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  • Sarah Surdam and Mary Alonzo wash dishes in the kitchen of the First Step House, a project of the United Methodist Community House in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The First Step House provides transition housing for women coming out of prostitution, recovering from substance abuse, or returning from prison. Alonzo, a former prostitute who has spent time in prison, is the resident house manager. Surdam, who has battled depression, substance abuse and spent time in prison, is a resident and the assistant house manager. The UMCH has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Sarah Surdam washes dishes in the kitchen of the First Step House, a project of the United Methodist Community House in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The First Step House provides transition housing for women coming out of prostitution, recovering from substance abuse, or returning from prison. Surdam, who has battled depression, substance abuse and spent time in prison, is a resident and the assistant house manager. The UMCH has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
    usa-2011-jeffrey-grand-rapids-09.jpg
  • Mary Alonzo stands in front of the First Step House, a project of the United Methodist Community House in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The First Step House provides transition housing for women coming out of prostitution, recovering from substance abuse, or returning from prison. Alonzo, a former prostitute, is the house manager. The UMCH has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
    usa-2011-jeffrey-grand-rapids-08.jpg
  • Thelma Wyrick, a retired mental health nurse, talks with Esteban Peña, a resident of a permanent housing project for formerly homeless men in St. Joseph, Missouri, sponsored by Community Missions. Many of the men in the housing program are living with disabilities.<br />
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Wyrick, a member of United Methodist Women, is president of the board of Community Missions, which is an offshoot of Interserv Community Services, an ecumenical ministry long supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Vitalina Melgar stands in the ruins of the house of her niece who is working in the US. Her niece, Keyla, had just finished having the house built and the week that the hurricanes Eta and Iota hit Honduras she was due to return home with her family to live there. The house was destroyed in the hurricanes, like many thousands of properties in the region of Santa Barbara..<br />
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CWS has supported a housing programme for the most vulnerable people who lost their houses in the hurricanes.
    Honduras_Hawkey_CWS_20220217_397.jpg
  • Vitalina Melgar stands in the ruins of the house of her niece who is working in the US. Her niece, Keyla, had just finished having the house built and the week that the hurricanes Eta and Iota hit Honduras she was due to return home with her family to live there. The house was destroyed in the hurricanes, like many thousands of properties in the region of Santa Barbara..<br />
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CWS has supported a housing programme for the most vulnerable people who lost their houses in the hurricanes.
    Honduras_Hawkey_CWS_20220217_504.jpg
  • Vitalina Melgar stands in the ruins of the house of her niece who is working in the US. Her niece, Keyla, had just finished having the house built and the week that the hurricanes Eta and Iota hit Honduras she was due to return home with her family to live there. The house was destroyed in the hurricanes, like many thousands of properties in the region of Santa Barbara..<br />
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CWS has supported a housing programme for the most vulnerable people who lost their houses in the hurricanes.
    Honduras_Hawkey_CWS_20220217_396.jpg
  • William McNeil walks through the housing project next door to the Wesley House Community Center in Meridian, Mississippi. McNeil grew up in the projects and had his life changed by Wesley House staff. Today he is a successful businessman in Meridian. Wesley House provides a variety of educational and other services to the community.
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  • Thelma Wyrick, a retired mental health nurse, talks with David Vandever, a resident of a permanent housing project for formerly homeless men in St. Joseph, Missouri, sponsored by Community Missions. Vandever and many other residents are living with disabilities, and Wyrick helps them properly manage their medications.<br />
<br />
Wyrick, a member of United Methodist Women, is president of the board of Community Missions, which is an offshoot of Interserv Community Services, an ecumenical ministry long supported by United Methodist Women.
    usa-2014-jeffrey-missouri-community-...jpg
  • On the hills around Caracas, like here in Petare, informal housing has traditionally been built. The government has recently delivered 250,000 new apartments, and is building another 400,000 units currently, with a plan to deliver two million new homes in the next three years. This is probably the most ambitious housing programme in the world.
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  • On the hills around Caracas, like here in Petare, informal housing has traditionally been built. The government has recently delivered 250,000 new apartments, and is building another 400,000 units currently, with a plan to deliver two million new homes in the next three years. This is probably the most ambitious housing programme in the world.
    venezuela_hawkey_20130924_1340.jpg
  • New housing blocks in Caracas. The government housing programme, called Misión Vivienda, has recently delivered 250,000 new homes, most of them fully-furnished, and plans to deliver three million homes over the next three years.
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  • Thelma Wyrick, a retired mental health nurse, talks with David Vandever, a resident of a permanent housing project for formerly homeless men in St. Joseph, Missouri, sponsored by Community Missions. Vandever and many other residents are living with disabilities, and Wyrick helps them properly manage their medications.<br />
<br />
Wyrick, a member of United Methodist Women, is president of the board of Community Missions, which is an offshoot of Interserv Community Services, an ecumenical ministry long supported by United Methodist Women.
    usa-2014-jeffrey-missouri-community-...jpg
  • On the hills around Caracas, like here in Petare, informal housing has traditionally been built. The government has recently delivered 250,000 new apartments, and is building another 400,000 units currently, with a plan to deliver two million new homes in the next three years. This is probably the most ambitious housing programme in the world.
    venezuela_hawkey_20130924_1335.jpg
  • Marco Antonio Martinez Melgar, Atima, Santa Barbara, Honduras.<br />
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"with the hurricanes, Eta and Iota, a fault opened up under the ground, and we all suffered from it. Nearly all the houses here are destroyed, others are just badly damaged. We barely managed to get out and we are glad to have survived. We heard strange noises, rumbling underground, we didn't sleep for three nights, there was no electricity, we were here with torches and the walls were splitting, the ground was splitting, all the dogs were howling. It was hard to leave, to run away from your own houses, but in the end we were so afraid for our lives that we left. Some people here are so traumatised that they can't sleep still."<br />
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CWS has supported the construction of housing with the most vulnerable people in the community.
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  • Marco Antonio Martinez Melgar, Atima, Santa Barbara, Honduras.<br />
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"with the hurricanes, Eta and Iota, a fault opened up under the ground, and we all suffered from it. Nearly all the houses here are destroyed, others are just badly damaged. We barely managed to get out and we are glad to have survived. We heard strange noises, rumbling underground, we didn't sleep for three nights, there was no electricity, we were here with torches and the walls were splitting, the ground was splitting, all the dogs were howling. It was hard to leave, to run away from your own houses, but in the end we were so afraid for our lives that we left. Some people here are so traumatised that they can't sleep still."<br />
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CWS has supported the construction of housing with the most vulnerable people in the community.
    Honduras_Hawkey_CWS_20220217_384.jpg
  • Cristóbal Perdomo, Atima, Santa Bárbara, Honduras<br />
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'After hurricane Eta, it had been raining hard for days, then hurricane Iota came, and the rain got heavier. We were scared because we heard rumbling underground, and the houses started to move and crumble, and dust was coming down on us. It was night time and the earth began to open up, big holes appeared. Nearly all of the houses here are badly damaged."<br />
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Church World Service is working in the community on a housing project.
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  • Cristóbal Perdomo, Atima, Santa Bárbara, Honduras<br />
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'After hurricane Eta, it had been raining hard for days, then hurricane Iota came, and the rain got heavier. We were scared because we heard rumbling underground, and the houses started to move and crumble, and dust was coming down on us. It was night time and the earth began to open up, big holes appeared. Nearly all of the houses here are badly damaged."<br />
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Church World Service is working in the community on a housing project.
    Honduras_Hawkey_CWS_20220217_365.jpg
  • Villagers work on a new house in Dong Boma, a Dinka village in South Sudan's Jonglei State, on April 12, 2017. Most of the villagers recently returned home after being displaced by rebel soldiers in December, 2013, and they face serious challenges in rebuilding their village.<br />
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The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping villagers restart their lives with support for housing, livelihood, and food security.
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  • A young man carries a rock during a community housing project in Ayutuxtepeque, San Salvador, El Salvador
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  • Dau Chol Thuc works on the roof of his new house in Dong Boma, a Dinka village in South Sudan's Jonglei State, on April 12, 2017. Most of the villagers recently returned home after being displaced by rebel soldiers in December, 2013, and they face serious challenges in rebuilding their village.<br />
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The blue fabric used to fasten many of the sticks together is torn from insecticide-treated bednets, which villagers have discovered provide a termite-resistant material for construction.<br />
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The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping villagers restart their lives with support for housing, livelihood, and food security.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-E1065.JPG
  • Dau Chol Thuc works on the roof of his new house in Dong Boma, a Dinka village in South Sudan's Jonglei State, on April 12, 2017. Most of the villagers recently returned home after being displaced by rebel soldiers in December, 2013, and they face serious challenges in rebuilding their village.<br />
<br />
The blue fabric used to fasten many of the sticks together is torn from insecticide-treated bednets, which villagers have discovered provide a termite-resistant material for construction.<br />
<br />
The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping villagers restart their lives with support for housing, livelihood, and food security.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-E1076.JPG
  • Deng Garang Duot works on the roof of his new house in Dong Boma, a Dinka village in South Sudan's Jonglei State, on April 12, 2017. Most of the villagers recently returned home after being displaced by rebel soldiers in December, 2013, and they face serious challenges in rebuilding their village.<br />
<br />
The blue fabric used to tie the sticks together is torn from insecticide-treated bednets, which villagers have discovered provide a termite-resistant material for construction.<br />
<br />
The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping villagers restart their lives with support for housing, livelihood, and food security.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-E0751.JPG
  • Denna Harvey prepares food in the kitchen of the Verona Hotel where she lived in 2010. A project of the Mary Elizabeth Inn, the Verona provides safe and permanent housing in San Francisco for women who were homeless or survivors of domestic violence. The Verona Hotel and the Mary Elizabeth Inn are supported by the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church.
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  • Juanita Baptiste is a resident of the Mary Elizabeth Inn in 2010, which provides safe and permanent housing in San Francisco for women who were homeless or survivors of domestic violence. Many of the women, while homeless, stayed awake out of fear all night long on the streets of San Francisco. The Mary Elizabeth Inn is supported by the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church.
    usa-2010-jeffrey-san-francisco-women...jpg
  • 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.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Eta_Iota_251.jpg
  • 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.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Eta_Iota_253.jpg
  • Margaret McNulty is a resident of the Mary Elizabeth Inn in 2010, which provides safe and permanent housing in San Francisco for women who were homeless or survivors of domestic violence. The Mary Elizabeth Inn is supported by the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church.
    usa-2010-jeffrey-san-francisco-women...jpg
  • Margaret McNulty plays in her room at the Mary Elizabeth Inn in 2010, which provides safe and permanent housing in San Francisco for women who were homeless or survivors of domestic violence. The Mary Elizabeth Inn is supported by the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church.
    usa-2010-jeffrey-san-francisco-women...jpg
  • Lilly Thompson is the lead cook at the Mary Elizabeth Inn, which provides safe and permanent housing in San Francisco for women who were homeless or survivors of domestic violence. Along with the Verona Hotel, the Mary Elizabeth Inn is supported by the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church.
    usa-2010-jeffrey-san-francisco-women...jpg
  • Angel Hunter-Parish is a resident of the Mary Elizabeth Inn in 2010, which provides safe and permanent housing in San Francisco for women who were homeless or survivors of domestic violence. The Mary Elizabeth Inn is supported by the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church.
    usa-2010-jeffrey-san-francisco-women...jpg
  • Heavenly Alpha Centauri sits in the window of her room at the Verona Hotel in 2010. A project of the Mary Elizabeth Inn, the Verona provides safe and permanent housing in San Francisco for women who were formerly homeless or survivors of domestic violence. The Verona Hotel and the Mary Elizabeth Inn are supported by the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church.
    usa-2010-jeffrey-san-francisco-women...jpg
  • Josefina Cruz is a resident of the Mary Elizabeth Inn, which provides safe and permanent housing in San Francisco for women who were homeless or survivors of domestic violence. In 2010, she reads in the top-floor sunroom of the Inn, which is supported by the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church.
    usa-2010-jeffrey-san-francisco-women...jpg
  • Antonieta Allevato stands in 2010 in the hallway of the Verona Hotel where she lives. The hotel is a project of the Mary Elizabeth Inn which provides safe and permanent housing in San Francisco for women who were formerly homeless or survivors of domestic violence. The Verona Hotel and the Mary Elizabeth Inn are supported by the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church.
    usa-2010-jeffrey-san-francisco-women...jpg
  • The Verona Hotel is a project of the Mary Elizabeth Inn which provides safe and permanent housing in San Francisco for women who were formerly homeless or survivors of domestic violence. The Verona Hotel and the Mary Elizabeth Inn are supported by the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church.
    usa-2010-jeffrey-san-francisco-women...jpg
  • The Mary Elizabeth Inn provides safe and permanent housing in San Francisco for women who were homeless or survivors of domestic violence. Along with the Verona Hotel, the Mary Elizabeth Inn is supported by the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church.
    usa-2010-jeffrey-san-francisco-women...jpg
  • Susan Haight looks out the window of her room in the Mary Elizabeth Inn in 2010. The Inn provides safe and permanent housing in San Francisco for women who were homeless or survivors of domestic violence. Along with the Verona Hotel, the Mary Elizabeth Inn is supported by the Women's Division of the United Methodist Church.
    usa-2010-jeffrey-san-francisco-women...jpg
  • Renuka Shrestha studies in her family's tent in Sanogoan, Nepal. Residents of the Newar community were hard hit by the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, losing almost all their housing, but they've been helped by the ACT Alliance to rebuild their lives. The ACT Alliance has provided blankets, tents, and livelihood assistance, and is helping villagers form the tens of thousands of cement blocks they will need to construct permanent housing.
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  • Housing along the bank of the Tonle Sap River where it flows through Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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  • Housing along the bank of the Tonle Sap River where it flows through Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
    cambodia-2009-jeffrey-urban-096.jpg
  • Housing along the bank of the Tonle Sap River where it flows through Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
    cambodia-2009-jeffrey-urban-095.jpg
  • Housing along the bank of the Tonle Sap River where it flows through Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
    cambodia-2009-jeffrey-urban-094.jpg
  • Housing along the shore of the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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  • Housing along the bank of the Tonle Sap River where it flows through Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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  • Elissandra Oliveira da Silva poses with her five children in the one-room apartment they share in a building in Manaus, Brazil. They moved to the city three years ago but,  unable to find decent housing they could afford, joined with other poor families to take over an unoccupied building--the Casa do Estudante--in the city center. Caritas, a ministry of the Catholic Church, has helped the families in their struggle for dignified housing.<br />
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Written parental consent obtained.
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  • Leglique Kenvenson looks out the window of a house in the Haitian community of Ganthier, where Mission Sociale des Eglises Hatiennes (MISSEH), a member of the ACT Alliance, helped this family and others in the village rebuild their homes and lives after the village was devastated in 2016 by Hurricane Matthew. Besides providing construction material for housing construction, MISSEH has also provided seeds and tools to farmers, while helping the community organize a more agile and responsive program of disaster risk reduction.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-9691.JPG
  • Iznaida Dalmas, 7, plays hopscotch in front of her familiy's new house on the Haitian island of La Gonave. Service Chrétien d’Haïti is working with survivors of Hurricane Matthew, which struck the region in 2016, to rebuild damaged housing. A member of the ACT Alliance, SCH also supports agriculture on the island by providing tools, seeds, and technical support and training for farmers.<br />
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Parental consent obtained.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-7034.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
  • Michel Louis Marie looks out the window of a house in the Haitian community of Ganthier, where Mission Sociale des Eglises Hatiennes (MISSEH), a member of the ACT Alliance, helped this family and others in the village rebuild their homes and lives after the village was devastated in 2016 by Hurricane Matthew. Besides providing construction material for housing construction, MISSEH has also provided seeds and tools to farmers, while helping the community organize a more agile and responsive program of disaster risk reduction.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-9587.JPG
  • Erm Jouna Dalmas, 10, jumps rope in front of her family's new house on the Haitian island of La Gonave. Her siblings Vestander and Erm hold the rope as their mother looks on. Service Chrétien d’Haïti is working with survivors of Hurricane Matthew, which struck the region in 2016, to rebuild damaged housing. A member of the ACT Alliance, SCH also supports agriculture on the island by providing tools, seeds, and technical support and training for farmers.<br />
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Parental consent obtained.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-7180.JPG
  • Iznaida Dalmas, 7, jumps rope in front of her family's new house on the Haitian island of La Gonave. Her siblings Vestander and Erm hold the rope. Service Chrétien d’Haïti is working with survivors of Hurricane Matthew, which struck the region in 2016, to rebuild damaged housing. A member of the ACT Alliance, SCH also supports agriculture on the island by providing tools, seeds, and technical support and training for farmers.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-7170.JPG
  • Iznaida Dalmas, 7, jumps rope in front of her family's new house on the Haitian island of La Gonave. Her siblings Vestander and Erm hold the rope. Service Chrétien d’Haïti is working with survivors of Hurricane Matthew, which struck the region in 2016, to rebuild damaged housing. A member of the ACT Alliance, SCH also supports agriculture on the island by providing tools, seeds, and technical support and training for farmers.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-7166.JPG
  • Iznaida Dalmas, 7, jumps rope in front of her family's new house on the Haitian island of La Gonave. Her siblings Vestander and Erm hold the rope. Service Chrétien d’Haïti is working with survivors of Hurricane Matthew, which struck the region in 2016, to rebuild damaged housing. A member of the ACT Alliance, SCH also supports agriculture on the island by providing tools, seeds, and technical support and training for farmers.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-7163.JPG
  • Erm Jouna Dalmas, 10, jumps rope in front of her family's new house on the Haitian island of La Gonave. Her bothers Vestander and Dwendy hold the rope. Service Chrétien d’Haïti is working with survivors of Hurricane Matthew, which struck the region in 2016, to rebuild damaged housing. A member of the ACT Alliance, SCH also supports agriculture on the island by providing tools, seeds, and technical support and training for farmers.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-7084.JPG
  • Erm Jouna Dalmas, 10, jumps rope in front of her family's new house on the Haitian island of La Gonave. Her siblings Vestander and Erm hold the rope. Service Chrétien d’Haïti is working with survivors of Hurricane Matthew, which struck the region in 2016, to rebuild damaged housing. A member of the ACT Alliance, SCH also supports agriculture on the island by providing tools, seeds, and technical support and training for farmers.<br />
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Parental consent obtained.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-7045.JPG
  • Iznaida Dalmas, 7, plays hopscotch in front of her familiy's new house on the Haitian island of La Gonave. Service Chrétien d’Haïti is working with survivors of Hurricane Matthew, which struck the region in 2016, to rebuild damaged housing. A member of the ACT Alliance, SCH also supports agriculture on the island by providing tools, seeds, and technical support and training for farmers.<br />
<br />
Parental consent obtained.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-7031.JPG
  • Iznaida Dalmas, 7, plays hopscotch in front of her familiy's new house on the Haitian island of La Gonave. Service Chrétien d’Haïti is working with survivors of Hurricane Matthew, which struck the region in 2016, to rebuild damaged housing. A member of the ACT Alliance, SCH also supports agriculture on the island by providing tools, seeds, and technical support and training for farmers.<br />
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Parental consent obtained.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-7023.JPG
  • Iznaida Dalmas, 7, plays hopscotch in front of her familiy's new house on the Haitian island of La Gonave. Service Chrétien d’Haïti is working with survivors of Hurricane Matthew, which struck the region in 2016, to rebuild damaged housing. A member of the ACT Alliance, SCH also supports agriculture on the island by providing tools, seeds, and technical support and training for farmers.<br />
<br />
Parental consent obtained.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-7012.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.
    honduras-2003-jeffrey-10.jpg
  • Michel Louis Marie looks out the window of a house in the Haitian community of Ganthier, where Mission Sociale des Eglises Hatiennes (MISSEH), a member of the ACT Alliance, helped this family and others in the village rebuild their homes and lives after the village was devastated in 2016 by Hurricane Matthew. Besides providing construction material for housing construction, MISSEH has also provided seeds and tools to farmers, while helping the community organize a more agile and responsive program of disaster risk reduction.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-9597.JPG
  • Leglique Kenvenson looks out the window of a house in the Haitian community of Ganthier, where Mission Sociale des Eglises Hatiennes (MISSEH), a member of the ACT Alliance, helped this family and others in the village rebuild their homes and lives after the village was devastated in 2016 by Hurricane Matthew. Besides providing construction material for housing construction, MISSEH has also provided seeds and tools to farmers, while helping the community organize a more agile and responsive program of disaster risk reduction.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-9578.JPG
  • A woman walks past housing in Cite Soleil, a sprawling poor portion of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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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.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-9739.JPG
  • 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.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-9628.JPG
  • His family forced by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam to leave their village along the Xingu River, a boy today rides his bike through the crowded housing project built for displaced families outside Altamira, Brazil. Because the area where they were resettled is outside the city and has no phone service and little transportation, many people have moved away temporarily or permanently.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-C...jpg
  • In the Indonesian village of Lhok Bubon, Aceh, tsunami survivors build new homes in 2007. This housing project was sponsored by YTBI and the ACT Alliance.
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  • In the Indonesian village of Lhok Bubon, Aceh, tsunami survivors build new homes in 2007. This housing project was sponsored by YTBI and the ACT Alliance.
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  • An Indonesian woman prepares food in 2007 in a temporary shelter for tsunami survivors in Barak Dayah Reusak, in the Samatiga district of Aceh. YTBI, a member of the ACT Alliance, provided livelihood training and support and other services to families here as they waited for permanent housing.
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  • Adhieu Deng Ngewei and three of her children pose in front of their new hut on April 12, 2017, in Dong Boma, a Dinka village in South Sudan's Jonglei State. They and most other families here recently returned home after being displaced by rebel soldiers in December, 2013, and they face serious challenges in rebuilding their village while simultaneously coping with a drought which has devastated their cattle herds.<br />
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During the period they were displaced, this family took refuge on an island of the White Nile River, living on the edge of starvation for almost three years.<br />
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The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping the villagers restart their lives with support for housing, livelihood, and food security. The ACT Alliance funded the construction of this family's new hut.
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  • New housing for some families has been built by a Catholic group in Cite Soleil, a neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, one year after a devastating earthquake leveled the country's capital.
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  • Aydiani Mendez and her one-month old daughter Yabeli stand in front of their home in Altamira, Brazil. They were forced by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam to leave their village along the Xingu River, and today live in a crowded housing project built for the displaced. Because the area where they were resettled is outside the city and has no phone service and little transportation, many people have moved away temporarily or permanently.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-C...jpg
  • Eduardo dos Santos, 13, and his family were forced by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam to leave their village along the Xingu River, and today live in a crowded housing project built for the displaced in Altamira, Brazil. Because the area where they were resettled is outside the city and has no phone service and little transportation, many people have moved away temporarily or permanently.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-C...jpg
  • Eduardo dos Santos, 13, and his family were forced by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam to leave their village along the Xingu River, and today live in a crowded housing project built for the displaced in Altamira, Brazil. Because the area where they were resettled is outside the city and has no phone service and little transportation, many people have moved away temporarily or permanently.
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  • People forced by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam to leave their village along the Xingu River today live in a crowded housing project built for the displaced in Altamira, Brazil. Because the area where they were resettled is outside the city and has no phone service and little transportation, many people have moved away temporarily or permanently.
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  • People forced by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam to leave their village along the Xingu River today walk through the crowded housing project where they live in Altamira, Brazil. Because the area where they were resettled is outside the city and has no phone service and little transportation, many people have moved away temporarily or permanently.
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  • Regiani Santos and her family were forced by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam to leave their village along the Xingu River, and today live in a crowded housing project built for the displaced in Altamira, Brazil. Because the area where they were resettled is outside the city and has no phone service and little transportation, many people have moved away temporarily or permanently.
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  • A worker collects garbage in a crowded housing project in Altamira, Brazil, home to thousands of people displaced by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River. Because the area where they were resettled is outside the city and has no phone service and little transportation, many people have moved away temporarily or permanently.
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  • A worker collects garbage in a crowded housing project in Altamira, Brazil, home to thousands of people displaced by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River. Because the area where they were resettled is outside the city and has no phone service and little transportation, many people have moved away temporarily or permanently.
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  • Demonstrators occupy a section of the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City in order to protest the lack of resources dedicated to providing housing for people living with HIV and AIDS.
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  • Displaced by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam from their villages along the Xingu River, indigenous children play in an inflatable pool in a housing project for displaced families in Altamira, Brazil. As many as 40,000 people were displaced by the construction of the dam and flooding of the river. Because the area where they were resettled is outside the city and has no phone service and little transportation, many people have moved away temporarily or permanently.
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  • Andrea Cordoro poses with her daughters Ana Paula (left) 11, and Deborah, 5, in their small room in a building in Manaus, Brazil. The Kokama indigenous family migrated to the city in 2018, but unable to find decent housing they could afford, they joined with other poor families to take over an unoccupied building--the Casa do Estudante--in the city center. Caritas, a ministry of the Catholic Church, has helped the families in their struggle.<br />
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Written parental consent obtained.
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  • Housing in East St. Louis, Illinois.
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  • Protestors demanding better housing options for people living with HIV and AIDS interrupted the August 8 closing ceremony of the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City .
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  • At the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, Shirleen Cooper, from the United States, and other participants demonstrate on August 5 in favor of better attention to the housing needs of HIV positive people.
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  • A refugee unloads his family's belongings from a donkey cart in a new extension of the Dadaab camp in northeastern Kenya. Already the world's world's largest refugee settlement, Dadaab has swelled in recent weeks with tens of thousands of recent arrivals fleeing drought in Somalia. The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is manager of the camp, and in July opened this new extension to begin housing the newest refugees.
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  • Durga Shrestha folds up bedding as she organizes her tent in the morning in the village of Sanogoan, Nepal. People in this Newar community, hard hit by the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, have been helped by the ACT Alliance to rebuild their lives. The ACT Alliance has provided a variety of services here since the quake, including blankets, tents, and livelihood assistance, and is helping villagers form the tens of thousands of cement blocks they will need to construct permanent housing.
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  • Eighty-five year old earthquake survivor Sardha Shrestha lives in a tent in the village of Sanogoan, Nepal. People in this Newar community, hard hit by the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, have been helped by the ACT Alliance to rebuild their lives. The ACT Alliance has provided a variety of services here since the quake, including blankets, tents, and livelihood assistance, and is helping villagers form the tens of thousands of cement blocks they will need to construct permanent housing.
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  • Puneshowari Shrestha picks up bedding as she organizes her tent in the morning in the village of Sanogoan, Nepal. People in this Newar community, hard hit by the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, have been helped by the ACT Alliance to rebuild their lives. The ACT Alliance has provided a variety of services here since the quake, including blankets, tents, and livelihood assistance, and is helping villagers form the tens of thousands of cement blocks they will need to construct permanent housing.
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  • Puneshowari Shrestha picks up a sleeping pad as she organizes her tent in the morning in the village of Sanogoan, Nepal. People in this Newar community, hard hit by the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, have been helped by the ACT Alliance to rebuild their lives. The ACT Alliance has provided a variety of services here since the quake, including blankets, tents, and livelihood assistance, and is helping villagers form the tens of thousands of cement blocks they will need to construct permanent housing.
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  • Eighty-five year old earthquake survivor Sardha Shrestha lives in this tent in the village of Sanogoan, Nepal. People in this Newar community, hard hit by the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, have been helped by the ACT Alliance to rebuild their lives. The ACT Alliance has provided a variety of services here since the quake, including blankets, tents, and livelihood assistance, and is helping villagers form the tens of thousands of cement blocks they will need to construct permanent housing.
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  • Young men walk through a camp for internally displaced families in Ankawa, near Erbil, Iraq, on April 8, 2016. Residents of the camp, mostly Christians, were displaced from Mosul, Qaraqosh and other communities in Iraq when ISIS swept through the area in 2014. In this section of the camp, the modular housing units are sheltered under a warehouse roof.
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  • A girl jumps rope in a camp for internally displaced families in Ankawa, near Erbil, Iraq, on April 8, 2016. Residents of the camp, mostly Christians, were displaced from Mosul, Qaraqosh and other communities in Iraq when ISIS swept through the area in 2014. In this section of the camp, the modular housing units are sheltered under a warehouse roof.
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  • A girl jumps rope in a camp for internally displaced families in Ankawa, near Erbil, Iraq, on April 8, 2016. Residents of the camp, mostly Christians, were displaced from Mosul, Qaraqosh and other communities in Iraq when ISIS swept through the area in 2014. In this section of the camp, the modular housing units are sheltered under a warehouse roof.
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  • A woman prepares tea in a camp for internally displaced families in Ankawa, near Erbil, Iraq. Residents of the camp, mostly Christians, were displaced from Mosul, Qaraqosh and other communities in Iraq when ISIS swept through the area in 2014. In this section of the camp, the modular housing units are sheltered under a warehouse roof.
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  • A girl in a camp for internally displaced families in Ankawa, near Erbil, Iraq. Residents of the camp, mostly Christians, were displaced from Mosul, Qaraqosh and other communities in Iraq when ISIS swept through the area in 2014. In this section of the camp, the modular housing units are sheltered under a warehouse roof.
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  • Displaced by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam from their villages along the Xingu River, indigenous children play cricket on the street at night in a housing project for displaced families in Altamira, Brazil. As many as 40,000 people were displaced by the construction of the dam and flooding of the river.  Because the area where they were resettled is outside the city and has no phone service and little transportation, many people have moved away temporarily or permanently.
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  • Displaced by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam from their villages along the Xingu River, indigenous children get dressed after playing in an inflatable pool in a housing project for displaced families in Altamira, Brazil. As many as 40,000 people were displaced by the construction of the dam and flooding of the river. Because the area where they were resettled is outside the city and has no phone service and little transportation, many people have moved away temporarily or permanently.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-Belen-C...jpg
  • Displaced by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam from their villages along the Xingu River, indigenous children play in an inflatable pool in a housing project for displaced families in Altamira, Brazil. As many as 40,000 people were displaced by the construction of the dam and flooding of the river.  Because the area where they were resettled is outside the city and has no phone service and little transportation, many people have moved away temporarily or permanently.
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