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  • Houses built over the water in Kuala Bubon, in Indonesia's Aceh province. The community of 118 houses was built by the ACT Alliance after the village's tsunami survivors refused to accept government plans to relocate them inland far from the sea. After the houses were built, the community then successfully fought a government plan to demolish part of the new village to make way for a new highway.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-137.jpg
  • Houses built over the water in Kuala Bubon, in Indonesia's Aceh province. The community of 118 houses was built by the ACT Alliance after the village's tsunami survivors refused to accept government plans to relocate them inland far from the sea. After the houses were built, the community then successfully fought a government plan to demolish part of the new village to make way for a new highway.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-136.jpg
  • Cheslin Basin, 8, jumps rope amid houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-012.jpg
  • Cheslin Basin, 8, jumps rope amid houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-007.jpg
  • A woman walks along a sidewalk in Kuala Bubon, in Indonesia's Aceh province. The community of 118 houses was built by the ACT Alliance after the village's tsunami survivors refused to accept government plans to relocate them inland far from the sea. After the houses were built, the community then successfully fought a government plan to demolish part of the new village to make way for a new highway.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-142.jpg
  • People in Kuala Bubon, in Indonesia's Aceh province. The community of 118 houses was built by the ACT Alliance after the village's tsunami survivors refused to accept government plans to relocate them inland far from the sea. After the houses were built, the community then successfully fought a government plan to demolish part of the new village to make way for a new highway.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-139.jpg
  • Fishing boats docked at Kuala Bubon, in Indonesia's Aceh province. The community of 118 houses was built by the ACT Alliance after the village's tsunami survivors refused to accept government plans to relocate them inland far from the sea. After the houses were built, the community then successfully fought a government plan to demolish part of the new village to make way for a new highway.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-135.jpg
  • A woman rides a motorbike through Kuala Bubon, in Indonesia's Aceh province. The community of 118 houses was built by the ACT Alliance after the village's tsunami survivors refused to accept government plans to relocate them inland far from the sea. After the houses were built, the community then successfully fought a government plan to demolish part of the new village to make way for a new highway.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-143.jpg
  • Fishing boats docked at Kuala Bubon, in Indonesia's Aceh province. The community of 118 houses was built by the ACT Alliance after the village's tsunami survivors refused to accept government plans to relocate them inland far from the sea. After the houses were built, the community then successfully fought a government plan to demolish part of the new village to make way for a new highway.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-138.jpg
  • Ketia Pajeotle, 14, stands amid houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-178.jpg
  • Woodmay Pajeotle, 3, stands on a path amid houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community. This boy and his mother are among the residents.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-176.jpg
  • Woodmay Pajeotle, 3, stands on a path amid houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community. This boy and his mother are among the residents.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-173.jpg
  • A girl runs past houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-032.jpg
  • Cheslin Basin, 8, jumps rope amid houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-014.jpg
  • Cheslin Basin, 8, jumps rope amid houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-010.jpg
  • Cheslin Basin, 8, jumps rope amid houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-009.jpg
  • A child stands amid houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-006.jpg
  • Some houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-003.jpg
  • A girl runs past houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-031.jpg
  • A child stands on a path amid houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community. This boy and his mother are among the residents.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-026.jpg
  • Houses in the Ban Mai Nai Soi refugee camp in Thailand. The camp is home to thousands of refugees from Myanmar. Thai authorities won't allow residents to build more permanent homes, so all houses are built of bamboo.
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  • Georgia 18 June 2016: Houses in the valley below the Khertvisi Fortress, in the Meskheti region in southern Georgia.
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  • Sapana Lamichhone (right), a pyscho-social volunteer for the ACT Alliance in Makaising, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal, explains to neighbors the variety of options they have for constructing houses to replace the homes they lost in a devastating 2015 earthquake. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of the quake, including the training of carpenters and masons who can build the new dwellings once the government disburses funds for their construction.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_309131.jpg
  • In the tsunami-ravaged village of Kuala Tadu in Indonesia's Aceh province, Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, helped survivors build more than 200 new houses, including this one belonging to Rosdiana and her husband Zulkifli.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-154.jpg
  • In the tsunami-ravaged village of Kuala Tadu in Indonesia's Aceh province, Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, helped survivors build more than 200 new houses, including this one belonging to Rosdiana and her family.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-152.jpg
  • In the tsunami-ravaged village of Kuala Tadu in Indonesia's Aceh province, Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, helped survivors build more than 200 new houses, including this one belonging to five-year old Sofiani and her family. Here she pauses on the way to school in the morning.<br />
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Parental consent obtained.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-151.jpg
  • In the tsunami-ravaged village of Kuala Tadu in Indonesia's Aceh province, Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, helped survivors build more than 200 new houses, including this one belonging to five-year old Sofiani and her parents, who here prepare to take her to school in the morning.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-149.jpg
  • In the tsunami-ravaged village of Kuala Tadu in Indonesia's Aceh province, Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, helped survivors build more than 200 new houses, including this one belonging to Zulkifli and his wife Rosdiana, here standing with their daughters Fitriani, 16, and Sofiani, 5.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-148.jpg
  • Fitriani rubs powder on the face of her sister, 5-year old Softiani, as the little girl prepares to go to school in the village of Kuala Tadu in Indonesia's Aceh province. The tsunami-ravaged community got assistance from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, when it helped survivors build more than 200 new houses, including this one.<br />
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Parental consent obtained.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-146.jpg
  • Fitriani comes the hair of her sister, 5-year old Softiani, as the little girl prepares to go to school in the village of Kuala Tadu in Indonesia's Aceh province. The tsunami-ravaged community got assistance from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, when it helped survivors build more than 200 new houses, including this one.<br />
<br />
Parental consent obtained.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-145.jpg
  • In the tsunami-ravaged village of Kuala Tadu in Indonesia's Aceh province, Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, helped survivors build more than 200 new houses, including this one belonging to Rosdiana and her family.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-153.jpg
  • In the tsunami-ravaged village of Kuala Tadu in Indonesia's Aceh province, Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, helped survivors build more than 200 new houses, including this one belonging to Zulkifli and his wife Rosdiana, here enjoying their front porch with their daughters Fitriani, 16, and Sofiani, 5.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-150.jpg
  • In the tsunami-ravaged village of Kuala Tadu in Indonesia's Aceh province, Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, helped survivors build more than 200 new houses, including this one belonging to Zulkifli and his wife Rosdiana, here standing with their daughters Fitriani, 16, and Sofiani, 5.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-147.jpg
  • Children run along a path in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-029.jpg
  • Two girls walk along a street in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-028.jpg
  • Two girls walk along a street in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-027.jpg
  • Children jump rope in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-023.jpg
  • A boy bounces a football on his head in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-022.jpg
  • Children jump rope in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-021.jpg
  • Children jump rope in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-019.jpg
  • Children jump rope in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-017.jpg
  • A model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-016.jpg
  • Newly trained masons and carpenters pose with their new toolboxes at the end of an ACT Alliance-sponsored course in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal. In the wake of the 2015 earthquake that ravaged the region, Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support for villagers here, including preparing these workers to build new houses once the Nepali government disburses funds for construction.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_308317.jpg
  • Newly trained masons and carpenters receive their toolboxes at the end of an ACT Alliance-sponsored course in Dhawa, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal. In the wake of the 2015 earthquake that ravaged the region, Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support for villagers here, including preparing these workers to build new houses once the Nepali government disburses funds for construction.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_308311.JPG
  • Francineide Silva da Sousa lives in a neighborhood in Altamira, Brazil, that was built for people displaced by the flooding caused by the Belo Monte dam. Yet she and many of her neighbors feel the houses are cramped and stifling compared to the places where they lived before. So she and her husband have built a new house on land at the edge of the reservoir behind the dam. Her husband still fishes the waters of the Xingu River, but the dam has disrupted the fish stocks, and he complains that flooded trees easily snag fishing nets.
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  • Children jump rope in 2013 in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community. Under "informed consent" rules that require prior approval, the photographer would have had to stop the girls from playing, have them identify their parents, explain the intricacies of "informed consent" and usage, get their signature, and then return to the street and photograph the girls at play. That's a process that's allegedly designed to assure that the girls are not depicted in an undignified manner. Photo by Paul Jeffrey.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-024.jpg
  • Children jump rope in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-025.jpg
  • Children jump rope in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-020.jpg
  • Children jump rope in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-018.jpg
  • Boys play basketball amid the ruined houses of Tacloban, a city in the Philippines province of Leyte that was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. The ACT Alliance has been active here and in affected communities throughout the region helping survivors to rebuild their homes and recover their livelihoods.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-228.jpg
  • In the Darfur region of Sudan, the remnants of what were once thatched roof houses. This village was burned in an attack by pro-government Arab militias and Sudanese government troops.
    sudan-2005-jeffrey-darfur-19.jpg
  • Father Emanuel Youkhana photographs houses that once belonged to Christian families in Mosul, Iraq, on January 27, 2017. During the Islamic State group occupation of the city, which began in 2014, Christian properties were awarded to Muslim families. Although this portion of the city was liberated in early 2017, Christians are unlikely to return soon due to concerns about their security in the Sunni community.<br />
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Youkhana is a priest in Duhok of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East.
    iraq-2017-jeffrey-war004.jpg
  • Father Emanuel Youkhana photographs houses that once belonged to Christian families in Mosul, Iraq, on January 27, 2017. During the Islamic State group occupation of the city, which began in 2014, Christian properties were awarded to Muslim families. Although this portion of the city was liberated in early 2017, Christians are unlikely to return soon due to concerns about their security in the Sunni community.<br />
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Youkhana is a priest in Duhok of the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East.
    iraq-2017-jeffrey-war003.jpg
  • A woman walks through a portion of the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. Seen under construction here are transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-347.jpg
  • A boy carries a basin above his head as he walks through a portion of the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. Seen under construction here are transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-345.jpg
  • Etson Oleyis, 4, stands in the street of the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students. Oleyis stands between rows of transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-331.jpg
  • Robert Colin, 3, stands in the street of the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students. Colin stands between rows of transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-329.jpg
  • A boy runs through a portion of the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. Seen under construction here are transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-343.jpg
  • Carrying heavy bags, a woman walks through a portion of the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. Seen under construction here are transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-341.jpg
  • Julienne Philogene carries water home in the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.  Planners consider these transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-337.jpg
  • Julienne Philogene carries water home in the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.  Planners consider these transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-335.jpg
  • A woman walks through a portion of the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. Seen under construction here are transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-339.jpg
  • Cameta Pierre braids the hair of Jean Baptiste Elisee in the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students. Planners consider these transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-333.jpg
  • Robert Colin, 3, stands in the street of the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students. Colin stands between rows of transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-327.jpg
  • Dalna Exalis, 6, runs through the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students. Exalis is running between rows of transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-323.jpg
  • Dalna Exalis, 6, runs through the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students. Exalis is running between rows of transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-325.jpg
  • Sapana Lamichhone (right), a pyscho-social volunteer for the ACT Alliance in Makaising, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal, explains to a neighbor the variety of options she has for constructing a house to replace the home she lost in a devastating 2015 earthquake. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of the quake, including the training of carpenters and masons who can build the new dwellings once the government disburses funds for their construction.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_309126.jpg
  • Sapana Lamichhone (right), a pyscho-social volunteer for the ACT Alliance in Makaising, a village in the Gorkha District of Nepal, explains to a neighbor the variety of options she has for constructing a house to replace the home she lost in a devastating 2015 earthquake. Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided a variety of support to local villagers in the wake of the quake, including the training of carpenters and masons who can build the new dwellings once the government disburses funds for their construction.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_309125.JPG
  • Volunteer youth from the United States help build housing for the poor in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. They came to Central America under the auspices of the Sierra Service Project.
    honduras-2003-jeffrey-13.jpg
  • Volunteer youth from the United States help build housing for the poor in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. They came to Central America under the auspices of the Sierra Service Project.
    honduras-2003-jeffrey-11.jpg
  • Volunteer youth from the United States help build housing for the poor in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. They came to Central America under the auspices of the Sierra Service Project.
    honduras-2003-jeffrey-12.jpg
  • Volunteer youth from the United States help build housing for the poor in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. They came to Central America under the auspices of the Sierra Service Project.
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  • Flooded housing at Tres Reyes. Between San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa at Tres Reyes, Pimienta was flooded during hurricane Iota, the water came at 2am, a lot of people were prepared, but flash flooding caught many by surprise and they lost all their belongings.
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  • Flooded housing at Tres Reyes. Between San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa at Tres Reyes, Pimienta was flooded during hurricane Iota, the water came at 2am, a lot of people were prepared, but flash flooding caught many by surprise and they lost all their belongings.
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  • Housing along the shore of the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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  • A man carries water to his home in Tacloban, a city in the Philippines province of Leyte that was hit hard by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. The man's house lies within a controversial 40 meter "no build" zone. The ACT Alliance has been active here and in affected communities throughout the region helping survivors to rebuild their homes and recover their livelihoods.
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  • Brian Martin, the head of programs for the ACT-Caritas Darfur Emergency Response, inspects the remnants of a house in the burned out village of Um Seifa, one of hundreds of burned villages in Sudan's Darfur region, the product of violence by government military forces and Arab militias against an insurgent force and the civilian population of the area.
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  • 13 October 2015, Remedios, Cuba: Bici taxi (bike taxi) on the streets of the colonial town.
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  • 8 September 2015: Men repairing car on street in Havana, Cuba.
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [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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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [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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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Refugees walk through the Nyumanzi refugee settlement in Adjumani district, West Nile area of Uganda. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [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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  • Metelus Jonotas shouts her offers to prospective customers as she sells beans and rice and other basic foodstuffs from a pan that she carries on her head as she walks through the Corail camp for resettled earthquake survivors north of quake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, where she lived before coming to Corail several months after the 2010 quake. She has three children, two of whom go to schools in the camp built by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
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  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [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.]
    Uganda-2022-Hillert-20220401_AH2_397...jpg
  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [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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  • A portion of Ma’ale Adumim, a huge Israeli settlement on the West Bank near Jerusalem. Under international law, occupying powers are not allowed to settle their citizens in occupied territories...
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  • A girl runs through Camp Corail, a controversial resettlement of earthquake survivors north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Thousands of families were relocated to Corail from flood-prone areas of the capital in 2010, yet the promises of jobs that lured them there failed to materialize.
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  • A girl runs through Camp Corail, a controversial resettlement of earthquake survivors north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Thousands of families were relocated to Corail from flood-prone areas of the capital in 2010, yet the promises of jobs that lured them there failed to materialize.
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  • Metelus Jonotas sells beans and rice and other basic foodstuffs from a pan that she carries on her head as she walks through the Corail camp for resettled earthquake survivors north of quake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, where she lived before coming to Corail several months after the 2010 quake. She has three children, two of whom go to schools in the camp built by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
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  • Metelus Jonotas sells beans and rice and other basic foodstuffs from a pan that she carries on her head as she walks through the Corail camp for resettled earthquake survivors north of quake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, where she lived before coming to Corail several months after the 2010 quake. She has three children, two of whom go to schools in the camp built by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
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  • Metelus Jonotas shouts her offers to prospective customers as she sells beans and rice and other basic foodstuffs from a pan that she carries on her head as she walks through the Corail camp for resettled earthquake survivors north of quake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, where she lived before coming to Corail several months after the 2010 quake. She has three children, two of whom go to schools in the camp built by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
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  • Metelus Jonotas shouts her offers to prospective customers as she sells beans and rice and other basic foodstuffs from a pan that she carries on her head as she walks through the Corail camp for resettled earthquake survivors north of quake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, where she lived before coming to Corail several months after the 2010 quake. She has three children, two of whom go to schools in the camp built by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-H355.jpg
  • Metelus Jonotas shouts her offers to prospective customers as she sells beans and rice and other basic foodstuffs from a pan that she carries on her head as she walks through the Corail camp for resettled earthquake survivors north of quake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, where she lived before coming to Corail several months after the 2010 quake. She has three children, two of whom go to schools in the camp built by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
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  • Metelus Jonotas sells beans and rice and other basic foodstuffs from a pan that she carries on her head as she walks through the Corail camp for resettled earthquake survivors north of quake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, where she lived before coming to Corail several months after the 2010 quake. She has three children, two of whom go to schools in the camp built by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
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  • Metelus Jonotas shouts her offers to prospective customers as she sells beans and rice and other basic foodstuffs from a pan that she carries on her head as she walks through the Corail camp for resettled earthquake survivors north of quake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, where she lived before coming to Corail several months after the 2010 quake. She has three children, two of whom go to schools in the camp built by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-H352.jpg
  • Metelus Jonotas sells beans and rice and other basic foodstuffs from a pan that she carries on her head as she walks through the Corail camp for resettled earthquake survivors north of quake-ravaged Port-au-Prince, where she lived before coming to Corail several months after the 2010 quake. She has three children, two of whom go to schools in the camp built by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).
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  • A portion of the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya. Many of the refugees living here have made Dadaab their home for two decades, yet 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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  • A portion of the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya. Many of the refugees living here have made Dadaab their home for two decades, yet 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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  • A portion of the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya. Many of the refugees living here have made Dadaab their home for two decades, yet 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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  • Clara Biswas (left), a United Methodist missionary who works with women and children and youth in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, visiting and talking with people in the Deumkor neighborhood of the city. Biswas is from Bangladesh.
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