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  • Sister Barbara Paleczny, a School Sister of Notre Dame from Waterloo, Canada, provides "healing touch" with a displaced woman 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, and renewed fighting in 2015 drove an additional 5,000 people into the relative safety of the camp. Paleczny is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-082.jpg
  • Sister Barbara Paleczny, a School Sister of Notre Dame from Waterloo, Canada, provides "healing touch" with a displaced woman 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, and renewed fighting in 2015 drove an additional 5,000 people into the relative safety of the camp. Paleczny is a member of Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2015-jeffrey-malakal-083.jpg
  • A woman reaches out to touch a casket during a January 23 funeral mass for the Roman Catholic archbishop and vicar general of Port-au-Prince, both of whom were killed in the country's earthquake.
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-quake-136.jpg
  • Paulina Manyabweni encourages Stephen Thadei to touch her leg--affected by Lymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne tropical disease--in Mbweni, Tanzania.
    tanzania-2016-jeffrey-health-030.jpg
  • Paulina Manyabweni encourages Stephen Thadei to touch her leg--affected by Lymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne tropical disease--in Mbweni, Tanzania.
    tanzania-2016-jeffrey-health-029.jpg
  • Paulina Manyabweni encourages Stephen Thadei to touch her leg--affected by Lymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne tropical disease--in Mbweni, Tanzania.
    tanzania-2016-jeffrey-health-031.jpg
  • A blind woman touches her hand as she participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind man touches his hand as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • 6 December 2017, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Jean-Yves Nesset from Côte d'Ivoire, attends ICASA 2017. Here, in the Condomize booth of the Global Village area of ICASA 2017, where an exercise is offered where participants can get temporarily blindfold, to sharpen their senses, as they walk through a space touching various types of soft materials and surfaces. The 19th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) 2017 gathers thousands of researchers, medical professionals, academics, activists and faith-based organizations from all over the world, all looking to overcome the HIV epidemic and eliminate AIDS as a public health threat.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20171206_AHP_112...jpg
  • 6 December 2017, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Jean-Yves Nesset from Côte d'Ivoire, attends ICASA 2017. Here, in the Condomize booth of the Global Village area of ICASA 2017, where an exercise is offered where participants can get temporarily blindfold, to sharpen their senses, as they walk through a space touching various types of soft materials and surfaces. The 19th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) 2017 gathers thousands of researchers, medical professionals, academics, activists and faith-based organizations from all over the world, all looking to overcome the HIV epidemic and eliminate AIDS as a public health threat.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20171206_AHP_112...jpg
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind man touches his hand as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind woman touches her chin as she participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind woman touches her hand as she participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • Two blind women touches their faces as they participate in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A blind man touches his face as he participates in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
<br />
Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • A mother touches her infant in an incubator in the neonatal intensive care room of the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-wau-B333.jpg
  • 17 February 2020, Zarqa, Jordan: A girl touches her forehead after having a small star attached there by her nanny at the Lutheran World Federation community centre in Zarqa. Through a variety of activities, the Lutheran World Federation community centre in Zarqa serves to offer psychosocial support and strengthen social cohesion between Syrian, Iraqi and other refugees in Jordan and their host communities.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20200217_AH2_350...jpg
  • 6 December 2017, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Jean-Yves Nesset from Côte d'Ivoire, attends ICASA 2017. Here, in the Condomize booth of the Global Village area of ICASA 2017, where an exercise is offered where participants can get temporarily blindfold, to sharpen their senses, as they walk through a space touching various types of soft materials and surfaces. The 19th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) 2017 gathers thousands of researchers, medical professionals, academics, activists and faith-based organizations from all over the world, all looking to overcome the HIV epidemic and eliminate AIDS as a public health threat.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20171206_AHP_113...jpg
  • Augustino Faraja touches the leg of his neighbor Paulina Manyabweni--affected by Lymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne tropical disease--in Mbweni, Tanzania.
    tanzania-2016-jeffrey-health-032.jpg
  • Stephen Thadei touches the leg of Paulina Manyabweni in Mbweni, Tanzania. Her left leg is affected by Lymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne tropical disease.
    tanzania-2016-jeffrey-health-028.jpg
  • 6 December 2017, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Jean-Yves Nesset from Côte d'Ivoire, attends ICASA 2017. Here, in the Condomize booth of the Global Village area of ICASA 2017, where an exercise is offered where participants can get temporarily blindfold, to sharpen their senses, as they walk through a space touching various types of soft materials and surfaces. The 19th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) 2017 gathers thousands of researchers, medical professionals, academics, activists and faith-based organizations from all over the world, all looking to overcome the HIV epidemic and eliminate AIDS as a public health threat.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20171206_AHP_113...jpg
  • Ovidio Barreto (left), a Tukano indigenous healer, touches the head of Carla Fernandus Desbana during a treatment in the  Bahse Rikowi Center for Indigenous Medicine in Manaus, Brazil.
    brazil-2019-jeffrey-manaus -B020.jpg
  • 10 November 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom: Lutheran World Federation youth delegates to COP26 Rebecca Samala Rajakanthan from the Lutheran Church in Singapore (left) and Natan de Oliveira Schumann from the Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (right) look at an interactive exhibit in the Japanese pavilion at COP26. Glasgow hosts the United Nations climate change conference COP26, where world leaders gather to negotiate a response to the ongoing climate crisis and emergency.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20211110_AH1_244...jpg
  • 14 September 2021, Berlin, Germany: An international symposium on Social Justice in a Digital Age is held in Berlin, Germany. Co-organised by the World Council of Churches and World Association for Christian Communication, the event brings together research, experiences from different regions and marginalized communities, expert input on economic and political trends, and ethical and theological reflection as a contribution to the WCC 11th Assembly in September 2022. Here, a participant monitors chat and other functions on Zoom.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210914_AH2_068...jpg
  • Children play a game in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze, South Sudan. The parish has provided food, shelter material, and health care, and the presence of the local priest and a group of religious has contributed to a sense of relative safety.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Paulina Manyabweni talks with some children from her neighborhood in Mbweni, Tanzania. Her left leg is affected by Lymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne tropical disease.
    tanzania-2016-jeffrey-health-027.jpg
  • Midwifery student John Nyilo Pinyi Gon examines fetal position in a woman about to give birth in the St. Daniel Comboni Hospital in Wau, South Sudan. He's a student at the Catholic Health Training Institute, which is sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-wau-A614.jpg
  • A boy walks beside a classroom building in the Loreto Primary School in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-F017.JPG
  • 14 September 2021, Berlin, Germany: An international symposium on Social Justice in a Digital Age is held in Berlin, Germany. Co-organised by the World Council of Churches and World Association for Christian Communication, the event brings together research, experiences from different regions and marginalized communities, expert input on economic and political trends, and ethical and theological reflection as a contribution to the WCC 11th Assembly in September 2022. Here, a participant monitors chat and other functions on Zoom.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210914_AH2_068...jpg
  • 14 September 2021, Berlin, Germany: An international symposium on Social Justice in a Digital Age is held in Berlin, Germany. Co-organised by the World Council of Churches and World Association for Christian Communication, the event brings together research, experiences from different regions and marginalized communities, expert input on economic and political trends, and ethical and theological reflection as a contribution to the WCC 11th Assembly in September 2022. Here, a participant monitors chat and other functions on Zoom.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210914_AH2_068...jpg
  • 14 September 2021, Berlin, Germany: An international symposium on Social Justice in a Digital Age is held in Berlin, Germany. Co-organised by the World Council of Churches and World Association for Christian Communication, the event brings together research, experiences from different regions and marginalized communities, expert input on economic and political trends, and ethical and theological reflection as a contribution to the WCC 11th Assembly in September 2022. Here, a participant monitors chat and other functions on Zoom.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20210914_AH2_068...jpg
  • Sumalee Maneebut, a woman living with HIV in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, cares for her 3-year old nephew Ritikvai Yauphakdee as the two explore a small water basin in her home.
    thailand-2009-jeffrey-25.jpg
  • A girl reaches over a pew toward a sleeping boy in Knox United Methodist Church in Manila, Philippines.
    philippines-2018-jeffrey-C81.jpg
  • Children play a game in a camp for internally displaced persons that formed around the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Riimenze, South Sudan. The parish has provided food, shelter material, and health care, and the presence of the local priest and a group of religious has contributed to a sense of relative safety.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-riimenze-id...jpg
  • Paulina Manyabweni talks with some children from her neighborhood in Mbweni, Tanzania. Her left leg is affected by Lymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne tropical disease.
    tanzania-2016-jeffrey-health-025.jpg
  • Paulina Manyabweni talks with some children from her neighborhood in Mbweni, Tanzania. Her left leg is affected by Lymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne tropical disease.
    tanzania-2016-jeffrey-health-024.jpg
  • Paulina Manyabweni talks with some children from her neighborhood in Mbweni, Tanzania. Her left leg is affected by Lymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne tropical disease.
    tanzania-2016-jeffrey-health-022.jpg
  • Paulina Manyabweni talks with some children from her neighborhood in Mbweni, Tanzania. Her left leg is affected by Lymphatic filariasis, a mosquito-borne tropical disease.
    tanzania-2016-jeffrey-health-023.jpg
  • Participants explore the relation between physical and spiritual health during an ecumenical workshop on women's empowerment in Kalay, Myanmar. The workshop was sponsored by the Women's Department of the Myanmar Council of Churches and led by Emma Cantor (kneeling), a regional missionary for United Methodist Women.
    myanmar-2017-jeffrey-workshop-069.jpg
  • Participants explore the relation between physical and spiritual health during an ecumenical workshop on women's empowerment in Kalay, Myanmar. The workshop was sponsored by the Women's Department of the Myanmar Council of Churches and led by Emma Cantor (right), a regional missionary for United Methodist Women.
    myanmar-2017-jeffrey-workshop-062.jpg
  • Participants explore the relation between physical and spiritual health during an ecumenical workshop on women's empowerment in Kalay, Myanmar. The workshop was sponsored by the Women's Department of the Myanmar Council of Churches and led by Emma Cantor (left), a regional missionary for United Methodist Women.
    myanmar-2017-jeffrey-workshop-060.jpg
  • 21 August 2018, De Glind, Netherlands: Through the language of the word, of touch, and of the body, ecumenical youth explore ways of expressing the Word of the Bible through so-called Bibliodrama. ìOn the Moveî is the theme as 12 Dutch and 12 international youth gather for a Youth Pilgrimage in the Netherlands on 21-23 August. Gathering as part of the celebrations of the World Council of Churches 70th anniversary in 2018, the youth spend three days together to explore what it means to be young pilgrims in the ecumenical movement today.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180821_AH1_313...jpg
  • Hi Srey Touch, 12, and Hi Sok Heng, 9, pose as they get ready for school in their home in the northern Cambodian village of Boeung Pram. Their family received their home and the small parcel of land on which it sits as part of a Cambodian government social land concession to demobilized soldiers and other landless families. Their father, Che He, is a former soldier. The family has yet to receive agricultural land, and so Che He has to work on a nearby farm to earn money to support his family of four. Life with Dignity and Dan Church Aid, both members of the ACT Alliance, have assisted community members and local authorities in Boeung Pram as they carry out the social land concession.
    cambodia-2012-jeffrey-rural-158.jpg
  • Hi Sok Heng, 9, poses as he gets dressed for school in his home in the northern Cambodian village of Boeung Pram. His sister Hi Srey Touch, 12, is in the background. Their family received their home and the small parcel of land on which it sits as part of a Cambodian government social land concession to demobilized soldiers and other landless families. Their father, Che He, is a former soldier. The family has yet to receive agricultural land, and so Che He has to work on a nearby farm to earn money to support his family of four. Life with Dignity and Dan Church Aid, both members of the ACT Alliance, have assisted community members and local authorities in Boeung Pram as they carry out the social land concession.
    cambodia-2012-jeffrey-rural-156.jpg
  • Sin Seng Hong helps her son Hi Sok Heng, 9, get dressed for school in the northern Cambodian village of Boeung Pram, as her daughter Hi Srey Touch, 12, combs her hair. They received their home and the small parcel of land on which it sits as part of a Cambodian government social land concession to demobilized soldiers and other landless families. Sin Seng Hong's husband, Che He, is a former soldier. The family has yet to receive agricultural land, and so Che He has to work on a nearby farm to earn money to support his family of four. Life with Dignity and Dan Church Aid, both members of the ACT Alliance, have assisted community members and local authorities in Boeung Pram as they carry out the social land concession.
    cambodia-2012-jeffrey-rural-153.jpg
  • 21 August 2018, De Glind, Netherlands: Through the language of the word, of touch, and of the body, ecumenical youth explore ways of expressing the Word of the Bible through so-called Bibliodrama. ìOn the Moveî is the theme as 12 Dutch and 12 international youth gather for a Youth Pilgrimage in the Netherlands on 21-23 August. Gathering as part of the celebrations of the World Council of Churches 70th anniversary in 2018, the youth spend three days together to explore what it means to be young pilgrims in the ecumenical movement today.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180821_AH1_314...jpg
  • People gather around a charging station in La Lima, brought in to allow people to be in touch with family during the emergency. In this area of La Lima many people were still stranded in their houses with water covering the ground floor.
    Honduras_Hawkey_Eta_Iota_186.jpg
  • 21 August 2018, De Glind, Netherlands: Through the language of the word, of touch, and of the body, ecumenical youth explore ways of expressing the Word of the Bible through so-called Bibliodrama. ìOn the Moveî is the theme as 12 Dutch and 12 international youth gather for a Youth Pilgrimage in the Netherlands on 21-23 August. Gathering as part of the celebrations of the World Council of Churches 70th anniversary in 2018, the youth spend three days together to explore what it means to be young pilgrims in the ecumenical movement today.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180821_AH1_314...jpg
  • A former soldier, 50-year old Che He and his wife Sin Seng Hong, 49, have received a house and land in Boeung Pram, a village in Batambang province, as part of a Cambodian government social land concession to demobilized soldiers and other landless families. Here Sin Seng Hong holds their title, as their children Hi Srey Touch, 12, and Hi Sok Heng, 9, look on from the steps of their home. Yet the family has yet to receive agricultural land, and so Che He has to work on a nearby farm to earn money to support his family of four. Life with Dignity and Dan Church Aid, both members of the ACT Alliance, have assisted community members and local authorities in Boeung Pram as they carry out the social land concession.
    cambodia-2012-jeffrey-rural-163.jpg
  • A former soldier, 50-year old Che He and his wife Sin Seng Hong, 49, have received a house and land in Boeung Pram, a village in Batambang province, as part of a Cambodian government social land concession to demobilized soldiers and other landless families. Here Sin Seng Hong holds their title, as their children Hi Srey Touch, 12, and Hi Sok Heng, 9, look on from the steps of their home. Yet the family has yet to receive agricultural land, and so Che He has to work on a nearby farm to earn money to support his family of four. Life with Dignity and Dan Church Aid, both members of the ACT Alliance, have assisted community members and local authorities in Boeung Pram as they carry out the social land concession.
    cambodia-2012-jeffrey-rural-161.jpg
  • A former soldier, 50-year old Che He and his wife Sin Seng Hong, 49, have received a house and land in Boeung Pram, a village in Batambang province, as part of a Cambodian government social land concession to demobilized soldiers and other landless families. Here Sin Seng Hong, laughing, holds their title, as their children Hi Srey Touch, 12, and Hi Sok Heng, 9, look on from the steps of their home. Yet the family has yet to receive agricultural land, and so Che He has to work on a nearby farm to earn money to support his family of four. Life with Dignity and Dan Church Aid, both members of the ACT Alliance, have assisted community members and local authorities in Boeung Pram as they carry out the social land concession.
    cambodia-2012-jeffrey-rural-162.jpg
  • A former soldier, 50-year old Che He and his wife Sin Seng Hong, 49, have received a house and land in Boeung Pram, a village in Batambang province, as part of a Cambodian government social land concession to demobilized soldiers and other landless families. Here Sin Seng Hong holds their title, as their children Hi Srey Touch, 12, and Hi Sok Heng, 9, look on from the steps of their home. Yet the family has yet to receive agricultural land, and so Che He has to work on a nearby farm to earn money to support his family of four. Life with Dignity and Dan Church Aid, both members of the ACT Alliance, have assisted community members and local authorities in Boeung Pram as they carry out the social land concession.
    cambodia-2012-jeffrey-rural-160.jpg
  • Hi Srey Touch, 12, and Hi Sok Heng, 9, pose as they get ready for school in their home in the northern Cambodian village of Boeung Pram. Their family received their home and the small parcel of land on which it sits as part of a Cambodian government social land concession to demobilized soldiers and other landless families. Their father, Che He, is a former soldier. The family has yet to receive agricultural land, and so Che He has to work on a nearby farm to earn money to support his family of four. Life with Dignity and Dan Church Aid, both members of the ACT Alliance, have assisted community members and local authorities in Boeung Pram as they carry out the social land concession.
    cambodia-2012-jeffrey-rural-159.jpg
  • Hi Sok Heng, 9, poses as he gets dressed for school in his home in the northern Cambodian village of Boeung Pram. His sister Hi Srey Touch, 12, is in the background. Their family received their home and the small parcel of land on which it sits as part of a Cambodian government social land concession to demobilized soldiers and other landless families. Their father, Che He, is a former soldier. The family has yet to receive agricultural land, and so Che He has to work on a nearby farm to earn money to support his family of four. Life with Dignity and Dan Church Aid, both members of the ACT Alliance, have assisted community members and local authorities in Boeung Pram as they carry out the social land concession.
    cambodia-2012-jeffrey-rural-157.jpg
  • Sin Seng Hong helps her son Hi Sok Heng, 9, get dressed for school in the northern Cambodian village of Boeung Pram, as her daughter Hi Srey Touch, 12, waits. They received their home and the small parcel of land on which it sits as part of a Cambodian government social land concession to demobilized soldiers and other landless families. Sin Seng Hong's husband, Che He, is a former soldier. The family has yet to receive agricultural land, and so Che He has to work on a nearby farm to earn money to support his family of four. Life with Dignity and Dan Church Aid, both members of the ACT Alliance, have assisted community members and local authorities in Boeung Pram as they carry out the social land concession.
    cambodia-2012-jeffrey-rural-155.jpg
  • Sin Seng Hong helps her son Hi Sok Heng, 9, get dressed for school in the northern Cambodian village of Boeung Pram, as her daughter Hi Srey Touch, 12, waits. They received their home and the small parcel of land on which it sits as part of a Cambodian government social land concession to demobilized soldiers and other landless families. Sin Seng Hong's husband, Che He, is a former soldier. The family has yet to receive agricultural land, and so Che He has to work on a nearby farm to earn money to support his family of four. Life with Dignity and Dan Church Aid, both members of the ACT Alliance, have assisted community members and local authorities in Boeung Pram as they carry out the social land concession.
    cambodia-2012-jeffrey-rural-154.jpg
  • Sin Seng Hong helps her son Hi Sok Heng, 9, get dressed for school in the northern Cambodian village of Boeung Pram, as her daughter Hi Srey Touch, 12, combs her hair. They received their home and the small parcel of land on which it sits as part of a Cambodian government social land concession to demobilized soldiers and other landless families. Sin Seng Hong's husband, Che He, is a former soldier. The family has yet to receive agricultural land, and so Che He has to work on a nearby farm to earn money to support his family of four. Life with Dignity and Dan Church Aid, both members of the ACT Alliance, have assisted community members and local authorities in Boeung Pram as they carry out the social land concession.
    cambodia-2012-jeffrey-rural-152.jpg
  • 21 August 2018, De Glind, Netherlands: Through the language of the word, of touch, and of the body, ecumenical youth explore ways of expressing the Word of the Bible through so-called Bibliodrama. ìOn the Moveî is the theme as 12 Dutch and 12 international youth gather for a Youth Pilgrimage in the Netherlands on 21-23 August. Gathering as part of the celebrations of the World Council of Churches 70th anniversary in 2018, the youth spend three days together to explore what it means to be young pilgrims in the ecumenical movement today.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20180821_AH1_314...jpg
  • A man helps another man touch his head as they participate in a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
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  • Refugee children touch the hand of Heydi Foster, the CEO of Misean Cara, in the Doro Refugee Camp in Maban, South Sudan. The camp is one of four in Maban that together shelter more than 130,000 refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan. Misean Cara supports the work of Jesuit Refugee Service in the Maban camps.
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  • An Indonesian domestic worker in Hong Kong keeps in touch with her family back home using social media. There are about 370,000 foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong–about 5 percent of the population–and roughly half are from Indonesia. More than 98 percent of the workers are women, most of whom leave their families behind so that they can earn money to help their families survive.
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  • Constance Langoya, a trauma healer, helps a man touch his face during a trauma healing workshop at the Rejaf School for the Blind in Juba, South Sudan. <br />
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Sponsored by Solidarity with South Sudan and building on the work of Capacitar, the workshops help displaced people and others affected by South Sudan's violence--in this case the blind and visually-challenged--to learn body-based practices that empower them to use their inner wisdom to heal and transform themselves in order to heal injustice and build peace in their families and communities.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-juba-trauma...JPG
  • Refugee children touch the hands of foreign visitors in the Doro Refugee Camp in Maban, South Sudan. The camp is one of four in Maban that together shelter more than 130,000 refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan. Misean Cara supports the work of Jesuit Refugee Service in the Maban camps.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-maban-D620.JPG
  • Refugee children touch the hands of foreign visitors in the Doro Refugee Camp in Maban, South Sudan. The camp is one of four in Maban that together shelter more than 130,000 refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan. Misean Cara supports the work of Jesuit Refugee Service in the Maban camps.
    south-sudan-2018-jeffrey-maban-D619.JPG
  • An Indonesian domestic worker in Hong Kong keeps in touch with her family back home using social media. There are about 370,000 foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong–about 5 percent of the population–and roughly half are from Indonesia. More than 98 percent of the workers are women, most of whom leave their families behind so that they can earn money to help their families survive.
    hong-kong-2018-jeffrey-E025.jpg
  • An Indonesian domestic worker in Hong Kong keeps in touch with her family back home using social media. There are about 370,000 foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong–about 5 percent of the population–and roughly half are from Indonesia. More than 98 percent of the workers are women, most of whom leave their families behind so that they can earn money to help their families survive.
    hong-kong-2018-jeffrey-E024.jpg
  • An Indonesian domestic worker in Hong Kong shows her sister during a live chat on her phone. She keeps in touch with her family back home using social media. There are about 370,000 foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong–about 5 percent of the population–and roughly half are from Indonesia. More than 98 percent of the workers are women, most of whom leave their families behind so that they can earn money to help their families survive.
    hong-kong-2018-jeffrey-E014.jpg
  • A girl touches her mouth during a song that involves hand movements in the Mitchell Woods Preschool run by InterServ Community Services in St. Joseph, Missouri. The preschool includes children from six weeks to 5 years of age. InterServ is an ecumenical ministry long supported by United Methodist Women.
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  • A girl touches her face during a song that involves hand movements in the Mitchell Woods Preschool run by InterServ Community Services in St. Joseph, Missouri. The preschool includes children from six weeks to 5 years of age. InterServ is an ecumenical ministry long supported by United Methodist Women.
    usa-2014-jeffrey-missouri-community-...jpg
  • A girl touches her mouth during a song that involves hand movements in the Mitchell Woods Preschool run by InterServ Community Services in St. Joseph, Missouri. The preschool includes children from six weeks to 5 years of age. InterServ is an ecumenical ministry long supported by United Methodist Women.
    usa-2014-jeffrey-missouri-community-...jpg
  • A girl touches her mouth during a song that involves hand movements in the Mitchell Woods Preschool run by InterServ Community Services in St. Joseph, Missouri. The preschool includes children from six weeks to 5 years of age. InterServ is an ecumenical ministry long supported by United Methodist Women.
    usa-2014-jeffrey-missouri-community-...jpg
  • 6 December 2017, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Jean-Yves Nesset from Côte d'Ivoire, attends ICASA 2017. Here, in the Condomize booth of the Global Village area of ICASA 2017, where an exercise is offered where participants can get temporarily blindfold, to sharpen their senses, as they walk through a space touching various types of soft materials and surfaces. The 19th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) 2017 gathers thousands of researchers, medical professionals, academics, activists and faith-based organizations from all over the world, all looking to overcome the HIV epidemic and eliminate AIDS as a public health threat.
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  • 6 December 2017, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Jean-Yves Nesset from Côte d'Ivoire, attends ICASA 2017. Here, in the Condomize booth of the Global Village area of ICASA 2017, where an exercise is offered where participants can get temporarily blindfold, to sharpen their senses, as they walk through a space touching various types of soft materials and surfaces. The 19th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) 2017 gathers thousands of researchers, medical professionals, academics, activists and faith-based organizations from all over the world, all looking to overcome the HIV epidemic and eliminate AIDS as a public health threat.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20171206_AHP_113...jpg
  • Six-year old Clarisa Jugadora touches a photo of her grandparents, who were taken by police from their home in a Manila slum in 2017. Their bodies were found the next day. They were killed as part of the Philippines government's so-called war on drugs. The girl believes her grandparents are in heaven, and talks to their photograph every day, keeping them apprised of her life.
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  • Six-year old Clarisa Jugadora touches a photo of her grandparents, who were taken by police from their home in a Manila slum in 2017. Their bodies were found the next day. They were killed as part of the Philippines government's so-called war on drugs. The girl believes her grandparents are in heaven, and talks to their photograph every day, keeping them apprised of her life.
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  • A painter puts the finishing touches on a sign at a school in May-it, his village in the southern Philippines province of Samar. The community was ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, but has now constructed several new classrooms with assistance from the ACT Alliance.
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  • A painter puts the finishing touches on a sign at a school in May-it, his village in the southern Philippines province of Samar. The community was ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, but has now constructed several new classrooms with assistance from the ACT Alliance.
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  • A painter puts the finishing touches on a sign at a school in May-it, his village in the southern Philippines province of Samar. The community was ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, but has now constructed several new classrooms with assistance from the ACT Alliance.
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  • A man nails on tin roofing provided by the ACT Alliance as he puts the finishing touches on a transitional shelter in the Tamang village of Goljung, in the Rasuwa District of Nepal near the country's border with Tibet.<br />
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In the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, the ACT Alliance helped people in this village with a variety of services, including blankets, shelter and livelihood assistance.
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  • A man nails on tin roofing provided by the ACT Alliance as he puts the finishing touches on a transitional shelter in the Tamang village of Goljung, in the Rasuwa District of Nepal near the country's border with Tibet.<br />
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In the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, the ACT Alliance helped people in this village with a variety of services, including blankets, shelter and livelihood assistance.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_314305.jpg
  • A man nails on tin roofing provided by the ACT Alliance as he puts the finishing touches on a transitional shelter in the Tamang village of Goljung, in the Rasuwa District of Nepal near the country's border with Tibet.<br />
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In the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal, the ACT Alliance helped people in this village with a variety of services, including blankets, shelter and livelihood assistance.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_314146.jpg
  • Women displaced by violence in Sudan's Darfur region put the finishing touches on a thatched roof, celebrating with song and dance as they go, in the Abu Jabra IDP Camp.
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  • Women displaced by violence in Sudan's Darfur region put the finishing touches on a thatched roof, celebrating with song and dance as they go, in the Abu Jabra IDP Camp.
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  • A girl touches her chin as she sings in a church-sponsored "child-friendly space" in the village of Bakhtme, Iraq, which was flooded with displaced families when the Islamic State group took over nearby portions of the Nineveh Plains in 2014. The space is sponsored by the Christian Aid Program Nohadra - Iraq (CAPNI). It includes some children from the host community as well.
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  • A year after Hurricane Matthew destroyed much of the village of Citerne Remy in Haiti's poverty-wracked northwest, a worker puts the finishing touches on the roof of a new house being built by Church World Service, a member of the ACT Alliance.
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  • A hand touches cocoa pods on a tree at UNCRISPROCA Fairtrade cocoa farms in La Cruz de Rio Grande, RAAS, Nicaragua.
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  • César Abraham Méndez Calix, 31, Jutiquiles<br />
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We’ve seen people leaving Syria, going through France, thousands of them. We never thought we’d see thousands of people leaving Honduras at the same time. But, if you all go together, you don’t pay smugglers, and it’s safer.<br />
<br />
I lived in a really dangerous neighbourhood. Really dangerous. Lots of my friends were killed.<br />
<br />
The first three times I got up to Laredo.<br />
Then I went on the train, on top of the train, up to Mexicali.<br />
All in all, I went six times, I was deported five times.<br />
<br />
The last time, the people I was with got impatient, they tried to get across, they were deported. I got homesick, I decided to come back here, to eat beans.<br />
<br />
But, it’s hard here, economically. <br />
<br />
I was lucky to survive it, I saw someone killed in front of me, I was with this guy from Choluteca, we were tired, it was six in the morning, we hadn’t slept much, we were perched in between the train wagons, he slipped off and went straight under the wheels. God knows how many people have died on the journey, and plenty come back with limbs missing. Another time I saw someone reach out for a mango from an overhanging tree, the train will full, 60 people on each wagon, we were hungry, so he reached out, he slipped, he went between the wagons, landed on his teeth, he was dead straight away.<br />
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One time I nearly died myself. I was travelling between Nayarit and Guadalajara. I was on the train and I touched a high-tension cable, it just brushed my face, burned me, two Mexicans stopped me from falling off, they grabbed my legs. I’ve never been closer to death. I have never got on a train again. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Mexican throw stones at you while you’re on the train. <br />
<br />
I have done training with the LWF, I am making a living painting, painting houses and businesses, and doing signwriting and tattoos.<br />
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LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
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  • César Abraham Méndez Calix, 31, Jutiquiles<br />
<br />
We’ve seen people leaving Syria, going through France, thousands of them. We never thought we’d see thousands of people leaving Honduras at the same time. But, if you all go together, you don’t pay smugglers, and it’s safer.<br />
<br />
I lived in a really dangerous neighbourhood. Really dangerous. Lots of my friends were killed.<br />
<br />
The first three times I got up to Laredo.<br />
Then I went on the train, on top of the train, up to Mexicali.<br />
All in all, I went six times, I was deported five times.<br />
<br />
The last time, the people I was with got impatient, they tried to get across, they were deported. I got homesick, I decided to come back here, to eat beans.<br />
<br />
But, it’s hard here, economically. <br />
<br />
I was lucky to survive it, I saw someone killed in front of me, I was with this guy from Choluteca, we were tired, it was six in the morning, we hadn’t slept much, we were perched in between the train wagons, he slipped off and went straight under the wheels. God knows how many people have died on the journey, and plenty come back with limbs missing. Another time I saw someone reach out for a mango from an overhanging tree, the train will full, 60 people on each wagon, we were hungry, so he reached out, he slipped, he went between the wagons, landed on his teeth, he was dead straight away.<br />
<br />
One time I nearly died myself. I was travelling between Nayarit and Guadalajara. I was on the train and I touched a high-tension cable, it just brushed my face, burned me, two Mexicans stopped me from falling off, they grabbed my legs. I’ve never been closer to death. I have never got on a train again. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Mexican throw stones at you while you’re on the train. <br />
<br />
I have done training with the LWF, I am making a living painting, painting houses and businesses, and doing signwriting and tattoos.<br />
<br />
LWF’s program for returned and deported migrants is supported by ELCA.
    Honduras_Hawkey_migrants_20190122_58...jpg
  • Sekou Minkailou, (centre) chief of Matam district in Conakry, worked closely with the team from WHO to convince his people to participate in the Ebola vaccine trial. In Matam district, 10 people, including a doctor, had already died during the outbreak and people were frightened of this new disease that they had never seen before in their country.<br />
“People were so scared, they refused to follow the advice from the government and health workers. They didn’t even want the Red Cross to be involved. They hid the bodies of people who died from Ebola because there was such horrible stigma attached to the family once it was touched by Ebola.”<br />
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Minkailou and his colleagues in the district office were often the first people to have contact with families when a new Ebola case was announced. “We feel really happy, so relieved that this vaccine protects us,” he said.
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  • On a memorial, a woman touched the names of family victims of the El Mozote massacre, in which approximately 1,000 men, women and chilren were killed by the US-trained Atlacatl battalion in El Salvador.
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  • A girl touches her face during a song that involves hand movements in the Mitchell Woods Preschool run by InterServ Community Services in St. Joseph, Missouri. The preschool includes children from six weeks to 5 years of age. InterServ is an ecumenical ministry long supported by United Methodist Women.
    usa-2014-jeffrey-missouri-community-...jpg
  • A girl touches her nose as she sings in a church-sponsored "child-friendly space" in the village of Bakhtme, Iraq, which was flooded with displaced families when the Islamic State group took over nearby portions of the Nineveh Plains in 2014. The space is sponsored by the Christian Aid Program Nohadra - Iraq (CAPNI). It includes some children from the host community as well.
    iraq-2017-jeffrey-capni-220.jpg