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  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: A girl practices how to multiply, as homework club is underway at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care), which since 1997 has been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
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  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: A girl practices how to multiply, as homework club is underway at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care), which since 1997 has been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210929_AH2_300...jpg
  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Homework club is underway at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care), which since 1997 has been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
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  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Homework club is underway at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care), which since 1997 has been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210929_AH1_657...jpg
  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Homework club is underway at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care), which since 1997 has been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
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  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Homework club is underway at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care), which since 1997 has been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210929_AH1_656...jpg
  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: A girl practices how to multiply, as homework club is underway at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care), which since 1997 has been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210929_AH2_300...jpg
  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Homework club is underway at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care), which since 1997 has been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210929_AH2_295...jpg
  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: A girl practices how to multiply, as homework club is underway at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care), which since 1997 has been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210929_AH2_295...jpg
  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Homework club is underway at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care), which since 1997 has been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210929_AH1_657...jpg
  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Homework club is underway at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care), which since 1997 has been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210929_AH1_655...jpg
  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Markus Palo assists a girl with her studies as homework club is underway at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care). Palo serves at the centre five days per week for a year, as a way of doing civil service instead of spending a year in the army doing military training. The Peeteli Social Centre has since 1997 been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210929_AH2_299...jpg
  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Homework club is underway at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care), which since 1997 has been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210929_AH2_295...jpg
  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Homework club is underway at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care), which since 1997 has been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210929_AH2_295...jpg
  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Homework club is underway at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care), which since 1997 has been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210929_AH2_295...jpg
  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Homework club is underway under the leadership of educator Irina Baranova at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care). Irina serves two days per week at the centre, leading study sessions as well as staying overnight where the children are staying. The social centre has since 1997 been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210929_AH2_294...jpg
  • A girl works on her school homework in the Congo.
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  • A boy studies his homework in Shankarpur, a village in India's Assam region.
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  • A boy studies his homework in Shankarpur, a village in India's Assam region.
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  • A Roma girl does her homework in her home in the Zemun Polje neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. Many families in this neighborhood are refugees from Kosovo. Lacking legal status in Serbia, many have difficulty obtaining formal employment and accessing government services. This girl and her siblings are students in the Branko Pesic school, which is supported by Church World Service.
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  • Bajram Kruezi does his homework while his family watches television in their home in the Zemun Polje neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. Kruezi attends the Branko Pesic School, an educational center for Roma children and families which is supported by Church World Service. Kruezi's family came to Belgrade as refugees from Kosovo, and like many Roma can't afford regular school fees. Many Roma also lack legal status in Serbia, and thus have difficulty obtaining formal employment and accessing government services. Kruezi wants to be a Muslim religious scholar when he grows up.
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  • Sindy Kelly Saraiva, 4, does her first grade homework outside her home in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. In the background, her mother, Fabiana do Nacimiento, prepares food. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • Sindy Kelly Saraiva, 4, does her first grade homework outside her home in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. In the background, her mother, Fabiana do Nacimiento, prepares food. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sindy Kelly Saraiva, 4, does her school homework outside her home in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • A student at Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow, India, enjoys doing her homework in the sun.
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  • With help from her mother, Fabiana do Nacimiento, Sindy Kelly Saraiva, 4, does her first grade homework outside her home in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. <br />
<br />
Parental consent obtained.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Sindy Kelly Saraiva, 4, does her first grade homework outside her home in the countryside near Anapu, in Brazil's northern Para State. In the background, her mother, Fabiana do Nacimiento, prepares food. This area was forest land until recent decades, when the expansion of the agrarian frontier led to the steady destruction of this part of the Amazon's rain forest. <br />
<br />
Parental consent obtained.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-B...jpg
  • Girls do homework at an orphanage in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The girls are HIV positive. The orphanage was started by United Methodist missionaries.
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  • Luong Hoai Thuong does her homework. She was born without her left hand, a birth defect caused by Agent Orange remaining from the U.S. war against Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, US forces sprayed Agent Orange over forests and farmland in an attempt to deprive Viet Cong guerrillas of cover and food. The dioxin compound used in the defoliant is a long-acting toxin that can be passed down genetically, so it is still having an impact forty years on. The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that some 150,000 Vietnamese children are disabled owing to their parents' exposure to the dioxin. Symptoms range from diabetes and heart disease to physical and learning disabilities.
    vietnam-2007-jeffrey-21.jpg
  • 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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  • Numbi Kalamba, 13, does her homework in her one-room home in the Katuba neighborhood of Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She receives school supplies, mentoring, a uniform, and a scholarship for school fees from the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
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  • A woman helps her daughter with homework in the Cambodian village of Bour.
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  • 29 September 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: Family rules posted on a wall at the Peeteli Social Centre (Bethel's Centre of Pastoral Care), which since 1997 has been offering support to children and teenagers living in poverty and adverse circumstances by offering housing, food, and by supporting children with their homework for school, among other activities. The activities are part of the diaconal ministry of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, but is undertaken in a widely ecumenical setting with support from both other church communities, as well as other organizations and private individuals. [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.]
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210929_AH2_299...jpg
  • Luong Hoai Thuong does her homework. She was born without her left hand, a birth defect caused by Agent Orange remaining from the U.S. war against Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, US forces sprayed Agent Orange over forests and farmland in an attempt to deprive Viet Cong guerrillas of cover and food. The dioxin compound used in the defoliant is a long-acting toxin that can be passed down genetically, so it is still having an impact forty years on. The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that some 150,000 Vietnamese children are disabled owing to their parents' exposure to the dioxin. Symptoms range from diabetes and heart disease to physical and learning disabilities.
    vietnam-2007-jeffrey-19.jpg
  • Luong Hoai Thuong does her homework. She was born without her left hand, a birth defect caused by Agent Orange remaining from the U.S. war against Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, US forces sprayed Agent Orange over forests and farmland in an attempt to deprive Viet Cong guerrillas of cover and food. The dioxin compound used in the defoliant is a long-acting toxin that can be passed down genetically, so it is still having an impact forty years on. The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that some 150,000 Vietnamese children are disabled owing to their parents' exposure to the dioxin. Symptoms range from diabetes and heart disease to physical and learning disabilities.
    vietnam-2007-jeffrey-18.jpg
  • Luong Hoai Thuong does her homework. She was born without her left hand, a birth defect caused by Agent Orange remaining from the U.S. war against Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, US forces sprayed Agent Orange over forests and farmland in an attempt to deprive Viet Cong guerrillas of cover and food. The dioxin compound used in the defoliant is a long-acting toxin that can be passed down genetically, so it is still having an impact forty years on. The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that some 150,000 Vietnamese children are disabled owing to their parents' exposure to the dioxin. Symptoms range from diabetes and heart disease to physical and learning disabilities.
    vietnam-2007-jeffrey-17.jpg
  • Boys doing school homework in the Haitian village of Vaudreuil.
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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.
    syria-2008-jeffrey-085.jpg
  • 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. Yousif's siblings Anjy and Mustafa are in the background.
    syria-2008-jeffrey-084.jpg
  • Luambo Dimange stays after class to do his homework in a United Methodist-sponsored school in the Congolese village of Tunda.
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  • Luambo Dimange stays after class to do his homework in a United Methodist-sponsored school in the Congolese village of Tunda.
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A042.jpg
  • Banza Mujinga, 7, does homework in the one-room home where she lives with her disabled mother in the Rwashi neighborhood of Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She receives school supplies, mentoring, a uniform, and a scholarship for school fees from the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A533.jpg
  • Numbi Kalamba, 13, does her homework in her one-room home in the Katuba neighborhood of Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She receives school supplies, mentoring, a uniform, and a scholarship for school fees from the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A517.jpg
  • Luong Hoai Thuong does her homework. She was born without her left hand, a birth defect caused by Agent Orange remaining from the U.S. war against Vietnam. Agent Orange was a herbicide that the U.S. military used to defoliate vast stretches of Vietnam and Laos during the 1960s and early 1970s, so the Communist forces would have no place to hide. The defoliant is known to cause a myriad of birth defects in the children of those exposed. As much as 18 million gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed around Vietnam, according to a study by the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of the U.S. Congress. The Vietnamese government estimates that as many as 400,000 Vietnamese have died from illnesses related to exposure to dioxin, such as cancer. It also claims that up to 500,000 children have birth defects, such as spina bifida, because their parents were exposed.
    vietnam-2007-jeffrey-22.jpg
  • Banza Mujinga, 7, does homework in the one-room home where she lives with her disabled mother in the Rwashi neighborhood of Lubumbashi, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She receives school supplies, mentoring, a uniform, and a scholarship for school fees from the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A534.jpg
  • Luong Hoai Thuong does her homework. She was born without her left hand, a birth defect caused by Agent Orange remaining from the U.S. war against Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, US forces sprayed Agent Orange over forests and farmland in an attempt to deprive Viet Cong guerrillas of cover and food. The dioxin compound used in the defoliant is a long-acting toxin that can be passed down genetically, so it is still having an impact forty years on. The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that some 150,000 Vietnamese children are disabled owing to their parents' exposure to the dioxin. Symptoms range from diabetes and heart disease to physical and learning disabilities.
    vietnam-2007-jeffrey-20.jpg
  • Eleven-year old Juan Lopez reads his homework - in Braille - with the help of his sister Griselda at their home in Zipolite, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico. Both are blind. Juan refuses to be sidelined by his disability, however. He rides his bike, for example, with his sister's help. She perches on the back and signals him which way to steer by pinching his shoulder. If she pinches his right shoulder, for example, he goes right. The harder the pinch, the sharper the turn.
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  • At the Casa Lois Catholic Worker House in Chamelecón, Honduras, Selven Zuniga (right) helps Hector Leiva with his homework. The young men are involved in a Catholic program which promotes education and work as alternatives to violent youth gangs.
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  • Egzina Sanon (left), 16, and Dashline Exuma, 13, do their homework on the porch of thei family's home in the Haitian community of Ganthier, where Mission Sociale des Eglises Hatiennes (MISSEH), a member of the ACT Alliance, has helped their family and other residents rebuild their homes and lives after the village was devastated in 2016 by Hurricane Matthew. Besides providing construction material for housing construction, MISSEH has provided animals, seeds and tools to farmers, while also helping the community organize a more agile and responsive program of disaster risk reduction. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • Gary Moon (left), a United Methodist missionary in Thailand, plays the Thai version of Monopoly with girls in an orphanage he founded with his wife Cindy in Chiang Mai.  Cindy is to the right of him, helping girls with homework. The girls are orphans, and are all HIV positive.
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  • 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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  • Daniela Cantera, 5, does her homework in Garzal, Colombia. People in this community have struggled for years to stay on their land, despite threats and violence from drug traffickers and paramilitaries, and recently many of them finally gained legal title to their plots.
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  • Necabless Barrio (right), is a 12-year old girl on Bayas, a small island in the Philippines municipality of Estancia, in Iloilo Province. Here she does her homework with help from her sister Ziria. <br />
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The island was ravaged by the passage of Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Yolanda, in November 2013. Both deaf and mute, Barrio fled with her family as the waters rose, but got her foot tangled in some electrical cables. With the water at the girl's neck and still rising, her mother managed to free her and get her to higher ground.
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  • A tutor helps a girl with her homework in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the afterschool program focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood.
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  • A tutor helps a girl with her homework in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the afterschool program 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-39.jpg
  • A tutor helps a girl with her homework in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the afterschool program 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-05.jpg
  • Michelle S. Dromgold (right) helps Zhivko Hristov (left) and his brother Martin with their homework assignments in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the after school program focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood. Dromgold is a mission intern of The United Methodist Church. The two boys, aged 12 and 9, are Roma whose family recently immigrated to Germany from Bulgaria.
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  • Zhivko Hristov (left) and his brother Martin work on their homework in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the program focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood. The two boys, aged 12 and 9, are Roma whose family recently immigrated to Germany from Bulgaria.
    germany-2012-jeffrey-berlin-03.jpg
  • A girl works on her homework in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the after school program 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-04.jpg
  • Michelle S. Dromgold helps Martin (left) and Zhivko Hristov with their homework assignments in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the afterschool program focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood. Dromgold is a mission intern of The United Methodist Church. The two boys, aged 9 and 12, are Roma whose family recently immigrated to Germany from Bulgaria.
    germany-2012-jeffrey-berlin-01.jpg
  • Yarely Arellano does homework in her home in Juarez, Mexico. She crosses the international border every day to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school in El Paso, Texas.
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  • Yarely Arellano does homework in her home in Juarez, Mexico. She crosses the international border every day to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school in El Paso, Texas.
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  • Eleven-year old Juan Lopez reads his homework - in Braille - at his home in Zipolite, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico. Juan is blind, and yet refuses to be sidelined. He rides his bike, for example, with his sister's help. She perches on the back and signals him which way to steer by pinching his shoulder. If she pinches his right shoulder, for example, he goes right. The harder the pinch, the sharper the turn.
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  • Eleven-year old Juan Lopez reads his homework - in Braille - with the help of his sister Griselda at their home in Zipolite, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico. Both are blind. Juan refuses to be sidelined by his disability, however. He rides his bike, for example, with his sister's help. She perches on the back and signals him which way to steer by pinching his shoulder. If she pinches his right shoulder, for example, he goes right. The harder the pinch, the sharper the turn.
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  • Eleven-year old Juan Lopez reads his homework - in Braille - with the help of his sister Griselda at their home in Zipolite, a town in Oaxaca, Mexico. Both are blind. Juan refuses to be sidelined by his disability, however. He rides his bike, for example, with his sister's help. She perches on the back and signals him which way to steer by pinching his shoulder. If she pinches his right shoulder, for example, he goes right. The harder the pinch, the sharper the turn.
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  • A boy does his school homework in the Haitian village of Mizak.
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  • Yar Yorlu, 14, does his homework in his family's shelter in the Rhino Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. As of April 2017, the camp held almost 87,000 refugees from South Sudan, and more people were arriving daily. About 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out there at the end of 2013. About 900,000 have sought refuge in Uganda.
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  • Ahlam Mazatha supervises the homework of her sons Mohammed, 13, and Abed Rahaman, 10, and her daughter Sarah, 5, in their small apartment in Madaba, a sprawling Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan that has grown in recent years with the arrival of refugees--like this family--from war-torn Syria. She and her husband and three children fled Daraa in 2013 when bombing destroyed their home. Mazatha was a teacher in Syria, and her husband owned a taxi, but in Jordan they are not allowed to work by the government. The  Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Middle East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides a variety of services here, including medical care.
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  • Ahlam Mazatha supervises the homework of her sons Mohammed, 13, and Abed Rahaman, 10, and her daughter Sarah, 5, in their small apartment in Madaba, a sprawling Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan that has grown in recent years with the arrival of refugees--like this family--from war-torn Syria. She and her husband and three children fled Daraa in 2013 when bombing destroyed their home. Mazatha was a teacher in Syria, and her husband owned a taxi, but in Jordan they are not allowed to work by the government. The  Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Middle East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides a variety of services here, including medical care.
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  • Ahlam Mazatha supervises the homework of her sons Mohammed, 13, and Abed Rahaman, 10, in their small apartment in Madaba, a sprawling Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan that has grown in recent years with the arrival of refugees--like this family--from war-torn Syria. She and her husband and three children fled Daraa in 2013 when bombing destroyed their home. Mazatha was a teacher in Syria, and her husband owned a taxi, but in Jordan they are not allowed to work by the government. The  Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Middle East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides a variety of services here, including medical care.
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  • Chankuth and Nyabuay Ruot use a computer to do their homework in their family's apartment in Cairo, Egypt. The girls, whose families are refugees from South Sudan, attend classes provided by St. Andrew's Refugee Services, which is supported by Church World Service.
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  • Egzina Sanon (left), 16, and Dashline Exuma, 13, do their homework on the porch of thei family's home in the Haitian community of Ganthier, where Mission Sociale des Eglises Hatiennes (MISSEH), a member of the ACT Alliance, has helped their family and other residents rebuild their homes and lives after the village was devastated in 2016 by Hurricane Matthew. Besides providing construction material for housing construction, MISSEH has provided animals, seeds and tools to farmers, while also helping the community organize a more agile and responsive program of disaster risk reduction. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • Valentina Romero, 5, is a Guarani indigenous girl in Bananal, a small village in the Chaco region of Argentina where residents have struggled to defend their land and their rights against giant agro-export plantations and cattle raisers. The girl has enrolled in pre-school and is doing her homework in the kitchen of her family's house.
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  • Sarah Ismili, an 11-year old Roma girl in Suto Orizari, the Macedonian municipality that is Europe's largest Roma settlement, reads her school homework in her family's home.
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  • A tutor helps a boy with his homework in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the afterschool program focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood.
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  • Zhivko Hristov, 12, works on his homework in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the program focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood. The boy is Roma, and his family recently immigrated to Germany from Bulgaria.
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  • Yarely Arellano does homework in her home in Juarez, Mexico, as her mother, Patricia Esquivel, cooks dinner. Arellano crosses the international border every day to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school in El Paso, Texas.
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  • At the Casa Lois Catholic Worker House in Chamelecón, Honduras, Mario Torres (right) helps Hector Leiva with his homework. The young men are involved in a Catholic program which promotes education and work as alternatives to violent youth gangs.
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  • Ahlam Mazatha supervises the homework of her sons Mohammed, 13, and Abed Rahaman, 10, and her daughter Sarah, 5, in their small apartment in Madaba, a sprawling Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan that has grown in recent years with the arrival of refugees--like this family--from war-torn Syria. She and her husband and three children fled Daraa in 2013 when bombing destroyed their home. Mazatha was a teacher in Syria, and her husband owned a taxi, but in Jordan they are not allowed to work by the government. The  Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Middle East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides a variety of services here, including medical care.
    jordan_2015_jeffrey_refugees_B102.JPG
  • Ahlam Mazatha supervises the homework of her sons Mohammed, 13, and Abed Rahaman, 10, in their small apartment in Madaba, a sprawling Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan that has grown in recent years with the arrival of refugees--like this family--from war-torn Syria. She and her husband and three children fled Daraa in 2013 when bombing destroyed their home. Mazatha was a teacher in Syria, and her husband owned a taxi, but in Jordan they are not allowed to work by the government. The  Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Middle East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides a variety of services here, including medical care.
    jordan_2015_jeffrey_refugees_B081.JPG
  • Babazile Miya helps Mpho, 12, with his homework in an after school program sponsored by the Inkanyezi ART Project, which is funded by the South African Catholic Bishops' Conference. Participants include orphans and other vulnerable children who are living with or affected by HIV and AIDS. The program is carried out in the St. Louis Catholic Church in Orange Farm, South Africa. (The child's last name is withheld to protect privacy.).
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  • Valentina Romero, 5, is a Guarani indigenous girl in Bananal, a small village in the Chaco region of Argentina where residents have struggled to defend their land and their rights against giant agro-export plantations and cattle raisers. The girl has enrolled in pre-school and is doing her homework in the kitchen of her family's house.
    argentina_2014_jeffrey_chaco_828-03.JPG
  • Gary Moon, a United Methodist missionary in Thailand, helps girls with their homework in an orphanage he founded with his wife Cindy (right) in Chiang Mai. The girls are orphans, and are all HIV positive.
    thailand-2012-jeffrey-52.jpg
  • A tutor helps a girl with her homework in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the afterschool program 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-07.jpg
  • Ahlam Mazatha supervises the homework of her sons Mohammed, 13, and Abed Rahaman, 10, and her daughter Sarah, 5, in their small apartment in Madaba, a sprawling Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan that has grown in recent years with the arrival of refugees--like this family--from war-torn Syria. She and her husband and three children fled Daraa in 2013 when bombing destroyed their home. Mazatha was a teacher in Syria, and her husband owned a taxi, but in Jordan they are not allowed to work by the government. The  Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Middle East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides a variety of services here, including medical care.
    jordan_2015_jeffrey_refugees_B085.JPG
  • Valentina Romero, 5, is a Guarani indigenous girl in Bananal, a small village in the Chaco region of Argentina where residents have struggled to defend their land and their rights against giant agro-export plantations and cattle raisers. The girl has enrolled in pre-school and is doing her homework in the kitchen of her family's house.
    argentina_2014_jeffrey_chaco_828-01.JPG
  • Girls studying in Mirpurkhas, Sindh, Pakistan. They attend classes sponsored by the Lower Sindh River Development Association (supported by Church World Service).
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  • A student in her dorm room at Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow, India.
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  • Peter Makura studies at his home in the village of Berejena, near Masvingo, Zimbabwe. Makura uses a wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
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  • A girl in an after-school tutoring center run by the Church of the American Ceylon Mission in Veemankaman, Sri Lanka.
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  • Ashmita Lama (right) poses in the doorway of her home in Chandragiri, Nepal, with her mother Kanchi and her sister Mandira.<br />
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Lama, 19, receives a scholarship from Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh (the YWCA of Nepal) to go to school in Kathmandu. She was the first girl from her village to pass the 10th grade exam, and is studying to be a hotel manager, saying she wants to earn lots of money and help build her community, while encouraging other girls to get an education. <br />
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When the 2015 earthquake hit, her old home was destroyed. With support from United Methodist Women, Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh provided the family with a tent. Then UMCOR provided the metal roofing for what will eventually become their new home.
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  • Ashmita Lama poses in the doorway of her home in Chandragiri, Nepal. Lama, 19, receives a scholarship from Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh (the YWCA of Nepal) to go to school in Kathmandu. She was the first girl from her village to pass the 10th grade exam, and is studying to be a hotel manager, saying she wants to earn lots of money and help build her community, while encouraging other girls to get an education. When the 2015 earthquake hit, her old home was destroyed. With support from United Methodist Women, Nepal Mahila Bishwasi Sangh provided the family with a tent. Then UMCOR provided the metal roofing for what will eventually become their new home.
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  • Dora Nilde Andrade da Silva (left) tutors Joelson Souza da Costa, 12, in a program sponsored by the Catholic Church in Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region. The program helps kids keep up with their school work. Andrade is a volunteer.<br />
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Written parental consent obtained.
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  • Dora Nilde Andrade da Silva (left) exchanges a high five with Joelson Souza da Costa, 12, in a tutoring program sponsored by the Catholic Church in Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region. The program helps kids keep up with their school work. Andrade is a volunteer.<br />
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Written parental consent obtained.
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  • Marta Barral, a Xavierian lay missionary from Spain, helps a boy read during an educational program sponsored by the Catholic Church in Atalaia do Norte in Brazil's Amazon region. The afterschool tutoring program helps kids keep up with their school work.
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  • Robin Hyde is employed as a homemaker, and works in a home in East St Louis. Hyde is also a member of the Teamsters Union, which with the homemakers and the Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House has fought hard for a living wage for the homemakers, who are almost all women.
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  • Robin Hyde is employed as a homemaker, and works in a home in East St Louis. Hyde is also a member of the Teamsters Union, which with the homemakers and the Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House has fought hard for a living wage for the homemakers, who are almost all women.
    usa-2004-jeffrey-east-st-louis-26.jpg
  • Robin Hyde is employed as a homemaker, and works in a home in East St Louis. Hyde is also a member of the Teamsters Union, which with the homemakers and the Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House has fought hard for a living wage for the homemakers, who are almost all women.
    usa-2004-jeffrey-east-st-louis-25.jpg
  • Cindy Moon, a United Methodist missionary in Thailand, helps girls read in an orphanage she founded with her husband Gary in Chiang Mai. The girls are orphans, and are all HIV positive.
    thailand-2012-jeffrey-54.jpg
  • Peter Makura studies outside his home in the village of Berejena, near Masvingo, Zimbabwe. Makura uses a wheelchair provided by the Jairos Jiri Association with support from CBM-US.
    zimbabwe-2014-jeffrey-wheelchairs-21...jpg
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