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  • 7 September 2015: Young mother and her child, working at the Museum of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba.
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  • 9 March 2022, Nyíregyháza, Hungary: 23-year-old mother Paulina from Ukraine and her 4-year-old daughter Paulina spend time in their new temporary home in Nyíregyháza. With the recent influx of refugees arriving in Hungary from the east following the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nyíregyháza Kertváros is working hard to accommodate and support people arriving in the city. 23-year-old mother Paulina alongside her husband, a new-born baby and two daughters, is one of the beneficiaries, staying in a house offered as accommodation for incoming refugees by congregants from Nyíregyháza Kertváros. Being 8-months pregnant when starting the journey from Ukraine to neighboring Hungary, Paulina gave birth to her third child the same day she and her family crossed the border. Having started going into labour while still being on the way, Paulina was rushed from the border crossing to a nearby hospital in Fehérgyarmat in order to give birth. Hospital staff reportedly said it was a miracle the child and mother are both healthy and well. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 9 March 2022, Nyíregyháza, Hungary: 23-year-old mother Paulina and her daughters Regina and Paulina spend time in their new temporary home in Nyíregyháza. With the recent influx of refugees arriving in Hungary from the east following the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nyíregyháza Kertváros is working hard to accommodate and support people arriving in the city. 23-year-old mother Paulina alongside her husband, a new-born baby and two daughters, is one of the beneficiaries, staying in a house offered as accommodation for incoming refugees by congregants from Nyíregyháza Kertváros. Being 8-months pregnant when starting the journey from Ukraine to neighboring Hungary, Paulina gave birth to her third child the same day she and her family crossed the border. Having started going into labour while still being on the way, Paulina was rushed from the border crossing to a nearby hospital in Fehérgyarmat in order to give birth. Hospital staff reportedly said it was a miracle the child and mother are both healthy and well. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 9 March 2022, Nyíregyháza, Hungary: 23-year-old mother Paulina (centre) from Ukraine looks on as four and six-year-old sisters Regina (right) and Paulina (left) play in their new temporary home in Nyíregyháza. Regina With the recent influx of refugees arriving in Hungary from the east following the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nyíregyháza Kertváros is working hard to accommodate and support people arriving in the city. 23-year-old mother Paulina alongside her husband, a new-born baby and two daughters, is one of the beneficiaries, staying in a house offered as accommodation for incoming refugees by congregants from Nyíregyháza Kertváros. Being 8-months pregnant when starting the journey from Ukraine to neighboring Hungary, Paulina gave birth to her third child the same day she and her family crossed the border. Having started going into labour while still being on the way, Paulina was rushed from the border crossing to a nearby hospital in Fehérgyarmat in order to give birth. Hospital staff reportedly said it was a miracle the child and mother are both healthy and well. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 9 March 2022, Nyíregyháza, Hungary: 23-year-old mother Paulina from Ukraine feeds her newborn child in their new temporary home in Nyíregyháza. With the recent influx of refugees arriving in Hungary from the east following the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nyíregyháza Kertváros is working hard to accommodate and support people arriving in the city. 23-year-old mother Paulina alongside her husband, a new-born baby and two daughters, is one of the beneficiaries, staying in a house offered as accommodation for incoming refugees by congregants from Nyíregyháza Kertváros. Being 8-months pregnant when starting the journey from Ukraine to neighboring Hungary, Paulina gave birth to her third child the same day she and her family crossed the border. Having started going into labour while still being on the way, Paulina was rushed from the border crossing to a nearby hospital in Fehérgyarmat in order to give birth. Hospital staff reportedly said it was a miracle the child and mother are both healthy and well. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 9 March 2022, Nyíregyháza, Hungary: 23-year-old mother Pauline from Ukraine tends to her new-born child in their temporary new home in Nyíregyháza. With the recent influx of refugees arriving in Hungary from the east following the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nyíregyháza Kertváros is working hard to accommodate and support people arriving in the city. 23-year-old mother Paulina alongside her husband, a new-born baby and two daughters, is one of the beneficiaries, staying in a house offered as accommodation for incoming refugees by congregants from Nyíregyháza Kertváros. Being 8-months pregnant when starting the journey from Ukraine to neighboring Hungary, Paulina gave birth to her third child the same day she and her family crossed the border. Having started going into labour while still being on the way, Paulina was rushed from the border crossing to a nearby hospital in Fehérgyarmat in order to give birth. Hospital staff reportedly said it was a miracle the child and mother are both healthy and well. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 9 March 2022, Nyíregyháza, Hungary: 23-year-old mother Paulina from Ukraine and her 4-year-old daughter Paulina spend time in their new temporary home in Nyíregyháza. With the recent influx of refugees arriving in Hungary from the east following the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nyíregyháza Kertváros is working hard to accommodate and support people arriving in the city. 23-year-old mother Paulina alongside her husband, a new-born baby and two daughters, is one of the beneficiaries, staying in a house offered as accommodation for incoming refugees by congregants from Nyíregyháza Kertváros. Being 8-months pregnant when starting the journey from Ukraine to neighboring Hungary, Paulina gave birth to her third child the same day she and her family crossed the border. Having started going into labour while still being on the way, Paulina was rushed from the border crossing to a nearby hospital in Fehérgyarmat in order to give birth. Hospital staff reportedly said it was a miracle the child and mother are both healthy and well. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 9 March 2022, Nyíregyháza, Hungary: 23-year-old mother Paulina from Ukraine and her 4-year-old daughter Paulina spend time in their new temporary home in Nyíregyháza. With the recent influx of refugees arriving in Hungary from the east following the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nyíregyháza Kertváros is working hard to accommodate and support people arriving in the city. 23-year-old mother Paulina alongside her husband, a new-born baby and two daughters, is one of the beneficiaries, staying in a house offered as accommodation for incoming refugees by congregants from Nyíregyháza Kertváros. Being 8-months pregnant when starting the journey from Ukraine to neighboring Hungary, Paulina gave birth to her third child the same day she and her family crossed the border. Having started going into labour while still being on the way, Paulina was rushed from the border crossing to a nearby hospital in Fehérgyarmat in order to give birth. Hospital staff reportedly said it was a miracle the child and mother are both healthy and well. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 9 March 2022, Nyíregyháza, Hungary: 23-year-old mother Paulina (centre) from Ukraine looks on her daughters play in their new temporary home in Nyíregyháza. Regina With the recent influx of refugees arriving in Hungary from the east following the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nyíregyháza Kertváros is working hard to accommodate and support people arriving in the city. 23-year-old mother Paulina alongside her husband, a new-born baby and two daughters, is one of the beneficiaries, staying in a house offered as accommodation for incoming refugees by congregants from Nyíregyháza Kertváros. Being 8-months pregnant when starting the journey from Ukraine to neighboring Hungary, Paulina gave birth to her third child the same day she and her family crossed the border. Having started going into labour while still being on the way, Paulina was rushed from the border crossing to a nearby hospital in Fehérgyarmat in order to give birth. Hospital staff reportedly said it was a miracle the child and mother are both healthy and well. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 9 March 2022, Nyíregyháza, Hungary: 23-year-old mother Paulina from Ukraine holds her newborn child, in their new temporary home in Nyíregyháza. With the recent influx of refugees arriving in Hungary from the east following the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nyíregyháza Kertváros is working hard to accommodate and support people arriving in the city. 23-year-old mother Paulina alongside her husband, a new-born baby and two daughters, is one of the beneficiaries, staying in a house offered as accommodation for incoming refugees by congregants from Nyíregyháza Kertváros. Being 8-months pregnant when starting the journey from Ukraine to neighboring Hungary, Paulina gave birth to her third child the same day she and her family crossed the border. Having started going into labour while still being on the way, Paulina was rushed from the border crossing to a nearby hospital in Fehérgyarmat in order to give birth. Hospital staff reportedly said it was a miracle the child and mother are both healthy and well. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 9 March 2022, Nyíregyháza, Hungary: 23-year-old mother Paulina from Ukraine and her 4-year-old daughter Paulina spend time in their new temporary home in Nyíregyháza. With the recent influx of refugees arriving in Hungary from the east following the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nyíregyháza Kertváros is working hard to accommodate and support people arriving in the city. 23-year-old mother Paulina alongside her husband, a new-born baby and two daughters, is one of the beneficiaries, staying in a house offered as accommodation for incoming refugees by congregants from Nyíregyháza Kertváros. Being 8-months pregnant when starting the journey from Ukraine to neighboring Hungary, Paulina gave birth to her third child the same day she and her family crossed the border. Having started going into labour while still being on the way, Paulina was rushed from the border crossing to a nearby hospital in Fehérgyarmat in order to give birth. Hospital staff reportedly said it was a miracle the child and mother are both healthy and well. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 9 March 2022, Nyíregyháza, Hungary: 23-year-old mother Paulina from Ukraine and her 4-year-old daughter Paulina spend time in their new temporary home in Nyíregyháza. With the recent influx of refugees arriving in Hungary from the east following the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nyíregyháza Kertváros is working hard to accommodate and support people arriving in the city. 23-year-old mother Paulina alongside her husband, a new-born baby and two daughters, is one of the beneficiaries, staying in a house offered as accommodation for incoming refugees by congregants from Nyíregyháza Kertváros. Being 8-months pregnant when starting the journey from Ukraine to neighboring Hungary, Paulina gave birth to her third child the same day she and her family crossed the border. Having started going into labour while still being on the way, Paulina was rushed from the border crossing to a nearby hospital in Fehérgyarmat in order to give birth. Hospital staff reportedly said it was a miracle the child and mother are both healthy and well. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 9 March 2022, Nyíregyháza, Hungary: 23-year-old mother Paulina from Ukraine holds her hands on her stomach in her new temporary home in Nyíregyháza. With the recent influx of refugees arriving in Hungary from the east following the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nyíregyháza Kertváros is working hard to accommodate and support people arriving in the city. 23-year-old mother Paulina alongside her husband, a new-born baby and two daughters, is one of the beneficiaries, staying in a house offered as accommodation for incoming refugees by congregants from Nyíregyháza Kertváros. Being 8-months pregnant when starting the journey from Ukraine to neighboring Hungary, Paulina gave birth to her third child the same day she and her family crossed the border. Having started going into labour while still being on the way, Paulina was rushed from the border crossing to a nearby hospital in Fehérgyarmat in order to give birth. Hospital staff reportedly said it was a miracle the child and mother are both healthy and well. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 9 March 2022, Nyíregyháza, Hungary: 23-year-old mother Paulina from Ukraine holds her newborn child, in their new temporary home in Nyíregyháza. With the recent influx of refugees arriving in Hungary from the east following the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nyíregyháza Kertváros is working hard to accommodate and support people arriving in the city. 23-year-old mother Paulina alongside her husband, a new-born baby and two daughters, is one of the beneficiaries, staying in a house offered as accommodation for incoming refugees by congregants from Nyíregyháza Kertváros. Being 8-months pregnant when starting the journey from Ukraine to neighboring Hungary, Paulina gave birth to her third child the same day she and her family crossed the border. Having started going into labour while still being on the way, Paulina was rushed from the border crossing to a nearby hospital in Fehérgyarmat in order to give birth. Hospital staff reportedly said it was a miracle the child and mother are both healthy and well. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 9 March 2022, Nyíregyháza, Hungary: 23-year-old mother Paulina from Ukraine holds her newborn child, in their new temporary home in Nyíregyháza. With the recent influx of refugees arriving in Hungary from the east following the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nyíregyháza Kertváros is working hard to accommodate and support people arriving in the city. 23-year-old mother Paulina alongside her husband, a new-born baby and two daughters, is one of the beneficiaries, staying in a house offered as accommodation for incoming refugees by congregants from Nyíregyháza Kertváros. Being 8-months pregnant when starting the journey from Ukraine to neighboring Hungary, Paulina gave birth to her third child the same day she and her family crossed the border. Having started going into labour while still being on the way, Paulina was rushed from the border crossing to a nearby hospital in Fehérgyarmat in order to give birth. Hospital staff reportedly said it was a miracle the child and mother are both healthy and well. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 9 March 2022, Nyíregyháza, Hungary: 23-year-old mother Paulina (centre) from Ukraine looks on as four and six-year-old sisters Regina (right) and Paulina (left) play in their new temporary home in Nyíregyháza. Regina With the recent influx of refugees arriving in Hungary from the east following the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Nyíregyháza Kertváros is working hard to accommodate and support people arriving in the city. 23-year-old mother Paulina alongside her husband, a new-born baby and two daughters, is one of the beneficiaries, staying in a house offered as accommodation for incoming refugees by congregants from Nyíregyháza Kertváros. Being 8-months pregnant when starting the journey from Ukraine to neighboring Hungary, Paulina gave birth to her third child the same day she and her family crossed the border. Having started going into labour while still being on the way, Paulina was rushed from the border crossing to a nearby hospital in Fehérgyarmat in order to give birth. Hospital staff reportedly said it was a miracle the child and mother are both healthy and well. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • A mother with twins at the Mary Ward Primary Health Care Clinic in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.<br />
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In some parts of Africa, the birth of twins is not good news. Perhaps because a marginally nourished mother was unable to produce enough milk to care for two infants, some tribes developed the custom of letting one child die. They wouldn't kill it, per se, just set it in the bush and leave it to its own fate. Among the Dinka in this part of South Sudan, a child set aside in this manner was referred to as "becoming a lion." <br />
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To combat the practice, and reverse the stigma that often attached to the mother of twins, the clinic of the Loreto schools outside of Rumbek started a special program for mothers of twins, assuring proper nutrition and health care for the mother and both children. On this day, there were more than a dozen mothers with their twins who came to the clinic, where twins are celebrated as a blessing.
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  • A mother with twins at the Mary Ward Primary Health Care Clinic in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.<br />
<br />
In some parts of Africa, the birth of twins is not good news. Perhaps because a marginally nourished mother was unable to produce enough milk to care for two infants, some tribes developed the custom of letting one child die. They wouldn't kill it, per se, just set it in the bush and leave it to its own fate. Among the Dinka in this part of South Sudan, a child set aside in this manner was referred to as "becoming a lion." <br />
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To combat the practice, and reverse the stigma that often attached to the mother of twins, the clinic of the Loreto schools outside of Rumbek started a special program for mothers of twins, assuring proper nutrition and health care for the mother and both children. On this day, there were more than a dozen mothers with their twins who came to the clinic, where twins are celebrated as a blessing.
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  • A mother with twins at the Mary Ward Primary Health Care Clinic in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.<br />
<br />
In some parts of Africa, the birth of twins is not good news. Perhaps because a marginally nourished mother was unable to produce enough milk to care for two infants, some tribes developed the custom of letting one child die. They wouldn't kill it, per se, just set it in the bush and leave it to its own fate. Among the Dinka in this part of South Sudan, a child set aside in this manner was referred to as "becoming a lion." <br />
<br />
To combat the practice, and reverse the stigma that often attached to the mother of twins, the clinic of the Loreto schools outside of Rumbek started a special program for mothers of twins, assuring proper nutrition and health care for the mother and both children. On this day, there were more than a dozen mothers with their twins who came to the clinic, where twins are celebrated as a blessing.
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  • A mother with twins at the Mary Ward Primary Health Care Clinic in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.<br />
<br />
In some parts of Africa, the birth of twins is not good news. Perhaps because a marginally nourished mother was unable to produce enough milk to care for two infants, some tribes developed the custom of letting one child die. They wouldn't kill it, per se, just set it in the bush and leave it to its own fate. Among the Dinka in this part of South Sudan, a child set aside in this manner was referred to as "becoming a lion." <br />
<br />
To combat the practice, and reverse the stigma that often attached to the mother of twins, the clinic of the Loreto schools outside of Rumbek started a special program for mothers of twins, assuring proper nutrition and health care for the mother and both children. On this day, there were more than a dozen mothers with their twins who came to the clinic, where twins are celebrated as a blessing.
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  • A mother with twins at the Mary Ward Primary Health Care Clinic in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.<br />
<br />
In some parts of Africa, the birth of twins is not good news. Perhaps because a marginally nourished mother was unable to produce enough milk to care for two infants, some tribes developed the custom of letting one child die. They wouldn't kill it, per se, just set it in the bush and leave it to its own fate. Among the Dinka in this part of South Sudan, a child set aside in this manner was referred to as "becoming a lion." <br />
<br />
To combat the practice, and reverse the stigma that often attached to the mother of twins, the clinic of the Loreto schools outside of Rumbek started a special program for mothers of twins, assuring proper nutrition and health care for the mother and both children. On this day, there were more than a dozen mothers with their twins who came to the clinic, where twins are celebrated as a blessing.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-B126.jpg
  • A mother with twins at the Mary Ward Primary Health Care Clinic in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.<br />
<br />
In some parts of Africa, the birth of twins is not good news. Perhaps because a marginally nourished mother was unable to produce enough milk to care for two infants, some tribes developed the custom of letting one child die. They wouldn't kill it, per se, just set it in the bush and leave it to its own fate. Among the Dinka in this part of South Sudan, a child set aside in this manner was referred to as "becoming a lion." <br />
<br />
To combat the practice, and reverse the stigma that often attached to the mother of twins, the clinic of the Loreto schools outside of Rumbek started a special program for mothers of twins, assuring proper nutrition and health care for the mother and both children. On this day, there were more than a dozen mothers with their twins who came to the clinic, where twins are celebrated as a blessing.
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  • Yanali Mayoa poses with her twin baby boys at the Mary Ward Primary Health Care Clinic in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.<br />
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In some parts of Africa, the birth of twins is not good news. Perhaps because a marginally nourished mother was unable to produce enough milk to care for two infants, some tribes developed the custom of letting one child die. They wouldn't kill it, per se, just set it in the bush and leave it to its own fate. Among the Dinka in this part of South Sudan, a child set aside in this manner was referred to as "becoming a lion." <br />
<br />
To combat the practice, and reverse the stigma that often attached to the mother of twins, the clinic of the Loreto schools outside of Rumbek started a special program for mothers of twins, assuring proper nutrition and health care for the mother and both children. On this day, there were more than a dozen mothers with their twins who came to the clinic, where twins are celebrated as a blessing.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-B132.jpg
  • Yom Makat poses with her twin baby girls at the Mary Ward Primary Health Care Clinic in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.<br />
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In some parts of Africa, the birth of twins is not good news. Perhaps because a marginally nourished mother was unable to produce enough milk to care for two infants, some tribes developed the custom of letting one child die. They wouldn't kill it, per se, just set it in the bush and leave it to its own fate. Among the Dinka in this part of South Sudan, a child set aside in this manner was referred to as "becoming a lion." <br />
<br />
To combat the practice, and reverse the stigma that often attached to the mother of twins, the clinic of the Loreto schools outside of Rumbek started a special program for mothers of twins, assuring proper nutrition and health care for the mother and both children. On this day, there were more than a dozen mothers with their twins who came to the clinic, where twins are celebrated as a blessing.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-B131.jpg
  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A teenage mother holds her child in her arms in the Palorinya refugee settlement, Obongi district. of northern Uganda. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, Ugandan schools were closed for two consecutive years. In the same period, LWF World Service has observed an increase in teenage pregnancies, with 1 in every 3 girls aged 15-18 now either being pregnant or having given birth to a child. The issue is not limited to refugee settlements, as the same trend is seen both in refugee settlements and among host communities. And while the problem is not new, two years of pandemic has meant a dramatic increase, from formerly 1 in every 5 girls. [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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  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A child plays in the lap of its mother in the Palorinya refugee settlement, Obongi district of northern Uganda. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, Ugandan schools were closed for two consecutive years. In the same period, LWF World Service has observed an increase in teenage pregnancies, with 1 in every 3 girls aged 15-18 now either being pregnant or having given birth to a child. The issue is not limited to refugee settlements, as the same trend is seen both in refugee settlements and among host communities. And while the problem is not new, two years of pandemic has meant a dramatic increase, from formerly 1 in every 5 girls. [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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  • 2 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A teenage mother holds her child in her arms in the Palorinya refugee settlement, Obongi district of northern Uganda. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, Ugandan schools were closed for two consecutive years. In the same period, LWF World Service has observed an increase in teenage pregnancies, with 1 in every 3 girls aged 15-18 now either being pregnant or having given birth to a child. The issue is not limited to refugee settlements, as the same trend is seen both in refugee settlements and among host communities. And while the problem is not new, two years of pandemic has meant a dramatic increase, from formerly 1 in every 5 girls. [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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  • 19 February 2020, Amman, Jordan: 10-year-old Bayan, a girl born with Cerebral Palsy, attends the Al Yarmouk Primary Mixed School, in the Lewa'a Al Jama'a district. Here, with her mother Eman Ahmed. Following three years in a school exclusively for children with disabilities, today she attends 4th grade at Al Yarmouk, which has recently opened up to receive her. Here, sharing a moment with her mother Eman Ahmed. The school teaches some 750 students from 1st - 6th grade, most of them Jordanian, but some also from Syria and other countries. The school has received support from the Lutheran World Federation in refurbishing their buildings and classrooms, as well as training on protection and social cohesion, including how to become more inclusive of children with disabilities.
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  • Yarely Arellano (right) and her mother, Patricia Esquivel, ride a bus early in the morning in the Mexican city of Juarez. Esquivel accompanies her daughter to the U.S. border, where Arellano crosses into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano, 20, makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
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  • Yarely Arellano (right) and her mother, Patricia Esquivel, ride a bus early in the morning in the Mexican city of Juarez. Esquivel accompanies her daughter to the U.S. border, where Arellano crosses into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano, 20, makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
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  • Yarely Arellano (right) and her mother, Patricia Esquivel, board a bus early in the morning in the Mexican city of Juarez. Esquivel accompanies her daughter to the U.S. border, where Arellano crosses into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano, 20, makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: 14-month-old girl Charli Stephany and her mother walk through the village in San José de León. Born in late October 2017, the girl is just over a year old and her mother went through pregnancy at a time when the plastic that today makes the foundation of fish farming tanks, served as roofs over community members’ heads. Following the 2016 peace treaty between FARC and the Colombian government, a group of ex-combatant families have purchased and now cultivate 36 hectares of land in the territory of San José de León, municipality of Mutatá in Antioquia, Colombia. A group of 27 families first purchased the lot of land in San José de León, moving in from nearby Córdoba to settle alongside the 50-or-so families of farmers already living in the area. Today, 50 ex-combatant families live in the emerging community, which hosts a small restaurant, various committees for community organization and development, and which cultivates the land through agriculture, poultry and fish farming. Though the community has come a long way, many challenges remain on the way towards peace and reconciliation. The two-year-old community, which does not yet have a name of its own, is located in the territory of San José de León in Urabá, northwest Colombia, a strategically important corridor for trade into Central America, with resulting drug trafficking and arms trade still keeping armed groups active in the area. Many ex-combatants face trauma and insecurity, and a lack of fulfilment by the Colombian government in transition of land ownership to FARC members makes the situation delicate. Through the project De la Guerra a la Paz (‘From War to Peace’), the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia accompanies three communities in the Antioquia region, offering support both to ex-combatants and to the communities they now live alongside, as they reintegrate into society.
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  • Christina Ong walks with her 9-year old daughter Gabriel through the Malate neighborhood of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. Gabriel has Down Syndrome, and she and her mother participate in Kaisaka, a mothers' group that assists families which have members with disabilities.
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  • A mother and her children in the Congolese village of Wembo Nyama.
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  • 26 September 2015, Trinidad, Cuba: A young mother and her son return to their home village after a day in Trinidad, Cuba, by way of the old but functional commuter train that runs through the countryside.
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  • 2 April 2022, Obongi district, Uganda: A child sits in their mother's lap at the Iboa Health Centre, Obongi district of northern Uganda, where the Lutheran World Federation in collaboration with Medical Teams International provide support to malnourished refugee children and mothers. [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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  • Christina Ong walks with her 9-year old daughter Gabriel through the Malate neighborhood of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. Gabriel has Down Syndrome, and she and her mother participate in Kaisaka, a mothers' group that assists families which have members with disabilities.
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  • Dilma Pilar Escobar Medina holds a photo of her daughter Olga Romero Medina in El Progreso, Honduras. The young woman left for the United States in 2009, but her mother hasn't heard from her since a few months later when she phoned from southern Mexico. Escobar Medina cares for five children that her daughter left behind, and is a member of a group of mothers of migrants who have disappeared on their journey north.
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  • A malnourished child rests beside its sleeping mother in the stabilization ward of the Ifo Camp Hospital in the Dadaab refugee complex 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.
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  • 2 April 2022, Obongi district, Uganda: Children play in their mother’s lap at the Iboa Health Centre, Obongi district of northern Uganda, where the Lutheran World Federation in collaboration with Medical Teams International provide support to malnourished children and mothers. [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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  • Christina Ong walks with her 9-year old daughter Gabriel through the Malate neighborhood of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. Gabriel has Down Syndrome, and she and her mother participate in Kaisaka, a mothers' group that assists families which have members with disabilities.
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  • A mother and her daughter in the Haitian village of Mizak.
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  • 15 May 2022, Larnaca, Cyprus: H.E. Metropolitan Serafim Kykotis of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa (right) greets a young boy and his mother outside the Church of Saint Lazarus in Larnaca. Kykotis is one of the participants as an Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation to the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly brings together more than 50 delegates representing 20 Eastern and Oriental Orthodox member churches, in Cyprus on 9-16 May 2022. The purpose of the meeting is to study, discuss and reflect on the main theme of the WCC 11th Assembly, "Christ's love moves the world to reconciliation and unity" from an Orthodox perspective.
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  • 7 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: Ukrainian refugee woman Alona pushes a pram with her son through Nyugati train station in Budapest. Alona and her 1.5-year-old son as well as her mother arrived at Nyugati station from Ukraine on 6 March, following a 26-hour long journey from Kyiv, from which they had to flee following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, the Nyugati train station in Budapest has become a central entry point for refugees arriving by train from the Ukrainian border areas in northeast Hungary. At the station, a range of civil society organisations and other volunteers offer support to incoming refugees, including support in arranging free accommodation, tickets for onward travel, as well as necessary items such as snacks and food, diapers for the children, clothes and basic medical supplies. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • A mother and her children, internally displaced by conflict and climate, wait alongside a road in Malek Miir, a village in South Sudan's Lol State. They and thousands of other families in the region have tried to reach Sudan, but have been prevented from crossing the border. Many wait in limbo, unwilling to return to drought-stricken farms.
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  • Patricia Esquivel and her daughter, Yarely Arellano, walk through the predawn darkness of the Mexican city of Juarez. They are on their way to the U.S. border, where Arellano will cross into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
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  • A child observes the world as it sits on its mother's back in the village of Gatlang, in the Rasuwa District of Nepal near the country's border with Tibet.
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  • A boy pesters his mother as she cooks breakfast in a camp in Mopti, Mali, for families displaced by the fighting in the north of the country. Islamist rebels seized control of the north of Mali in 2012, but were chased out in early 2013 by French troops. Many displaced and refugee families have yet to return, preferring to wait for better security and improved economic conditions in the north.
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  • Johnny Antesano, a 4-year old Guarani indigenous boy in Choroquepiao, a small village in the Chaco region of Bolivia, helps his mother, Yela Vilera, in their family garden. They and their neighbors started their gardens with assistance from Church World Service, supplementing their corn-based diet with nutritious vegetables and fruits.
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  • Johnny Antesano, a 4-year old Guarani indigenous boy in Choroquepiao, a small village in the Chaco region of Bolivia, helps his mother, Yela Vilera, in their family garden. They and their neighbors started their gardens with assistance from Church World Service, supplementing their corn-based diet with nutritious vegetables and fruits.
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  • A mother hugs her children on a beach near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, on October 31, 2015.  The family, part of a boatful of refugees that arrived from Turkey, were received by local and international volunteers (wearing yellow vests), then proceeded on their way toward western Europe. The boat was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece.
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  • A refugee mother embraces her child on October 30, 2015, near Molyvos, on the Greek island of Lesbos, after landing from a journey in small boats across the Aegean Sea from Turkey. Local and international volunteers often provide the arriving refugees with food and medical care and dry clothes before they proceed on their way toward western Europe. Their boat to Greece was provided by Turkish traffickers to whom the refugees paid huge sums to arrive in Greece.
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  • A mother and child in Quilombo Tiningu, near Santarem, Brazil. Quilombos are Brazilian hinterland settlements founded by people of African origin, mostly slaves.
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  • 3 April 2022, Palorinya settlement, Obongi district, Uganda: A group of women from the Mother's Union of the Episcopal Diocese of Kajo-Keji lower their heads in prayer during Sunday service on the fifth Sunday of Lent at the Macedonia church in Palorinya refugee settlement, West Nile area of northern Uganda. Following the eruption of war in South Sudan, the Diocese of Kajo-Keji in the country’s Central Equatoria State, decided to move with some 350 congregants to seek refuge in neighboring Uganda. The diocese is since hosted under the auspices of the Diocesan office of the Anglican Church in Moyo, Uganda, and is able to continue to gather and worship as a congregation in the Palorinya settlement. The Palorinya refugee settlement, in Obongi district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 128,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. Palorinya is the second largest refugee settlement in Uganda. 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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  • 27 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A young child rests in its mother's arms during Sunday service in the Moshi Lutheran Cathedral, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania’s northern diocese. [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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  • 27 March 2022, Moshi, Tanzania: A young child rests in its mother's arms during Sunday service in the Moshi Lutheran Cathedral, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania’s northern diocese. [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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  • 7 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: Ukrainian refugee woman Alona pushes a pram with her son through Nyugati train station in Budapest. Alona and her 1.5-year-old son as well as her mother arrived at Nyugati station from Ukraine on 6 March, following a 26-hour long journey from Kyiv, from which they had to flee following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, the Nyugati train station in Budapest has become a central entry point for refugees arriving by train from the Ukrainian border areas in northeast Hungary. At the station, a range of civil society organisations and other volunteers offer support to incoming refugees, including support in arranging free accommodation, tickets for onward travel, as well as necessary items such as snacks and food, diapers for the children, clothes and basic medical supplies. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 11 March 2022, Vyšné Nemecké, Slovakia: A mother and child walk through the Vyšné Nemecké border crossing between Slovakia and Ukraine. The Vyšné Nemecké border crossing connects Slovakia with the city of Uzhgorod in Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February, hundreds of thousands of refugees have crossed the border to Slovakia in search of refuge and shelter from war and an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation. The border crossing at Vyšné Nemecké sees up to some 10,000 refugees cross each day, with faith-based and humanitarian organisations providing immediate support to people as they come into Slovakia. Support onsite includes simple shelter and beds for resting, information services, coordination of onward travel into Slovakia and finding temporary accommodation there, medical and psychosocial support, food, drinks, toys for the children, hygiene items and other necessities. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 7 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: Ukrainian refugee woman Alona pushes a pram with her son through Nyugati train station in Budapest. Alona and her 1.5-year-old son as well as her mother arrived at Nyugati station from Ukraine on 6 March, following a 26-hour long journey from Kyiv, from which they had to flee following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, the Nyugati train station in Budapest has become a central entry point for refugees arriving by train from the Ukrainian border areas in northeast Hungary. At the station, a range of civil society organisations and other volunteers offer support to incoming refugees, including support in arranging free accommodation, tickets for onward travel, as well as necessary items such as snacks and food, diapers for the children, clothes and basic medical supplies. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • 7 March 2022, Budapest, Hungary: Ukrainian refugee woman Alona looks at supplies at one of the aid worker's stands at Nyugati train station in Budapest. Alona and her 1.5-year-old son as well as her mother arrived at Nyugati station from Ukraine on 6 March, following a 26-hour long journey from Kyiv, from which they had to flee following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February 2022, the Nyugati train station in Budapest has become a central entry point for refugees arriving by train from the Ukrainian border areas in northeast Hungary. At the station, a range of civil society organisations and other volunteers offer support to incoming refugees, including support in arranging free accommodation, tickets for onward travel, as well as necessary items such as snacks and food, diapers for the children, clothes and basic medical supplies. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
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  • A new mother feeds her newborn baby in the Wau Teaching Hospital, Western Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan.
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  • Dumo Jeena, a one-year old boy with malaria, is held by his mother in the Wau Teaching Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. His mother walked for five hours to bring him to the hospital the day before, where his temperature spiked to over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). He lapsed into unconsciousness as the hospital staff cooled him down and injected him with an anti-malarial drug. Thanks to the care he received, the boy survived.
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  • Dumo Jeena, a one-year old boy with malaria, gets a hug from his mother in the Wau Teaching Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. His mother walked for five hours to bring him to the hospital the day before, where his temperature spiked to over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). He lapsed into unconsciousness as the hospital staff cooled him down and injected him with an anti-malarial drug. Thanks to the care he received, the boy survived.
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  • Dumo Jeena, a one-year old boy with malaria, sits on his mother's lap in the Wau Teaching Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. His mother walked for five hours to bring him to the hospital the day before, where his temperature spiked to over 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). He lapsed into unconsciousness as the hospital staff cooled him down and injected him with an anti-malarial drug. Thanks to the care he received, the boy survived.
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  • 16 February 2020, Irbid, Jordan: A mother holds her daughter in her lap during a caregiver support session led by the Lutheran World Federation at the Islamic Centre in Al-Mazar, offering psychosocial support to Syrian refugee mothers and Jordanian host communities.
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  • 16 February 2020, Irbid, Jordan: A mother holds her daughter in her lap during a caregiver support session led by the Lutheran World Federation at the Islamic Centre in Al-Mazar, offering psychosocial support to Syrian refugee mothers and Jordanian host communities.
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  • A mother in Gaza talks with her daughter, who is a member of the Girl Scouts. Both live in the Beach Refugee Camp.
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  • Three-year old Youel hangs on the bars with help from his mother, Tirhas Drar Brehane, in a playground in Durham, North Carolina. <br />
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Refugees from Eritrea, the boy and his mother were resettled in Durham by Church World Service, which resettles refugees in North Carolina and throughout the United States.<br />
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  • Three-year old Youel hangs on the bars with help from his mother, Tirhas Drar Brehane, in a playground in Durham, North Carolina. <br />
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Refugees from Eritrea, the boy and his mother were resettled in Durham by Church World Service, which resettles refugees in North Carolina and throughout the United States.<br />
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  • Three-year old Youel tries to kick a ball to his mother, Tirhas Drar Brehane, in a playground in Durham, North Carolina. <br />
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Refugees from Eritrea, the boy and his mother were resettled in Durham by Church World Service, which resettles refugees in North Carolina and throughout the United States.<br />
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  • Three-year old Youel rides a play horse as his mother, Tirhas Drar Brehane, looks on in a playground in Durham, North Carolina. <br />
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Refugees from Eritrea, the boy and his mother were resettled in Durham by Church World Service, which resettles refugees in North Carolina and throughout the United States.<br />
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  • Three-year old Youel slides toward his mother, Tirhas Drar Brehane, in a playground in Durham, North Carolina. <br />
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Refugees from Eritrea, the boy and his mother were resettled in Durham by Church World Service, which resettles refugees in North Carolina and throughout the United States.<br />
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  • Three-year old Youel swings with help from his mother, Tirhas Drar Brehane, in a playground in Durham, North Carolina. <br />
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Refugees from Eritrea, the boy and his mother were resettled in Durham by Church World Service, which resettles refugees in North Carolina and throughout the United States.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • Three-year old Youel swings with help from his mother, Tirhas Drar Brehane, in a playground in Durham, North Carolina. <br />
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Refugees from Eritrea, the boy and his mother were resettled in Durham by Church World Service, which resettles refugees in North Carolina and throughout the United States.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • Three-year old Youel swings with help from his mother, Tirhas Drar Brehane, in a playground in Durham, North Carolina. <br />
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Refugees from Eritrea, the boy and his mother were resettled in Durham by Church World Service, which resettles refugees in North Carolina and throughout the United States.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • A mother and child at a rally celebrating International Women's Day in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu state in southern India.
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  • At the Mother & Child Health Center in the village of Debgran, Pakistan, part of the Earthquake Response Health Program of Church World Service, Dr. Rubina Wazir examines Dua Tariq while her mother Farah Tariq looks on. The October 8, 2005, quake killed over 80,000 people.
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  • At the Mother & Child Health Center in the village of Debgran, Pakistan, part of the Earthquake Response Health Program of Church World Service, Gul Bibi (a "Lady Health Visitor") weighs Dua Tariq while her mother Farah Tariq looks on.
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  • A mother stands with her daughter inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, but renewed fighting in 2015 drove another 5,000 people into the safety of the camp.
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  • Llore Pasco holds photos of her sons Juan Carlos and Crisanto during a Valentine's Day rally against violence in Manila on February 14, 2019. Her sons were killed by police in 2017, two of thousands of deaths attributed to the so-called war on drugs of President Rodrigo Duterte. The official police report claimed they fought back and were killed by officers in self defense, but their mother says that's not true, and church activists say evidence at the scene contradicted the official report. Pasco's daughter is one of several plaintiffs in a complaint to the International Criminal Court, charging Duterte with crimes against humanity.
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  • A refugee child examines clothing available in a shelter in San Antonio, Texas, on December 2, 2015. The boy came from Honduras to the U.S. with his mother, sister, and two cousins, to escape domestic violence and threats from violent gangs. After requesting political asylum in the United States, they were held for several days by immigration officials and then released. The cousins were turned over to their mother, who already lived in the U.S. The boy and his family stayed in the shelter, which is run by the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) and supported by a coalition of San Antonio churches. They then traveled by bus to another location in the U.S. while they await a final decision on their asylum petition.
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  • Patricia Esquivel and her daughter, Yarely Arellano, walk through the Mexican city of Juarez on their way to the U.S. border, where Arellano will cross into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
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  • Patricia Esquivel kisses her daughter, Yarely Arellano, at the U.S. border crossing in the Mexican city of Juarez. Arellano crosses from here into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
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  • Patricia Esquivel kisses her daughter, Yarely Arellano, at the U.S. border crossing in the Mexican city of Juarez. Arellano crosses from here into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
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  • Patricia Esquivel and her daughter, Yarely Arellano, disembark from a bus in the Mexican city of Juarez. They are on their way to the U.S. border, where Arellano will cross into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
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  • Patricia Esquivel and her daughter, Yarely Arellano, wait for a bus in the predawn darkness of the Mexican city of Juarez. They are on their way to the U.S. border, where Arellano will cross into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
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  • Patricia Esquivel and her daughter, Yarely Arellano, walk through the predawn darkness of the Mexican city of Juarez. They are on their way to the U.S. border, where Arellano will cross into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
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  • Patricia Esquivel and her daughter, Yarely Arellano, walk through the predawn darkness of the Mexican city of Juarez. They are on their way to the U.S. border, where Arellano will cross into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
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  • Patricia Esquivel and her daughter, Yarely Arellano, walk through the predawn darkness of the Mexican city of Juarez. They are on their way to the U.S. border, where Arellano will cross into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
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  • Patricia Esquivel and her daughter, Yarely Arellano, leave their house in the predawn darkness in the Mexican city of Juarez. They are on their way to the U.S. border, where Arellano will cross into El Paso, Texas, to study at the Lydia Paterson Institute, a United Methodist sponsored high school. Arellano makes the journey every school day, and most days her mother accompanies her to the border for safety. Arellano was born in the United States, and is thus a U.S. citizen, but her mother, a Mexican national, was later deported and is not allowed to reenter the U.S.
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  • A mother and her daughter in Tuixcajchis, a small Mam-speaking Maya village in Comitancillo, Guatemala.
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  • A mother and daughter in front of their house in Despagne, an isolated village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life.
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  • Woodmay Pajeotle, 3, gets a bath from his mother, Adlin Pajeotle, outside their home 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.
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  • A mother helps her son get dressed before school in the Haitian village of Mizak.
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  • A mother braids her daughter's hair before school in the Haitian village of Mizak.
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  • A mother braids her daughter's hair before she leaves for school in the Haitian village of Mizak.
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  • A mother feeds her child in a nutrition center in Kamina, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The center, which offers meals to malnourished children and their mothers, along with nutrition and agriculture education, is funded by United Methodist Women, with training provided by the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
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  • A mother waits with her children outside a clinic in Beni, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has been hard hit by the Ebola outbreak that began in 2018. The clinic is supported by IMA World Health and the Programme de Promotion de Soins Santé Primaires. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
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  • Nurse Lakuwa Lokolo Rama talks with a mother and child in the pediatric ward of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Rama is a 2016 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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  • Nurse Lakuwa Lokolo Rama talks with a mother and child in the pediatric ward of the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The Catholic hospital is the only referral hospital in the war-torn area.<br />
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Rama is a 2016 graduate of the Catholic Health Training Institute, a school in Wau, South Sudan, sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
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