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  • Ten-year old Malik Fayez recovers from a bullet wound to the head in a Beit Jala hospital. The Palestinian boy, who lives in neighboring Bethlehem, was shot by soldiers of the Israeli Defense Force after he threw stones at an IDF jeep which had entered his neighborhood as part of a military operation that led to the destruction of a neighbor's house and the killing of a Palestinian man.
    palestine-2006-jeffrey-west-bank-B05...jpg
  • A store selling head scarves for Muslim women in the old city of Damascus, Syria.
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  • A girl carries a box on her head to the morning market in Lastic le Roche, Haiti.
    haiti-2009-jeffrey-136.jpg
  • Martha Athiei is head girl of the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland. Athiei, 20, is a senior at the school. She wants to go on to university and study to become an accountant.
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  • A woman carrying a basin of produce on her head as she walks in the mountainous community of Foret-des-Pins, Haiti.
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  • A Rohingya woman adjusts her head scarf as she walks in the Jamtoli Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled government-sanctioned violence in Myanmar for safety in this and other camps in Bangladesh.
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  • A woman carrying a basin of produce on her head as she walks in the mountainous community of Foret-des-Pins, Haiti.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A215.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries home grain on her head 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.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-019.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries home grain on her head 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.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-006.jpg
  • Her wares on her head, a woman heads to market in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-079.jpg
  • A bundle on her head, a woman walks along the street in Cite Soleil, a sprawling poor portion of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-709.jpg
  • A collection of household items for sale on her head, a woman walks along the street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-703.jpg
  • Natalia Toneva, an immigrant from Moldova, gets playfully bonked on the head after making a mistake during instructor Christian Jensen's English as a second language class at Tacoma Community House in Tacoma, Washington.
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  • Comforted by his mother, Iman Diab, 10-year old Malik Fayez recovers from a bullet wound to the head in a Beit Jala hospital. The Palestinian boy, who lives in neighboring Bethlehem, was shot by soldiers of the Israeli Defense Force after he threw stones at an IDF jeep which had entered his neighborhood as part of a military operation that led to the destruction of a neighbor's house and the killing of a Palestinian man.
    palestine-2006-jeffrey-west-bank-B05...jpg
  • A woman carries banana leaves on her head in the Anumaar Koil Padithurai neighborhood in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu state in southern India.
    india-2010-jeffrey-women-074.jpg
  • Paulina Nalayanga listens to the homily bduring Catholic Mass in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Nalayanga's blue head scarf marks her membership in the Legion of Mary.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-congolese-r...jpg
  • Paulina Nalayanga listens to the homily bduring Catholic Mass in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Nalayanga's blue head scarf marks her membership in the Legion of Mary.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-congolese-r...jpg
  • A displaced woman carries supplies in a bag on her head 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-231.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries supplies on a tray on her head 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-230.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries supplies on a tray on her head 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-228.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries supplies on a tray on her head 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-226.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries cooking oil on her head during a food distribution by the United Nations World Food Program 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-100.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries home grain on her head 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.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-022.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries a bag on her head 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.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-020.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries home grain on her head 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.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-005.jpg
  • A displaced woman carries home grain on her head 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.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-004.jpg
  • A woman carries grain on her head in the Haitian village of Mizak.
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  • A young woman walking with a bag on her head in the Haitian village of Foret des Pins.
    haiti-2009-jeffrey-074.jpg
  • A woman carrying food in a metal pan on her head in the Haitian village of Vaudreuil.
    haiti-2009-jeffrey-018.jpg
  • A bag on her head, a woman walks along the street in Cite Soleil, a sprawling poor portion of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-707.jpg
  • A basin on her head, a woman walks along the street in Cite Soleil, a sprawling poor portion of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-701.jpg
  • A man carries leaves in a basket on his head as he walks along a path in the Haitian village of Mizak.
    haiti-2009-jeffrey-314.jpg
  • A woman carries water on her head in Lastic le Roche, Haiti.
    haiti-2009-jeffrey-137.jpg
  • A boy carries a bucket of water on his head in Lastic le Roche, Haiti.
    haiti-2009-jeffrey-135.jpg
  • A girl carries a bundle on her head to the morning market in Lastic le Roche, Haiti.
    haiti-2009-jeffrey-133.jpg
  • A girl carries a bundle on her head to the morning market in Lastic le Roche, Haiti.
    haiti-2009-jeffrey-132.jpg
  • Carrying bananas on her head, a woman walks through the largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people..
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A286.jpg
  • Carrying bananas on her head, a woman walks through the largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people..
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A287.jpg
  • Nine-year old Jouly Seide ran out of her family's house during Haiti's devastating January 12 earthquake, then remembered her one-year old sister still inside. She ran back in, only to have the house collapse on her. She and her sister were rescued later the same day, but she received head wounds that are being treated here on January 24 in a camp for homeless families in the Belair section of Port-au-Prince.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-217.jpg
  • Nine-year old Jouly Seide ran out of her family's house during Haiti's devastating January 12 earthquake, then remembered her one-year old sister still inside. She ran back in, only to have the house collapse on her. She and her sister were rescued later the same day, but she received head wounds that are being treated here on January 24 in a camp for homeless families in the Belair section of Port-au-Prince.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-216.jpg
  • A woman carries a bag on her head in Dabonne, Haiti, which was devastated by a January 12 earthquake.
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  • A woman carries a bag on her head in Dabonne, Haiti, which was devastated by a January 12 earthquake.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-067.jpg
  • A woman carries a bag on her head in Dabonne, Haiti, which was devastated by a January 12 earthquake.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-066.jpg
  • A woman in the Cambodian village of Somrith carries cut stalks on her head.
    cambodia-2009-jeffrey-rural-021.jpg
  • 9 December 2017, Oslo, Norway: Some 22 "Hibakusha", survivors from the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, joined Norwegian representatives the mayor of Oslo, principal of Oslo University, and the head of the Oslo Museum of National History for an event themed "Seeds for Peace" in the Oslo Botanical Garden. As a token of hope, together they planted seeds, as part of the Nobel Peace Prize celebrations in Oslo on 9-10 December. Oslo hosts the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony on 9-10 December 2017. The prize in 2017 goes to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), for "its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons". Masakazu Saito is a 94 year-old survivor of an atomic bombing. "I was told by the doctors 27 seven times that I will not survive," he says, bearing a crack in his skull from the time the bomb fell. Since then, he has started an organization called "Iwato Prefectural A-bomb Sufferers Association". "In a world where with today's technology, two bombs can kill the entire population of the Earth, killing women and men, adults and children: we cannot have this. Peace. No war." he says.
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  • A displaced woman carries home grain on her head 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.
    south-sudan-2013-jeffrey-abyei-010.jpg
  • A woman in a camp for internally displaced persons in northern Uganda rests her scythe on her head. The two-decade conflict began winding down with peace talks in 2006, and some displaced families have returned home.
    uganda-2007-jeffrey-IDPs-02.jpg
  • 9 December 2017, Oslo, Norway: Some 22 "Hibakusha", survivors from the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, joined Norwegian representatives the mayor of Oslo, principal of Oslo University, and the head of the Oslo Museum of National History for an event themed "Seeds for Peace" in the Oslo Botanical Garden. As a token of hope, together they planted seeds, as part of the Nobel Peace Prize celebrations in Oslo on 9-10 December. Oslo hosts the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony on 9-10 December 2017. The prize in 2017 goes to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), for "its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons". Masakazu Saito is a 94 year-old survivor of an atomic bombing. "I was told by the doctors 27 seven times that I will not survive," he says, bearing a crack in his skull from the time the bomb fell. Since then, he has started an organization called "Iwato Prefectural A-bomb Sufferers Association". "In a world where with today's technology, two bombs can kill the entire population of the Earth, killing women and men, adults and children: we cannot have this. Peace. No war." he says.
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  • A man helps another man touch his head as they participate 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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  • A woman helps a man tap his head as they participate 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
  • Kuol Thou Majok taps his head as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Good Shepherd Peace Center in Kit, South Sudan. 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 to learn body-based practices that empower people 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-kit-A19.JPG
  • Kuol Thou Majok taps his head as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Good Shepherd Peace Center in Kit, South Sudan. 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 to learn body-based practices that empower people 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-kit-A18.JPG
  • A woman walks along a path carrying water on her head in Riimenze, South Sudan.
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  • A boy carries a package on his head in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan.
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  • The Head Girl in the Loreto Girls Secondary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The school educates girls from throughout Africa's newest country.
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  • A woman carries her baby in a basket on her head in Akobo, South Sudan. <br />
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Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity in the area. DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects, including cash grants, aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. It carries out that program in partnership with Nile Hope, a South Sudanese organization.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0280.jpg
  • A woman carries her baby in a basket on her head in Akobo, South Sudan. <br />
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Like several locations around the troubled country, the combination of fighting and flooding has worsened food insecurity in the area. DanChurchAid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families in Akobo with food and livelihood projects, including cash grants, aimed at lowering vulnerability and increasing food security. It carries out that program in partnership with Nile Hope, a South Sudanese organization. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-akobo-0280.jpg
  • A woman carries a large bag on her head in Mursan, India.
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  • A boy washes the head of a water buffalo in Mehdiganj, India.
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  • A member of United Methodist Women shields her head from the rain during a May 17, 2018, public witness at the state capitol in Columbus, Ohio, where she and hundreds of others urged the state legislature to pass a bill requiring a fair living wage. The demonstration came on the eve of the 2018 Assembly of United Methodist Women.
    usa-2018-jeffrey-umw-assembly-033.jpg
  • A traditionally dressed woman adjust her head scarf in Buyer, a small village in northern Thailand populated by indigenous hill tribe people.
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  • Nineteen-year old Sashi, a student nurse, attends to Rajarajeswari, who suffered a head injury when her sari got caught in a motorcycle, in a hospital in Chennai in in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu.
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  • A woman carries bricks on her head at a construction site in Natham, a small town in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu.
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  • A woman carries bricks on her head at a construction site in Natham, a small town in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu.
    india-2010-jeffrey-women-162.jpg
  • A woman carries a brick on her head while working on a construction site in the village of Kundrathur Somangalam in southern India's state of Tamil Nadu.
    india-2010-jeffrey-women-138.jpg
  • A woman carries bricks on her head while working on a construction site in the village of Kundrathur Somangalam in southern India's state of Tamil Nadu.
    india-2010-jeffrey-women-132.jpg
  • A woman carries bricks on her head while working on a construction site in the village of Kundrathur Somangalam in southern India's state of Tamil Nadu.
    india-2010-jeffrey-women-130.jpg
  • A woman carries food on her head as she walks to work in her farm field in Nallur, a small village in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India.
    india-2010-jeffrey-rural-30.jpg
  • Standing on his head in the hallway, a boy who works as a scavenger in the municipal garbage dump in Chennai, India, is hosted in a nearby night shelter by the Madras Christian Council of Social Service.
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  • A boy in Abucay, a seaside town in the Philippines province of Bataan, pours water on his head.
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  • A woman walks with a mat on her head, near Bussera, South Sudan.
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  • Two women in Riimenze, a village in Southern Sudan's Western Equatoria State, carry water home from a well--one on her head and one on a bicycle. In the background is the village's Catholic church, built in decades past by Comboni missionaries. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
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  • A girl carries a can on her head in a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
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Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.
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  • A displaced woman carries a bag of grain on her head inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, but renewed fighting in 2015 drove another 5,000 people into the safety of the camp.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-037.jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, feels the head of a woman as she talks with her in the Makpandu refugee camp, a ramshackle collection of huts with mud walls and thatched roofs spread through a remote section of forest 40 kilometers from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in the newly independent South Sudan. More than 3,000 people live in the camp, having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2008 when the Lord's Resistance Army started a murderous rampage through the area. In recent months the Congolese have been experiencing harassment and insults from the local population. Religious workers say the refugees want to go home to the Congo, but not until Joseph Kony and the LRA are removed. Sister Rosa works in the camp as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic priests, sisters and brothers from around the world.
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  • A woman struggles to stand as she balances two buckets full of water on her head at a well in Bunj, South Sudan.
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  • A woman balances two buckets full of water on her head at a well in Bunj, South Sudan.
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  • A woman carries grain home in a bag on her head in the Yusuf Batil refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
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  • A woman carries laundry on her head in the Doro refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
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  • A woman carries water on  her head in the Gendrassa refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
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  • A woman carries water on  her head in the Gendrassa refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
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  • A girl carries water on her head in the Ajuong Thok Refugee Camp in South Sudan. The camp, in northern Unity State, hosts thousands of refugees from the Nuba Mountains, located across the nearby border with Sudan.
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  • Iglat Shera, 12, carries a bag of sand on her head for making mortar for new house construction on Jinamoc Island, which was hard hit in 2013 by Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Typhoon Yolanda. The ACT Alliance has been present since the first moments of the emergency, accompanying the people of Jinamoc to rebuild their lives and livelihoods.
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  • A woman carries a bowl on her head in Piedras Preciosas, a village in the western highlands of Guatemala where the Fraternidad de Presbiteriales Mayas works with women and families in the Mam-speaking Maya community, providing education, credit, health care, and empowerment. Many of the women in the community weave and embroider, using credit from the Fraternidad to buy materials they need to produce a product they then sell, utilizing the income to better their family’s quality of living.
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  • Carrying a bag on her head, a young woman walks along a road in the mountainous community of Foret-des-Pins, Haiti.
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  • Carrying a bag on her head, a young woman walks along a road in the mountainous community of Foret-des-Pins, Haiti.
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  • A woman carries a load on her head as she returns home from the market in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life.
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  • A woman carries a bag on her head in Mizak, a small village in the south of Haiti.
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  • Carrying a bag on her head, a young woman walks along a road in the mountainous community of Foret-des-Pins, Haiti.
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  • Rose Namigwanya, 8, carries banana plants on her head in Kabulasoke, Uganda, where the Ntulume Village Women Development Association has trained women in improved agricultural practices, thus increasing food security and empowering women and children. The project was supported by funding from the Call to Prayer and Self-Denial of United Methodist Women.
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  • Rose Namigwanya, 8, carries banana plants on her head in Kabulasoke, Uganda, where the Ntulume Village Women Development Association has trained women in improved agricultural practices, thus increasing food security and empowering women and children. The project was supported by funding from the Call to Prayer and Self-Denial of United Methodist Women.
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  • Rose Namigwanya, 8, carries banana plants on her head in Kabulasoke, Uganda, where the Ntulume Village Women Development Association has trained women in improved agricultural practices, thus increasing food security and empowering women and children. The project was supported by funding from the Call to Prayer and Self-Denial of United Methodist Women.
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  • A boy carries plastic basins on his head in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, located near Mafraq, Jordan. Opened in July, 2012, the camp holds upwards of 50,000 refugees from the civil war inside Syria, but its numbers are growing. International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance are active in the camp providing essential items and services.
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  • A boy carries plastic basins on his head in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, located near Mafraq, Jordan. Opened in July, 2012, the camp holds upwards of 50,000 refugees from the civil war inside Syria, but its numbers are growing. International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance are active in the camp providing essential items and services.
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  • A boy carries buckets on his head in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, located near Mafraq, Jordan. Opened in July, 2012, the camp holds upwards of 50,000 refugees from the civil war inside Syria, but its numbers are growing. International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance are active in the camp providing essential items and services.
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  • A woman carries blankets on her head as she walks in the Zaatari Refugee Camp, located near Mafraq, Jordan. Opened in July, 2012, the camp holds upwards of 50,000 refugees from the civil war inside Syria. International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance are active in the camp providing essential items and services.
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  • A woman carries a bag on her head as she walks 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 Somali woman carries a bag of grain on her head in the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya. Tens of thousands of newly arrived Somalis have swelled the population of what was already the world's largest refugee camp.
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  • Chiring Sangmo Tamang carries a load using a head strap in the village of Gatlang, in the Rasuwa District of Nepal near the country's border with Tibet.
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  • Bakhi Shabam walks with her hoe on her head in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
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