where today 11 people sleep in one room.
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  • Francineide Silva da Sousa lives in a neighborhood in Altamira, Brazil, that was built for people displaced by the flooding caused by the Belo Monte dam. Here she is preparing dinner for her grandchildren, Eduardo, 13, Jennifer, 5, and Jameli, 1. She and many of her neighbors feel the houses are cramped and stifling compared to the places where they lived before. So she and her husband have built a new house on land at the edge of the reservoir behind the dam. Her husband still fishes the waters of the Xingu River, but the dam has disrupted the fish stocks, and he complains that flooded trees easily snag fishing nets.
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  • 3 March 2017, Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho: In the village of Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho. Thaba Bosiu is a sandstone plateau some 24 kilometers east of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. The name means Night Mountain, and surrounding the plateau is a small village and open plains. Thaba Bosiu was once the capital of Lesotho, and the mountain was the stronghold of the Basotho king when the kingdom of Lesotho was formed. Consent obtained.
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  • Nyayul Ruei Bol stands with her grandsons Country Gatwech, 8, and Marow Bayak, 7, as they hold two of the family's goats on an isolated farm along the Akobo River near South Sudan's border with Ethiopia. <br />
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After months of near starvation, when all she had to feed her family was leaves of the Neem tree, Nyayul Ruei Bol says the family is starting to recover with help from the United Nations' World Food Program and DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance.<br />
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Unprecedented flooding left the family isolated and many of their animals died from starvation, Nyayul Ruei Bol said. The arrival of newly displaced families from other hard-hit areas only increased competition for already scarce resources. While the WFP provided some basic food supplies, DanChurchAid stepped in with cash grants, vegetable seeds, and pregnant goats--all provided through collaboration with Nile Hope, a South Sudanese organization.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
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  • Gladys Tanksley, a volunteer foster grandparent, offers comfort to a boy playing 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.
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  • Tarisayi Zhanje stands with her grandson, Hailey Kushaya, outside their home in Harare, Zimbabwe. She cares for the 9 year old since his parents died. At school he uses an appropriately-designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
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  • Tarisayi Zhanje pushes her grandson, Hailey Kushaya, in a walker at their home in Harare, Zimbabwe. She cares for the 9 year old since his parents died. At school he uses an appropriately-designed and fitted wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
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  • Tarisayi Zhanje helps her grandson, Hailey Kushaya, get ready for school in Harare, Zimbabwe. She cares for the 9 year old since his parents died. His appropriately-designed and fitted wheelchair was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
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  • Tarisayi Zhanje pushes her grandson, Hailey Kushaya, into a house where she rents a room in Harare, Zimbabwe. She cares for the 9 year old since his parents died. His appropriately-designed and fitted wheelchair was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
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  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she sits on the porch of her house with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
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  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she sits on the porch of her house with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
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  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she sits on the porch of her house with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
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  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she sits on the porch of her house with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
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  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she sits on the porch of her house with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
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  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she moves along a street in her neighborhood with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
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  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she moves along a street in her neighborhood with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
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  • Jennifer Mhlanga suffered a spinal injury in a bus accident, and today uses a wheelchair to get around Harare, Zimbabwe. Here she moves along a street in her neighborhood with her three-year old granddaughter, Tariro Bvumakurehwa. Mhlanga's wheelchair, which was carefully fitted to her individual needs, was provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
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  • Varayanamma and her 11-year old granddaughter, Nagaraj, an HIV-positive orphan in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. (See Special Instructions below.)
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  • Angelina Awen sits with her granddaughter Aok in a camp for over 5,000 internally displaced persons in an Episcopal Church compound in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced by violence early in 2017, after a larger number took refuge in other church sites when widespread armed conflict engulfed Wau in June 2016. <br />
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As the rainy season approaches, they have no shelter, and sleep every night in the open.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau.
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  • Irma J. Locasia holds a grandson and a photo of her son Salvador J. Locasia, Jr. in Manila, Philippines. Her son was killed in a police operation on this street on August 31, 2016, a victim of the so-called war on drugs of President Rodrigo Duterte.<br />
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Locasia is one of several relatives of Filipinos killed in the campaign who has filed a case in the International Criminal Court, charging Duterte with crimes against humanity.
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  • Iluminada Castillo holds her 3-year old grandson Ceyrus in his home in the Malate neighbohood of Manila, during a visit by several members of Kaisahan ng Magulang at Anak na Maykapansanan (Kaisaka), a mothers' group that carries out community based rehabilitation with families which have members with disabilities.
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  • Iluminada Castillo holds her 3-year old grandson Ceyrus in his home in the Malate neighbohood of Manila, while Maria Hilvano exerises the boy's arms. The women are members of Kaisahan ng Magulang at Anak na Maykapansanan (Kaisaka), a mothers' group that carries out community based rehabilitation with families which have members with disabilities.
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  • Iluminada Castillo holds her 3-year old grandson Ceyrus in his home in the Malate neighbohood of Manila, during a visit by several members of Kaisahan ng Magulang at Anak na Maykapansanan (Kaisaka), a mothers' group that carries out community based rehabilitation with families which have members with disabilities.
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  • Iluminada Castillo holds her 3-year old grandson Ceyrus in his home in the Malate neighbohood of Manila, while Maria Hilvano exerises the boy's legs. The women are members of Kaisahan ng Magulang at Anak na Maykapansanan (Kaisaka), a mothers' group that carries out community based rehabilitation with families which have members with disabilities.
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  • A woman (right) who fled gang-related violence in El Salvador to seek political asylum in the United States prepares food in the kitchen of a shelter where she lives in San Antonio, Texas, on December 1, 2015. The woman, who asked not to be named, fled El Salvador after her son and daughter in law were murdered. She brought two grandchildren with her, but they were taken away by immigration officials upon arrival in the U.S. Since her release she has stayed in a shelter run by the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) and supported by a coalition of San Antonio churches. While awaiting a decision on her request for asylum, she submitted to a DNA exam in order to prove her relation with one grandchild who remained in government care. Helping her in the kitchen is Yanira Lopez, an asylum seeker from Guatemala.
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