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  • Instructor Ishamis Abu Mhasin helps students learn to spray warnish in a woodworking class in the Vocational Training Center in Gaza City, Gaza. The center is run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine.
    palestine-2015-jeffrey-gaza-137.jpg
  • Johnny Thomsen (left) and Fred Pavey, explosive ordnance disposal technicians, mark a Russian-built SA3 missile on June 15 at a former Libyan Air Force site outside Misrata, the besieged Libyan city where civilians and rebel forces are surrounded on three sides by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Several missiles here were damaged in a NATO air strike, and a team from the ACT Alliance, concerned about the safety of civilians traveling a nearby road, investigated the site and marked which items need to be safely removed. Thomsen is spray painting this missile for removal as it still contains its warhead. Thomsen and Pavey work with the humanitarian mine action program of DanChurchAid, which is a member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • Instructor Ishamis Abu Mhasin helps students learn to spray warnish in a woodworking class in the Vocational Training Center in Gaza City, Gaza. The center is run by the Department of Service for Palestinian Refugees of the Near East Council of Churches, a member of the ACT Alliance, and funded in part by the Pontifical Mission for Palestine.
    palestine-2015-jeffrey-gaza-136.jpg
  • A farmer sprays pesticide on a field of corn in rural Guatemala.
    guatemala-2009-jeffrey-ixcan-05.jpg
  • Samuel Sanon (left) uses a loudspeaker to educate residents of Cite Soleil, a poor neighborhood of Port au Prince, Haiti, about how to avoid cholera, which is epidemic in the earthquake-ravaged Haitian capital. Frantz Viard sprays the muddy street with a chlorine solution to kill the bacteria. Sanon and Viard are health brigade workers for Viva Rio, a Brazilian organization carrying out community organizing in Port au Prince with support from members of the ACT Alliance.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-293.jpg
  • A worker sprays organic fertilizer on plants on a demonstration farm in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. The farm is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A3...jpg
  • A worker sprays diluted bleach solution on the shoes of people entering a clinic in Beni, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has been hard hit by the Ebola outbreak that began in 2018. The clinic is supported by IMA World Health and the Programme de Promotion de Soins Santé Primaires. People entering the clinic must also wash their hands in diluted bleach solution. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
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  • A worker sprays diluted bleach solution on the shoes of people entering a clinic in Beni, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has been hard hit by the Ebola outbreak that began in 2018. The clinic is supported by IMA World Health and the Programme de Promotion de Soins Santé Primaires. People entering the clinic must also wash their hands in diluted bleach solution. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
    drc-2019-jeffrey-ima-ebola-1008-030.jpg
  • Akram Abudagga sprays water he collected in a rainwater harvesting system he installed at his home in Al Fukari, Gaza. He had a system before which he built to irrigate his small farm, but Israeli air strikes in 2014 destroyed that system and damaged his house. With help from Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe, a member of the ACT Alliance, he rebuilt the water system and has repaired some of the damage to his home. In the wake of the devastating 2014 war, ACT Alliance members are supporting health care, vocational training, rehabilitation of housing and water systems, psycho-social care, and other humanitarian actions throughout the besieged Palestinian territory.
    palestine-2015-jeffrey-gaza-065.jpg
  • A worker sprays diluted bleach solution on the shoes of people entering a clinic in Beni, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has been hard hit by the Ebola outbreak that began in 2018. The clinic is supported by IMA World Health and the Programme de Promotion de Soins Santé Primaires. People entering the clinic must also wash their hands in diluted bleach solution. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
    drc-2019-jeffrey-ima-ebola-1008-288.jpg
  • A worker sprays diluted bleach solution on the shoes of people entering a clinic in Beni, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has been hard hit by the Ebola outbreak that began in 2018. The clinic is supported by IMA World Health and the Programme de Promotion de Soins Santé Primaires. People entering the clinic must also wash their hands in diluted bleach solution. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
    drc-2019-jeffrey-ima-ebola-1008-285.jpg
  • A worker sprays diluted bleach solution on the shoes of people entering a clinic in Beni, a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has been hard hit by the Ebola outbreak that began in 2018. The clinic is supported by IMA World Health and the Programme de Promotion de Soins Santé Primaires. People entering the clinic must also wash their hands in diluted bleach solution. Image available for editorial use only. Fundraising use not allowed.
    drc-2019-jeffrey-ima-ebola-1008-031.jpg
  • 23 May 2022, Taganrog, Russia: Cleaning equipment placed by an icon in the Church of Saint Nicholas (Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate) in Taganrog. [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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  • 23 May 2022, Taganrog, Russia: Cleaning equipment placed by an icon in the Church of Saint Nicholas (Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate) in Taganrog. [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).]
    Russia-2022-Hillert-20220523_AH2_855...jpg
  • A sprinkler irrigates a farm field near Harrisburg, Oregon.
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  • Mehari Bahta, a recently arrived refugee, works as a dishwasher in a restaurant in Durham, North Carolina, where he was resettled with assistance from Church World Service.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • Stacey Outwater enjoys the water while participating in the yearly Tobacco Free Camp sponsored by the Nome Community Center. The camp takes place at a fishing camp near Council, Alaska, some 70 miles northeast of Nome.
    usa-2012-jeffrey-alaska-128.jpg
  • Fire fighters extinguish a fire in a car outside a Catholic mass in Port-au-Prince that marked the one-year anniversary of the January 12, 2010, earthquake that devastated Haiti. The car, which belongs to Father Allan Francois, was set afire by protestors upset about the government's management of the quake recovery. Held in the shadows of the ruins of the city's Catholic cathedral, the Mass was one of many special observances held throughout the Caribbean nation...
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-571.jpg
  • Vann Monthy, 18, waters a vegetable field in the Cambodian village of Talom.
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  • Vann Monthy, 18, waters a vegetable field in the Cambodian village of Talom.
    cambodia-2009-jeffrey-rural-161.jpg
  • Vann Monthy, 18, waters a vegetable field in the Cambodian village of Talom. Behind her, her brother Vann Piseu, 16, helps out.
    cambodia-2009-jeffrey-rural-158.jpg
  • Vann Monthy, 18, waters a vegetable field in the Cambodian village of Talom.
    cambodia-2009-jeffrey-rural-159.jpg
  • Vann Monthy, 18, waters a vegetable field in the Cambodian village of Talom.
    cambodia-2009-jeffrey-rural-157.jpg
  • Vann Monthy, 18, waters a vegetable field in the Cambodian village of Talom. Behind her, her brother Vann Piseu, 16, helps out.
    cambodia-2009-jeffrey-rural-156.jpg
  • Mu'az Abudagga, 6, waters his family's small farm with water collected in a rainwater harvesting system his father installed at their home in Al Fukari, Gaza. The family had built a system before, but Israeli air strikes in 2014 destroyed that system and damaged the family's house. With help from Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe, a member of the ACT Alliance, they rebuilt the water system and have repaired some of the damage to their home. In the wake of the devastating 2014 war, ACT Alliance members are supporting health care, vocational training, rehabilitation of housing and water systems, psycho-social care, and other humanitarian actions throughout the besieged Palestinian territory.<br />
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Parental consent obtained.
    palestine-2015-jeffrey-gaza-066.jpg
  • Johnny Thomsen, a Danish explosive ordnance disposal technician, marks a Russian-built SA3 missile on June 15 at a former Libyan Air Force site outside Misrata, the besieged Libyan city where civilians and rebel forces are surrounded on three sides by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Several missiles here were damaged in a NATO air strike, and a team from the ACT Alliance, concerned about the safety of civilians traveling a nearby road, investigated the site and marked which items need to be safely removed. Thomsen is marking this missile for removal as it still contains its warhead. Thomsen works with the humanitarian mine action program of DanChurchAid, which is a member of the ACT Alliance.
    libya-2011-jeffrey-war-132.jpg
  • Fred Pavey, a British explosive ordnance disposal technician, marks a Russian-built SA3 missile on June 15 at a former Libyan Air Force site outside Misrata, the besieged Libyan city where civilians and rebel forces are surrounded on three sides by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Several missiles on this site were damaged in a NATO air strike, and a team from the ACT Alliance, concerned about the safety of civilians traveling a nearby road, investigated the site and marked which items need to be safely removed. Pavey is marking this missile for removal as it still contains its warhead. Pavey works with the humanitarian mine action program of DanChurchAid, which is a member of the ACT Alliance.
    libya-2011-jeffrey-war-137.jpg
  • Johnny Thomsen, a Danish explosive ordnance disposal technician, marks a Russian-built SA3 missile on June 15 at a former Libyan Air Force site outside Misrata, the besieged Libyan city where civilians and rebel forces are surrounded on three sides by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Several missiles here were damaged in a NATO air strike, and a team from the ACT Alliance, concerned about the safety of civilians traveling a nearby road, investigated the site and marked which items need to be safely removed. Thomsen is marking this missile for removal as it still contains its warhead. Thomsen works with the humanitarian mine action program of DanChurchAid, which is a member of the ACT Alliance.
    libya-2011-jeffrey-war-135.jpg
  • Johnny Thomsen, a Danish explosive ordnance disposal technician, marks a portion of a Russian-built SA3 missile on June 15 at a former Libyan Air Force site outside Misrata, the besieged Libyan city where civilians and rebel forces are surrounded on three sides by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Several missiles here were damaged in a NATO air strike, and a team from the ACT Alliance, concerned about the safety of civilians traveling a nearby road, investigated the site and marked which items need to be safely removed. Thomsen is marking this booster element of the missile as not posing a threat. Thomsen works with the humanitarian mine action program of DanChurchAid, which is a member of the ACT Alliance.
    libya-2011-jeffrey-war-133.jpg
  • 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.
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  • 20 April 2019, Jerusalem: Father Bernard sprinkles water over the congregants during Holy Saturday service at Saint James' Church in Beit Hanina, Jerusalem.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20190420_AH1_885...jpg
  • Fire fighters extinguish a fire in a car outside a Catholic mass in Port-au-Prince that marked the one-year anniversary of the January 12, 2010, earthquake that devastated Haiti. The car, which belonged to Father Allan Francois, was set afire by protestors upset about the government's management of the quake recovery. Held in the shadows of the ruins of the city's Catholic cathedral, the Mass was one of many special observances held throughout the Caribbean nation...
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-561.jpg
  • Vann Monthy, 18, waters a vegetable field in the Cambodian village of Talom.
    cambodia-2009-jeffrey-rural-165.jpg
  • Bissan Abudagga, 14, waters her family's small farm with water collected in a rainwater harvesting system her father installed at their home in Al Fukari, Gaza. The family had built a system before, but Israeli air strikes in 2014 destroyed that system and damaged the family's house. With help from Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe, a member of the ACT Alliance, they rebuilt the water system and have repaired some of the damage to their home. In the wake of the devastating 2014 war, ACT Alliance members are supporting health care, vocational training, rehabilitation of housing and water systems, psycho-social care, and other humanitarian actions throughout the besieged Palestinian territory.
    palestine-2015-jeffrey-gaza-067.jpg
  • Johnny Thomsen, a Danish explosive ordnance disposal technician, marks a Russian-built SA3 missile on June 15 at a former Libyan Air Force site outside Misrata, the besieged Libyan city where civilians and rebel forces are surrounded on three sides by forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Several missiles here were damaged in a NATO air strike, and a team from the ACT Alliance, concerned about the safety of civilians traveling a nearby road, investigated the site and marked which items need to be safely removed. Thomsen is marking this missile for removal as it still contains its warhead. Thomsen works with the humanitarian mine action program of DanChurchAid, which is a member of the ACT Alliance.
    libya-2011-jeffrey-war-131.jpg
  • Gabriel Rodriguez, left, works on a conventional coffee plot with the use of chemical pesticides and fertilisers. These are strictly limited by Fairtrade agreements to selected legal agrochemicals and they are obliged to use full protective clothing.
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  • a man spraypainting graffiti on the South Bank, London
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  • Children play in the spray of an overflowing water tank in the Dadaab refugee camp in northwestern Kenya. Tens of thousands of refugees have fled drought-stricken Somalia in recent weeks, swelling what was already the world's largest refugee settlement.
    kenya-2011-jeffrey-dadaab-137.jpg
  • Children play in the spray of an overflowing water tank in the Dadaab refugee camp in northwestern Kenya. Tens of thousands of refugees have fled drought-stricken Somalia in recent weeks, swelling what was already the world's largest refugee settlement.
    kenya-2011-jeffrey-dadaab-138.jpg
  • Children play in the spray of an overflowing water tank in the Dadaab refugee camp in northwestern Kenya. Fleeing violence and drought, hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees have made Dadaab the largest refugee settlement in the world.
    kenya-2011-jeffrey-dadaab-136.jpg
  • At the peak of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, the Nongo Ebola treatment centre had so many patients arriving at its gates that people were left to die on the gravel outside. <br />
“One night, 28 people died here. I still have nightmares, I saw too many dead people,” said Dr Mohammed Keita, manager of the centre where he was in charge of 250 employees.  <br />
The former Ebola treatment centre appears abandoned. Boot stands and shelves once filled with protective gear and chlorine spray backpacks lie empty.  <br />
Keita tells how one night a pregnant woman came in to the centre. She was already bleeding and very ill. It was too late to save her. She gave birth to a baby girl before she died. <br />
“That little baby was blessed by God,” he said, pointing to a photo of the child taped to the wall where patient records and lists of staff mark the wall. <br />
She tested positive for Ebola and we were prepared to lose her as well. Then, a few days later, she tested negative for the disease. We all looked after her here, naming her Nubia after one of the health workers who worked at the centre.<br />
Since the Ebola outbreak ended, the treatment centre is now caring for people with other infectious diseases including measles, yellow fever and other diseases with potential to cause epidemics.
    Guinea_Hawkey_Ebola_WHO_20170503_422.jpg
  • A box with child-sized body bags at the Nongo Ebola Treatment Centre, Conakry, Guinea. <br />
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At the peak of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, the Nongo Ebola treatment centre had so many patients arriving at its gates that people were left to die on the gravel outside. <br />
“One night, 28 people died here. I still have nightmares, I saw too many dead people,” said Dr Mohammed Keita, manager of the centre where he was in charge of 250 employees.  <br />
The former Ebola treatment centre appears abandoned. Boot stands and shelves once filled with protective gear and chlorine spray backpacks lie empty.  <br />
<br />
Keita tells how one night a pregnant woman came in to the centre. She was already bleeding and very ill. It was too late to save her. She gave birth to a baby girl before she died. <br />
“That little baby was blessed by God,” he said, pointing to a photo of the child taped to the wall where patient records and lists of staff mark the wall. <br />
<br />
She tested positive for Ebola and we were prepared to lose her as well. Then, a few days later, she tested negative for the disease. We all looked after her here, naming her Nubia after one of the health workers who worked at the centre.<br />
<br />
Since the Ebola outbreak ended, the treatment centre is now caring for people with other infectious diseases including measles, yellow fever and other diseases with potential to cause epidemics.
    Guinea_Hawkey_Ebola_WHO_20170503_384.jpg
  • At the peak of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, the Nongo Ebola treatment centre had so many patients arriving at its gates that people were left to die on the gravel outside. <br />
“One night, 28 people died here. I still have nightmares, I saw too many dead people,” said Dr Mohammed Keita, manager of the centre where he was in charge of 250 employees.  <br />
The former Ebola treatment centre appears abandoned. Boot stands and shelves once filled with protective gear and chlorine spray backpacks lie empty.  <br />
Keita tells how one night a pregnant woman came in to the centre. She was already bleeding and very ill. It was too late to save her. She gave birth to a baby girl before she died. <br />
<br />
“That little baby was blessed by God,” he said, pointing to a photo of the child taped to the wall where patient records and lists of staff mark the wall. <br />
<br />
She tested positive for Ebola and we were prepared to lose her as well. Then, a few days later, she tested negative for the disease. We all looked after her here, naming her Nubia after one of the health workers who worked at the centre.<br />
Since the Ebola outbreak ended, the treatment centre is now caring for people with other infectious diseases including measles, yellow fever and other diseases with potential to cause epidemics.
    Guinea_Hawkey_Ebola_WHO_20170503_376.jpg
  • Workers spray rocks along the shoreline in Botongon, a neighborhood of Estancia, Philippines, in an effort to remove oil that spilled there when Typhoon Haiyan swept through the area in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. Most residents who lived along the affected coastline remain camped in temporary shelters elsewhere, despite government efforts to get many to return. The ACT Alliance is accompanying them as they struggle to survive.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-045.jpg
  • Paulo da Silva Bezerra, 56, has watched his small farm in the village of Alive, outside Santarem, Brazil, quickly be surrounded by soy plantations. Soy cultivation is rapidly expanding throughout Brazil. Most of it is shipped to China. Da Silva complains that spray from the soy fields have damaged the fruit trees and other crops on his farm.
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  • Paulo da Silva Bezerra, 56, checks a tree on his small farm in the village of Alive, outside Santarem, Brazil. His farm has quickly been surrounded by soy plantations, and da Silva complains that spray from the soy fields have damaged the fruit trees and other crops on his farm.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-santarem-T460.jpg
  • A famer sprays young cabbage plants in Guacoca, Olancho, Honduras.<br />
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Julio Durón, pastor of the Reformed Church says "We've been losing a lot with climate change. We've repeatedly lost crops, too much rain, not enough rain, no rain at all, rain at the wrong time, terrible heat, storms. With Diaconia we've been able to restore some production with technical support and with irrigation. We thank God and World Renew, withouth tat support we'd be hungry in this part of Honduras, in Guacoca. already a lot of people have left here, hundreds of young people have migrated from here, and they go knowing the risks, and a lot of them have terrible experiences on the journey, some don't make it, and some don't even make it back to Honduras."
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  • A government vehicle sprays passers by with muddy water in La Lima, Honduras.
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  • Luong Hoai Thuong does her homework. She was born without her left hand, a birth defect caused by Agent Orange remaining from the U.S. war against Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, US forces sprayed Agent Orange over forests and farmland in an attempt to deprive Viet Cong guerrillas of cover and food. The dioxin compound used in the defoliant is a long-acting toxin that can be passed down genetically, so it is still having an impact forty years on. The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that some 150,000 Vietnamese children are disabled owing to their parents' exposure to the dioxin. Symptoms range from diabetes and heart disease to physical and learning disabilities.
    vietnam-2007-jeffrey-21.jpg
  • Luong Hoai Thuong does her homework. She was born without her left hand, a birth defect caused by Agent Orange remaining from the U.S. war against Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, US forces sprayed Agent Orange over forests and farmland in an attempt to deprive Viet Cong guerrillas of cover and food. The dioxin compound used in the defoliant is a long-acting toxin that can be passed down genetically, so it is still having an impact forty years on. The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that some 150,000 Vietnamese children are disabled owing to their parents' exposure to the dioxin. Symptoms range from diabetes and heart disease to physical and learning disabilities.
    vietnam-2007-jeffrey-17.jpg
  • Luong Hoai Thuong was born without her left hand, a birth defect caused by Agent Orange remaining from the U.S. war against Vietnam. Here she plays "jacks" at her home in Dong Son, Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, US forces sprayed Agent Orange over forests and farmland in an attempt to deprive Viet Cong guerrillas of cover and food. The dioxin compound used in the defoliant is a long-acting toxin that can be passed down genetically, so it is still having an impact forty years on. The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that some 150,000 Vietnamese children are disabled owing to their parents' exposure to the dioxin. Symptoms range from diabetes and heart disease to physical and learning disabilities.
    vietnam-2007-jeffrey-15.jpg
  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-26.jpg
  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-22.jpg
  • Maria Dominguez Jacobo, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-21.jpg
  • Mona Ahmed, a refugee from the Darfur region of Sudan, sprays cologne on her son Ahmed, 4, as she finishes getting him dressed for school while her daughter Dana, 7, watches television in the family's crowded apartment in Cairo, Egypt. She and her husband have both taken adult education classes provided by St. Andrew's Refugee Services, which is supported by Church World Service.
    egypt-2013-jeffrey-refugees-153.jpg
  • In the muddy aftermath of hurricanes Eta and Iota, a garage door has the word "DIOS" (God) sprayed on it in La Planeta, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.<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_304.jpg
  • Luong Hoai Thuong does her homework. She was born without her left hand, a birth defect caused by Agent Orange remaining from the U.S. war against Vietnam. Agent Orange was a herbicide that the U.S. military used to defoliate vast stretches of Vietnam and Laos during the 1960s and early 1970s, so the Communist forces would have no place to hide. The defoliant is known to cause a myriad of birth defects in the children of those exposed. As much as 18 million gallons of Agent Orange were sprayed around Vietnam, according to a study by the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of the U.S. Congress. The Vietnamese government estimates that as many as 400,000 Vietnamese have died from illnesses related to exposure to dioxin, such as cancer. It also claims that up to 500,000 children have birth defects, such as spina bifida, because their parents were exposed.
    vietnam-2007-jeffrey-22.jpg
  • Luong Hoai Thuong does her homework. She was born without her left hand, a birth defect caused by Agent Orange remaining from the U.S. war against Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, US forces sprayed Agent Orange over forests and farmland in an attempt to deprive Viet Cong guerrillas of cover and food. The dioxin compound used in the defoliant is a long-acting toxin that can be passed down genetically, so it is still having an impact forty years on. The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that some 150,000 Vietnamese children are disabled owing to their parents' exposure to the dioxin. Symptoms range from diabetes and heart disease to physical and learning disabilities.
    vietnam-2007-jeffrey-20.jpg
  • Luong Hoai Thuong does her homework. She was born without her left hand, a birth defect caused by Agent Orange remaining from the U.S. war against Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, US forces sprayed Agent Orange over forests and farmland in an attempt to deprive Viet Cong guerrillas of cover and food. The dioxin compound used in the defoliant is a long-acting toxin that can be passed down genetically, so it is still having an impact forty years on. The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that some 150,000 Vietnamese children are disabled owing to their parents' exposure to the dioxin. Symptoms range from diabetes and heart disease to physical and learning disabilities.
    vietnam-2007-jeffrey-19.jpg
  • Luong Hoai Thuong does her homework. She was born without her left hand, a birth defect caused by Agent Orange remaining from the U.S. war against Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, US forces sprayed Agent Orange over forests and farmland in an attempt to deprive Viet Cong guerrillas of cover and food. The dioxin compound used in the defoliant is a long-acting toxin that can be passed down genetically, so it is still having an impact forty years on. The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that some 150,000 Vietnamese children are disabled owing to their parents' exposure to the dioxin. Symptoms range from diabetes and heart disease to physical and learning disabilities.
    vietnam-2007-jeffrey-18.jpg
  • Luong Hoai Thuong was born without her left hand, a birth defect caused by Agent Orange remaining from the U.S. war against Vietnam. Here she plays "jacks" at her home in Dong Son, Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, US forces sprayed Agent Orange over forests and farmland in an attempt to deprive Viet Cong guerrillas of cover and food. The dioxin compound used in the defoliant is a long-acting toxin that can be passed down genetically, so it is still having an impact forty years on. The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that some 150,000 Vietnamese children are disabled owing to their parents' exposure to the dioxin. Symptoms range from diabetes and heart disease to physical and learning disabilities.
    vietnam-2007-jeffrey-16.jpg
  • Luong Hoai Thuong was born without her left hand, a birth defect caused by Agent Orange remaining from the U.S. war against Vietnam. Here she plays "jacks" at her home in Dong Son, Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, US forces sprayed Agent Orange over forests and farmland in an attempt to deprive Viet Cong guerrillas of cover and food. The dioxin compound used in the defoliant is a long-acting toxin that can be passed down genetically, so it is still having an impact forty years on. The Vietnam Red Cross estimates that some 150,000 Vietnamese children are disabled owing to their parents' exposure to the dioxin. Symptoms range from diabetes and heart disease to physical and learning disabilities.
    vietnam-2007-jeffrey-14.jpg
  • A worker sprays rocks along the shoreline in Botongon, a neighborhood of Estancia, Philippines, in an effort to remove oil that spilled there when Typhoon Haiyan swept through the area in November 2013. The storm was known locally as Yolanda. Most residents who lived along the affected coastline remain camped in temporary shelters elsewhere, despite government efforts to get many to return. The ACT Alliance is accompanying them as they struggle to survive.
    philippines-2014-jeffrey-typhoon-046.jpg
  • Carmen Elvira Tay, a 9-year old Kaqchikel Maya girl, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-30.jpg
  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-29.jpg
  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-coffee-27.jpg
  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • Rosa Elvira Jacobo, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • Rosa Elvira Jacobo, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • Silvia Cojon, a 11-year old Kakchiquel Maya girl, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • Juan Lopez Balan, a Kaqchikel Maya coffee farmer, examines diseased coffee berries affected by coffee rust in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals in an attempt to control the fungus, but these berries, which turned yellow rather than red, demonstrate that the fungus continues to wreak havoc.
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  • Juan Lopez Balan, a Kaqchikel Maya coffee farmer, displays a leaf that has been affected by coffee rust in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals in an attempt to control the fungus.
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  • Carmen Elvira Tay, a 9-year old Kaqchikel Maya girl, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • Juan Lopez Balan, a Kaqchikel Maya coffee farmer, displays a leaf that has been affected by coffee rust in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals in an attempt to control the fungus.
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  • Carmen Elvira Tay, a 9-year old Kaqchikel Maya girl, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • Carmen Elvira Tay, a 9-year old Kaqchikel Maya girl, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • A Kakchiquel Maya woman picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • A Kakchiquel Maya woman picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • A Kakchiquel Maya woman picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • A Kakchiquel Maya woman picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • Maria Dominguez Jacobo, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • Maria Dominguez Jacobo, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • Young coffee plants are sprayed by coop worker Jorge Fuentes using organic fertilizer on a Flor del Pino coffee plantation. Flor del Pino was supported to begin organic fertilizer production by Faritrade Finland.
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  • Luis López Traña, Los Chilamates, El Gigante. “In the last couple of years, we’ve planted fruit trees, bananas and plantains, we’ve learned to make reservoirs to store rain water, we’ve learned to make organic compost for fertiliser, and we’ve learned about foliar sprays, that’s how to fertilise a plant by spraying the leaves, we’ve had quite a few workshops, and it helps us to use what we have on the farm, to economise, to save money, for example we can make insect repellents, to prevent plant disease, we can control disease, we’ve learned how to do that. That’s why I think this program is excellent. We are looking for local strategies, to resolve our problems, confront the problems we’re getting from climate change across the country. We’ve already had benefits from this project and we want to carry on, we are enthusiastic about it”.
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  • The drill for destroying the Ebola virus where medical staff come in contact with confirmed cases is strict routine, one small mistake and the infection can be passed on. Staff in PPE, are often close to being overcome by the heat and dehydration, and sometimes need to be shouted instructions like "raise your head up" as each part of the drill is gone through, a series of specific movements as they are sprayed with a bleach solution and each part of the protective clothing is peeled off in the right order and in the right direction, and put straight in the incineration bucket, even the ground where they stand is considered contaminated and has to be covered in bleach. Eventually, a very grateful and completely sweat-sodden worker emerges from inside.
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  • 14 April 2019, Jerusalem: Palm Sunday service at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the Old City of Jerusalem. Here, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, titular Archbishop of Verbe and Apostolic Administrator of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa sprays incense.
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  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • Imelda Balan, a Kakchiquel Maya woman, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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  • Carmen Elvira Tay, a 9-year old Kaqchikel Maya girl, picks ripe coffee beans in San Martin Jilotepeque, Guatemala. Coffee rust, a terrible plant fungus, has affected coffee farms throughout the region. This farm used heavy spraying of chemicals to control the fungus.
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