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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: At the river nearby the Burka Dare site for Internally Displaced People (IDP), which this time of year runs seemingly dry, the community of Oromo people has dug a cattle trough, to preserve low-percolating water from deep inside the riverbed, salvaging some drinking water for livestock and people alike. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190127_AH1_193...jpg
  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: At the river nearby the Burka Dare site for Internally Displaced People (IDP), which this time of year runs seemingly dry, the community of Oromo people has dug a cattle trough, to preserve low-percolating water from deep inside the riverbed, salvaging some drinking water for livestock and people alike. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190127_AH1_194...jpg
  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: At the river nearby the Burka Dare site for Internally Displaced People (IDP), which this time of year runs seemingly dry, the community of Oromo people has dug a cattle trough, to preserve low-percolating water from deep inside the riverbed, salvaging some drinking water for livestock and people alike. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190127_AH1_192...jpg
  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: At the river nearby the Burka Dare site for Internally Displaced People (IDP), which this time of year runs seemingly dry, the community of Oromo people has dug a cattle trough, to preserve low-percolating water from deep inside the riverbed, salvaging some drinking water for livestock and people alike. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190127_AH1_194...jpg
  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: Halima Ismael is one of many Oromo internally displaced people living in the Burka Dare IDP site. People at the site live in small huts or houses. Halima and her children share this one with two other households. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190127_AH2_802...jpg
  • 25 May 2017, Berlin, Germany: The 2017 Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Berlin, Germany, gathers thousands of Christians and people of faith from Europe and around the world for days of seminars, Bible study, cultural exchange, celebration and exploration of what it means to be people of faith.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170525_AHP_995...jpg
  • 25 May 2017, Berlin, Germany: The 2017 Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Berlin, Germany, gathers thousands of Christians and people of faith from Europe and around the world for days of seminars, Bible study, cultural exchange, celebration and exploration of what it means to be people of faith.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170525_AHP_997...jpg
  • 2 April 2022, Adjumani district, Uganda: People disembark from the ferry taking people over the Nile from Adjumani district east of the Nile to Obongi district west of the nile. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert upon publication.]
    Uganda-2022-Hillert-20220402_AH2_403...jpg
  • 9 March 2022, Barabás, Hungary: People queue outside a Caritas Hungary support centre for incoming refugees in the small border crossing village of Barabás in northeast Hungary. Following the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, more than 200,000 refugees from Ukraine have fled across the border into neighbouring Hungary, where a range of church and civil society organizations are now mobilizing support, ranging from arranging accommodation, providing information and donating diapers for the children, sanitizers, hygiene supplies and other necessities for people on the move. [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.]
    Hungary-2022-Hillert-20220309_AH2_77...jpg
  • 11 March 2022, Vyšné Nemecké, Slovakia: People gather supplies given away at 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.]
    Slovakia-2022-Hillert-20220311_AH1_4...jpg
  • 9 March 2022, Barabás, Hungary: People wait outside a Caritas Hungary support centre for incoming refugees in the small border crossing village of Barabás in northeast Hungary. Following the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, more than 200,000 refugees from Ukraine have fled across the border into neighbouring Hungary, where a range of church and civil society organizations are now mobilizing support, ranging from arranging accommodation, providing information and donating diapers for the children, sanitizers, hygiene supplies and other necessities for people on the move. [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.]
    Hungary-2022-Hillert-20220309_AH1_46...jpg
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A woman collects the offering during Sunday Mass at the Catholic Church inside the Protection of Civilians area in the United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. <br />
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Some 35,000 people live in the camp, protected by UN peacekeeping troops. They were displaced from Malakal following the outbreak of a civil war in 2013. The armed conflict has a strong element of ethnic tension, and the mostly Shilluk and Nuer residents of the camp fear for their security from the largely Dinka population that has moved into their former town.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-malakal-185.jpg
  • Members of the Pranetta United Methodist Church in Buyer, a small village in northern Thailand populated by indigenous hill tribe people, sing hymns as they stand in a nearby river for the baptisms of several people.
    thailand-2012-jeffrey-19.jpg
  • Newly displaced people cook food 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, including these people, into the relative safety of the camp.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-096.jpg
  • Newly displaced people cook food 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, including these people, into the relative safety of the camp.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-094.jpg
  • Father Mike Bassano, a Maryknoll priest from the United States, greets people during mass in a makeshift chapel 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, and renewed fighting in 2015 drove an additional 5,000 people into the relative safety of the camp. Bassano lives in the camp to accompany the people there.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-073.jpg
  • Displaced people walk 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, including these people, into the relative safety of the camp.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-062.jpg
  • Newly displaced people cook food 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, including these people, into the relative safety of the camp.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-053.jpg
  • Anouk Noel, 30, is one of 600 people living with disabilities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who have received a six-month, US$75 per month grant from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance. Working with Service Chretien d´Haiti and the Cuban Council of Churches, CWS has provided a variety of emergency services to people living with disabilities since the devastating January 2010 quake ravaged the capital city and nearby areas. Noel's family has used the CWS grant to purchase cosmetic items that family members have then resold on the market, earning a profit to support the family. The home Noel shares with her family has also been repaired as part of the CWS program, allowing Noel to return to her home in November following nine months in one of Port-au-Prince's crowded tent cities. "I had given up hope that we'd be able to come back," she says. Noel has also joined other disabled persons during regular emotional recovery events, often singing solo during the gatherings. Noel is an achondroplastic dwarf, and has lost the use of her legs. Here she sits in her wheelchair just outside her rebuilt home.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-096.jpg
  • Anouk Noel, 30, is one of 600 people living with disabilities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who have received a six-month, US$75 per month grant from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance. Working with Service Chretien d´Haiti and the Cuban Council of Churches, CWS has provided a variety of emergency services to people living with disabilities since the devastating January 2010 quake ravaged the capital city and nearby areas. Noel's family has used the CWS grant to purchase cosmetic items that family members have then resold on the market, earning a profit to support the family. The home Noel shares with her family has also been repaired as part of the CWS program, allowing Noel to return to her home in November following nine months in one of Port-au-Prince's crowded tent cities. "I had given up hope that we'd be able to come back," she says. Noel has also joined other disabled persons during regular emotional recovery events, often singing solo during the gatherings. Noel is an achondroplastic dwarf, and has lost the use of her legs. Here she sits in her wheelchair just outside her rebuilt home.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-092.jpg
  • Anouk Noel, 30, is one of 600 people living with disabilities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who have received a six-month, US$75 per month grant from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance. Working with Service Chretien d´Haiti and the Cuban Council of Churches, CWS has provided a variety of emergency services to people living with disabilities since the devastating January 2010 quake ravaged the capital city and nearby areas. Noel's family has used the CWS grant to purchase cosmetic items that family members have then resold on the market, earning a profit to support the family. The home Noel shares with her family has also been repaired as part of the CWS program, allowing Noel to return to her home in November following nine months in one of Port-au-Prince's crowded tent cities. "I had given up hope that we'd be able to come back," she says. Noel has also joined other disabled persons during regular emotional recovery events, often singing solo during the gatherings. Noel is an achondroplastic dwarf, and has lost the use of her legs. Here she sits in her wheelchair just outside her rebuilt home.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-085.jpg
  • Anouk Noel, 30, is one of 600 people living with disabilities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who have received a six-month, US$75 per month grant from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance. Working with Service Chretien d´Haiti and the Cuban Council of Churches, CWS has provided a variety of emergency services to people living with disabilities since the devastating January 2010 quake ravaged the capital city and nearby areas. Noel's family has used the CWS grant to purchase cosmetic items that family members have then resold on the market, earning a profit to support the family. The home Noel shares with her family has also been repaired as part of the CWS program, allowing Noel to return to her home in November following nine months in one of Port-au-Prince's crowded tent cities. "I had given up hope that we'd be able to come back," she says. Noel has also joined other disabled persons during regular emotional recovery events, often singing solo during the gatherings. Noel is an achondroplastic dwarf, and has lost the use of her legs. Here she sits in her wheelchair just outside her rebuilt home.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-083.jpg
  • Anouk Noel, 30, is one of 600 people living with disabilities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who have received a six-month, US$75 per month grant from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance. Working with Service Chretien d´Haiti and the Cuban Council of Churches, CWS has provided a variety of emergency services to people living with disabilities since the devastating January 2010 quake ravaged the capital city and nearby areas. Noel's family has used the CWS grant to purchase cosmetic items that family members have then resold on the market, earning a profit to support the family. The home Noel shares with her family has also been repaired as part of the CWS program, allowing Noel to return to her home in November following nine months in one of Port-au-Prince's crowded tent cities. "I had given up hope that we'd be able to come back," she says. Noel has also joined other disabled persons during regular emotional recovery events, often singing solo during the gatherings. Noel is an achondroplastic dwarf, and has lost the use of her legs. Here she sits in her wheelchair just outside her rebuilt home.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-081.jpg
  • Anouk Noel, 30, is one of 600 people living with disabilities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who have received a six-month, US$75 per month grant from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance. Working with Service Chretien d´Haiti and the Cuban Council of Churches, CWS has provided a variety of emergency services to people living with disabilities since the devastating January 2010 quake ravaged the capital city and nearby areas. Noel's family has used the CWS grant to purchase cosmetic items that family members have then resold on the market, earning a profit to support the family. The home Noel shares with her family has also been partially repaired as part of the CWS program, allowing Noel to return to her home in November following nine months in one of Port-au-Prince's crowded tent cities. "I had given up hope that we'd be able to come back," she says. Noel has also joined other disabled persons during regular emotional recovery events, often singing solo during the gatherings. Noel is an achondroplastic dwarf, and has lost the use of her legs. Here she sits in the doorway of her rebuilt home.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-072.jpg
  • Anouk Noel, 30, is one of 600 people living with disabilities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who have received a six-month, US$75 per month grant from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance. Working with Service Chretien d¥Haiti and the Cuban Council of Churches, CWS has provided a variety of emergency services to people living with disabilities since the devastating January 2010 quake ravaged the capital city and nearby areas. Noel's family has used the CWS grant to purchase cosmetic items that family members have then resold on the market, earning a profit to support the family. The home Noel shares with her family has also been repaired as part of the CWS program, allowing Noel to return to her home in November following nine months in one of Port-au-Prince's crowded tent cities. "I had given up hope that we'd be able to come back," she says. Noel has also joined other disabled persons during regular emotional recovery events, often singing solo during the gatherings. Noel is an achondroplastic dwarf, and has lost the use of her legs. Here she sits in her wheelchair just outside her rebuilt home.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-006.jpg
  • People line up jerry cans before dawn in the Rhino Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. As of April 2017, the camp held almost 87,000 refugees from South Sudan, and more people were arriving daily. About 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out there at the end of 2013. About 900,000 have sought refuge in Uganda. <br />
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Because water pumps in the camp are solar-powered, water can only be obtained during daylight hours. Refugees will therefore line up their jerry cans overnight in order to be among the first to get water in the morning.<br />
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The Global Health Program of the United Methodist Church has supported work to improve access to safe drinking water in the camp.
    uganda-2017-jeffrey-rhino-camp-087.JPG
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • Blind and visually impaired people participate in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A woman collects the offering during Sunday Mass at the Catholic Church inside the Protection of Civilians area in the United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Some 35,000 people live in the camp, protected by UN peacekeeping troops. They were displaced from Malakal following the outbreak of a civil war in 2013. The armed conflict has a strong element of ethnic tension, and the mostly Shilluk and Nuer residents of the camp fear for their security from the largely Dinka population that has moved into their former town.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-malakal-187.jpg
  • People celebrate Mass in the Catholic Church in the middle of a camp for more than 5,000 displaced people in Riimenze, in South Sudan's Gbudwe State, what was formerly Western Equatoria. Families here were displaced at the beginning of 2017, as fighting between government soldiers and rebels escalated.<br />
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Two Catholic groups, Caritas Austria and Solidarity with South Sudan, have played key roles in assuring that the displaced families here have food, shelter and water.<br />
The camp formed around the Catholic Church in Riimenze as people fled violence in nearby villages for what they perceived as the safety offered by the church.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Newly displaced people cook food 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, including these people, into the relative safety of the camp.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-101.jpg
  • Newly displaced people cook food 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, including these people, into the relative safety of the camp.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-095.jpg
  • Newly displaced people cook food 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, including these people, into the relative safety of the camp.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-049.jpg
  • Anouk Noel, 30, is one of 600 people living with disabilities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who have received a six-month, US$75 per month grant from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance. Working with Service Chretien d´Haiti and the Cuban Council of Churches, CWS has provided a variety of emergency services to people living with disabilities since the devastating January 2010 quake ravaged the capital city and nearby areas. Noel's family has used the CWS grant to purchase cosmetic items that family members have then resold on the market, earning a profit to support the family. The home Noel shares with her family has also been repaired as part of the CWS program, allowing Noel to return to her home in November following nine months in one of Port-au-Prince's crowded tent cities. "I had given up hope that we'd be able to come back," she says. Noel has also joined other disabled persons during regular emotional recovery events, often singing solo during the gatherings. Noel is an achondroplastic dwarf, and has lost the use of her legs. Here she sits in her wheelchair just outside her rebuilt home.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-078.jpg
  • Anouk Noel, 30, is one of 600 people living with disabilities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who have received a six-month, US$75 per month grant from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance. Working with Service Chretien d´Haiti and the Cuban Council of Churches, CWS has provided a variety of emergency services to people living with disabilities since the devastating January 2010 quake ravaged the capital city and nearby areas. Noel's family has used the CWS grant to purchase cosmetic items that family members have then resold on the market, earning a profit to support the family. The home Noel shares with her family has also been partially repaired as part of the CWS program (the repaired portion can be seen in back), allowing Noel to return to her home in November following nine months in one of Port-au-Prince's crowded tent cities. "I had given up hope that we'd be able to come back," she says. Noel has also joined other disabled persons during regular emotional recovery events, often singing solo during the gatherings. Noel is an achondroplastic dwarf, and has lost the use of her legs. Here she sits on a portion of the roof above her rebuilt home.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-076.jpg
  • Anouk Noel (left), 30, is one of 600 people living with disabilities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, who have received a six-month, US$75 per month grant from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance. Working with Service Chretien d´Haiti and the Cuban Council of Churches, CWS has provided a variety of emergency services to people living with disabilities since the devastating January 2010 quake ravaged the capital city and nearby areas. Noel's family has used the CWS grant to purchase cosmetic items that family members have then resold on the market, earning a profit to support the family. The home Noel shares with her family has also been partially repaired as part of the CWS program (the repaired portion can be seen in back), allowing Noel to return to her home in November following nine months in one of Port-au-Prince's crowded tent cities. "I had given up hope that we'd be able to come back," she says. Noel has also joined other disabled persons during regular emotional recovery events, often singing solo during the gatherings. Noel is an achondroplastic dwarf, and has lost the use of her legs. Here she sits on a portion of the roof above her rebuilt home, talking with James Mwangi, a professor of engineering at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo who is a volunteer with the Mennonite Central Committee. Mwangi supervised the repair work on Noel's home.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-074.jpg
  • People wait to be examined in an outreach clinic in the Rhino Refugee Camp in northern Uganda. As of April 2017, the camp held almost 87,000 refugees from South Sudan, and more people were arriving daily. About 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan since civil war broke out there at the end of 2013. About 900,000 have sought refuge in Uganda. <br />
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The clinic was sponsored by Global Refuge International, which receives support from the Global Health Program of The United Methodist Church. <br />
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Because of the nature of the Rhino Camp, where refugees are spread out over a wide area, it's not possible for many of them to access health care, so Global Refuge International holds outreach clinics on a regular basis through several areas of the camp.
    uganda-2017-jeffrey-rhino-camp-312.JPG
  • 10 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Commemoration of the victims of terror, on Drottninggatan (Queen Street) in central Stockholm, three days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more. In gratitude to the Police's efforts immediately after the attack, people dress Police vehicles in flowers, as a way of saying thank you.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170410_AHP_714...jpg
  • J Rajkumari takes to the streets of India to demand an end to stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS. She is a social worker with the Lutheran Counseling and Health Care Center, which works closely with the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
    india-2010-jeffrey-aids-220.jpg
  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: Halima Ismael is one of many Oromo internally displaced people living in the Burka Dare IDP site. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190127_AH1_199...jpg
  • People made homeless by hurricanes living under a bridge in Chamelecón, for many their houses and belongings were washed away.<br />
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Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Eta_Iota_328.jpg
  • 27 May 2017, Berlin, Germany: Present at the 2017 Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Berlin, Germany, which gathers thousands of Christians and people of faith from Europe and around the world for days of seminars, Bible study, cultural exchange, celebration and exploration of what it means to be people of faith, the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17), gathered for a seminar and workshop on "Visions for Christianity in Europe", exploring the themes of Reforming Theology, Migrating Church, and Transforming Society. Meeting in Berlin on 19 May - 1 June 2017, the Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2017 (GETI'17) gathers young Christian theologians from Europe and around the world to study and experience horizons of an ecumenical theology and ecclesiology. GETI’17 is organized under the patronage of the Conference of European Churches, and works under three key themes: Reforming Theology, Migrating Church, and Transforming Society.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170527_AHP_058...jpg
  • 26 May 2017, Berlin, Germany: The 2017 Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Berlin, Germany, gathers thousands of Christians and people of faith from Europe and around the world for days of seminars, Bible study, cultural exchange, celebration and exploration of what it means to be people of faith.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170526_AHP_027...jpg
  • 10 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Commemoration of the victims of terror, on Drottninggatan (Queen Street) in central Stockholm, three days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more. In gratitude to the Police's efforts immediately after the attack, people dress Police vehicles in flowers, as a way of saying thank you.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170410_AHP_714...jpg
  • 10 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Commemoration of the victims of terror, on Drottninggatan (Queen Street) in central Stockholm, three days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more. In gratitude to the Police's efforts immediately after the attack, people dress Police vehicles in flowers, as a way of saying thank you.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170410_AHP_714...jpg
  • 10 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Commemoration of the victims of terror, on Drottninggatan (Queen Street) in central Stockholm, three days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more. In gratitude to the Police's efforts immediately after the attack, people dress Police vehicles in flowers, as a way of saying thank you.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170410_AHP_624...jpg
  • 10 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Commemoration of the victims of terror, on Drottninggatan (Queen Street) in central Stockholm, three days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more. In gratitude to the Police's efforts immediately after the attack, people dress Police vehicles in flowers, as a way of saying thank you.
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  • 9 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Two days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more, a peaceful demonstration for love was held at Sergels torg in central Stockholm, to commemorate the victims of violence, and to join hands for a non-violent future. In gratitude to the Police's efforts immediately after the attack, people dress Police vehicles in flowers, as a way of saying thank you.
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  • 9 April 2017, Stockholm, Sweden: Two days after a lorry was driven into a store in central Stockholm, killing at least four people and injuring many more, a peaceful demonstration for love was held at Sergels torg in central Stockholm, to commemorate the victims of violence, and to join hands for a non-violent future. In gratitude to the Police's efforts immediately after the attack, people dress Police vehicles in flowers, as a way of saying thank you.
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  • Taking to the streets to protest against stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS, Vijayalakshmi is an HIV-positive woman who is a member of the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. (See Special Instructions below.)
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  • B. Jeyakumari takes to the streets of India to demand an end to stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS. She is an HIV positive woman who is a member of the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. (See Special Instructions below.)
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  • J Rajkumari carries signs as she gets ready to take to the streets of India to demand an end to stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS. She is a social worker with the Lutheran Counseling and Health Care Center, which works closely with the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
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  • J Rajkumari takes to the streets of India to demand an end to stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS. She is a social worker with the Lutheran Counseling and Health Care Center, which works closely with the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
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  • K Aadi Lakshmi takes to the streets of India to demand an end to stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS. She is an HIV positive woman who is a member of the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. (See Special Instructions below.)
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  • B. Jeyakumari takes to the streets of India to demand an end to stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS. She is an HIV positive woman who is a member of the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. (See Special Instructions below.)
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  • B. Jeyakumari takes to the streets of India to demand an end to stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS. She is an HIV positive woman who is a member of the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. (See Special Instructions below.)
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  • K Aadi Lakshmi takes to the streets of India to demand an end to stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS. She is an HIV positive woman who is a member of the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. (See Special Instructions below.)
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: A man carries a stick as he walks through the Burka Dare site for internally displaced people. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: A young man tends to his camels in the Burka Dare site for internally displaced people. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
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  • Cacrica, Chocó. Embera people queue to vote on the building of a road in their forest reserve. The vote is symbolic as economic interests prevail over the protection of their land and rights. Cacarica is a community of returned displaced people or IDPs, many here have witnessed massacres, assasinations and other violence. This peace community, that aims to exclude all armed groups, was established to protect civilians from military activity and recruitment by paramilitaries, army and guerilla.
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  • 13 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Young people chant and raise their hands, in an action at COP25. As COP25 is about to draw to a close, hundreds of young people mobilize through Fridays for Future in a strike for the climate, inside and outside the venue of COP25 in Madrid, calling for urgent action for climate justice.
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  • 13 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Young people show the palms of their hands, on which they have drawn eyes, in an action at COP25.. As COP25 is about to draw to a close, hundreds of young people mobilize through Fridays for Future in a strike for the climate, inside and outside the venue of COP25 in Madrid, calling for urgent action for climate justice.
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  • 26 May 2017, Berlin, Germany: The 2017 Kirchentag ("Church Festival") in Berlin, Germany, gathers thousands of Christians and people of faith from Europe and around the world for days of seminars, Bible study, cultural exchange, celebration and exploration of what it means to be people of faith.
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  • 28 January 2019, Wada IDP site, near Micha kebele, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: After training in Water, Sanitaion and Hygiene (WASH) by the LWF, and construction of a number of emergency latrines in the area, a group of internally displaced people have constructed their own latrine in the Wada IDP site. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: Halima Ismael is one of many Oromo internally displaced people living in the Burka Dare IDP site. She regularly uses a simple kitchen to cook porridge. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: The Oromo people make beehives by carving out logs of wood, to be hung in trees. The community then harvests honey from the hives, once bees have come to colonize them. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: Hussein Ibrahim, an internally displaced person from the Somali region,  demonstrates how the Oromo people make beehives by carving out logs of wood, to be hung in trees. Ibrahim lives in the Burka Dare IDP site. He is 65 years old, and one of the community elders. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: A boy puts his hands to his head in the Burka Dare site for internally displaced people. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: A boy herds a group of camel by the river bank near Burka Dare site for Internally Displaced People. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: The Oromo people make beehives by carving out logs of wood, to be hung in trees. The community then harvests honey from the hives, once bees have come to colonize them. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: A group of Oromo internally displaced people move through the Burka Dare IDP site. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: 20-year-old Amina holds her one-year-old child in the shade under a tree in the Burka Dare IDP site. She is on of a group of more than 400 people who arrived here two years ago, as they were driven from their homes in neighbouring Somali. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: Internally displaced people live in small houses or huts, shared by up to eight households under a single roof. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
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  • 13 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Young people show the palms of their hands, on which they have drawn eyes, in an action at COP25.. As COP25 is about to draw to a close, hundreds of young people mobilize through Fridays for Future in a strike for the climate, inside and outside the venue of COP25 in Madrid, calling for urgent action for climate justice.
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  • 13 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Young people rally at COP25. As COP25 is about to draw to a close, hundreds of young people mobilize through Fridays for Future in a strike for the climate, inside and outside the venue of COP25 in Madrid, calling for urgent action for climate justice.
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  • 27 January 2019, Burka Dare IDP site, near Micha, Seweyna woreda, Bale Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: A group of Oromo internally displaced people move through the Burka Dare IDP site. The Lutheran World Federation supports internally displaced people in several regions of Ethiopia, through emergency response on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) as well as long-term development and empowerment projects, to help build resilience and adapt communities’ lifestyles to a changing climate.
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  • Joji Babu (left) and his wife Kumari (right) are both HIV positive and members of the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. The HIV status of their 1-year old daughter Baby is still unknown. (See Special Instructions below.)
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  • Joji Babu (left) and his wife Kumari (right) are both HIV positive and members of the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. The HIV status of their 1-year old daughter Baby is still unknown. (See Special Instructions below.)
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  • Kumari is an HIV positive woman who is a member of the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Here she holds her 1-year old daughter, Baby, whose HIV status is unknown. (See Special Instructions below.)
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  • At the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, a sign says "Area of Education through Revolutionary materials".
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  • At the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, a room sign says "Works of President Kim Il Sung and books on his greatness"
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  • People in Santa Catarina Masahuat, El Salvador.
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  • Kumari is an HIV positive woman who is a member of the Hope Arpana Positive People Effective Network in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Here she holds her 1-year old daughter, Baby, whose HIV status is unknown. (See Special Instructions below.)
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  • Indigenous people displaced by paramilitary violence watch television in a church compound in Davao, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Hundreds of indigenous are living in the church center, afraid to return home.
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  • At the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il adorn the wall above a lecture theatre with cassette players.
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  • At the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il adorn the wall above the library book checkout area.
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  • At the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang in a room for the study of the "Works of President Kim Il Sung and books on his greatness".
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  • Peope cycle past the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang.
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  • The Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang is lit up at night.
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  • With the Grand People's Study House in the background, the window of a bus reflects the Juche Idea Tower.
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  • 25 May 2022, Moscow, Russia: People come and go from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in central Moscow. [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
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  • 25 May 2022, Moscow, Russia: People come and go from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in central Moscow. [PLEASE NOTE: This image was captured on assignment with the World Council of Churches and ACT Alliance, visiting Russia upon invitation from the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).]
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  • 17 March 2022, Siret, Romania: A group of refugees from Ukraine wait to depart after passing through the Vama Siret border crossing, Romania. The Vama Siret border crossing connects northeast Romania with Ukraine. Located north of Siret and further in the south the city of Suceava, the crossing connects Romania with the Ukrainian village of Terebleche and further north the city of Chernivtsi. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military starting on 24 February 2022, close to half a million refugees have fled across the Ukrainian border into Romania. In the past 24 hours, government figures indicate more than 50,000 people have crossed the border in search of refuge, an estimated 20 percent of whom are expected to stay in Romania, rather than transit into other European countries. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
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  • A blind woman touches her hand as she participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • A blind man touches his hand as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • Constance Langoya, a trauma healer, helps a man touch his face during a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • A man helps another man touch his head as they participate in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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