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  • A boy drives a cart filled with rubble in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza strip. Such rubble, the remains of buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes, is the main ingredient of new concrete blocks for reconstruction, and throughout Gaza thousands of children work collecting and transporting the material.
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  • Ibrahim Asana installs solar panels on August 29, 2021, that will power the Catholic Radio Station "Voice of Love" in Malakal, South Sudan. The station has been off the air since fighting destroyed much of the town in early 2014, but the diocese and Comboni missionaries are working to get it back on the air.<br />
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The solar panels were funded by Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for the ACT Alliance.
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  • Shehnaz, a girl in the northern Pakistan village of Bari Banda, obtains water from a water system rebuilt with help from Catholic Relief Services following the October 2005 earthquake.
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  • Sayra (right) and her sister Satara Jabeen run through their village of Banda Peshtian in Pakistan's northern mouintains.  The 68 families in the village lost their homes to the October 2005 earthquake, and CRS has helped them build temporary shelters so they can remain at home and begin to rebuild their lives and economy.
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  • Abdul Qazzum and his children Tujjal and Benish in their temporary shelter which they built after Catholic Relief Services provided the material. This family survived the October 2005 quake, but like their neighbors face difficulties in the months and years ahead as they rebuild their village and their economy.
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  • Shehnaz, a girl in the northern Pakistan village of Bari Banda, obtains water from a water system rebuilt with help from Catholic Relief Services following the October 2005 earthquake.
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  • A survivor of the October 2005 earthquake, back home in her village of Khanian, Pakistan, where she and her neighbors still face innumerable challenges. The October 8, 2005, quake killed over 80,000 people.
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  • In Mangli, a small village outside Balakot, Pakistan, this woman continues living in a tent, afraid to return and rebuild on the treacherous hillsides where she and her neighbors lived before the October 2005 earthquake. Mangli is one of several remote villages where the psycho-social team of Church World Service continues accompanying quake survivors.
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  • Water systems throughout the mountains of Pakistan were damaged and destroyed during the October 2005 quake, but ACT member Norwegian Church Aid has been active restoring water systems so that earthquake survivors, like Sania Sawati, a 14-year old in the village of Domana, can have access to the the life-giving liquid. The October 8, 2005, quake killed over 80,000 people.
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  • Muhammad Sharif learns carpentry at a construction skills training center in Battagram, Pakistan, sponsored by Church World Service.
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  • Nine months after the devastating October 2005 quake, men in Battal, Pakistan, still work on cleaning up the ruins of their village's mosque. The October 8, 2005, quake killed over 80,000 people.
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  • Iftikhar Ahmad, his wife Noor Bibi, and child Shazal, survived the October 2005 quake that hit northern Pakistan, but it killed their son Mohammad Uzefa. Today they look for land to buy to build a new home while they continue living in a tent on land they've rented from a local landowner. They at least have safe drinking water, thanks to the installation of a new water system in their village by Norwegian Church Aid. The October 8, 2005, quake killed over 80,000 people.
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  • Mohamad Siraj was a farmer before the October 2005 earthquake ravaged his village of Baden, Pakistan. After training as a welder in a course sponsored by Church World Service, he has opened his own welding shop in the town of Hazara University.
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  • Fitriani comes the hair of her sister, 5-year old Softiani, as the little girl prepares to go to school in the village of Kuala Tadu in Indonesia's Aceh province. The tsunami-ravaged community got assistance from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, when it helped survivors build more than 200 new houses, including this one.<br />
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  • Houses built over the water in Kuala Bubon, in Indonesia's Aceh province. The community of 118 houses was built by the ACT Alliance after the village's tsunami survivors refused to accept government plans to relocate them inland far from the sea. After the houses were built, the community then successfully fought a government plan to demolish part of the new village to make way for a new highway.
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  • Husna stands in Kuala Bubon, in Indonesia's Aceh province. She is a leader in the community of 118 houses, which was built by the ACT Alliance after the village's tsunami survivors refused to accept government plans to relocate them inland far from the sea. After the houses were built, the community then successfully fought a government plan to demolish part of the new village to make way for a new highway.
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  • Muhammadin plants a new crop of chilies on his farm in Kubang Gajah in Indonesia's Aceh province. The tsunami-ravaged community got help from Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, when it helped residents start a credit and loan cooperative. That allowed villagers to get their local economy moving quickly again, even as decisions about housing location lingered.
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  • Husna stands in the doorway of her home in Kuala Bubon, in Indonesia's Aceh province. She is a leader in the community of 118 houses, which was built by the ACT Alliance after the village's tsunami survivors refused to accept government plans to relocate them inland far from the sea. After the houses were built, the community then successfully fought a government plan to demolish part of the new village to make way for a new highway.
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  • A girl runs along a sidewalk in Kuala Bubon, in Indonesia's Aceh province. The community of 118 houses was built by the ACT Alliance after the village's tsunami survivors refused to accept government plans to relocate them inland far from the sea. After the houses were built, the community then successfully fought a government plan to demolish part of the new village to make way for a new highway.
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  • Ahman Yani walks with his 3-year old son Arabil in Kuala Bubon, in Indonesia's Aceh province. The community of 118 houses was built by the ACT Alliance after the village's tsunami survivors refused to accept government plans to relocate them inland far from the sea. After the houses were built, the community then successfully fought a government plan to demolish part of the new village to make way for a new highway.
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  • Two girls run along a sidewalk in Kuala Bubon, in Indonesia's Aceh province. The community of 118 houses was built by the ACT Alliance after the village's tsunami survivors refused to accept government plans to relocate them inland far from the sea. After the houses were built, the community then successfully fought a government plan to demolish part of the new village to make way for a new highway.
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  • Three girls walk along a sidewalk in Kuala Bubon, in Indonesia's Aceh province. The community of 118 houses was built by the ACT Alliance after the village's tsunami survivors refused to accept government plans to relocate them inland far from the sea. After the houses were built, the community then successfully fought a government plan to demolish part of the new village to make way for a new highway.
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  • This woman survived the devastating January 2010 Haitian earthquake and today lives with her young daughter in the Michicu camp for elderly and people living with disabilities, located in Cite Soleil, a poor section of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Some 320 people live in the camp, which receives support from Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • 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.
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  • A man in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life.
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  • A woman living in a "tent city" of homeless earthquake survivors in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The January 2010 earthquake ravaged the capital, killing some 300,000 people and leaving more than 1.3 million homeless.
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  • A young girl living in a "tent city" of homeless earthquake survivors in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, cries unhappily. The January 2010 earthquake ravaged the capital, killing some 300,000 people and leaving more than 1.3 million homeless.
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  • A young girl living in a "tent city" of homeless earthquake survivors in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The January 2010 earthquake ravaged the capital, killing some 300,000 people and leaving more than 1.3 million homeless.
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  • A woman returns home from the market in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life.
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  • A woman carries goods home from the market in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life.
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  • A girl walks along a path in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life.
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  • A woman in the window of her home in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life.
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  • A boy in class at the "House of Hope," a community-based educational training program in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for children performing domestic work (so-called 'restaveks'), sponsored by the Ecumenical Foundation for Peace and Justice (FOPJ).  Participants in the program also include former gang members and teenage mothers. Many rights activists consider the use of restaveks to be a modern form of slavery. They are usually children from extremely poor families who are sent away to work as domestic servants in wealthier homes. The children aren't paid for their work, but provided shelter and a sometimes meager meal supply. In the best case scenarios, families will send their restavek children to school. But restaveks often work long days performing a variety of household tasks for nothing more that a meal or two a day. Two-thirds of restaveks are girls, and they are extremely vulnerable to rape and sexual abuse from the families who house and control them. The life of a restavek child in Haiti often varies between bleak and hopeless, and many children never successfully leave their slave conditions. The "House of Hope," which is supported by Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, has begun to change that cycle of oppression for some restavek children.. (Fondation Oecumenique Pour la Paix et la Justice.)
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  • A teacher in a classroom at the "House of Hope," a community-based educational training program in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for children performing domestic work (so-called 'restaveks'), sponsored by the Ecumenical Foundation for Peace and Justice (FOPJ).  Participants in the program also include former gang members and teenage mothers. Many rights activists consider the use of restaveks to be a modern form of slavery. They are usually children from extremely poor families who are sent away to work as domestic servants in wealthier homes. The children aren't paid for their work, but provided shelter and a sometimes meager meal supply. In the best case scenarios, families will send their restavek children to school. But restaveks often work long days performing a variety of household tasks for nothing more that a meal or two a day. Two-thirds of restaveks are girls, and they are extremely vulnerable to rape and sexual abuse from the families who house and control them. The life of a restavek child in Haiti often varies between bleak and hopeless, and many children never successfully leave their slave conditions. The "House of Hope," which is supported by Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, has begun to change that cycle of oppression for some restavek children.. (Fondation Oecumenique Pour la Paix et la Justice.)
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  • A teacher helps a girl in class at the "House of Hope," a community-based educational training program in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for children performing domestic work (so-called 'restaveks'), sponsored by the Ecumenical Foundation for Peace and Justice (FOPJ).  Participants in the program also include former gang members and teenage mothers. Many rights activists consider the use of restaveks to be a modern form of slavery. They are usually children from extremely poor families who are sent away to work as domestic servants in wealthier homes. The children aren't paid for their work, but provided shelter and a sometimes meager meal supply. In the best case scenarios, families will send their restavek children to school. But restaveks often work long days performing a variety of household tasks for nothing more that a meal or two a day. Two-thirds of restaveks are girls, and they are extremely vulnerable to rape and sexual abuse from the families who house and control them. The life of a restavek child in Haiti often varies between bleak and hopeless, and many children never successfully leave their slave conditions. The "House of Hope," which is supported by Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, has begun to change that cycle of oppression for some restavek children.. (Fondation Oecumenique Pour la Paix et la Justice.)
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  • A boy in class at the "House of Hope," a community-based educational training program in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for children performing domestic work (so-called 'restaveks'), sponsored by the Ecumenical Foundation for Peace and Justice (FOPJ).  Participants in the program also include former gang members and teenage mothers. Many rights activists consider the use of restaveks to be a modern form of slavery. They are usually children from extremely poor families who are sent away to work as domestic servants in wealthier homes. The children aren't paid for their work, but provided shelter and a sometimes meager meal supply. In the best case scenarios, families will send their restavek children to school. But restaveks often work long days performing a variety of household tasks for nothing more that a meal or two a day. Two-thirds of restaveks are girls, and they are extremely vulnerable to rape and sexual abuse from the families who house and control them. The life of a restavek child in Haiti often varies between bleak and hopeless, and many children never successfully leave their slave conditions. The "House of Hope," which is supported by Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, has begun to change that cycle of oppression for some restavek children.. (Fondation Oecumenique Pour la Paix et la Justice.)
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  • A girl in class at the "House of Hope," a community-based educational training program in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for children performing domestic work (so-called 'restaveks'), sponsored by the Ecumenical Foundation for Peace and Justice (FOPJ).  Participants in the program also include former gang members and teenage mothers. Many rights activists consider the use of restaveks to be a modern form of slavery. They are usually children from extremely poor families who are sent away to work as domestic servants in wealthier homes. The children aren't paid for their work, but provided shelter and a sometimes meager meal supply. In the best case scenarios, families will send their restavek children to school. But restaveks often work long days performing a variety of household tasks for nothing more that a meal or two a day. Two-thirds of restaveks are girls, and they are extremely vulnerable to rape and sexual abuse from the families who house and control them. The life of a restavek child in Haiti often varies between bleak and hopeless, and many children never successfully leave their slave conditions. The "House of Hope," which is supported by Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, has begun to change that cycle of oppression for some restavek children.. (Fondation Oecumenique Pour la Paix et la Justice.)
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  • A girl participates in a dance program in the Bel Air neighborhood of Port au Prince, Haiti, almost one year after a devastating earthquake. The program is sponsored by Viva Rio, a Brazilian organization carrying out community organizing in Port au Prince with support from members of the ACT Alliance.
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  • A young girl living in a "tent city" of homeless earthquake survivors in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The January 2010 earthquake ravaged the capital, killing some 300,000 people and leaving more than 1.3 million homeless.
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  • A teacher and his primary class at the Notre Dame de Petits school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The school's building collapsed in the January 2010 earthquake, and while some classes are conducted in the ruins, other classes meet in large tents provided by International Orthodox Christian Charities.
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  • Students in class at the Notre Dame de Petits school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The school's building collapsed in the January 2010 earthquake, and while some classes are conducted in the ruins, other classes meet in large tents provided by International Orthodox Christian Charities.
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  • Father Jean-Chenier Dumais, a Russian Orthodox priest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, welcomes children to the Notre Dame de Petits school at the beginning of a school day. The school's building collapsed in the January 2010 earthquake, and classes are currently conducted in the large tents in the background, provided by International Orthodox Christian Charities.
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  • Father Jean-Chenier Dumais, a Russian Orthodox priest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, welcomes children to the Notre Dame de Petits school at the beginning of a school day. The school's building collapsed in the January 2010 earthquake, and classes are currently conducted in the large tents in the background, provided by International Orthodox Christian Charities.
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  • Ketia Pajeotle, 14, stands amid houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
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  • A girl washes dishes 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.
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  • A girl runs past houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
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  • Children run along a path in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
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  • Two girls walk along a street in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
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  • Children jump rope in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
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  • Children jump rope in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
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  • Children jump rope in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
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  • Some houses in a model resettlement village constructed by the Lutheran World Federation in Gressier, Haiti. The settlement houses 150 families who were left homeless by the 2010 earthquake, and represents an intentional effort to "build back better," creating a sustainable and democratic community.
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  • Asline ALbert hangs clothes to dry 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.
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  • Kathia Amy, a 17-year old in Grand-Goave, Haiti, continues living in a tent one year after the January 2010 earthquake that ravaged parts of the Caribbean nation. She is pictured here in front of her school, the College Les Freres Milord, which was rebuilt after the quake by members of the ACT Alliance, which has also provided a variety of services to residents of the homeless camp surrounding the school. Amy wants to continue her studies and become a nurse.
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  • "GoudouGoudou," the Kreyol word that Haitians have come to call the earthquake that ravaged parts of their country in in January 2010, is scrawled on the wall of a tent in a camp in Grand-Goave, Haiti, where families left homeless by the quake continue to live. The word was derived from the sound that many recall the quake producing as their houses moved and collapsed. The ACT Alliance has supported families in this camp with a variety of services, and has rebuilt a school beside the tent city.
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  • Kathia Amy, a 17-year old in Grand-Goave, Haiti, continues living in a tent one year after the January 2010 earthquake that ravaged parts of the Caribbean nation. She is pictured here in class at the College Les Freres Milord, a school that was rebuilt after the quake by members of the ACT Alliance, which has also provided a variety of services to residents of the homeless camp surrounding the school.
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  • Kathia Amy, a 17-year old Haitian, walks to school early in the morning in Grand-Goave, where hundreds of families remain homeless more than a year after the January 2010 earthquake that ravaged parts of the Caribbean nation. Amy lives in a tent and attends the College Les Freres Milord, a school that was rebuilt after the quake by members of the ACT Alliance, which has also provided a variety of services to residents of a homeless camp surrounding the school.
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  • Kathia Amy, a 17-year old Haitian, walks through a homeless camp to her school early in the morning in Grand-Goave, where hundreds of families remain homeless more than a year after the January 2010 earthquake that ravaged parts of the Caribbean nation. Amy lives in a tent and attends the College Les Freres Milord, a school that was rebuilt after the quake by members of the ACT Alliance, which has also provided a variety of services to residents of a homeless camp surrounding the school.
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  • Marie Yolande Saint Felix (right), a field worker for the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, hands out water treatment supplies and hygiene kits to in Grand-Goave, Haiti, to people who remain homeless more than one year after the January 2010 earthquake ravaged their country. The water treatment supplies are even more important given the epidemic of cholera which has affected the area since later 2010.
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  • Dalna Exalis, 6, runs through the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp, survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake, were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, thousands of homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students. Exalis is running between rows of transitional homes--houses designed to get quake survivors into homes quickly, yet which residents will be expected to modify and improve in coming years.
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  • Lorette Beauvoit sets out her wet laundry to dry on the ground around her tent. She is one of thousands of survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake who today lives in the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
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  • Lorette Beauvoit hangs clean laundry to dry on a clothesline in front of her tent. She is one of thousands of survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake who today lives in the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
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  • This woman is one of thousands of survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake who today lives in the Corail resettlement camp north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Residents of the camp were relocated to the remote location from overcrowded tent cities for the homeless in the nation's capital. Yet shortly after its establishment, homeless families from around the capital region moved to the area and began constructing their simple homes around the edges of the official camp, creating a complex set of questions for camp managers. The United Methodist Committee on Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance, has built schools in the camp and is providing school furniture, teacher training, and educational materials for students.
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  • A survivor of Haiti's devastating earthquake, Kesnel Resilia works on building a new house in Leogane, south of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. The houses here are being built with with assistance from the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, a member of the ACT Alliance. CRWRC is planning more than 1700 houses in the community, and had about half that number completed by the first anniversary of the January 21, 2010 quake. The houses are built on the foundations of the residents' former homes, and are transitional--designed to be improved by residents as they are able. CRWRC has also worked with community members on water and sanitation issues in response to the cholera outbreak, and is providing psycho-social support for residents as they rebuild their lives.
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  • Survivors of Haiti's devastating earthquake, two children play in the doorway of their family's new house in Leogane, south of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. The houses here were built with assistance from the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, a member of the ACT Alliance. CRWRC is planning more than 1700 houses in the community, and had about half that number completed by the first anniversary of the January 21, 2010 quake. The houses are built on the foundations of the residents' former homes, and are transitional--designed to be improved by residents as they are able. The houses have yet to receive their first coat of paint. CRWRC has also worked with community members on water and sanitation issues in response to the cholera outbreak, and is providing psycho-social support for residents as they rebuild their lives.
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  • A survivor of Haiti's devastating earthquake, this girls lives in a new house in Leogane, south of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. The houses here were built with assistance from the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, a member of the ACT Alliance. CRWRC is planning more than 1700 houses in the community, and had about half that number completed by the first anniversary of the January 21, 2010 quake. The houses are built on the foundations of the residents' former homes, and are transitional--designed to be improved by residents as they are able. The houses have yet to receive their first coat of paint. CRWRC has also worked with community members on water and sanitation issues in response to the cholera outbreak, and is providing psycho-social support for residents as they rebuild their lives.
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  • A survivor of Haiti's devastating earthquake, this girls lives in a new house in Leogane, south of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. The houses here were built with assistance from the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, a member of the ACT Alliance. CRWRC is planning more than 1700 houses in the community, and had about half that number completed by the first anniversary of the January 21, 2010 quake. The houses are built on the foundations of the residents' former homes, and are transitional--designed to be improved by residents as they are able. The houses have yet to receive their first coat of paint. CRWRC has also worked with community members on water and sanitation issues in response to the cholera outbreak, and is providing psycho-social support for residents as they rebuild their lives.
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  • A survivor of Haiti's devastating earthquake, Beatrice Jean Louis hangs laundry in front of her new house in Leogane, south of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. The houses here were built with assistance from the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, a member of the ACT Alliance. CRWRC is planning more than 1700 houses in the community, and had about half that number completed by the first anniversary of the January 21, 2010 quake. The houses are built on the foundations of the residents' former homes, and are transitional--designed to be improved by residents as they are able. The houses have yet to receive their first coat of paint. CRWRC has also worked with community members on water and sanitation issues in response to the cholera outbreak, and is providing psycho-social support for residents as they rebuild their lives.
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  • Clifford Blaise (left) is a psycho-social monitor for the Social Mission of the Haitian Church (MISSEH), which has helped 1200 people move out of the crowded Prophecie camp for survivors of the devastating January 2010 earthquake. Among them is Yvette Chery (right) seen here talking with Blaise in the narrow and dark hallway outside her one-room apartment in Port-au-Prince, which she abandoned after the quake. MISSEH has accompanied Chery and other families returning to their damaged former homes, helping them deal with fear that the earth will start trembling once again. "We helped them understand that they were better off at home than dealing with the constant problems in the camps,"  he says. "I am still afraid, though not every day. I'm trying to live with it,"  Chery says. Blaise leads the program' s hygiene emphasis, which has taken on new urgency with last year's cholera outbreak. "Our main message was ' Wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands. After using the toilet, wash your hands. After shaking hands, wash your hands. After cleaning the baby, wash your hands. It's pretty simple. And we have had very few cases of cholera," he says.  MISSEH's work is supported by Norwegian Church Aid and Church World Service, members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • Gina Morin lives in the Narret Camp for homeless quake survivors in Petionville, Haiti, where some 1000 quake survivors have lived for the last year. She will soon move in to a new home, however, along with her husband and six-year old daughter. Residents of the camp have been assisted by the camp manager, the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in moving out of the camp. Morin's new home, which she hopes to finish and move into at the beginning of February, was constructed by Caritas. Morin is a teacher in the camp's only school, which is housed in a tent provided by UNICEF. She has some 50 students of all ages. Morin lost a sister and three nieces during the disaster, and says she can still vividly hear the noise made by collapsing buildings during the quake. She is still afraid, but hopes moving into a new home will help her overcome her trauma.
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  • A woman pushes a wheel barrow of trash she has collected in the Petionville Camp at the edge of Port au Prince, Haiti. With some 50,000 residents packed onto what was once a golf course, it's the largest camp of hundreds of locales hosting more than a million people left homeless by the January 12, 2010 quake. Attending to camp hygiene has been even more importance since cholera began sickening--and killing--Haitians in late 2010.
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  • Gina Morin stands in front of her new home, downhill from the Narret Camp for homeless quake survivors in Petionville, Haiti. Residents of the camp have been assisted by the camp manager, the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, in moving out of the camp, which has hosted some 1000 people. Morin's new home, which she hopes to finish and move into at the beginning of February along with her husband and six-year old daughter, was constructed by Caritas. Morin is a teacher in the camp's only school, which is housed in a tent provided by UNICEF. She has some 50 students of all ages. Morin lost a sister and three nieces during the disaster, and says she can still vividly hear the noise made by collapsing buildings during the quake. She is still afraid, but hopes moving into a new home will help her overcome her trauma.
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  • A man breaks apart concrete of what was once the Italian Embassy in Port au Prince, Haiti. Destroyed by the January 12, 2010, earthquake, the building is now a source of rebar and other salvaged building materials for enterprising recyclers. The remains of the building sit in the middle of the Narret Camp, where some 1,000 homeless quake survivors have been assisted by the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • A woman scrubs out a cooking pot in front of her tent home in the Petionville Camp at the edge of Port au Prince, Haiti. With some 50,000 residents packed onto what was once a golf course, it's the largest camp of hundreds of locales hosting more than a million people left homeless by the January 12, 2010 quake.
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  • A boy cleans up trash in a gutter in the Petionville Camp at the edge of Port au Prince, Haiti. With some 50,000 residents packed onto what was once a golf course, it's the largest camp of hundreds of locales hosting more than a million people left homeless by the January 12, 2010 quake. Attending to camp hygiene has been even more importance since cholera began sickening--and killing--Haitians in late 2010.
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  • Selling shaved ice, a man navigates his cart through the largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people..
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  • A woman cleans a drainage canal in the largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people.
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  • Residents clean a drainage canal in the largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people.
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  • A family sits between tents in the largest temporary settlement of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people..
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  • Marie Yolande Saint Felix, a field worker for the Lutheran World Federation, helps assemble a large tent being erected for use as a school classroom in the remote Haitian village of Embouchure. The village's school, run by the Episcopal Church, was damaged in the January 12, 2010, earthquake, but classes have continued to take place in the damaged structure. Villagers are now tearing down the old school to build a new one, and will use the tent classroom during the construction period. The school construction in Embouchure is funded by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
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  • Men begin demolition of a quake-damaged school building in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. Villagers are now holding classes in a large tent while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid. From left, the men are Beoussico Delice, Justin Yvre, and Fortune Andre.
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  • Children study in a quake-damaged school building in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October villagers began holding classes in a large tent while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
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  • Children study in a quake-damaged school building in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October villagers began holding classes in a large tent while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
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  • A boy studies in a quake-damaged school building in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October villagers began holding classes in a large tent while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
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  • Marie Yolande Saint Felix (left) and Georgy Desrivieres (right), field workers for the Lutheran World Federation, work with villager Fortune Andre to assemble the framework of a tent school in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school in the village was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October 2010, villagers leveled a tent site and erected a large tent to be used for classrooms while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
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  • Louis Bienaise works to level a platform for erecting a tent school in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school in the village was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October 2010, villagers leveled a tent site and erected a large tent to be used for classrooms while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
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  • Licane Saintfort works to level a platform for erecting a tent school in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school in the village was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October 2010, villagers leveled a tent site and erected a large tent to be used for classrooms while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
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  • A woman washes laundry outside her shelter in a "tent city" of homeless earthquake survivors in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The January 2010 earthquake ravaged the capital, killing some 300,000 people and leaving more than 1.3 million homeless.
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  • A woman living in a "tent city" of homeless earthquake survivors in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The January 2010 earthquake ravaged the capital, killing some 300,000 people and leaving more than 1.3 million homeless.
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  • A boy living in a "tent city" of homeless earthquake survivors in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The January 2010 earthquake ravaged the capital, killing some 300,000 people and leaving more than 1.3 million homeless.
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  • A boy living in a "tent city" of homeless earthquake survivors in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The January 2010 earthquake ravaged the capital, killing some 300,000 people and leaving more than 1.3 million homeless.
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  • A boy living in a "tent city" of homeless earthquake survivors in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The January 2010 earthquake ravaged the capital, killing some 300,000 people and leaving more than 1.3 million homeless.
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  • Earthquake survivors in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince clean up rubble in a cash-for-work program.
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  • Benjamin Isier uses a hoe to prepare his field for planting high in the mountains near Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life. Haiti's denuded hillsides have left residents throughout the island nation more vulnerable to flooding and landslides.
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  • Lucas Atis works in a plant nursery in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation--which sponsors the nursery--has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life. Reforestation of the steep denuded hillsides in the area is a priority for the LWF program.
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  • A boy works in a farm field in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life. Behind him is a reforestation project sponsored by the LWF.
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  • Boys work weeding a field in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life.
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  • A woman and her daughter walk home from the market in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life.
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  • Women walk to the market in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life.
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