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  • A boy wraps himself in a sheet on a chilly morning in Riimenze, South Sudan.
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  • Emilie MacDonald makes a bed in an apartment in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She is furnishing the apartment of a refugee family about to arrive in the United States. MacDonald works for Church World Service, which resettles refugees in Pennsylvania and other locations in the United States. <br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • Mary Salman undergoes cervical cancer screening in the Shirati Hospital in Shirati, Tanzania.
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  • Young adults with intellectual disabilities craft pastries in a bakery of the Yum-kwang Presbyterian Church in Seoul, South Korea. The congregation has developed an extensive outreach ministry with persons with disabilities.
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  • A wounded rebel soldier is loaded aboard a ship in Misrata, the besieged Libyan city where civilians and rebel forces are surrounded on three sides by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. The ship will carry him and other wounded, along with hundreds of fleeing African migrants, to the eastern Libyan city of Banghazi.
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  • Mary Salman undergoes cervical cancer screening in the Shirati Hospital in Shirati, Tanzania.
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  • The hands of a woman undergoing cervical cancer screening in the Shirati Hospital in Shirati, Tanzania.
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  • Mary Salman undergoes cervical cancer screening in the Shirati Hospital in Shirati, Tanzania.
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  • A survivor of the devastating January 12 earthquake carries a salvaged piece of tin roofing through the streets of Port-au-Prince.
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  • A patient at the "House for the Dying", a hospice for AIDS patients and other terminally ill patients run by the Sisters of Charity in Port au Prince, Haiti.
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  • Young adults with intellectual disabilities craft pastries in a bakery of the Yum-kwang Presbyterian Church in Seoul, South Korea. The congregation has developed an extensive outreach ministry with persons with disabilities.
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  • 2 March 2017, Morija, Maseru district, Lesotho: A temporary third trimester mothers' waiting room has been put in place due to renovation of the ordinary facilities at Scott Hospital. Scott Hospital is run by the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa and is a founding member of the Christian Health Association of Lesotho. It is located in the village of Morija, and operates and supervises clinics in the Maseru District of Lesotho. Scott started out as a dispensary in 1864, and today offers comprehensive healthcare Mondays-Fridays, as well as pharmaceutical services around the clock. Lesotho suffers from high numbers in Tuberculosis in disesase and mortality, and so the hospital screens all patients for TB. The hospital observes among many patients what they describe as ”low health-seeking behaviour”, services are increasing and demand rising, but space and human resources are a challenge, as is funding. I key concern is one of infrastructure, where the original design of the hospital matches poorly with current needs, as departments and buildings are scattered, posing a challenge for security. Another challenge is to adapt donation structures, so as to be able to receive payments electronically. The hospital has one ambulance, which they describe as not enough, but what they have. Another challenge is that lack of funds affects maintenance of buildings and infrastructure, as the immediate care of patients take priority. PLEASE NOTE: This photo is not to be used in social media.
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  • A man scavenges sheets of charred tin roofing from the ashes of what was once the central market in Bor, a city in South Sudan's Jonglei State that has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent months between the country's military and anti-government rebels. After fighting broke out in mid December 2013, control of the town changed hands four times in a few weeks. ACT Alliance members were among the first humanitarian agencies to enter the city in January 2014, and are providing services to thousands of people who are cautiously returning home to the troubled city.
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  • Sister Nora McCarthy teaches bed making during a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the CHTI trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country. McCarthy, who is Irish, is a member of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Philadelphia.
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  • Sister Nora McCarthy teaches bed making during a class at the Catholic Health Training Institute (CHTI) in Wau, South Sudan. Run by Solidarity with South Sudan, an international network of Catholic organizations supporting the development of the world's newest country, the CHTI trains nurses and midwives from throughout the country. McCarthy, who is Irish, is a member of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Philadelphia.
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  • Rene de la Cruz puts a roof on his new house three months after he lost his old one to Typhoon Haiyan, which ravaged a wide swath of the Philippines in November 2013. He lives on Manipulon, a small island off the coast from the town of Estancia. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. Residents of this island have received some assistance from the ACT Alliance.
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  • Rene de la Cruz pounds nails as he puts a roof on his new house three months after he lost his old one to Typhoon Haiyan, which ravaged a wide swath of the Philippines in November 2013. He lives on Manipulon, a small island off the coast from the town of Estancia. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. Residents of this island have received some assistance from the ACT Alliance.
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  • Rene de la Cruz puts a roof on his new house three months after he lost his old one to Typhoon Haiyan, which ravaged a wide swath of the Philippines in November 2013. He lives on Manipulon, a small island off the coast from the town of Estancia. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. Residents of this island have received some assistance from the ACT Alliance.
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  • A man carries scavenged roofing material through the devastated center of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was ravaged by a January 12 earthquake.
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  • A man carries scavenged roofing material through the devastated center of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was ravaged by a January 12 earthquake.
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  • A camp for homeless families set up on a golf course in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was ravaged by a January 12 earthquake.
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  • A homeless earthquake survivor constructs a temporary shelter in an already crowded soccer stadium in the Santa Teresa area of Petionville, Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were left homeless by the January 12 quake.
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  • A homeless earthquake survivor constructs a temporary shelter in an already crowded soccer stadium in the Santa Teresa area of Petionville, Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were left homeless by the January 12 quake.
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  • A man in Dabonne, Haiti, builds a temporary shelter for his family, which was left homeless by a January 12 earthquake.
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  • A man nails on tin roofing provided by the ACT Alliance as he puts the finishing touches on a transitional shelter in the Tamang village of Goljung, in the Rasuwa District of Nepal near the country's border with Tibet.<br />
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In the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, the ACT Alliance helped people in this village with a variety of services, including blankets, shelter and livelihood assistance.
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  • A man nails on tin roofing provided by the ACT Alliance as he puts the finishing touches on a transitional shelter in the Tamang village of Goljung, in the Rasuwa District of Nepal near the country's border with Tibet.<br />
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In the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, the ACT Alliance helped people in this village with a variety of services, including blankets, shelter and livelihood assistance.
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  • A man nails on tin roofing provided by the ACT Alliance as he puts the finishing touches on a transitional shelter in the Tamang village of Goljung, in the Rasuwa District of Nepal near the country's border with Tibet.<br />
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In the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, the ACT Alliance helped people in this village with a variety of services, including blankets, shelter and livelihood assistance.
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  • Rebuilding supplies are carried by hand across a suspension bridge into Adamtar, an indigenous village in Nepal's Dhading District where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families to rebuild their homes and lives in the wake of the 2015 earthquake that ravaged much of Nepal.
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  • Rebuilding supplies are carried by hand across a suspension bridge into Adamtar, an indigenous village in Nepal's Dhading District where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families to rebuild their homes and lives in the wake of the 2015 earthquake that ravaged much of Nepal.
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  • Rebuilding supplies are carried by hand across a suspension bridge into Adamtar, an indigenous village in Nepal's Dhading District where Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping families to rebuild their homes and lives in the wake of the 2015 earthquake that ravaged much of Nepal.
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  • A Rohingya man who recently crossed the border from Myanmar takes down his temporary shelter as he finishes registration in the Kutupalong Refugee Camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. More than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled government-sanctioned violence in Myanmar for safety in this and other camps in Bangladesh.
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  • Two displaced children asleep on the floor inside a Catholic training center in Niamana, Mali. Several families displaced by the fighting in northern Mali took refuge in the center, and have received support from the ACT Alliance.
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  • Children lay in their beds for nap time in a day care center in Yerevan, Armenia, supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief..
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  • Children lay in their beds for nap time in a day care center in Yerevan, Armenia, supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief..
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  • Children in their beds for nap time in a day care center in Yerevan, Armenia, supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief..
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  • Their clothes neatly arranged on chairs, children lay in their beds for nap time in a day care center in Yerevan, Armenia, supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief..
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  • Girls in their beds for nap time in a day care center in Yerevan, Armenia, supported by the United Methodist Committee on Relief..
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  • Gabriela Iseni, 4, a Roma girl whose family was displaced by a severe cold spell, gets tucked in to bed by her mother, Juntena Iseni, in a temporary shelter established by the Red Cross in Smederevo, Serbia. Church World Service has provided this family and others with food and other emergency supplies.
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  • Rene de la Cruz puts a roof on his new house three months after he lost his old one to Typhoon Haiyan, which ravaged a wide swath of the Philippines in November 2013. He lives on Manipulon, a small island off the coast from the town of Estancia. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. Residents of this island have received some assistance from the ACT Alliance.
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  • Two girls look out from their family's "home" in a camp for homeless families set up on a golf course in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was ravaged by a January 12 earthquake.
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  • 1 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Lutheran World Federation delegate Sebastian Ignacio Muñoz Oyarzo from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile holds a sheet of paper on which key discussion points have been summarized, as representatives of various faiths gather in the Iglesia de Jesús (Church of Christ) of the Iglesia Evangélica Española (Evangelical Church of Spain) for an interfaith dialogue and prayer service on the eve of the United Nations climate conference (COP25) in Madrid, Spain.
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  • Two days after the bombing of the rally, a polling sheet showed the HDP candidate in the Turkish elections. HDP passed the 10% electoral threshold, the highest in the world, with 13.9% of the vote, breaking the AKP control of the government. President Erdogan was unable to form a government and called another election for Nov 1st.
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  • Runoff from an "arrastra" type mill. Crushed rock is washed away and some gold particles are trapped on a metal sheet covered in a mercury solution. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
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  • Runoff from an "arrastra" type mill. Crushed rock is washed away and some gold particles are trapped on a metal sheet covered in a mercury solution. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
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  • A miner checks the flow of waste from an "arrastra" type mill. Crushed rock is washed away and some gold particles are trapped on a metal sheet covered in a mercury solution. In artisanal gold mining in La Libertad, Chontales, Nicaragua, miners extract ore from open cast and underground mines, and crush and mill the ore to extract the gold with mercury.
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  • A record of rainfall in the villages across northing Nicaragua is kept as part of a project by the Nicaraguan Lutheran Church, ILFE, supported by ELCA. Here a record sheet shows how rainfall has been scarce and irregular, adding to data from the last few years recording patterns.
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  • A family walks along a path in Concepción Actelá, the boy carries a baby wrapped in a sheet  with a headband called a 'mecapal'.
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  • 16 November 2018, San José de León, Mutatá, Antioquia, Colombia: Community members note their attendance on a sheet following a workshop on peace and reconciliation, held as part of the project De la Guerra a la Paz, in San José de León. Following the 2016 peace treaty between FARC and the Colombian government, a group of ex-combatant families have purchased and now cultivate 36 hectares of land in the territory of San José de León, municipality of Mutatá in Antioquia, Colombia. A group of 27 families first purchased the lot of land in San José de León, moving in from nearby Córdoba to settle alongside the 50-or-so families of farmers already living in the area. Today, 50 ex-combatant families live in the emerging community, which hosts a small restaurant, various committees for community organization and development, and which cultivates the land through agriculture, poultry and fish farming. Though the community has come a long way, many challenges remain on the way towards peace and reconciliation. The two-year-old community, which does not yet have a name of its own, is located in the territory of San José de León in Urabá, northwest Colombia, a strategically important corridor for trade into Central America, with resulting drug trafficking and arms trade still keeping armed groups active in the area. Many ex-combatants face trauma and insecurity, and a lack of fulfilment by the Colombian government in transition of land ownership to FARC members makes the situation delicate. Through the project De la Guerra a la Paz (‘From War to Peace’), the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia accompanies three communities in the Antioquia region, offering support both to ex-combatants and to the communities they now live alongside, as they reintegrate into society. Supporting a total of more than 300 families, the project seeks to alleviate the risk of re-victimization, or relapse into violent conflict.
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  • A test sheet for coffee in the laboratory at RAOS. RAOS, Cooperativa Regional Mixta de Agricultores Orgánicos de la Sierra, is a Fairtrade-certified coffee producer based in Marcala, La Paz, Honduras.
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  • 1 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: "Cambio Climático y Esperanza" (Climate Change and Hope') reads the text, as Lutheran World Federation delegate Sebastian Ignacio Muñoz Oyarzo from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile holds a sheet of paper on which key discussion points have been summarized, as representatives of various faiths gather in the Iglesia de Jesús (Church of Christ) of the Iglesia Evangélica Española (Evangelical Church of Spain) for an interfaith dialogue and prayer service on the eve of the United Nations climate conference (COP25) in Madrid, Spain.
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  • Students from Isabella Thoburn College (behind the sheet) use puppets to educate rural Indian children about HIV and AIDS. Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow, India, has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Students from Isabella Thoburn College (behind the sheet) use puppets to educate rural Indian children about HIV and AIDS. Isabella Thoburn College in Lucknow, India, has long been supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • Mou Leu Chol covers her 2-year old son Yuel with a tattered mosquito net in Bor, a city in South Sudan's Jonglei State that has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent months between the country's military and anti-government rebels. After fighting broke out in mid December 2013, control of the town changed hands four times in a few weeks. ACT Alliance members were among the first humanitarian agencies to enter the city in January 2014, and are providing services to thousands of people who are cautiously returning home to the troubled city. Chol came to Bor in March 2014 to escape continued fighting in nearby Duk County. She and her husband assembled their new home out of the scraps of building materials they found here. She will soon replace her old mosquito net with a new one she received in a household package given to her by Dan Church Aid and the Lutheran World Federation, both members of the ACT Alliance. The package also contained plastic sheeting, cooking pots, a machete, mats, and other essential items.
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  • Packages of essential household items are stacked in a warehouse in Bor, a city in South Sudan's Jonglei State that has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent months between the country's military and anti-government rebels. After fighting broke out in mid December 2013, control of the town changed hands four times in a few weeks. ACT Alliance members were among the first humanitarian agencies to enter the city in January 2014, and are providing services to thousands of people who are cautiously returning home to the troubled city. These packages--containing bednets, plastic sheeting, cooking pots, mats and other essential items--were provided by Dan Church Aid for distribution by the Lutheran World Federation. Both organizations are members of the ACT Alliance. This warehouse is being used by LWF after its own warehouse was burned and looted during the fighting.
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  • Stephanie Fortaleza, 4, plays music by beating on sheets of rusty tin roofing that are piled up following the November 2013 passage of Typhoon Haiyan through her neighborhood in Ormoc, a city in the Philippines province of Leyte. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. Lutheran World Relief and other ACT Alliance members have been providing a variety of forms of assistance to survivors here, including an LWR-sponsored cash for work program that has allowed residents to recover more quickly.
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  • A Palestinian man carries sheets of twisted roofing blown off a pharmaceutical warehouse in the Jabalya refugee camp that was hit during February 9, 2011, airstrikes by U.S.-made Israeli war planes. The bombings, which the Israeli military claimed came in response to rocket attacks from inside Gaza, injured eight people..
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  • A man covers himself with plastic sheeting during a downpour in a camp for asylum seekers and migrants in Matamoros, Mexico.
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  • Women move plastic sheeting during a downpour in a camp for asylum seekers and migrants in Matamoros, Mexico.
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  • 1 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Key discussion points have been summarized on sheets of paper, as representatives of various faiths gather in the Iglesia de Jesús (Church of Christ) of the Iglesia Evangélica Española (Evangelical Church of Spain) for an interfaith dialogue and prayer service on the eve of the United Nations climate conference (COP25) in Madrid, Spain.
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  • 1 December 2019, Madrid, Spain: Lutheran World Federation delegates Erik Bohm from Church of Sweden (right) and Erika Rodning from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (left) hold sheets of paper on which key discussion points have been summarized, as representatives of various faiths gather in the Iglesia de Jesús (Church of Christ) of the Iglesia Evangélica Española (Evangelical Church of Spain) for an interfaith dialogue and prayer service on the eve of the United Nations climate conference (COP25) in Madrid, Spain.
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  • Anaju Tamang, 67, holds reeds he is going to cut and weave into a mat in the Tamang village of Goljung, in the Rasuwa District of Nepal near the country's border with Tibet.<br />
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In the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, the ACT Alliance helped people in this village with a variety of services, including blankets, shelter and livelihood assistance.<br />
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The traditional split-wood roofs of the village have been replaced with tin sheets in the wake of the quake.
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