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  • The hands of villagers helping lift a large tent being erected for use as a school classroom in the remote Haitian village of Embouchure. The village's school, run by the Episcopal Church, was damaged in the January 12, 2010, earthquake, but classes have continued to take place in the damaged structure. Villagers are now tearing down the old school to build a new one, and will use the tent classroom during the construction period. The school construction in Embouchure is funded by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A266.jpg
  • Marie Yolande Saint Felix, a field worker for the Lutheran World Federation, helps lift a large tent being erected for use as a school classroom in the remote Haitian village of Embouchure. The village's school, run by the Episcopal Church, was damaged in the January 12, 2010, earthquake, but classes have continued to take place in the damaged structure. Villagers are now tearing down the old school to build a new one, and will use the tent classroom during the construction period. The school construction in Embouchure is funded by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A271.jpg
  • Benoit Bernard helps lift a large tent being erected for use as a school classroom in the remote Haitian village of Embouchure. Bernard is director of the village's school, run by the Episcopal Church, which was damaged in the January 12, 2010, earthquake, but classes have continued to take place in the damaged structure. Villagers are now tearing down the old school to build a new one, and will use the tent classroom during the construction period. The school construction in Embouchure is funded by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A270.jpg
  • A man helps lift a large tent being erected for use as a school classroom in the remote Haitian village of Embouchure. The village's school, run by the Episcopal Church, was damaged in the January 12, 2010, earthquake, but classes have continued to take place in the damaged structure. Villagers are now tearing down the old school to build a new one, and will use the tent classroom during the construction period. The school construction in Embouchure is funded by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A269.jpg
  • Marie Carmel Telisme and her son Myson Merville live in a tent in a camp in Grand-Goave, Haiti, for people left homeless by the January 12, 2010, earthquake. They have decorated the inside of their tent with election posters from Haiti's presidential contest, the second round of which was originally scheduled for January 16, but has been postponed after widespread allegations of vote-rigging. Some 800,000 Haitians continue living in temporary shelters, according to the latest estimate from the International Organization for Migration. The ACT Alliance has supported people in this camp with a variety of services, and rebuilt a school at the edge of the camp.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-448.jpg
  • Selling shaved ice, a man navigates his cart through the largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people..
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A290.jpg
  • A woman cleans a drainage canal in the largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A289.jpg
  • Villagers help lift a large tent being erected for use as a school classroom in the remote Haitian village of Embouchure. The village's school, run by the Episcopal Church, was damaged in the January 12, 2010, earthquake, but classes have continued to take place in the damaged structure. Villagers are now tearing down the old school to build a new one, and will use the tent classroom during the construction period. The school construction in Embouchure is funded by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A267.jpg
  • Marie Yolande Saint Felix, a field worker for the Lutheran World Federation, helps assemble a large tent being erected for use as a school classroom in the remote Haitian village of Embouchure. The village's school, run by the Episcopal Church, was damaged in the January 12, 2010, earthquake, but classes have continued to take place in the damaged structure. Villagers are now tearing down the old school to build a new one, and will use the tent classroom during the construction period. The school construction in Embouchure is funded by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A265.jpg
  • Marie Yolande Saint Felix (left) and Georgy Desrivieres (right), field workers for the Lutheran World Federation, work with villager Fortune Andre to assemble the framework of a tent school in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school in the village was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October 2010, villagers leveled a tent site and erected a large tent to be used for classrooms while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A248.jpg
  • Licane Saintfort works to level a platform for erecting a tent school in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school in the village was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October 2010, villagers leveled a tent site and erected a large tent to be used for classrooms while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A245.jpg
  • Licane Saintfort works to level a platform for erecting a tent school in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school in the village was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October 2010, villagers leveled a tent site and erected a large tent to be used for classrooms while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A244.jpg
  • Marie Carmel Telisme and her son Myson Merville live in a tent in a camp in Grand-Goave, Haiti, for people left homeless by the January 12, 2010, earthquake. They have decorated the inside of their tent with election posters from Haiti's presidential contest, the second round of which was originally scheduled for January 16, but has been postponed after widespread allegations of vote-rigging. Some 800,000 Haitians continue living in temporary shelters, according to the latest estimate from the International Organization for Migration. The ACT Alliance has supported people in this camp with a variety of services, and rebuilt a school at the edge of the camp.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-449.jpg
  • "GoudouGoudou," the Kreyol word that Haitians have come to call the earthquake that ravaged parts of their country in in January 2010, is scrawled on the wall of a tent in a camp in Grand-Goave, Haiti, where families left homeless by the quake continue to live. The word was derived from the sound that many recall the quake producing as their houses moved and collapsed. The ACT Alliance has supported families in this camp with a variety of services, and has rebuilt a school beside the tent city.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-508.jpg
  • Marie Carmel Telisme and her son Myson Merville live in a tent in a camp in Grand-Goave, Haiti, for people left homeless by the January 12, 2010, earthquake. They have decorated the inside of their tent with election posters from Haiti's presidential contest, the second round of which was originally scheduled for January 16, but has been postponed after widespread allegations of vote-rigging. Some 800,000 Haitians continue living in temporary shelters, according to the latest estimate from the International Organization for Migration. The ACT Alliance has supported people in this camp with a variety of services, and rebuilt a school at the edge of the camp.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-451.jpg
  • Marie Carmel Telisme and her son Myson Merville live in a tent in a camp in Grand-Goave, Haiti, for people left homeless by the January 12, 2010, earthquake. They have decorated the inside of their tent with election posters from Haiti's presidential contest, the second round of which was originally scheduled for January 16, but has been postponed after widespread allegations of vote-rigging. Some 800,000 Haitians continue living in temporary shelters, according to the latest estimate from the International Organization for Migration. The ACT Alliance has supported people in this camp with a variety of services, and rebuilt a school at the edge of the camp.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-003.jpg
  • Carrying bananas on her head, a woman walks through the largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people..
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A286.jpg
  • Carrying bananas on her head, a woman walks through the largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people..
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A287.jpg
  • A woman walks between tents in the largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people..
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A285.jpg
  • A mother and her child sit between tents in the largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people..
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A276.jpg
  • The largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors is located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people..
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A273.jpg
  • A man helps lift a large tent being erected for use as a school classroom in the remote Haitian village of Embouchure. The village's school, run by the Episcopal Church, was damaged in the January 12, 2010, earthquake, but classes have continued to take place in the damaged structure. Villagers are now tearing down the old school to build a new one, and will use the tent classroom during the construction period. The school construction in Embouchure is funded by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A268.jpg
  • Villagers lift the framework of a large tent to be used as a school classroom in the remote Haitian village of Embouchure. The village's school, run by the Episcopal Church, was damaged in the January 12, 2010, earthquake, but classes have continued to take place in the damaged structure. Villagers are now tearing down the old school to build a new one, and will use the tent classroom during the construction period. The school construction in Embouchure is funded by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A256.jpg
  • Celestin Francois works to level a platform for erecting a tent school in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school in the village was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October 2010, villagers leveled a tent site and erected a large tent to be used for classrooms while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A249.jpg
  • Louis Bienaise works to level a platform for erecting a tent school in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school in the village was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October 2010, villagers leveled a tent site and erected a large tent to be used for classrooms while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A246.jpg
  • Licane Saintfort works to level a platform for erecting a tent school in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school in the village was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October 2010, villagers leveled a tent site and erected a large tent to be used for classrooms while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A247.jpg
  • Licane Saintfort works to level a platform for erecting a tent school in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school in the village was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October 2010, villagers leveled a tent site and erected a large tent to be used for classrooms while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A243.jpg
  • Licane Saintfort works to level a platform for erecting a tent school in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school in the village was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October 2010, villagers leveled a tent site and erected a large tent to be used for classrooms while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A242.jpg
  • Licane Saintfort (left) and Louis Bienaise work to level a platform for erecting a tent school in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school in the village was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October 2010, villagers leveled a tent site and erected a large tent to be used for classrooms while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A238.jpg
  • Licane Saintfort (center) works with other villagers to level a platform for erecting a tent school in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school in the village was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October 2010, villagers leveled a tent site and erected a large tent to be used for classrooms while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A240.jpg
  • Licane Saintfort (left) and Louis Bienaise work to level a platform for erecting a tent school in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school in the village was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October 2010, villagers leveled a tent site and erected a large tent to be used for classrooms while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A236.jpg
  • Medeline Saintfort works to level a platform for erecting a tent school in the rural Haitian village of Embouchure. The Episcopal Church-sponsored school in the village was damaged in the January 2010 earthquake, yet classes have continued inside. In October 2010, villagers leveled a tent site and erected a large tent to be used for classrooms while the old building is razed and a new one constructed. The project is sponsored by International Orthodox Christian Charities and FinnChurch Aid.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A237.jpg
  • The largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors is located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people..
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A275.jpg
  • A survivor of the January 2010 earthquake stands in the doorway of her "tent" home in a camp in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A109.jpg
  • A woman cooks in front of her tent home in the Petionville Camp at the edge of Port au Prince, Haiti. With some 50,000 residents packed onto what was once a golf course, it's the largest camp of hundreds of locales hosting more than a million people left homeless by the January 12, 2010 quake.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-020.jpg
  • A woman scrubs out a cooking pot in front of her tent home in the Petionville Camp at the edge of Port au Prince, Haiti. With some 50,000 residents packed onto what was once a golf course, it's the largest camp of hundreds of locales hosting more than a million people left homeless by the January 12, 2010 quake.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-016.jpg
  • A woman in the doorway to her tent home in the Petionville Camp at the edge of Port au Prince, Haiti. With some 50,000 residents packed onto what was once a golf course, it's the largest camp of hundreds of locales hosting more than a million people left homeless by the January 12, 2010 quake.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-014.jpg
  • A woman cleans a drainage canal in the largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A288.jpg
  • Residents clean a drainage canal in the largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A283.jpg
  • A man gets his hair trimmed in the largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people..
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A274.jpg
  • Durga Shrestha folds up bedding as she organizes her tent in the morning in the village of Sanogoan, Nepal. People in this Newar community, hard hit by the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, have been helped by the ACT Alliance to rebuild their lives. The ACT Alliance has provided a variety of services here since the quake, including blankets, tents, and livelihood assistance, and is helping villagers form the tens of thousands of cement blocks they will need to construct permanent housing.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_315185.JPG
  • Puneshowari Shrestha picks up a sleeping pad as she organizes her tent in the morning in the village of Sanogoan, Nepal. People in this Newar community, hard hit by the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, have been helped by the ACT Alliance to rebuild their lives. The ACT Alliance has provided a variety of services here since the quake, including blankets, tents, and livelihood assistance, and is helping villagers form the tens of thousands of cement blocks they will need to construct permanent housing.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_315142.jpg
  • Eighty-five year old earthquake survivor Sardha Shrestha lives in this tent in the village of Sanogoan, Nepal. People in this Newar community, hard hit by the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, have been helped by the ACT Alliance to rebuild their lives. The ACT Alliance has provided a variety of services here since the quake, including blankets, tents, and livelihood assistance, and is helping villagers form the tens of thousands of cement blocks they will need to construct permanent housing.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_315005.JPG
  • A woman at the front of a small shop in the tent home of a neighbor in the Petionville Camp at the edge of Port au Prince, Haiti. With some 50,000 residents packed onto what was once a golf course, it's the largest camp of hundreds of locales hosting more than a million people left homeless by the January 12, 2010 quake.
    haiti-2011-jeffrey-018.jpg
  • A woman washes laundry in the largest "tent city" of Haitian earthquake survivors, located on a former nine-hole golf course in Port-au-Prince. The Petionville Club is host to more than 44,000 people..
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A282.jpg
  • Emergency workers of Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, carry a 10,000 liter water bladder into a makeshift tent city in the yard of a partially destroyed school in the Pean district of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, which was ravaged by a January 12 earthquake.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-168.jpg
  • Renuka Shrestha studies in her family's tent in Sanogoan, Nepal. Residents of the Newar community were hard hit by the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, losing almost all their housing, but they've been helped by the ACT Alliance to rebuild their lives. The ACT Alliance has provided blankets, tents, and livelihood assistance, and is helping villagers form the tens of thousands of cement blocks they will need to construct permanent housing.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_315316.jpg
  • Durga Shrestha folds up bedding as she organizes her tent in the morning in the village of Sanogoan, Nepal. People in this Newar community, hard hit by the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, have been helped by the ACT Alliance to rebuild their lives. The ACT Alliance has provided a variety of services here since the quake, including blankets, tents, and livelihood assistance, and is helping villagers form the tens of thousands of cement blocks they will need to construct permanent housing.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_315179.jpg
  • Eighty-five year old earthquake survivor Sardha Shrestha lives in a tent in the village of Sanogoan, Nepal. People in this Newar community, hard hit by the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, have been helped by the ACT Alliance to rebuild their lives. The ACT Alliance has provided a variety of services here since the quake, including blankets, tents, and livelihood assistance, and is helping villagers form the tens of thousands of cement blocks they will need to construct permanent housing.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_315155.JPG
  • Puneshowari Shrestha picks up bedding as she organizes her tent in the morning in the village of Sanogoan, Nepal. People in this Newar community, hard hit by the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, have been helped by the ACT Alliance to rebuild their lives. The ACT Alliance has provided a variety of services here since the quake, including blankets, tents, and livelihood assistance, and is helping villagers form the tens of thousands of cement blocks they will need to construct permanent housing.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_315145.JPG
  • Eighty-five year old earthquake survivor Sardha Shrestha lives in this tent in the village of Sanogoan, Nepal. People in this Newar community, hard hit by the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, have been helped by the ACT Alliance to rebuild their lives. The ACT Alliance has provided a variety of services here since the quake, including blankets, tents, and livelihood assistance, and is helping villagers form the tens of thousands of cement blocks they will need to construct permanent housing.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_315014.jpg
  • Mamon Al-Hariri and his wife Huda, along with their children Morad, 4, and Hiba, 3, inside their tent in the Zaatari refugee camp near Mafraq, Jordan. The family fled fighting in Daraa, Syria, in 2013, crossing the border into Jordan without appropriate paperwork. They'd like to move elsewhere, but aren't permitted to leave the camp. <br />
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"There's a big difference between life here and how we lived back home," said the woman. "We're happy with our neighbors here, but I spend my whole life sitting in a tent when back home I had a beautiful house and garden."<br />
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Established in 2012 as Syrian refugees poured across the border, the Zaatari camp held more than 80,000 refugees by 2015, and was rapidly evolving into a permanent settlement. ACT Alliance member agencies provide a variety of services to refugees living in the camp.
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  • Mamon Al-Hariri and his wife Huda, along with their children Morad, 4, and Hiba, 3, in front of their tent in the Zaatari refugee camp near Mafraq, Jordan. The family fled fighting in Daraa, Syria, in 2013, crossing the border into Jordan without appropriate paperwork. They'd like to move elsewhere, but aren't permitted to leave the camp. <br />
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"There's a big difference between life here and how we lived back home," said the woman. "We're happy with our neighbors here, but I spend my whole life sitting in a tent when back home I had a beautiful house and garden."<br />
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Established in 2012 as Syrian refugees poured across the border, the Zaatari camp held more than 80,000 refugees by 2015, and was rapidly evolving into a permanent settlement. ACT Alliance member agencies provide a variety of services to refugees living in the camp.
    jordan_2015_jeffrey_refugees_zaatari...JPG
  • Inside their tent in the village of Sanogoan, Nepal, Larmi Shrestha helps her 9-year old daughter Sujita prepare for school. People in this Newar community, hard hit by the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, have been helped by the ACT Alliance to rebuild their lives.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_315117.jpg
  • Hari Maya Bhujel sits in her tent while her grandson, 5-year old Utsab, does his school homework in Majhitar, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. The woman is living in the tent pending the construction of a permanent replacement dwelling.<br />
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Parental consent obtained.
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  • 11 March 2022, Vyšné Nemecké, Slovakia: Mattresses in a tent at the Vyšné Nemecké border crossing between Slovakia and Ukraine, arranged to serve as temporary shelter for incoming refugees from Ukraine. The Vyšné Nemecké border crossing connects Slovakia with the city of Uzhgorod in Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February, hundreds of thousands of refugees have crossed the border to Slovakia in search of refuge and shelter from war and an increasingly desperate humanitarian situation. The border crossing at Vyšné Nemecké sees up to some 10,000 refugees cross each day, with faith-based and humanitarian organisations providing immediate support to people as they come into Slovakia. Support onsite includes simple shelter and beds for resting, information services, coordination of onward travel into Slovakia and finding temporary accommodation there, medical and psychosocial support, food, drinks, toys for the children, hygiene items and other necessities. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge with credit to LWF/Albin Hillert, to report about the war in Ukraine.]
    Slovakia-2022-Hillert-20220311_AH1_4...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Siret, Romania: Emergency support tent 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_AH2_93...jpg
  • 17 March 2022, Siret, Romania: Support tent 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_AH2_92...jpg
  • Following an October 8, 2005, earthquake, a tent city outside Balakot sponsored by Action by Churches Together. The quake measured 7.6 on the Richter scale and killed more than 74,000 people in northern Pakistan.
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  • Following an October 8, 2005, earthquake, a displaced man walks through a tent city outside Balakot sponsored by Action by Churches Together. The quake measured 7.6 on the Richter scale and killed more than 74,000 people in northern Pakistan.
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  • Following an October 8, 2005, earthquake, two girls cook in a tent city outside Balakot, Pakistan. The quake measured 7.6 on the Richter scale and killed more than 74,000 people in northern Pakistan.
    pakistan-2005-jeffrey-quake-21.jpg
  • Dr. Gaspar Gaston attends patients in a tent clinic set up on a street in Jacmel, a town on Haiti's southern coast that was ravaged by the January 12 earthquake.
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  • Dr. Gaspar Gaston (unseen) checks a small patient in a tent clinic set up on a street in Jacmel, a town on Haiti's southern coast that was ravaged by the January 12 earthquake.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-281.jpg
  • Father Barnabas (right) and Father Pavlos (center), priests of the Greek Orthodox parish of St. Jean de Freres in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, visit with people left homeless by the January 2010 earthquake who are living in a tent city in the neighborhood. .
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  • Father Barnabas (center) and Father Pavlos (right), priests of the Greek Orthodox parish of St. Jean de Freres in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, visit with people left homeless by the January 2010 earthquake who are living in a tent city in the neighborhood. .
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  • Father Barnabas (center) and Father Pavlos (right), priests of the Greek Orthodox parish of St. Jean de Freres in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, visit with people left homeless by the January 2010 earthquake who are living in a tent city in the neighborhood. .
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A085.jpg
  • A young woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
    lebanon-2012-jeffrey-bekaa-53.jpg
  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas featuring a larger than life church prelate--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
    lebanon-2012-jeffrey-bekaa-41.jpg
  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
    lebanon-2012-jeffrey-bekaa-23.jpg
  • A woman refugee from Syria folds up rubber tubing to be burnt in a cooking stove. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas of a dollar bill--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas of a dollar bill--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas of a dollar bill--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • This refugee family from Syria, whose members asked not to be named because of fears about their security should they return to their home country, live in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance.
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  • A Afghan man pokes his head out of a tent in a city park in Belgrade, Serbia. The park has filled with refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and other countries on their way to western Europe.
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  • A family that fled violence in Herat, Afghanistan, eats breakfast in a tent in a city park in Belgrade, Serbia. The park has filled with refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and other countries stopping over on their way to western Europe.
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  • Four-year old Elyas, whose family fled violence in Afghanistan, stands in a tent in a city park in Belgrade, Serbia. The park has filled with refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and other countries on their way to western Europe. <br />
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  • A refugee woman and her child inside a tent in a city park on the Greek island of Chios. The park is full of tents sheltering refugees who crossed the Aegean Sea in small boats from Turkey. They were registered and provided with food and shelter in a reception center built with support from International Orthodox Christian Charities, a member of the ACT Alliance. Many of them then move to the city park where they await a ferry to take them to Athens and then on toward western Europe. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants have passed through Greece in 2015.
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  • 27 October 2019, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Congregants sit outside the brimful tent forming the space for Sunday service at the Finfinne Oromo Mekane Yesus Congregation of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. In a context where congregations did not use to be allowed to hold their services in any language but Amharic, the congregation today is one of some 60 Oromo speaking Mekane Yesus congregations in Addis Ababa. The service takes place on the first Sunday following political turmoil in the country, claiming dozens of lives. [Image captured on assignment for the Lutheran World Federation, whose member churches and partners can use it free of charge to report about the LWF’s work, with credit to ’LWF/Albin Hillert’ upon publication.]
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  • Following an October 8, 2005, earthquake, children in a tent city outside Balakot sponsored by Church World Service/Action by Churches Together.
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  • Following an October 8, 2005, earthquake, a girl who survived holds a sibling in a tent city outside Balakot. The quake measured 7.6 on the Richter scale and killed more than 74,000 people in northern Pakistan.
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  • Dr. Gaspar Gaston attends patients in a tent clinic set up on a street in Jacmel, a town on Haiti's southern coast that was ravaged by the January 12 earthquake.
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  • Dr. Gaspar Gaston attends patients in a tent clinic set up on a street in Jacmel, a town on Haiti's southern coast that was ravaged by the January 12 earthquake.
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  • Dr. Gaspar Gaston attends patients in a tent clinic set up on a street in Jacmel, a town on Haiti's southern coast that was ravaged by the January 12 earthquake..
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  • Dr. Gaspar Gaston attends patients in a tent clinic set up on a street in Jacmel, a town on Haiti's southern coast that was ravaged by the January 12 earthquake.
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  • Dr. Gaspar Gaston attends patients in a tent clinic set up on a street in Jacmel, a town on Haiti's southern coast that was ravaged by the January 12 earthquake.
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  • A woman left homeless by Haiti's January 12 earthquake lives in a makeshift tent city in the yard of a partially destroyed church in Port-au-Prince. The quake left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.
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  • Father Barnabas (center, tossing child in air) and Father Pavlos (right), priests of the Greek Orthodox parish of St. Jean de Freres in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, visit with people left homeless by the January 2010 earthquake who are living in a tent city in the neighborhood. .
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  • Father Barnabas (center) and Father Pavlos (right), priests of the Greek Orthodox parish of St. Jean de Freres in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, visit with people left homeless by the January 2010 earthquake who are living in a tent city in the neighborhood. .
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  • Father Barnabas (right) and Father Pavlos (center), priests of the Greek Orthodox parish of St. Jean de Freres in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, visit with people left homeless by the January 2010 earthquake who are living in a tent city in the neighborhood. .
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  • Father Barnabas (center) and Father Pavlos (right), priests of the Greek Orthodox parish of St. Jean de Freres in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, visit with people left homeless by the January 2010 earthquake who are living in a tent city in the neighborhood. .
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  • Father Barnabas (center) and Father Pavlos (right), priests of the Greek Orthodox parish of St. Jean de Freres in the Bobin neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, visit with people left homeless by the January 2010 earthquake who are living in a tent city in the neighborhood. .
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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A woman refugee from Syria prepares food for her family as her son helps her with the stove. They live in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas of a dollar bill--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
    lebanon-2012-jeffrey-bekaa-22.jpg
  • A woman refugee from Syria prepares food for her family as her son helps her with the stove. They live in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas of a dollar bill--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • A woman refugee from Syria puts her laundry out to dry. She lives with her family in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas of a dollar bill--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance..
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  • This refugee family from Syria, whose members asked not to be named because of fears about their security should they return to their home country, share tea in the rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas--where they live in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance.
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  • This one-year old refugee child from Syria, whose parents asked not be named because of fears about their security should they return to their home country, lives in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. His and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance.
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  • This one-year old refugee child from Syria, whose parents asked not be named because of fears about their security should they return to their home country, lives in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. His and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance.
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  • This refugee family from Syria, whose members asked not to be named because of fears about their security should they return to their home country, live in a rented "tent"--made from a billboard canvas--in the village of Jeb Jennine, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They and other refugee families in the area are being assisted by International Orthodox Christian Charities and other members of the ACT Alliance.
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  • A Somali woman is presented with her new tent by workers of the ACT Alliance in an extension of the world's largest refugee settlement. Swelled with tens of thousands of recent arrivals fleeing drought in Somalia, the Dadaab camp in northeastern Kenya has been unable to absorb the newest arrivals. The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is manager of the camp and in July  began moving hundreds of families into tents in the extension.
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