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  • 17 March 2022, Siret, Romania: A man stirs a large pot of soup at the Vama Siret border crossing, Romania. The Vama Siret border crossing connects northeast Romania with Ukraine. Located north of Siret and further in the south the city of Suceava, the crossing connects Romania with the Ukrainian village of Terebleche and further north the city of Chernivtsi. Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian military starting on 24 February 2022, close to half a million refugees have fled across the Ukrainian border into Romania. In the past 24 hours, government figures indicate more than 50,000 people have crossed the border in search of refuge, an estimated 20 percent of whom are expected to stay in Romania, rather than transit into other European countries. [Image captured on assignment for the World Council of Churches, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the WCC’s work, with credit to Albin Hillert/WCC upon publication.]
    Romania-2022-Hillert-20220317_AH1_54...jpg
  • A woman stirs food cooking in a pot over a wood fire at her home in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-B4...jpg
  • A girl stirs a pot of food she cooks over a fire in a camp for over 5,000 internally displaced persons in an Episcopal Church compound in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced by violence early in 2017, after a larger number took refuge in other church sites when widespread armed conflict engulfed Wau in June 2016.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-wau-ecsidps...JPG
  • In a community kitchen in Minyara, a village in the Akkar district of northern Lebanon, Zena Aboud stirs the soup she and other women are preparing for Syrian refugees living in a nearby informal settlement. Lebanon hosts some 1.5 million refugees from Syria, yet allows no large camps to be established. So refugees have moved into poor neighborhoods or established small informal settlements in border areas. International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance, provides a variety of assistance to families in this settlement, including support for the community kitchen.
    lebanon-2015-jeffrey-refugees-079.jpg
  • Ghaichatou Dicko stirs porridge she and other women are preparing for children at a school in Timbuktu, a city in northern Mali which was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013. During the jihadi occupation, schools were first closed but then allowed to reopen only if boys and girls were strictly separated. The ACT Alliance has provided this group of women with cereal grains, oil and salt to help them provide nutritious food for the children.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-146.jpg
  • Jeya cooks food in front of her home in the rural village of Irula in southern India's state of Tamil Nadu.
    india-2010-jeffrey-rural-101.jpg
  • Achil Ariik Mayuen lives in Manangui, South Sudan, where a camp for internally displaced families took shape after fighting broke out in the country in December 2013. Because the ACT Alliance and other agencies are providing the displaced families as well as the host community affected by their presence with a variety of support, she now has clean water close at hand and a school for her children.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-warrap31901...JPG
  • A girl cooks beans that her family received from the ACT Alliance on April 7, 2017, in Rumading, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where more than 5,000 people, displaced from their homes by drought and conflict, remain in limbo. In early 2017, they set out walking for Sudan, seeking better conditions, but were stopped from crossing the border. They remained camped out under the trees at Rumading, eating wild leaves as the rainy season approached.<br />
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In early April, Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, began drilling a well in the informal settlement and distributed sorghum, beans and cooking oil to the most vulnerable families. The ACT Alliance is carrying out the emergency assistance in coordination with government officials and the local Catholic parish.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-A1227.JPG
  • Nidier Atak cooks wild leaves in Rumading, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where more than 5,000 people, displaced by drought and conflict, remain in limbo. Atak and her five children left their home in Wanalel in January 2017 after successive crop failures left them with no other options. They set out walking for Sudan, seeking better conditions, but stopped at Rumading when they met others who had been violently turned back at the border. So they remain camped out under trees, eating wild leaves as the rainy season approaches. Her husband had left home looking for work months earlier, and she doesn't know where he is.<br />
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In early April, Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, began drilling a well in the informal settlement and distributed sorghum, beans and cooking oil to the most vulnerable families. It is carrying out the emergency assistance in coordination with government officials and the local Catholic parish.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-A0655.JPG
  • Nidier Atak cooks wild leaves in Rumading, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where more than 5,000 people, displaced by drought and conflict, remain in limbo. Atak and her five children left their home in Wanalel in January 2017 after successive crop failures left them with no other options. They set out walking for Sudan, seeking better conditions, but stopped at Rumading when they met others who had been violently turned back at the border. So they remain camped out under trees, eating wild leaves as the rainy season approaches. Her husband had left home looking for work months earlier, and she doesn't know where he is.<br />
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In early April, Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, began drilling a well in the informal settlement and distributed sorghum, beans and cooking oil to the most vulnerable families. It is carrying out the emergency assistance in coordination with government officials and the local Catholic parish.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-A0635.JPG
  • Women prepare food for the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland. Children who come to the school eat twice a day, often the only food they get.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-K869.JPG
  • Seven-year old Abu Nyal cooks over a fire in a camp for more than 5,000 internally displaced persons in an Episcopal Church compound in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced by violence early in 2017, after a larger number took refuge in other church sites when widespread armed conflict engulfed Wau in June 2016.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-wau-ecsidps...JPG
  • A woman cooks in the Yusuf Batil refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-refugees-ma...jpg
  • A woman cooks in the Yusuf Batil refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
    south-sudan-2012-jeffrey-refugees-ma...jpg
  • Juani Martinez cooks food for Cuban immigrants in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo, and is cooking in the city's Divino Salvador Methodist Church. <br />
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Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border.
    mexico-2017-jeffrey-nuevo-laredo-174.JPG
  • A woman cooks in front of her home in the Haitian village of Vaudreuil. She used a small loan to buy what she needed to start the business, in which she sells cooked food to her neighbors who have money to spend.
    haiti-2009-jeffrey-184.jpg
  • Joyce Dzongololo cooks sorghum porridge for breakfast in Chidyamanga, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-021.jpg
  • Hadia Idriss prepares food for the Catholic school in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church sponsors schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
    sudan-2018-jeffrey-nuba-E1018.jpg
  • Inside her hut, Fatna cooks a meal for her family while cradling her smallest child in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur.
    sudan-2007-jeffrey-darfur-039.jpg
  • Mary Ropan cooks food for retreat participants at the Good Shepherd Peace Center in Kit, South Sudan. The center is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kit-B19.JPG
  • A worker at the Loreto schools in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The secondary school educates girls from throughout Africa's newest country, and the primary school provides education to children from neighboring villages. Workers like this woman help insure the hundreds of students and staff are well fed.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-C166.jpg
  • A worker prepares food at the Loreto Primary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. Workers like this woman help insure the hundreds of students and staff are well fed.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-B147.jpg
  • A Toposa woman prepares food in Karukochom, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <br />
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The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, centered in Kuron and including this village, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-kuron-B11.JPG
  • A young woman prepares a meal for her family in Santa Paula, a village in northwestern Nicaragua.
    nicaragua-2009-jeffrey-31.jpg
  • Jeya cooks food in front of her home in the rural village of Irula in southern India's state of Tamil Nadu.
    india-2010-jeffrey-rural-102.jpg
  • Zaitun mixes the ingredients as she bakes pastries in her home in Banda Aceh, on Indonesia's Sumatra Island. The family lost their house and belongings in the 2004 tsunami. The government provided them with a new house. Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, loaned Zaitun and other women in the neighborhood the money they needed to purchase new equipment and ingredients to restart their businesses. The women repaid their loans to a revolving fund that they jointly manage. Zaitun has used the profits from her pastry business to keep her four children in school.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-103.jpg
  • Zaitun and her daughter Nizria bake pastries in their home in Banda Aceh, on Indonesia's Sumatra Island. The family lost their house and belongings in the 2004 tsunami. The government provided them with a new house. Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, loaned the women in the neighborhood the money they needed to purchase new equipment and ingredients to restart their businesses. The women repaid their loans to a revolving fund that they jointly manage. Zaitun has used the profits from her pastry business to keep her four children in school. Nizria recently graduated from a local university with a degree in economics, but while she's looking for employment she assists her mother with the pastry making.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-102.jpg
  • A woman cooking lunch for students in a school in Yei, Southern Sudan, sponsored by the United Methodist Church. NOTE: In July 2011 Southern Sudan became the independent country of South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2010-jeffrey-yei-X07.jpg
  • When South Sudan's civil war spread to Malakal in late 2013, Alice Sura escaped from the fighting by taking refuge inside the United Nations base there with eight children--two of her own and six belonging to her relatives. Two days later, she was evacuated to Juba, and then came to Mundri, where she was born. She and the eight children have survived thanks to the hospitality of her relatives and food provided by the Mundri Relief and Development Association, which is supported by the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund. Here Sura, who is 19, prepares food over a fire for herself and her children.
    south-sudan-2014-jeffrey-mundri-047.jpg
  • When South Sudan's civil war spread to Malakal in late 2013, Alice Sura escaped from the fighting by taking refuge inside the United Nations base there with eight children--two of her own and six belonging to her relatives. Two days later, she was evacuated to Juba, and then came to Mundri, where she was born. She and the eight children have survived thanks to the hospitality of her relatives and food provided by the Mundri Relief and Development Association, which is supported by the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund. Here Sura, who is 19, prepares food over a fire for herself and her children.
    south-sudan-2014-jeffrey-mundri-046.jpg
  • A woman cooks a meal for her family 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. This woman received her cooking pot in a packet of essential household items she received from the ACT Alliance.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor314B0008.JPG
  • A woman cooks a meal for her family 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. This woman received her cooking pot in a packet of essential household items she received from the ACT Alliance.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-bor314B0007.JPG
  • Achil Ariik Mayuen lives in Manangui, South Sudan, where a camp for internally displaced families took shape after fighting broke out in the country in December 2013. Because the ACT Alliance and other agencies are providing the displaced families as well as the host community affected by their presence with a variety of support, she now has clean water close at hand and a school for her children.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-warrap31900...JPG
  • Edith Ayok cooks beans that she received from the ACT Alliance on April 7, 2017, in Rumading, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where more than 5,000 people, displaced from their homes by drought and conflict, remain in limbo. In early 2017, they set out walking for Sudan, seeking better conditions, but were stopped from crossing the border. They remained camped out under the trees at Rumading, eating wild leaves as the rainy season approached.<br />
<br />
In early April, Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, began drilling a well in the informal settlement and distributed sorghum, beans and cooking oil to the most vulnerable families. The ACT Alliance is carrying out the emergency assistance in coordination with government officials and the local Catholic parish.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-A1233.JPG
  • Women prepare food for the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland. Children who come to the school eat twice a day, often the only food they get.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-K581.JPG
  • A woman cooks lunch at the Loreto Secondary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-loreto-40.jpg
  • Juani Martinez cooks food for Cuban immigrants in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo, and is cooking in the city's Divino Salvador Methodist Church. <br />
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Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border.
    mexico-2017-jeffrey-nuevo-laredo-184.JPG
  • Juani Martinez cooks food for Cuban immigrants in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo, and is cooking in the city's Divino Salvador Methodist Church. <br />
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Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border.
    mexico-2017-jeffrey-nuevo-laredo-143.JPG
  • A woman prepares food in her home in the village of Chuisuc, near Cantel, in Guatemala's highland Quetzaltenango province. The Fraternidad de Presbiteriales Mayas works with women and families in this K’iché-speaking Maya community, providing education, credit, health care, and empowerment. Many of the women in this group weave and embroider, using credit from the Fraternidad to buy materials they need to produce a product they then sell, utilizing the income to better their family’s quality of living.
    guatemala-2007-jeffrey-highlands-034.jpg
  • A woman cooks in front of her home in the Haitian village of Vaudreuil. She used a small loan to buy what she needed to start the business, in which she sells cooked food to her neighbors who have money to spend.
    haiti-2009-jeffrey-017.jpg
  • A woman cooks in front of her home in the Haitian village of Vaudreuil. She used a small loan to buy what she needed to start the business, in which she sells cooked food to her neighbors who have money to spend.
    haiti-2009-jeffrey-006.jpg
  • In a camp for families displaced by internal conflict in northern Uganda, Covia Akwi cooks grain that will be turned into home brew. The two-decade conflict began winding down with peace talks in 2006, and some displaced families have returned home.
    uganda-2007-jeffrey-IDPs-01.jpg
  • Joyce Dzongololo cooks sorghum porridge for breakfast in Chidyamanga, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-022.jpg
  • A woman cooks her family's meal in Dundube Kadambo, in northern Malawi.
    malawi-2009-jeffrey-009.jpg
  • Seven-year old Habiba Hassan Nur, who with her family recently arrived from Somalia, cooks a meal of beans in a new extension of the Dadaab camp in northeastern Kenya. Already the world's world's largest refugee settlement, Dadaab has swelled in recent weeks with tens of thousands of recent arrivals fleeing drought in Somalia. The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is manager of the camp, and in July opened this new extension to begin housing the newest refugees.
    kenya-2011-jeffrey-dadaab-025.jpg
  • A woman in Mwitobwe, a village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, cooks a meal for her family.
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A515.jpg
  • A woman in Mwitobwe, a village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, cooks a meal for her family.
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A514.jpg
  • Jahura Begum cooks in the rubble left of her house in Suihari in northern Bangladesh. Devastating floods in August 2017 affected thousands of families across the region, and Begum and her family lost their home. Christian Aid and the Christian Commission for Development Bangladesh, both members of the ACT Alliance, worked together to provide emergency food packages to vulnerable residents, including Begum and her family.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-flooding-C33...JPG
  • Yin Saron cooks a meal while her husband Khoy Kosal plays with their children in the background. They live in the village of Thmar Dat in northern Cambodia. Following devastating 2011 floods in the village, Church World Service and Dan Church Aid, both members of the ACT Alliance, helped villagers to recover their homes and livelihoods.
    cambodia-2012-jeffrey-rural-048.jpg
  • Yin Saron cooks a meal while her husband Khoy Kosal plays with their children in the background. They live in the village of Thmar Dat in northern Cambodia. Following devastating 2011 floods in the village, Church World Service and Dan Church Aid, both members of the ACT Alliance, helped villagers to recover their homes and livelihoods.
    cambodia-2012-jeffrey-rural-047.jpg
  • Ghaichatou Dicko (right), along with Fadimoutou Dicko, prepares food for children at a school in Timbuktu, a city in northern Mali which was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013. During the jihadi occupation, schools were first closed but then allowed to reopen only if boys and girls were strictly separated. The ACT Alliance has provided this group of women with cereal grains, oil and salt to help them provide nutritious food for the children.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-144.jpg
  • Fadimoutou Dicko (left), along with Ghaichatou Dicko, prepares food for children at a school in Timbuktu, a city in northern Mali which was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013. During the jihadi occupation, schools were first closed but then allowed to reopen only if boys and girls were strictly separated. The ACT Alliance has provided this group of women with cereal grains, oil and salt to help them provide nutritious food for the children.
    mali-2013-jeffrey-143.jpg
  • A woman cooks a meal in her hut in the Goz Amer refugee camp in eastern Chad. More than a quarter million residents of Darfur live in camps in Chad, along with almost 200,000 Chadians who have been internally displaced by related violence.
    chad-2008-jeffrey-refugees-25.jpg
  • Cooks prepare students' lunch at the Catholic Church-sponsored St. Mary's Primary School in Yambio, South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-yambio-B298.jpg
  • Sister Rosa Le Thi Bong, a Vietnamese member of Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, cooks food for the pigs on a farm she supervised in Riimenze, a small war-ravaged village in South Sudan. She spent more than a decade there as a member of Solidarity with South Sudan, a pastoral and teaching presence of Catholic clergy, religious and laity from around the world. In Riimenze, Sister Rosa supervised an extensive agricultural program, providing food for displaced families and helping poor farmers to produce more and better food. She left South Sudan in late 2021.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A2...jpg
  • A worker at the Loreto schools in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. The secondary school educates girls from throughout Africa's newest country, and the primary school provides education to children from neighboring villages. Workers like this woman help insure the hundreds of students and staff are well fed.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-C164.jpg
  • A worker prepares food at the Loreto Primary School in Maker Kuei, Rumbek, South Sudan. Workers like this woman help insure the hundreds of students and staff are well fed.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-B152.jpg
  • A woman poses as she cooks in her back yard in Tumbadero, Cuba.
    cuba-2004-jeffrey-G04.jpg
  • Guillermina Jarquin prepares a meal for her family in Santa Paula, a village in northwestern Nicaragua.
    nicaragua-2009-jeffrey-29.jpg
  • Eduardo Javier Contreras, 19, learns bartending at a vocational training center run by the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in the San Salvador neighborhood of Mejicanos. The training program focuses on at-risk youth living in neighborhoods affected by gang violence.
    el-salvador-2014-jeffrey-youth-09.jpg
  • Christina Batachoka (left), Mwavita Salumu, and Eca Fitina prepare a meal on the kitchen floor of an apartment in Durham, North Carolina. The three women, all refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, were resettled in Durham by Church World Service, which resettles refugees in North Carolina and throughout the United States.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
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  • Vumila Masoka (left) looks on as Christina Batachoka, Mwavita Salumu, and Eca Fitina prepare a meal on the kitchen floor of an apartment in Durham, North Carolina. The three women, all refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, were resettled in Durham by Church World Service, which resettles refugees in North Carolina and throughout the United States.<br />
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Photo by Paul Jeffrey for Church World Service.
    usa-2017-jeffrey-refugees-durham-473.JPG
  • Zaitun and her daughter Nizria bake pastries in their home in Banda Aceh, on Indonesia's Sumatra Island. The family lost their house and belongings in the 2004 tsunami. The government provided them with a new house. Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, loaned the women in the neighborhood the money they needed to purchase new equipment and ingredients to restart their businesses. The women repaid their loans to a revolving fund that they jointly manage. Zaitun has used the profits from her pastry business to keep her four children in school. Nizria recently graduated from a local university with a degree in economics, but while she's looking for employment she assists her mother with the pastry making.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-099.jpg
  • Zaitun and her daughter Nizria bake pastries in their home in Banda Aceh, on Indonesia's Sumatra Island. The family lost their house and belongings in the 2004 tsunami. The government provided them with a new house. Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, loaned the women in the neighborhood the money they needed to purchase new equipment and ingredients to restart their businesses. The women repaid their loans to a revolving fund that they jointly manage. Zaitun has used the profits from her pastry business to keep her four children in school. Nizria recently graduated from a local university with a degree in economics, but while she's looking for employment she assists her mother with the pastry making.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-098.jpg
  • Zaitun and her daughter Nizria bake pastries in their home in Banda Aceh, on Indonesia's Sumatra Island. The family lost their house and belongings in the 2004 tsunami. The government provided them with a new house. Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, loaned the women in the neighborhood the money they needed to purchase new equipment and ingredients to restart their businesses. The women repaid their loans to a revolving fund that they jointly manage. Zaitun has used the profits from her pastry business to keep her four children in school. Nizria recently graduated from a local university with a degree in economics, but while she's looking for employment she assists her mother with the pastry making.
    indonesia-2014-jeffrey-tsunami-096.jpg
  • A displaced women prepares food inside a United Nations base in Malakal, South Sudan. More than 20,000 civilians have lived inside the base since shortly after the country's civil war broke out in December, 2013, but renewed fighting in 2015 drove another 5,000 people, including this woman, into the relative safety of the camp.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-065.jpg
  • When South Sudan's civil war spread to Malakal in late 2013, Alice Sura escaped from the fighting by taking refuge inside the United Nations base there with eight children--two of her own and six belonging to her relatives. Two days later, she was evacuated to Juba, and then came to Mundri, where she was born. She and the eight children have survived thanks to the hospitality of her relatives and food provided by the Mundri Relief and Development Association, which is supported by the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund. Here Sura, who is 19, prepares food over a fire for herself and her children.
    south-sudan-2014-jeffrey-mundri-048.jpg
  • Achil Ariik Mayuen lives in Manangui, South Sudan, where a camp for internally displaced families took shape after fighting broke out in the country in December 2013. Because the ACT Alliance and other agencies are providing the displaced families as well as the host community affected by their presence with a variety of support, she now has clean water close at hand and a school for her children.
    south_sudan-2014-jeffrey-warrap31901...JPG
  • Nidier Atak cooks wild leaves in Rumading, a village in South Sudan's Lol State where more than 5,000 people, displaced by drought and conflict, remain in limbo. Atak and her five children left their home in Wanalel in January 2017 after successive crop failures left them with no other options. They set out walking for Sudan, seeking better conditions, but stopped at Rumading when they met others who had been violently turned back at the border. So they remain camped out under trees, eating wild leaves as the rainy season approaches. Her husband had left home looking for work months earlier, and she doesn't know where he is.<br />
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In early April, Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, began drilling a well in the informal settlement and distributed sorghum, beans and cooking oil to the most vulnerable families. It is carrying out the emergency assistance in coordination with government officials and the local Catholic parish.
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  • Women prepare food at the Loreto Girls Secondary School outside Rumbek, South Sudan. The school is run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland.
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  • Eight-year old Adieu Anai cooks over a fire in a camp for more than 5,000 internally displaced persons in an Episcopal Church compound in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced by violence early in 2017, after a larger number took refuge in other church sites when widespread armed conflict engulfed Wau in June 2016.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • A woman cooks food in her shelter in the Doro Refugee Camp in Maban County, South Sudan. Doro is one of four camps in Maban that together shelter more than 130,000 refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan. Jesuit Refugee Service provides educational and psycho-social services to both refugees and the host community. <br />
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Misean Cara supports the work of JRS in the Maban camps.
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  • Juani Martinez laughs as she cooks food for Cuban immigrants in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on March 3, 2017. Hundreds of Cubans are stuck in the border city, caught in limbo by the elimination in January of the infamous “wet foot, dry foot” policy of the United States. They are not allowed to enter the U.S. yet don’t want to return to Cuba. Many of the city’s churches have become temporary shelters for the immigrants, and congregations rotate responsibility for feeding the Cubans, who have slowly been forced to appreciate Mexican cuisine. Martinez is a member of the Aposento Alto Methodist Church in Nuevo Laredo, and is cooking in the city's Divino Salvador Methodist Church. <br />
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Such solidarity from ordinary Mexicans is being tested these days, as not only are the Cubans stuck at the border, but the U.S. has stepped up deportations of Mexican nationals, while at the same time detaining many undocumented workers from other nations and simply dumping them on the US-Mexico border.
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  • A woman cooks in front of her home in the Haitian village of Vaudreuil. She used a small loan to buy what she needed to start the business, in which she sells cooked food to her neighbors who have money to spend.
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  • Mary Sriyoyogaveni, who lost one daughter and two grandchildren to the South Asian tsunami, as well as her family's house, cooks food for fellow refugees sheltered in the Holy Trinity Methodist Church in Kaddaively, in the northern Sri Lankan province of Jaffna. The shelter's residents were supported by food and other emergency supplies from ACT International. The December 26, 2004, tsunami left devastation behind along most of the island nation's coastline.
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  • Stella Sadya cooks porridge in a care center for orphans and other vulnerable children in Chidyamanga, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest. The ACT Alliance is working with farmers in this village to switch to alternative, drought-resistant crops, as well as using irrigation and other improved techniques to increase agricultural yields. In Chidyamanga, residents have set aside a section of farmland where they work together to grow food especially for the orphans--many of whom lost their parents to AIDS--and other children in the center. Three times a week, the children come to the center, sing and play and eat a nutritious meal.
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  • A woman in Mwitobwe, a village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, cooks a meal for her family.
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  • Fatna cooks for her family in a camp for internally displaced persons outside Kubum, in South Darfur.
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  • Juana Arroyo, a Guarani woman in El Bananal, Argentina, cooks a meal while a grandchild looks on.
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  • Jahura Begum cooks in the rubble left of her house in Suihari in northern Bangladesh. Devastating floods in August 2017 affected thousands of families across the region, and Begum and her family lost their home. Christian Aid and the Christian Commission for Development Bangladesh, both members of the ACT Alliance, worked together to provide emergency food packages to vulnerable residents, including Begum and her family.
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  • Ghaichatou Dicko (right), along with Fadimoutou Dicko, prepares food for children at a school in Timbuktu, a city in northern Mali which was seized by Islamist fighters in 2012 and then liberated by French and Malian soldiers in early 2013. During the jihadi occupation, schools were first closed but then allowed to reopen only if boys and girls were strictly separated. The ACT Alliance has provided this group of women with cereal grains, oil and salt to help them provide nutritious food for the children.
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  • A woman from Darfur cooks a meal in the Goz Amer refugee camp in eastern Chad. More than a quarter million residents of Darfur live in camps in Chad, along with almost 200,000 Chadians who have been internally displaced by related violence.
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  • A woman prepares ron ponche for people to drink in Antiguo Cuscatlán, El Salvador
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  • Joyce Boratay cooks breakfast for her family in Riimenze, South Sudan.
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  • A woman cooks porridge for students' breakfast at the St. Thomas Primary School in the Holy Trinity Peace Village in Kuron, a remote community in South Sudan's Eastern Equatoria State. <br />
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The region has been plagued by cattle raiding and child abduction in recent years. The Catholic Church-sponsored Holy Trinity Peace Village, centered in Kuron, has worked for years to foster reconciliation and peace between the region's pastoralist communities. Bringing children from different tribes in one school, where English is the common language, is one element of the peacebuilding. Children from the Jie, Murle, Dinka, Nuer, Madi, Katiko, Acholi and Toposa tribes attend the school.
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  • Zaitun and her daughter Nizria bake pastries in their home in Banda Aceh, on Indonesia's Sumatra Island. The family lost their house and belongings in the 2004 tsunami. The government provided them with a new house. Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance, loaned the women in the neighborhood the money they needed to purchase new equipment and ingredients to restart their businesses. The women repaid their loans to a revolving fund that they jointly manage. Zaitun has used the profits from her pastry business to keep her four children in school. Nizria recently graduated from a local university with a degree in economics, but while she's looking for employment she assists her mother with the pastry making.
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  • Food gets prepared in big quantities at the Loreto Primary School in Rumbek, South Sudan. The school, run by the Institute for the Blessed Virgin Mary--the Loreto Sisters--of Ireland, has also opened its compound to hundreds of nearby villagers facing hunger because of ongoing conflict and climate change.
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  • Eight-year old Adieu Anai cooks over a fire in a camp for more than 5,000 internally displaced persons in an Episcopal Church compound in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced by violence early in 2017, after a larger number took refuge in other church sites when widespread armed conflict engulfed Wau in June 2016.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • A woman cooks in the Yusuf Batil refugee camp in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. More than 110,000 refugees were living in four camps in Maban County in October 2012, but officials expected more would arrive once the rainy season ended and people could cross rivers that block the routes from Sudan's Blue Nile area, where Sudanese military has been bombing civilian populations as part of its response to a local insurgency. Conditions in the camps are often grim, with outbreaks of diseases such as Hepatitis E.
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  • Seven-year old Habiba Hassan Nur, who with her family recently arrived from Somalia, cooks a meal of beans in a new extension of the Dadaab camp in northeastern Kenya. Already the world's world's largest refugee settlement, Dadaab has swelled in recent weeks with tens of thousands of recent arrivals fleeing drought in Somalia. The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is manager of the camp, and in July opened this new extension to begin housing the newest refugees.
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  • Women cook food for students in the Catholic primary school in Kauda, a village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. The area is controlled by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, and frequently attacked by the military of Sudan. The church has sponsored schools and health care facilities throughout the war-torn region.
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  • Juzel Tacardon (left) and her daughter Jennie, and Nelissa Tabada and her daughter Princess Heart, walk through rice to stir it while it dries in the sun in the indigenous village of Arakan, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.
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  • Juzel Tacardon (left) and her daughter Jennie, and Nelissa Tabada and her daughter Princess Heart, walk through rice to stir it while it dries in the sun in the indigenous village of Arakan, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.
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  • Nelissa Tabada and her daughter Princess Heart walk through rice to stir it while it dries in the sun in the indigenous village of Arakan, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.
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  • Three-year old Kaban Kon relishes the asida he eats from the stick his mother used to stir the pot in a camp for over 5,000 internally displaced persons in an Episcopal Church compound in Wau, South Sudan. Most of the families here were displaced by violence early in 2017, after a larger number took refuge in other church sites when widespread armed conflict engulfed Wau in June 2016.<br />
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Made from sorghum or other grains, asida is a kind of thick porridge or mush, called ugali or other names in other parts of Africa.<br />
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Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, has provided relief supplies to the displaced in Wau, and has supported the South Sudan Council of Churches as it has struggled to mediate the conflict in Wau. <br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • Nelissa Tabada and her daughter Princess Heart walk through rice to stir it while it dries in the sun in the indigenous village of Arakan, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao.
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  • Orleidis Obregon, 12, stirs cacao drying in a greenhouse on her family's farm in Garzal, Colombia. People in this community have struggled for years to stay on their land, despite threats and violence from drug traffickers and paramilitaries.
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  • Orleidis Obregon, 12, stirs cacao drying in a greenhouse on her family's farm in Garzal, Colombia. People in this community have struggled for years to stay on their land, despite threats and violence from drug traffickers and paramilitaries.
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  • Orleidis Obregon, 12, stirs cacao drying in a greenhouse on her family's farm in Garzal, Colombia. People in this community have struggled for years to stay on their land, despite threats and violence from drug traffickers and paramilitaries.
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  • Orleidis Obregon, 12, stirs cacao drying in a greenhouse on her family's farm in Garzal, Colombia. People in this community have struggled for years to stay on their land, despite threats and violence from drug traffickers and paramilitaries.
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