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  • A Garifuna woman in front of her traditional thatched house in Santa Rosa de Aguán, Colón, Honduras.
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  • A woman in a new house provided by a Christian Aid-sponsored project for construction and improvement of housing for returned IDPs. Cacarica is a community of returned displaced people or IDPs, many here have witnessed massacres, assasinations and other violence. This peace community, that aims to exclude all armed groups, was established to protect civilians from military activity and recruitment by paramilitaries, army and guerilla.
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  • Zenaida Yanowsky, principal at the Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London. Wetplate, collodion, tintype portrait.
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  • Lauren Cuthbertson, principal ballet dancer, Royal Opera House, London, wetplate collodion tintype portrait
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  • Carlos Acosta, principal ballet dancer, Royal Opera House, London, wetplate collodion tintype portrait
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  • Carlos Acosta, principal dancer, Royal Opera House.
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  • Lauren Cuthbertson, principal ballet dancer, Royal Opera House, London, wetplate collodion tintype portrait
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  • Lauren Cuthbertson, principal ballet dancer, Royal Opera House, London, wetplate collodion tintype portrait
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  • Lauren Cuthbertson, principal ballet dancer, Royal Opera House, London, wetplate collodion tintype portrait
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  • Carlos Acosta, principal ballet dancer, Royal Opera House, London, wetplate collodion tintype portrait
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  • Carlos Acosta, principal ballet dancer, Royal Opera House, London, wetplate collodion tintype portrait
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  • Carlos Acosta, principal ballet dancer, Royal Opera House, London, wetplate collodion tintype portrait
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  • A blue-painted house was covered by flood waters during hurricanes Eta and Iota in Chamelecón, San Pedro Sula.<br />
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Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
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  • At the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il adorn the wall above a lecture theatre with cassette players.
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  • Joyce DiDonato, opera singer, Royal Opera House, London
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  • Joyce DiDonato, opera singer, Royal Opera House, London
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  • At the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il adorn the wall above a lecture theatre as students use computers.
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  • At the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il adorn the wall above the library book checkout area.
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  • At the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, a sign says "Area of Education through Revolutionary materials".
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  • At the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang in a room for the study of the "Works of President Kim Il Sung and books on his greatness".
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  • At the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang, a room sign says "Works of President Kim Il Sung and books on his greatness"
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  • Peope cycle past the Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang.
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  • The Grand People's Study House in Pyongyang is lit up at night.
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  • The Grand People's Study House in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. The floor is covered in marks for choreographed dances.
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  • With the Grand People's Study House in the background, the window of a bus reflects the Juche Idea Tower.
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  • Joyce DiDonato, opera singer, Royal Opera House, London
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  • Joyce DiDonato, opera singer, Royal Opera House, London
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  • Joyce DiDonato, opera singer, Royal Opera House, London
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  • Joyce DiDonato, opera singer, Royal Opera House, London
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  • Joyce DiDonato, opera singer, Royal Opera House, London
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  • Joyce DiDonato, opera singer, Royal Opera House, London
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  • On November 24th 2020, following two hurricanes Eta and Iota and very heavy rainfall, a huge landslide occurred in La Reina, Protección, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Estimates are that 280 houses disappeared under the mud. Many other houses like this one nearby were affected by subsidence and are now uninhabitable.
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  • A man stands among the ruins of housing caused by hurricane Eta in Chamelecón, San Pedro Sula. The building on the right is an evangelical church.<br />
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Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
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  • Scenes of the destruction caused by hurricane Eta in Chamelecón, San Pedro Sula.<br />
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Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
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  • A typical rural household in the mountains of the tropical Ixcan region in the department of Quiche, Guatemala.
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  • Stars shine at night over a village near Dedza.<br />
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World Renew supports agricultural and nutritional work in the village.
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  • A Malawian farmer sits at home in the evening in a village near Dedza.<br />
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World Renew supports agricultural and nutritional work in the village.
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  • Portrait of a young woman  in southern Malawi.<br />
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In this area World Renew works on peer-mentoring programmes for girls. <br />
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The region has a problem of girls and young women who work at markets being pressured into transactional sex by their clients. The peer-mentoring programme teaches girls how to resist such pressure, and teaches them about how to prevent HIV and pregnancy.<br />
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The groups have become very popular with girls in the area.
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  • A Maya Chortí family at home in the Copán region of Honduras
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  • A woman collects blue eggs from her hens in Cacarica, Chocó, Colombia
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  • building a house using adobe blocks and an earthquake-resistant design that includes reinforcing canes and buttresses.
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  • building a house using adobe blocks and an earthquake-resistant design that includes reinforcing canes, buttresses and, also visible here, a reinforced concrete bond beam cast in situ inside special adobe blocks.
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  • building a house using adobe blocks and an earthquake-resistant design that includes reinforcing canes, buttresses and, also visible here, a reinforced concrete bond beam cast in situ inside special adobe blocks.
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  • A reinforced-concrete bond beam being prepared on an adobe house. This type of bond beam needs to be shuttered with timber to make. Other types use a row of special adobes
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  • A builder carries an adobe during the construction of a house with reinforcing canes and buttresses that increase the earthquake-resistance of the building
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  • An adobe house plastered on the inside, Ayutuxtepeque
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  • Flooded housing at Tres Reyes. Between San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa at Tres Reyes, Pimienta was flooded during hurricane Iota, the water came at 2am, a lot of people were prepared, but flash flooding caught many by surprise and they lost all their belongings.
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  • Flooded housing at Tres Reyes. Between San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa at Tres Reyes, Pimienta was flooded during hurricane Iota, the water came at 2am, a lot of people were prepared, but flash flooding caught many by surprise and they lost all their belongings.
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  • A young man carries a rock during a community housing project in Ayutuxtepeque, San Salvador, El Salvador
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  • New housing blocks in Caracas. The government housing programme, called Misión Vivienda, has recently delivered 250,000 new homes, most of them fully-furnished, and plans to deliver three million homes over the next three years.
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  • Waterside housing on the gulf of Urabá, Colombia
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  • Lines of freshly made square adobes with spaces made for reinforcing between blocks. This is part of an eartquake-resistant design
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  • Women use machetes to clean the underside of adobe blocks
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  • a first course of adobe blocks is laid around the reinforcing blocks
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  • a boy pushes two other boys in a wheelbarrow, Ayutuxtepeque, El Salvador
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  • Lines of freshly made half-square adobes with spaces made for reinforcing between blocks. This is part of an eartquake-resistant design
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  • Lines of freshly made square adobes with spaces made for reinforcing between blocks. This is part of an eartquake-resistant design
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  • A man makes square adobes using a "gradilla" or mould. First the gradilla is wetted and then the prepared mud is thrown and pushed into it. The gradilla is removed, and the adobe is left to dry in the sun.
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  • Children prepare mud for adobes in a large mud pit in San Francisco Ayutuxtepeque. 1994
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  • shovels and pickaxes rest against a pile of adobe blocks
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  • Adobe bricks stacked in the sun
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  • Mountain scenery in the Valle del Ensueño, Huehuetenango, where ASOBAGRI farmers are based.
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  • Lines of freshly made square adobes with spaces made for reinforcing between blocks. This is part of an eartquake-resistant design
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  • Adobe blocks with channels made in them to allow the casting of a bond beam without the use of shuttering
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  • Elieser Valle, el Pacayito, Colinas. Elisier is a member of the COCASJOL coffee cooperative. “With Eta our land began to subside, to sink, but when Iota came and the rain, the land began to slip away, down the mountain. Most of the coffee farm is affected, and it’s affecting the house, it’s what worries us most at the moment, the house is on the edge of the landslide now. We don’t sleep well, when the hurricanes were in full swing we had to stay in another house for a while, we were too scared to sleep here. Thank God we are okay, but if this carries on we’ll have to abandon the house. We aren’t the only ones, there are other families in the same situation. We are in danger of losing everything, the coffee farm and the house.“
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  • Mohammed Sbeah's house in Beit Hanina, a Palestinian neighbourhood in East Jerusalem, was demolished on 4th July 2017. Mr Sbeah explained what happened: "I was surprised that I saw a big bulldozer, with a lot of army and policemen and special forces, they came with the local governent. They started tearing my house down, without taking me to court, without me seeing a judge or anything. They just teared down the house". His family is now living in his mother-in-law's house. The local community has helped him clear the debris.
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  • Jesus, Survivor of Domestic Violence<br />
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María de Jesús Gabarette, Tierra Colorada, Lempira<br />
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"My husband died. He hanged himself, here in the house, with a rope. He was a drunk. When he used to get drunk I’d be afraid. He’d be really drunk sometimes and he’d shout at me, telling me off for going to church. Sometimes I’d just leave the house and sleep somewhere else, or I’d sleep with a knife under my pillow. Everyone used to tell me to leave him. Since he’s died, it’s helped me going to the church. My children helped me build this little adobe house.<br />
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He’s been dead seven years now. Lots of women get killed by drunk and violent husbands.<br />
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I’m afraid my kids will waste their lives drinking.<br />
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I make a living by going to Lepaera to buy vegetables and chickens, and I bring them back here to sell. And I’m training to be a midwife. I had my first baby at 24, here in the house, attended by a midwife."
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  • Jesus, Survivor of Domestic Violence<br />
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María de Jesús Gabarette, Tierra Colorada, Lempira<br />
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"My husband died. He hanged himself, here in the house, with a rope. He was a drunk. When he used to get drunk I’d be afraid. He’d be really drunk sometimes and he’d shout at me, telling me off for going to church. Sometimes I’d just leave the house and sleep somewhere else, or I’d sleep with a knife under my pillow. Everyone used to tell me to leave him. Since he’s died, it’s helped me going to the church. My children helped me build this little adobe house.<br />
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He’s been dead seven years now. Lots of women get killed by drunk and violent husbands.<br />
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I’m afraid my kids will waste their lives drinking.<br />
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I make a living by going to Lepaera to buy vegetables and chickens, and I bring them back here to sell. And I’m training to be a midwife. I had my first baby at 24, here in the house, attended by a midwife."
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  • Mohammed Sbeah's house in Beit Hanina, a Palestinian neighbourhood in East Jerusalem, was demolished on 4th July 2017. Mr Sbeah explained what happened: "I was surprised that I saw a big bulldozer, with a lot of army and policemen and special forces, they came with the local governent. They started tearing my house down, without taking me to court, without me seeing a judge or anything. They just teared down the house". His family is now living in his mother-in-law's house. The local community has helped him clear the debris.
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  • Jesus, Survivor of Domestic Violence<br />
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María de Jesús Gabarette, Tierra Colorada, Lempira<br />
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"My husband died. He hanged himself, here in the house, with a rope. He was a drunk. When he used to get drunk I’d be afraid. He’d be really drunk sometimes and he’d shout at me, telling me off for going to church. Sometimes I’d just leave the house and sleep somewhere else, or I’d sleep with a knife under my pillow. Everyone used to tell me to leave him. Since he’s died, it’s helped me going to the church. My children helped me build this little adobe house.<br />
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He’s been dead seven years now. Lots of women get killed by drunk and violent husbands.<br />
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I’m afraid my kids will waste their lives drinking.<br />
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I make a living by going to Lepaera to buy vegetables and chickens, and I bring them back here to sell. And I’m training to be a midwife. I had my first baby at 24, here in the house, attended by a midwife."
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  • Reynaldo is from Copán. When I asked him why he had left Honduras as a migrant he explained it was because of his electric bill. Though he only has two light bulbs in his house, and no other electric consumption, he gets a big bill from the electricity company ENEE each month and is now 1200 Lps in arrears (50 USD). The ENEE employees have been theatening him with taking his house if he doesn't pay. He felt there was no alternative but to migrate to try to pay his bill before his house is taken. He has two daughters of 15 years old, he can't afford to send them to school because it costs 500 Lps each (20 USD each) to matriculate them. He has worked every day of his adult life.
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  • Aboubacar Sylla, aged 79, lost 4 members of his family in the Ebola outbreak of 2014-15. <br />
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His daughter M’Mah was one of the lucky ones. As soon as she started showing symptoms of the deadly disease, her father made sure that she was taken straight to hospital where early treatment helped save her life. <br />
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Surrounded by multiple generations of his large family at their home in the district of Dixinn Port, Conakry, Sylla tells how the family was shunned by their own community when Ebola struck his family.<br />
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“Before the Ebola outbreak, everyone talked to one another here. Then suddenly we weren’t even allowed to leave our house,” he said.<br />
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People stopped using the well in the open area in front of their home for fear of contamination and the children were forbidden to step out past the boundary of their front courtyard where they were used to playing.<br />
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M’Mah was not living in the family house when she got sick, but her brother Aboubacar was the one who went to her house where she was living with her husband and took her to the Ebola treatment centre in Nongo. <br />
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“Everyone was so scared of Ebola but I couldn’t just abandon my sister. She would have died,” he said, telling how his decision to ride in the ambulance with her caused division within the family.<br />
Since then, even though he never got sick, Aboubacar has suffered stigma from his contact with Ebola and has found it difficult to get work anymore. <br />
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As soon as M’Mah arrived at the Ebola treatment centre, the disease surveillance system alerted the vaccine trial team of this new case. The team sent two local social mobilizers, trained specifically by WHO for this delicate role, to visit the family and to ask if they would agree to participate in a research trial to help develop a vaccine against Ebola. <br />
The Guinea vaccine trial, led by WHO, used a method called ring vaccination. This method, used to eradicate smallpox, aims to vaccinate a “ring” of all the people who had close contact with the pe
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  • Aboubacar Sylla, aged 79, lost 4 members of his family in the Ebola outbreak of 2014-15. <br />
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His daughter M’Mah was one of the lucky ones. As soon as she started showing symptoms of the deadly disease, her father made sure that she was taken straight to hospital where early treatment helped save her life. <br />
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Surrounded by multiple generations of his large family at their home in the district of Dixinn Port, Conakry, Sylla tells how the family was shunned by their own community when Ebola struck his family.<br />
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“Before the Ebola outbreak, everyone talked to one another here. Then suddenly we weren’t even allowed to leave our house,” he said.<br />
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People stopped using the well in the open area in front of their home for fear of contamination and the children were forbidden to step out past the boundary of their front courtyard where they were used to playing.<br />
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M’Mah was not living in the family house when she got sick, but her brother Aboubacar was the one who went to her house where she was living with her husband and took her to the Ebola treatment centre in Nongo. <br />
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“Everyone was so scared of Ebola but I couldn’t just abandon my sister. She would have died,” he said, telling how his decision to ride in the ambulance with her caused division within the family.<br />
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Since then, even though he never got sick, Aboubacar has suffered stigma from his contact with Ebola and has found it difficult to get work anymore. <br />
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As soon as M’Mah arrived at the Ebola treatment centre, the disease surveillance system alerted the vaccine trial team of this new case. The team sent two local social mobilizers, trained specifically by WHO for this delicate role, to visit the family and to ask if they would agree to participate in a research trial to help develop a vaccine against Ebola. <br />
The Guinea vaccine trial, led by WHO, used a method called ring vaccination. This method, used to eradicate smallpox, aims to vaccinate a “ring” of all the people who had close contact with the p
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  • Rolando Herrera <br />
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My father was a police officer. He died in 2010, he was killed.<br />
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In that time Olancho was in a difficult situation. Drug trafficking had grown a lot, the authorities didn’t do anything, there was no other authority. We would walk through Juticalpa and see the traffickers controlling everything in the street. One time I saw a crowd of people and could hear people shouting, as I approached I could see that they were burning some people alive in the street, they poured petrol on them and set them on fire, in front of all the people. I don’t know what it was about. That sort of thing would happen.<br />
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Girls and women couldn’t go out, they didn’t dare to go out, so they had to close some schools, no one wanted to go to school. If a trafficker wanted a girl, he’d just take her on the street, drive her away, she might never be seen again. <br />
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To get to work, I bought a motorbike on credit, and one day the traffickers stopped me on the street, at gunpoint, and took the bike. I never saw it again, but had to carry on paying the quotas for the loan, even though I didn’t have the bike.<br />
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Most of the houses in my neighbourhood had two or three kids, we used to play on the street. Within a few years, no one played outside, and all the kids, absolutely all of the kids, became migrants and went to the US. A few of them were killed, some in front of their house, before they could leave. It became a ghost town, many houses are abandoned, some in serious disrepair, some houses had their roofs and doors removed.  To go into the area you have to drive slowly with the windows down, and report to the trafficker guards, telling them who you were going to visit. If you drive fast or with the windows up, you’ll be shot.<br />
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So, I went to the US. I was there for a while. I made two trips, the first one failed, it went bad. I went with a people smuggler. We had a guide, and we met a group of the Zetas, they killed the guide in front of us, they cut his throat and decapi
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  • In the Rubén Dario Cooperative, member of UCASUMAN, the fairtrade premium has been used to build houses for the poorest people in the Yanque 1 community. This house was built with fairtrade support. Roberto Carlos Ramos Chavarría sits on Juana María Ramos lap. Juana is the owner of the house. The coop, UCASUMAN, Unión de Cooperativas Agropecuarias de Servicios Unidos de Mancotal, is based in the mountainous area of Jinotega in northern Nicaragua.
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  • Miriam Rivera, Los Puentes, Macualizo. The community is living in the local school as a shelter. Many in the shelter lost their house, some of them lost the land that their house was on as well. The priority for the community is to have a roof over their heads.
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  • A plastic chair stands in the ruins of the house of Mohammed Khaled Rabaya, in Beit Hanina, a Palestinian neighbourhood in East Jerusalem. The house was demolished on July 4th 2017 by Israeli forces with a bulldozer.
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  • At Martha Marak's house, different types of bananas that she has grown lean against the wall of her house near the kitchen. Some are for eating ripe, others are for cooking. Nongladew is a small village in the mountainous indigenous area of Meghalaya, in Northeast India.
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  • Miriam Rivera, Los Puentes, Macualizo. The community is living in the local school as a shelter. Many in the shelter lost their house, some of them lost the land that their house was on as well. The priority for the community is to have a roof over their heads.
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  • Martha Marak at home in her kitchen. Martha built her house herself, she lives here with her children. Typical of kitchens in the region, she cooks on a floor-level stove that is closed at the back and open at the front. This type of stove has several advantages. It has two hobs, one for a large pan, the other for a kettle. This stove can accept long pieces of firewood without the need for them to be chopped up. For Martha, who has a heavy routine of manual labour, this is a significant saving of her time and energy. While the smoke can be bothersome it keeps the insects out of the house. Martha gets up at 4am, and without electicity she depends on the light from the stove in the early-morning darkness. Here, Martha is preparing a snack of mini-popcorn made from millet that she has grown herself. Martha's daughter Critika watches her mum.
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  • Martha Marak built her house herself, she lives here with her children. This is her store of food, her larder. Bananas and grain are elsewhere in the house. The windows ventilate to let out smoke from the fire. Typically, the people in the area survive mainly through producing food for themselves, and with day labour they earn a little for essentials like salt and soap.
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  • Evangelina in her kitchen in a rural house in Buenos Aires, Santa Barbara, Honduras. The arrival of a clean drinking water supply to the house will make her life a lot easier she says, as currently she walks up to an hour a day to bring water to her kitchen.
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  • A family recovers a bed from their house. They spent three days on the roof of the house waiting to be rescued.<br />
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Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
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  • Angie Mercado, 17, lives in El Playón, Carepa, Urabá, Colombia. She has a daughter - Nicole - of 7 months. El Playón is a highly vulnerable neighbourhood on the edge of the river that is subject to rapid erosion by the river, flooding and some houses are on the verge of collapse into the river.<br />
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"When it rains hard the river rises, the water comes quickly. There’s no time to get up and get out when a big part of the river bank drops into the river in a storm. If you are there, it can take your house and everyone who is in it. We get scared at night, we can’t sleep, I’ve had to get up when the river is bad, and run out with my daughter, I had to run out when she was just born. It’s very scary. When the riverbank collapses it makes a big noise. There were two small collapses last night, it was really loud, and the river, it’s getting closer and closer. A big collapse will take houses." <br />
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"At the same time the water supply from the municipality is broken, we don't get any water."
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  • Angie Mercado, 17, lives in El Playón, Carepa, Urabá, Colombia. She has a daughter - Nicole - of 7 months. El Playón is a highly vulnerable neighbourhood on the edge of the river that is subject to rapid erosion by the river, flooding and some houses are on the verge of collapse into the river.<br />
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"When it rains hard the river rises, the water comes quickly. There’s no time to get up and get out when a big part of the river bank drops into the river in a storm. If you are there, it can take your house and everyone who is in it. We get scared at night, we can’t sleep, I’ve had to get up when the river is bad, and run out with my daughter, I had to run out when she was just born. It’s very scary. When the riverbank collapses it makes a big noise. There were two small collapses last night, it was really loud, and the river, it’s getting closer and closer. A big collapse will take houses." <br />
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"At the same time the water supply from the municipality is broken, we don't get any water."
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  • Noemí Santillo, from Jerusalén neighbourhood in San Pedro Sula, cooks food for people who have left their flooded houses and are living in a shelter provided at a school run by the Episcopal Church of Honduras. Noemí left her house when the flood water was chest height.
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  • Cecia Vásquez, Los Puentes, Macualizo, Santa Bárbara, Honduras. Cecia's  family lost their house in floods from hurricanes Eta and Iota. Here she walks through the ruins of one of the community's houses.
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  • A family recovers a bed from their house. They spent three days on the roof of the house waiting to be rescued.<br />
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Hurricane Eta hit hard across northern, central and western Honduras. Before the local population has been able to begin recovery hurricane the population braced for hurricane Iota. Many low-lying areas were evacuated in preparation.
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  • Post-earthquake housing is basic, but it is permanent. José and Violeta Salinas stand in front of their new house built with the support of ACT Alliance.
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  • Antonio sits with his brother where their house used to be in El Calan, Honduras. Following the double hurricanes of Eta and Iota, many houses were washed away or damaged in the north, centre and west of Honduras.
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  • Ricardo lost his house and belongings in Chamelecón during the double hurricane in Honduras "I even lost my shoes" he said.
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  • A family begins to clear the mud from their house in La Planeta, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.<br />
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Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
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  • Julia Mejía navigates the rubble where her house was in Chamelecón.<br />
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Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit hard on the north coast of Honduras, leaving some areas flooded for three weeks, destroying people's furniture, belongings, vehicles and houses as well as standing crops.
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  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
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Keily says: “I am a farmer, I like planting a bit of everything. I’m also a kindergarten teacher, and a health promoter. I know a lot about herbs, and I have a herb garden near the house, herbs can be used as natural medicine, it’s better to use natural remedies if you can, and anyway, we can’t afford medicines here. With the project we’ve grown a lot of yuca, cassava, banana and plantain, but a lot of fruit trees too, guava and cacao, citrus trees”.
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  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
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Keily says: “I am a farmer, I like planting a bit of everything. I’m also a kindergarten teacher, and a health promoter. I know a lot about herbs, and I have a herb garden near the house, herbs can be used as natural medicine, it’s better to use natural remedies if you can, and anyway, we can’t afford medicines here. With the project we’ve grown a lot of yuca, cassava, banana and plantain, but a lot of fruit trees too, guava and cacao, citrus trees”.
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  • Keily and Silvio Calderón, El Abra, La Conquista, Carazo, Nicaragua<br />
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Keily says: “I am a farmer, I like planting a bit of everything. I’m also a kindergarten teacher, and a health promoter. I know a lot about herbs, and I have a herb garden near the house, herbs can be used as natural medicine, it’s better to use natural remedies if you can, and anyway, we can’t afford medicines here. With the project we’ve grown a lot of yuca, cassava, banana and plantain, but a lot of fruit trees too, guava and cacao, citrus trees”.
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  • In Claudia Palacios' home, recycled bottles are used to plant house plants and herbs.
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  • Asmitaben carried three water containers to her house. The local water system was supported by Fairtrade premium.<br />
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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 />
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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.
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  • Francisco Villagra, in charge of services in the UCA Pantasma coffee-roasting house. UCA Unidad Santa Maria de Pantasma, Jinotega, Nicaragua, is a Fairtrade-certified coop.
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  • Fausto de Jesús Vásquez, Los Patios, La Paz<br />
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No recuerdo. Ah sí, conocí a mi esposa, trabajando. Ella traía la comida cuando trabajabamos en el campo, la mire y me enamoré de ella. Tuvimos dos hijos. <br />
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Nací en Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique fue El Salvador, ahora es Honduras. Tenemos doble nacionalidad. (Nahuaterique fue parte de una disputa fronteriza entre El Salvador y Honduras, pasando a Honduras con una decisión de la Corte International en La Haya en 1992)<br />
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Estoy muriendo. Estoy rodeado de mi familia, mis hijos viven cerca. Aqui la naturaleza es abundante, da bien para maize y frijol, café, yuca. Trabajé con hortalizas también, tomates, pepinos, para vender.<br />
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Miramos de todo, en ese tiempo, en la guerra. Perdimos todo, pero son cosas materiales, todo eso se repone, la vida es que no se repone, los muertos no hacen nada. Reconstruimos todo después de la Guerra.<br />
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I don’t remember. Ah, yes, I met my wife, working. She would bring the food to us when we worked in the fields, I saw her, and I fell in love with her. We had two children.<br />
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I was born in Nahuaterique. Nahuaterique was in El Salvador, now it is in Honduras. We have double nationality. (Nahuaterique was part of an international border dispute between El Salvador and Honduras that was resolved by the International Court at the Hague in 1992, passing to Honduran administration)<br />
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I’m dying. I am surrounded by my family. My children live nearby. Here nature is abundant, it’s good for maize and beans, coffee, yuca. I worked with vegetables too, tomatos, cucumbers, to sell.<br />
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We saw a bit of everything in that time, in the war. We lost everything, the house, all our things, but they are material things, you can get all that again, life is what you can’t get back if you lose it, the dead can’t do anything. We rebuilt everything after the war.
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