Life on Earth Pictures

  • Archive
  • Search
  • Recent
  • Subscribe
  • Website
Show Navigation
Cart Lightbox Client Area

Search Results

Refine Search
Match all words
Match any word
Prints
Personal Use
Royalty-Free
Rights-Managed
(leave unchecked to
search all images)
{ 92 images found }

Loading ()...

  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Nursery worker Makel Chol Deng undertakes weeding in a bed of teak seeds sown at a tree nursery in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement. A 43-year-old farmer from Jonglei, South Sudanese refugee Makel Chol Deng supports an LWF project producing more than 150,000 tree seedlings on an annual basis. “When I arrived here, the environment here was nothing like this. Now we are planting trees, and it shows the importance of taking care of our environment,” he says. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [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.]
    Uganda-2022-Hillert-20220401_AH2_371...jpg
  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Nursery worker Makel Chol Deng undertakes weeding in a bed of teak seeds sown at a tree nursery in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement. A 43-year-old farmer from Jonglei, South Sudanese refugee Makel Chol Deng supports an LWF project producing more than 150,000 tree seedlings on an annual basis. “When I arrived here, the environment here was nothing like this. Now we are planting trees, and it shows the importance of taking care of our environment,” he says. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [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.]
    Uganda-2022-Hillert-20220401_AH2_370...jpg
  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Nursery worker Makel Chol Deng undertakes weeding in a bed of teak seeds sown at a tree nursery in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement. A 43-year-old farmer from Jonglei, South Sudanese refugee Makel Chol Deng supports an LWF project producing more than 150,000 tree seedlings on an annual basis. “When I arrived here, the environment here was nothing like this. Now we are planting trees, and it shows the importance of taking care of our environment,” he says. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [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.]
    Uganda-2022-Hillert-20220401_AH2_371...jpg
  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Nursery worker Makel Chol Deng undertakes weeding in a bed of teak seeds sown at a tree nursery in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement. A 43-year-old farmer from Jonglei, South Sudanese refugee Makel Chol Deng supports an LWF project producing more than 150,000 tree seedlings on an annual basis. “When I arrived here, the environment here was nothing like this. Now we are planting trees, and it shows the importance of taking care of our environment,” he says. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [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.]
    Uganda-2022-Hillert-20220401_AH2_369...jpg
  • Boys work weeding a field in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-058.jpg
  • Boys work weeding a field in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-057.jpg
  • A woman weeds her peanuts in West Fasura, a village on an island in the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-flooding-B08...JPG
  • Along with teacher Emanuel Patrick, students in the Catholic-sponsored St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan, weed a school garden that grows food for the school's lunch program.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A1...jpg
  • Students in the Catholic-sponsored St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan, weed a school garden that grows food for the school's lunch program.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A1...JPG
  • A woman weeds her peanuts in West Fasura, a village on an island in the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-flooding-B08...JPG
  • Delbor Ali weeds his peanuts in West Fasura, a village on an island in the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-flooding-B30...JPG
  • Students in the Catholic-sponsored St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan, weed a school garden that grows food for the school's lunch program.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A0...jpg
  • Along with teacher Emanuel Patrick, students in the Catholic-sponsored St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan, weed a school garden that grows food for the school's lunch program.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A0...jpg
  • Habiza Begum weeds her peanuts in West Fasura, a village on an island in the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-flooding-B31...JPG
  • Jean Jean Rony weeds his field of leeks in the Haitian community of Ganthier with help from his nephew Djerry Jean in the background. They received seeds and other assistance from Servicio Social de las Iglesis Dominicanas, a member of the ACT Alliance, after their community was devastated in 2016 by Hurricane Matthew. With SSID's help, residents are rebuilding their lives.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-9132.JPG
  • Monna Rolket weeds his farm on the Haitian island of La Gonave where Service Chrétien d’Haïti is working with survivors of Hurricane Matthew, which struck the region in 2016. SCH, a member of the ACT Alliance, supports agriculture on the island by providing tools, seeds, and technical support and training for farmers.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-8360.JPG
  • Renaud Jerome, 35, weeds seedlings in a nursery that's part of a reforestation project in the mountainous community of Foret-des-Pins, Haiti. Plagued by deforestation, much of it to produce charcoal for urban cooking stoves, residents of the area are working with the Lutheran World Federation and International Orthodox Christian Charities to reforest and protect their environment. In the nursery, Jerome and other residents are producing seedlings for transplanting onto nearby mountainsides..
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A196.jpg
  • Renaud Jerome, 35, weeds seedlings in a nursery that's part of a reforestation project in the mountainous community of Foret-des-Pins, Haiti. Plagued by deforestation, much of it to produce charcoal for urban cooking stoves, residents of the area are working with the Lutheran World Federation and International Orthodox Christian Charities to reforest and protect their environment. In the nursery, Jerome and other residents are producing seedlings for transplanting onto nearby mountainsides..
    haiti-2010-jeffrey-A195.jpg
  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Nursery worker Makel Chol Deng (left) and his colleague work at a tree nursery in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement. A 43-year-old farmer from Jonglei, South Sudanese refugee Makel Chol Deng supports an LWF project producing more than 150,000 tree seedlings on an annual basis. “When I arrived here, the environment here was nothing like this. Now we are planting trees, and it shows the importance of taking care of our environment,” he says. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [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.]
    Uganda-2022-Hillert-20220401_AH1_754...jpg
  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Nursery worker Makel Chol Deng (right) and his colleague work at a tree nursery in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement. A 43-year-old farmer from Jonglei, South Sudanese refugee Makel Chol Deng supports an LWF project producing more than 150,000 tree seedlings on an annual basis. “When I arrived here, the environment here was nothing like this. Now we are planting trees, and it shows the importance of taking care of our environment,” he says. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [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.]
    Uganda-2022-Hillert-20220401_AH2_367...jpg
  • Adhieu Deng Ngewei and other women work together on April 12, 2017, in a community vegetable garden in Dong Boma, a Dinka village in South Sudan's Jonglei State. Most of the women's families recently returned home after being displaced by rebel soldiers in December, 2013, and they face serious challenges in rebuilding their village while simultaneously coping with a drought which has devastated their cattle herds.<br />
<br />
The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping the villagers restart their lives with support for housing, livelihood, and food security.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-E2058.JPG
  • Women work together in a community vegetable garden on April 12, 2017, in Dong Boma, a Dinka village in South Sudan's Jonglei State. Most of the women's families recently returned home after being displaced by rebel soldiers in December, 2013, and they face serious challenges in rebuilding their village while simultaneously coping with a drought which has devastated their cattle herds.<br />
<br />
The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping villagers restart their lives with support for housing, livelihood, and food security.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-E2026.JPG
  • Irene Botha farms corn in Chigumba, a village in northern Malawi which has been hit hard by drought and hunger. The ACT Alliance is helping residents of this community discover new ways to grow more food, thus achieving food security for their families.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-176.jpg
  • Sister Baiada Lyngkhoi, a Loreto Sister from India, supervises a student being disciplined at the Loreto Primary School in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-A294.jpg
  • Sister Baiada Lyngkhoi, a Loreto Sister from India, supervises a student being disciplined at the Loreto Primary School in Maker Kuei, South Sudan.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-rumbek-A292.jpg
  • Adhieu Deng Ngewei and other women work together on April 12, 2017, in a community vegetable garden in Dong Boma, a Dinka village in South Sudan's Jonglei State. Most of the women's families recently returned home after being displaced by rebel soldiers in December, 2013, and they face serious challenges in rebuilding their village while simultaneously coping with a drought which has devastated their cattle herds.<br />
<br />
The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping the villagers restart their lives with support for housing, livelihood, and food security.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-E2079.JPG
  • Robert Gondwe farms tobacco, an important cash crop in Chigumba, a village in northern Malawi which has been hit hard by drought and hunger. Tobacco has traditionally been grown, in addition to corn, as a way for families to earn cash. Yet falling tobacco prices have made it a less lucrative crop.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-179.jpg
  • Djerry Jean hoes a field of leeks in the Haitian community of Ganthier. His family received seeds and other assistance from Servicio Social de las Iglesis Dominicanas, a member of the ACT Alliance, after their community was devastated in 2016 by Hurricane Matthew. With SSID's help, residents are slowly rebuilding their lives.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-9148.JPG
  • Adhieu Deng Ngewei and other women work together on April 12, 2017, in a community vegetable garden in Dong Boma, a Dinka village in South Sudan's Jonglei State. Most of the women's families recently returned home after being displaced by rebel soldiers in December, 2013, and they face serious challenges in rebuilding their village while simultaneously coping with a drought which has devastated their cattle herds.<br />
<br />
The Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, is helping the villagers restart their lives with support for housing, livelihood, and food security.
    south-sudan-2017-jeffrey-E2073.JPG
  • Lucienne Acar cares for coffee plants in a nursery in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-036.jpg
  • Lucienne Acar cares for coffee plants in a nursery in Les Palmes, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with survivors of the 2010 earthquake, along with other residents, to experience more abundant life.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-035.jpg
  • Irene Botha farms tobacco, an important cash crop in Chigumba, a village in northern Malawi which has been hit hard by drought and hunger. Tobacco has traditionally been grown, in addition to corn, as a way for families to earn cash. Yet falling tobacco prices have made it a less lucrative crop.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-154.jpg
  • Irene Botha farms tobacco, an important cash crop in Chigumba, a village in northern Malawi which has been hit hard by drought and hunger. Tobacco has traditionally been grown, in addition to corn, as a way for families to earn cash. Yet falling tobacco prices have made it a less lucrative crop.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-178.jpg
  • Irene Botha farms corn in Chigumba, a village in northern Malawi which has been hit hard by drought and hunger. The ACT Alliance is helping residents of this community discover new ways to grow more food, thus achieving food security for their families.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-177.jpg
  • Irene Botha farms corn in Chigumba, a village in northern Malawi which has been hit hard by drought and hunger. The ACT Alliance is helping residents of this community discover new ways to grow more food, thus achieving food security for their families.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-175.jpg
  • With help from her 5-year old son Safal, Maya Thapalyia picks plants for her livestock to eat in front of a transitional house built for her family in Majhitar, Nepal, by Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. Her family's home collapsed completely in an April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_306172.jpg
  • Maya Thapalyia picks plants for her livestock to eat in front of a transitional house built for her family in Majhitar, Nepal, by Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. Her family's home collapsed completely in an April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_306167.JPG
  • Maya Thapalyia picks plants for her livestock to eat in front of a transitional house built for her family in Majhitar, Nepal, by Dan Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance. Her family's home collapsed completely in an April 2015 earthquake that ravaged Nepal.
    nepal_2016_jeffrey_306090.JPG
  • Djerry Jean hoes a field of leeks in the Haitian community of Ganthier. His family received seeds and other assistance from Servicio Social de las Iglesis Dominicanas, a member of the ACT Alliance, after their community was devastated in 2016 by Hurricane Matthew. With SSID's help, residents are slowly rebuilding their lives.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-9146.JPG
  • Carrying her hoe, Alefa Soloti walks home after weeding her field of sesame in Dickson, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-101.jpg
  • Alimah (right) and her husband Sugiyanto, weed their rice field on the Indonesian island of Java. Rice is the main staple of the Javanese diet.
    indonesia-2007-jeffrey-128.jpg
  • Abel Dupres weeds his farm field early in the morning in Despagne, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-213.jpg
  • Alimah, a rice farmer on the Indonesian island of Java, weeds her field. Rice is the main staple of the Javanese diet.
    indonesia-2007-jeffrey-126.jpg
  • Abel Dupres weeds his farm field early in the morning in Despagne, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-214.jpg
  • Alefa Soloti weeds her field of sesame in Dickson, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-100.jpg
  • Alefa Soloti weeds her field of sesame in Dickson, a village in southern Malawi that has been hard hit by drought in recent years, leading to chronic food insecurity, especially during the "hunger season," when farmers are waiting for the harvest.
    malawi-2011-jeffrey-098.jpg
  • 24 November 2016, Gotland, Sweden: A day of fishing for seatrout along the Gotland coastline, with instruction by guides from Fish Your Dream.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20161124_AHP_640...jpg
  • 24 November 2016, Gotland, Sweden: A day of fishing for seatrout along the Gotland coastline, with instruction by guides from Fish Your Dream.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20161124_AHP_630...jpg
  • Maria Oralia Jiguan tends her potato crop in Buena Vista Bacchuc, a small Mam-speaking Maya village in Comitancillo, Guatemala. Women in the community have received help with their agricultural projects from the Maya Mam Association for Investigation and Development (AMMID).
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-mam-129.jpg
  • Abel Dupres works in his farm field early in the morning in Despagne, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-220.jpg
  • Maria Oralia Jiguan tends her potato crop in Buena Vista Bacchuc, a small Mam-speaking Maya village in Comitancillo, Guatemala. Women in the community have received help with their agricultural projects from the Maya Mam Association for Investigation and Development (AMMID).
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-mam-128.jpg
  • Abel Dupres works in his farm field early in the morning in Despagne, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-219.jpg
  • A man farms pauses from hoeing his field of corn in the Haitian village of Mizak.
    haiti-2009-jeffrey-419.jpg
  • A man farms hoes his field of corn in the Haitian village of Mizak.
    haiti-2009-jeffrey-417.jpg
  • 3 March 2017, Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho: Farmer David Moshoeshoe is 33 years old. He lives on the hillside of Thaba Bosiu, ”Night Mountain” in Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho, where he grows vegetables, mainly cabbage and spinach. Here, he tends to cabbages that are one month old. They are ready to be harvested after a total of three months. Thaba Bosiu is a sandstone plateau some 24 kilometers east of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. The name means Night Mountain, and surrounding the plateau is a small village and open plains. Thaba Bosiu was once the capital of Lesotho, and the mountain was the stronghold of the Basotho king when the kingdom of Lesotho was formed.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170303_AHP_588...jpg
  • 3 March 2017, Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho: Farmer David Moshoeshoe is 33 years old. He lives on the hillside of Thaba Bosiu, ”Night Mountain” in Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho, where he grows vegetables, mainly cabbage and spinach. Here, he tends to cabbages that are one month old. They are ready to be harvested after a total of three months. Thaba Bosiu is a sandstone plateau some 24 kilometers east of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. The name means Night Mountain, and surrounding the plateau is a small village and open plains. Thaba Bosiu was once the capital of Lesotho, and the mountain was the stronghold of the Basotho king when the kingdom of Lesotho was formed.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170303_AHP_243...jpg
  • Agriculture, especially rice, remains at the heart of Cambodia's economy and culture. Here a man controls the amount of water flowing into a rice paddy.
    cambodia-2005-jeffrey-rural-026.jpg
  • 3 March 2017, Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho: Farmer David Moshoeshoe is 33 years old. He lives on the hillside of Thaba Bosiu, ”Night Mountain” in Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho, where he grows vegetables, mainly cabbage and spinach. Here, he tends to cabbages that are one month old. They are ready to be harvested after a total of three months. Thaba Bosiu is a sandstone plateau some 24 kilometers east of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. The name means Night Mountain, and surrounding the plateau is a small village and open plains. Thaba Bosiu was once the capital of Lesotho, and the mountain was the stronghold of the Basotho king when the kingdom of Lesotho was formed.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170303_AHP_587...jpg
  • 3 March 2017, Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho: Farmer David Moshoeshoe is 33 years old. He lives on the hillside of Thaba Bosiu, ”Night Mountain” in Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho, where he grows vegetables, mainly cabbage and spinach. Here, he tends to cabbages that are one month old. They are ready to be harvested after a total of three months. Thaba Bosiu is a sandstone plateau some 24 kilometers east of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. The name means Night Mountain, and surrounding the plateau is a small village and open plains. Thaba Bosiu was once the capital of Lesotho, and the mountain was the stronghold of the Basotho king when the kingdom of Lesotho was formed.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170303_AHP_586...jpg
  • 3 March 2017, Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho: Farmer David Moshoeshoe is 33 years old. He lives on the hillside of Thaba Bosiu, ”Night Mountain” in Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho, where he grows vegetables, mainly cabbage and spinach. Here, he tends to cabbages that are one month old. They are ready to be harvested after a total of three months. Thaba Bosiu is a sandstone plateau some 24 kilometers east of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. The name means Night Mountain, and surrounding the plateau is a small village and open plains. Thaba Bosiu was once the capital of Lesotho, and the mountain was the stronghold of the Basotho king when the kingdom of Lesotho was formed.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170303_AHP_243...jpg
  • Abel Dupres works in his farm field early in the morning in Despagne, a rural village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-218.jpg
  • A man farms hoes his field of corn in the Haitian village of Mizak.
    haiti-2009-jeffrey-418.jpg
  • 3 March 2017, Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho: Farmer David Moshoeshoe is 33 years old. He lives on the hillside of Thaba Bosiu, ”Night Mountain” in Thaba Bosiu, Lesotho, where he grows vegetables, mainly cabbage and spinach. Thaba Bosiu is a sandstone plateau some 24 kilometers east of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru. The name means Night Mountain, and surrounding the plateau is a small village and open plains. Thaba Bosiu was once the capital of Lesotho, and the mountain was the stronghold of the Basotho king when the kingdom of Lesotho was formed.
    PhotoByAlbinHillert_20170303_AHP_246...jpg
  • Gloria Ventura works in her farm field in Buena Vista Bacchuc, a small Mam-speaking Maya village in Comitancillo, Guatemala. She is part of a women's agricultural group that is assisted by the Maya Mam Association for Investigation and Development (AMMID).
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-mam-133.jpg
  • An abandoned building in East St. Louis, Illinois.
    usa-2004-jeffrey-east-st-louis-12.jpg
  • Gloria Ventura works in her farm field in Buena Vista Bacchuc, a small Mam-speaking Maya village in Comitancillo, Guatemala. She is part of a women's agricultural group that is assisted by the Maya Mam Association for Investigation and Development (AMMID).
    guatemala-2014-jeffrey-mam-134.jpg
  • Residents of Kamina, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, clean an irrigation canal as part of an effort to destroy breeding grounds of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. The project, sponsored by the United Methodist Church, is part of a larger effort to eradicate the disease, which kills more than a million people a year, most of them in Africa.
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A321.jpg
  • Residents of Kamina, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, clean an irrigation canal as part of an effort to destroy breeding grounds of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. The project, sponsored by the United Methodist Church, is part of a larger effort to eradicate the disease, which kills more than a million people a year, most of them in Africa.
    drc-2008-jeffrey-congo-A320.jpg
  • An abandoned building in East St. Louis, Illinois.
    usa-2004-jeffrey-east-st-louis-11.jpg
  • An abandoned building in East St. Louis, Illinois.
    usa-2004-jeffrey-east-st-louis-10.jpg
  • 1 April 2022, Nyumanzi refugee settlement, Adjumani district, Uganda: Nursery worker Makel Chol Deng undertakes weeding in a bed of teak seeds sown at a tree nursery in the Nyumanzi refugee settlement. A 43-year-old farmer from Jonglei, South Sudanese refugee Makel Chol Deng supports an LWF project producing more than 150,000 tree seedlings on an annual basis. “When I arrived here, the environment here was nothing like this. Now we are planting trees, and it shows the importance of taking care of our environment,” he says. The Nyumanzi refugee settlement, in Adjumani district, West Nile area of northern Uganda, hosts more than 50,000 refugees, the majority of which arrived following the eruption of war in South Sudan in 2013. The refugees and host communities in the area receive support from the Lutheran World Federation World Service program in Uganda. [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.]
    Uganda-2022-Hillert-20220401_AH2_369...jpg
  • Khimabhai Bharanbhai, a Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer, weeding a cotton field in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170110_429.jpg
  • Matalben weeding a cotton field in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170110_559.jpg
  • Matalben weeding a cotton field in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170110_076-2.jpg
  • Khimabhai Bharanbhai, a Fairtrade-certified cotton farmer, weeding a cotton field in Rapar district, Gujarat, India.<br />
<br />
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand support cotton producer groups in India. Fairtrade-certified groups benefit from Fairtrade through guaranteed prices for their produce, technical assistance to improve quality and output, and the Fairtrade premium which the producer groups decide what to do with, often using it for education and health care for their members' communities.<br />
<br />
RDFC (formerly Agrocel) is a Fairtrade-certified group of thousands of farmers who grow cotton in the Rapar, Kutch region of Gujarat in western India
    India_Hawkey_Gujarat_20170110_909.jpg
  • The Egongu family work together weeding a plot of beans on their family farm in n Otubet, Amuria District, Uganda.
    Uganda_Hawkey_20170605_359.jpg
  • Two women work weeding seedlings in a plant nursery in Despagne, an isolated village in southern Haiti where the Lutheran World Federation has been working with residents to improve their quality of life. The LWF-sponsored nursery helps residents combat their country's rampant deforestation.
    haiti-2013-jeffrey-159.jpg
  • A year after Hurricane Matthew ravaged their farms and homes, these farmers weeding peanuts near Bombardopolis in Haiti's poverty-wracked northwest have rebuilt their agricultural base with help from Lutheran World Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-3037.JPG
  • Rowshan Ara walks through a rice field she is weeding in Kunderpara, a village on an island in the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-flooding-A31...JPG
  • A student in the Catholic-sponsored St. Dominic Savio Primary School in Riimenze, South Sudan, poses while weeding a school garden that grows food for the school's lunch program.
    south-sudan-2021-jeffrey-riimenze-A0...jpg
  • A year after Hurricane Matthew ravaged their farms and homes, these farmers weeding peanuts near Bombardopolis in Haiti's poverty-wracked northwest have rebuilt their agricultural base with help from Lutheran World Relief, a member of the ACT Alliance.
    haiti-2017-jeffrey-3181.JPG
  • Workers clear grass and weeds in a coffee plantation at Fairtrade-certified coop Flor del Pino in Honduras.
    Honduras_Fairtrade_Finland_0643.jpg
  • Ramjan Ali weeds a rice field in Kunderpara, a village on an island in the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-flooding-A30...JPG
  • Ramjan Ali weeds a rice field in Kunderpara, a village on an island in the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-flooding-01.JPG
  • Rowshan Ara weeds a rice field in Kunderpara, a village on an island in the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-flooding-02.JPG
  • Cotton needs plenty of sunshine to grow, so farmers need to work in hot, unshaded fields. The earth is tilled by hand and then weeded regularly, and the picking is done over a period of weeks as the cotton bolls ripen successively.
    senegal_hawkey_20121211_038.jpg
  • A worker clears grass and weeds in a coffee plantation at Fairtrade-certified coop Flor del Pino in Honduras.
    Honduras_Fairtrade_Finland_0584.jpg
  • A worker clears grass and weeds in a coffee plantation at Fairtrade-certified coop Flor del Pino in Honduras.
    Honduras_Fairtrade_Finland_0553.jpg
  • Marcos, a Q'eqchi man cleans his corn field of weeds using a machete. Concepción Actelá, Alta Verapaz.
    Guatemala_Hawkey_Alta_Verapaz_201607...jpg
  • A woman weeds a rice field in Kunderpara, a village on an island in the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-flooding-A37...JPG
  • Ramjan Ali weeds a rice field in Kunderpara, a village on an island in the Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh.
    bangladesh-2017-jeffrey-flooding-A29...JPG
  • Maize growing on a demonstration plot at Kucwiny Integrated Food Security Project in Uganda, supported by World Renew. The ground is covered with straw mulch, and the maize is planted with little tillage or disturbance of the soil. The soil under the mulch remains moist, and the heavier the mulch, the fewer weeds grow.
    Uganda_Hawkey_World_Renew_20180627_1...jpg