In solidarity and hope
The ACT Alliance website will be home to a growing collection of photographic galleries, we hope you’ll visit us to take a look. www.actalliance.org In addition to the public-facing site, an online digital asset management system is being set up to allow images and video to be shared across the Alliance and to the press. Photographs here have been given for use in this book with the kind consent of the photographers and member organisations that are credited.
INTRODUCTION On 1 January 2010 the ACT Alliance was
born, bringing together two existing church-
related alliances, ACT International and ACT
could, sent messages telling of the devastation and asking for assistance.
Development. Twelve days later, this new
Immediately, the ACT Alliance swung
a massive earthquake struck Haiti. While
purification tablets, medical and other life
alliance faced its first major challenge when the alliance was new, its members had long
experience of responding to emergencies as ACT International.
Most of the ACT member organisations based in Port au Prince were severely affected just
like all other humanitarian organisations based in Haiti. A number of staff were missing, others were trapped. Family members, neighbours
and loved ones were also missing or had been
into action. Food, blankets, tents, water
saving equipment were bought and shipped
South Africa and Brazil. Staff of member
organisations in Bangladesh and India gave
a day’s salary for Haiti while another member in Sierra Leone asked that a container of
equipment destined for that desperately poor country, be diverted instead to Haiti.
by Alliance members across the globe.
“That was ACT at its best,” stated the General
hundreds of traumatized people including
has been involved in humanitarian assistance
Psychological support was provided to
staff. A Rapid Support Team was deployed to support the local members as they worked
Secretary of ACT Alliance, John Nduna, who and development work since the 1980s.
to try and help their neighbours while also
“ACT members from across the world
lost.
compassion and in solidarity”.
personally grieving for those whom they had
responded quickly and effectively with
killed in the disaster. Most buildings in Port au
Across the globe, Alliance members engaged
ACT is a global alliance with 100 members
office buildings of ACT members. Those who
in developing countries such as Sudan,
the world. Some members are the national
Prince had collapsed to the ground including
in fundraising, and this included members
who are present in 90 countries across
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churches who have specialised skills in
with a local presence respond immediately
to create ACT International in 1995. John
while others are large church-related
resources when the situation overwhelms
flooded to help those who had survived.
humanitarian assistance and development organisations with hundreds of staff and offices in many countries. But all are committed to work together and in ways that respect the
dignity, uniqueness, and human rights of every person.
ACT members respond to human suffering
irrespective of race, gender, belief, nationality,
to the situation and only appeal for more
the local capacity to respond. The Alliance has an appeal mechanism in place that
“It was catastrophic. People suffered
respond. In addition to funds, members have
in the relief operations. Organisations including
calls Alliance members at the global level to given experienced personnel, equipment
and logistical support. A small Secretariat in Geneva coordinates the response.
ethnicity or political persuasion. When a
The experience of ACT International
ACT has local members who understand local
The ACT Alliance builds on 15 years of
They are part of the communities and,
together as part of the ACT International since
disaster such as the Haiti earthquake strikes, context, the history, culture and language.
therefore, are there from day one and remain with the people while others, including the media, leave after the crisis phase.
In emergencies such as Haiti, members on the ground work with the affected people
experience gained by members working
1995. ACT International was established when the ecumenical family of the World Council of
Churches and the Lutheran World Federation
felt the urgent need to coordinate their work in emergencies.
to identify their needs and then seek help
The chaotic humanitarian response to the
Often in emergencies Alliance members
in 1994 gave urgency to the ecumenical family
from other members around the world.
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Nduna remembers the chaos as organisations
refugees in Goma following the Rwanda crisis
unnecessarily because of lack of coordination our ecumenical organisations did whatever
they thought was helping people but, without
coordination, it left many people not getting the required or sufficient assistance�.
Since that time, ACT members have worked
together responding to many crises around the world including floods, droughts, earthquakes
and tsunamis and conflicts such as the Balkans, Sudan, Horn of Africa, the Great Lakes region
in Central Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan and other parts of South Asia and the Middle East. Millions of lives have been saved and rebuilt
following such catastrophes. By working together relationships have been built and strengthened between ACT members, coordination has
increased and the Alliance has become better at supporting people during crises.
The experience of ACT Development
members in their development and advocacy
would become one ACT Alliance. “Most ACT
Over time, members recognised that when
Director.
and emergency work”, Jill Hawkey reports.
disaster strikes it is always the poorest
work. Jill Hawkey was appointed as its first
and marginalised who are hit hardest. In
“Many churches and church-related
the water suffer the most when the floods
in development and human rights; working
Bangladesh, the poorest people who live by come; in Indonesia, the poorest who lived close to the ocean beaches were hardest
hit by the tsunami; in Southern Africa, poor
farmers have the least resistance to droughts
and flash floods. ACT members acknowledged the need to become more effective in tackling the causes of poverty.
They also recognised that by coming together
as part of ACT International during emergency situations, they could have a far greater
impact on the lives of those people who were
suffering. This led them to think of establishing
another ecumenical alliance to coordinate their
organisations have long experience of working with local communities to build sustainable livelihoods, ensure adequate food for the
family and to promote health and education”, Jill Hawkey states.
“Many of our members have particular
expertise in defending the rights and promoting
“One day they will be providing support to a
community to increase their food production, then a major flood comes destroying
homes, crops and often resulting in loss of
life. Immediately, the focus of the work has to change. With the creation of the ACT
Alliance, we can now look at this work far more holistically, supporting communities in times
of disasters but also coordinating members in their long term development programmes”.
the dignity of the most marginalized within
John Nduna notes the important advocacy
members to share their knowledge and
“Many ACT members are deeply engaged in
communities. ACT Development enabled
experience and to develop common strategies for addressing issues of poverty and injustice at both the national and global level”.
long term development.
Merging the two ACTs
In 2007 ACT Development was created as
From the start of ACT Development, there
an alliance promoting cooperation between
members are engaged in both development
was always the intention that the two ACTs
role that the ACT Alliance will also have.
advocating for the rights of people who are
poor to a life of fullness and dignity”, he says “The ACT Alliance is committed to speak out with one common voice and act to against those conditions, structures and systems
which increase vulnerability and perpetuate poverty, injustice and the destruction of the environment”.
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The photos These photos are a good introduction to the ACT Alliance.
In the photos we can see the geographical
reach of this Alliance as well as some of the tens of thousands of people who are part of the Alliance’s work.
For those of us involved in the Alliance the
photos will give us a powerful sense of being
part of a global family that works for the world’s poorest and their rights. That fights the causes of human suffering. That works with people of all faiths and none.
There are reminders here of the immense
suffering that people endure. But the images also celebrate people’s resilience and the
way in which communities support each other during times of terrible hardship.
Best of all, the photos show the people we work with.
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As we celebrate the launch of the ACT
Alliance, this book is a reminder of what is possible when people work together.
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LATIN AMERICA & Caribbean Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
HAITI A girl stands in the devastated center of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was ravaged by an earthquake on 12 January 2010.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
top: HAITI People among ruins in the center of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. bottom: HAITI Survivors of the January 12 earthquake remove debris from collapsed houses in the Port-au-Prince neighbourhood of Belair.
HAITI Rose Michel, a 10-year old survivor of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, lost both her legs when the orphanage she was living in collapsed. Here she plays with other children in the orphanage, which since shortly after the quake has been run by a team of volunteers from the Dominican-Haitian Women’s Movement (MUDHA), whose activities are supported by the ACT Alliance.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
HAITI A woman fastens poles for rafters with strips of cloth as she builds a temporary home in a spontaneous camp for quake survivors being established in Croix-des-Bouguets, Haiti, north of the capital Port-au-Prince.
top: HAITI A woman plugs her ears as a man announces how villagers should line up for the distribution of food and other emergency supplies. bottom: HAITI A camp for homeless families set up on a golf course in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
HAITI A woman digs with a machete as she builds a temporary home in a spontaneous camp for quake survivors being established in Croix-des-Bouguets, Haiti, north of the capital Port-au-Prince. Quake survivors continue to move as aftershocks continue, and reports of aid deliveries in one camp will provoke families from other camps to migrate there.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
HAITI People move buckets of food and other emergency supplies into the Santa Teresa camp in Petionville, Haiti, on February 1. Hundreds of families left homeless by the devastating January 12 earthquake live here. During this distribution food, buckets, and hygiene kits were provided by ACT members the Lutheran World Federation and Church World Service, along with the World Food Program.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
top: HAITI Emergency workers for the Lutheran World Federation, a member of the ACT Alliance, carry a water bladder into a crowded soccer stadium in the Santa Teresa area of Petionville, Haiti, where hundreds of families have constructed shelters. bottom: HAITI A survivor of the earthquake carries a salvaged piece of tin roofing through the streets of Port-au-Prince.
HAITI Emergency workers of Norwegian Church Aid, a member of the ACT Alliance, unroll piping in Port-au-Prince as they set up a potable water system for families left homeless by Haiti’s January 12 earthquake. ACT is working with a local partner, Viva Rio, which had installed a rainwater harvesting system in a neighbourhood school. Although the school was partially destroyed, the system remains, and ACT personnel set up a system to make the water stored there available to families living in a makeshift tent city in the school yard.
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Photo: Thomas Lohnes/Bread for the World/ACT
COLOMBIA Sandra Buitrago, 14, in front of her family’s home on the outskirts of Bogota. Sandra gets help from Creciendo Unidos Foundation (FCU). ACT member, Bread for the World helps ensure Bogota’s slum children go to school and eat nutritious food. Sandra’s family fled the violence in the South West department of Cauca.
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Photo: Magnus Aronson/Church of Sweden/ACT
Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
Photo: Magnus Aronson/Church of Sweden/ACT
top: COLOMBIA Having escaped from violent land clearances often led by para militaries, hundreds of thousands of people have moved from rural areas to big cities. This man shows off produce from an urban agriculture project supported by ACT member Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe in the south of Bogota for displaced communities.
above: COLOMBIA This woman, who for security reasons asked for her name not to be used, is one of approximately three million people displaced by violence in Colombia. ACT members and partners attend the displaced populations with many humanitarian interventions. bottom left: COLOMBIA Marcos, 3, is one of the internally displaced people that Church of Sweden is helping in Betoyes village. Betoyes suffered a massacre by paramilitaries that killed people from the Guahibo indigenous community, and over 300 people fled.
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Photo: Magnus Aronson/Church of Sweden/ACT
Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
COLOMBIA In the Barranquilla region of Colombia hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people, IDPs, have sought refuge after violent land clearances mainly by government and paramilitary groups. ACT Alliance members and their partners support IDPs in camps and peri-urban areas with productive, educational, health and human rights programmes.
top: COLOMBIA Tens of thousands of violent deaths have occured in Colombia in recent years, and according to UNHCR there are approximately three million displaced people in the country. bottom: COLOMBIA Internally displaced people in the Barranquilla area, in a camp supported by ACT Alliance partners.
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Photo: Thomas Lohnes/Bread fror the World/ACT
COLOMBIA Children from a Bogota school decorate their posters with their deepest wishes – “No more violence”, “No more war”, and “We want peace”. Creciendo Unidos Foundation (FCU), runs the school, which is one of its education projects for slum children. FCU is a partner of Bread for the World.
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Photo: Andreas Abelein y Tobias Mönch/IERP/ACT
Photo: Jan Fliessbach/IERP/ACT
Photo: CREAS/ACT
ARGENTINA A rubbish collector from Itati, one of Buenos Aires’ largest slums. He travels with his horse and cart through richer neighbourhoods to collect rubbish and sell sorted recyclable materials like cardboard. Itati is a stretch of dirt– stuck between a main road and a railway line – where about 50,000 people live by a sewage pond. There’s no drinking water or electricity. This man is linked to a recycling project run by the Ecumenical Movement for Human Rights (MEDH). MEDH is part of Iglesia Evangélica de Río de la Plata, an ACT Alliance member..
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top: ARGENTINA Illegal logging is a big problem in the forests of Chaco in the North – where the tribal Qom Toba people live. These loggers were stopped in their tracks when JUM Foundation workers alerted the police and camped in the clearing to stop the timber being stolen. The Qom Toba rely on the forest for food and herbal remedies. bottom: ARGENTINA Children and young people painted this mural on the side of the Cultural Centre in Pampero in 2008. Two resident artists from the centre co-ordinated the work, in which rich and poor children, some with disabilities, painted together. ACT member Centro Regional Ecuménico de Asesoría y Servicio (CREAS) supported the project.
Photo: CREAS/ACT
ARGENTINA Circus Social del Sur teaches circus skills to deprived children from the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Many of the children had never been on a subway or train when they started the project – even though they live only 40 minutes from the city. Centro Regional Ecuménico de Asesoría y Servicio (CREAS) supports the project.
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Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
ARGENTINA Human rights continues to be a serious concern across Latin America and ACT members have a long standing position of active support for human rights struggles in the region. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, seen here on a regular march for the disappeared in Buenos Aires, are accompanied by staff of various ACT member organisations.
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Photo: Andreas Abelein y Tobias Mönch/IERP/ACT
Photo: CREAS/ACT
Photo: Andreas Abelein y Tobias Mönch/IERP/ACT
top: ARGENTINA “Together we can”: these Buenos Aires farmers have produced materials to campaign for fair trade, with help from Centro Regional Ecuménico de Asesoría y Servicio (CREAS). Two members of the Farming and Agricultural Family Producers Cooperative in Florencio Varela, are proud of their ten years’ track record producing safe food for many people.
above: ARGENTINA Qom Toba children from the Chaco forests in the north with their herd of goats. Families are learning to breed goats, thanks to help from the JUM Foundation, which is part of ACT member IERP. JUM is helping the vulnerable Qom Toba people to stay in their homelands, rather than move to city slums where many endure a life scavenging on rubbish dumps. bottom left: ARGENTINA Women from the Chaco are reclaiming tribal wisdom and getting their confidence back, with help from the JUM Foundation.
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Photo: Paul JEffrey/LWF/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/LWF/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/LWF/ACT
El Salvador Dominga Bautista harvests beans in her garden in a Salvadorean village. The Lutheran World Federation supports projects to improve nutrition in urban and rural areas of El Salvador.
top: EL SALVADOR Smoking volcanoes in the background, Santiago Garcia adjusts speakers on a tower in the village of El Guayabo. The speakers broadcast warnings in case of impending emergencies. bottom: EL SALVADOR Erica Custodio Bautista cooks over a smoky fire but she is replacing it with an improved stove she built herself with assistance from the Lutheran World Federation.
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Photo: Samantha Tuck/MRDF/ACT
El Salvador Alejandro Martinez is making more money from his tomatoes since he learnt about permaculture. Alejandro trained with a local partner of the UK Methodist Relief and Development Fund (MRDF). Climate change is hitting El Salvadoran farmers hard. The rains normally finish by the end of October, ready for harvest, but in recent years they have continued for weeks afterwards. Rain destroys the maize crop, leaches nutrients from the soil and can even cause landslides. An MRDF partner is teaching farmers how to sustainably grow a variety of crops that are more resistant to climate change.
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Photo: Lily Emo/CEPAD/ACT
NICARAGUA The Agricultural Programme trains two Community Agricultural Promoters (PACs) per community on soil and water conservation, diversification of crops, inter-cropping and better techniques to improve their agricultural practices. Each PAC establishes a demonstrative plot and teaches five other farmers (disciples). CEPAD works in 43 communities of six regions of the country.
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Photo: Lily Emo/CEPAD/ACT
Photo: Lily Emo/CEPAD/ACT
Photo: Lily Emo/CEPAD/ACT
top: NICARAGUA ACT member the Council of Protestant Churches of Nicaragua (CEPAD) suppports a Garden Project that trains people to raise chickens at home. bottom: NICARAGUA This participant in one of CEPAD’s social programmes reports back on the results of her group’s discussions of social problems and possible solutions.
NICARAGUA Sonia, like most women in rural areas, stays at home to look after her children. The Garden Project (Proyecto Patio) trains women how to raise chicken, pigs and goats and how to plant vegetables and herbs for their own tables and to sell on. Each woman borrows US$200 over 18 months to buy animals and seeds. Thanks to this CEPAD project, Sonia has improved her family’s diet, and can buy rice and beans and pay her children’s school fees.
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Photo: Thomas Lohnese/Bread for the Wrold/ACT
ECUADOR Rosa Maza, 46, is working in her garden with her children. You can see their little hut in the distance. They borrowed money to be able to produce on their garden, from Fondo Agil supported by ACT member Bread for the World.
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Photo: Thomas Lohnese/Bread for the World/ACT
Photo: Katharina Lenz y Stephan Lindner/IERP/ACT
above: ECUADOR Fabian, 13, has earned US$4 today from cleaning shoes. He works outside the church and convent of St Francisco in Quito, where he and his father come to earn money. The money will go towards their food and lodgings. above right: PARAGUAY The Mbya Guarani people have recovered 1000 hectares of land, illegally snatched by farmers of genetically modified soybeans. The Mbya Guarani receive help with sustainable agriculture, education and lands rights with support from Oguasu Ecumenical Foundation. The Foundation is part of Iglesia EvangĂŠlica del RĂo de la Plata, IERP.
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Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
BRAZIL The Gaspar Garcia Centre in Sao Paolo provides a stable and dignified work environment for some of the most underpriveliged people in the favelas of Sao Paolo. Workers at the centre, which is supported by Christian Aid, collect, sort and sell recyclable materials from across Sao Paolo.
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top: BRAZIL Tupinambรก indigenous people near Itabuna are supported in human rights and land struggles by partners of Ecumenical Coordination of Services (CESE). The Tupinambรก have recently suffered serious attacks. bottom: BRAZIL Percussionists from the group Afro Reggae in the notorious Vigรกrio Geral favela (slum) in Rio. Afro Reggae run cultural and educational programmes and provide real alternatives for young people in an extremely violent environment dominated by drug trafficking. CESE supports the work of the group.
Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
BRAZIL A young woman of the Tupinambรก tribe in the area of Itabuna, Bahia. The Tupinambรก are supported in human rights and land rights struggles by CESE partners as encroaching ranchers take land that the indigenous communities need for their survival. Recently the Tupinambรก suffered serious assaults by armed groups of thugs, probably in the employ of ranchers, and even by Federal Police using helicopters. Tupinambรก people tattoo themselves with genipapo juice, and wear clothes woven from the bark of a tree.
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Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
BRAZIL Two young men from a Quilombo in Bahia. Quilombos were originally settlements of escaped slaves, whose people are now struggling for recognition of their right to the land they have occupied for centuries. ACT member CESE supports a variety of land rights struggles, including in this Quilombo where houses have been burnt down to frighten the people off their land.
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Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
Photo: Koinonia/ACT
Photo: FLD/ACT
top: BRAZIL The Quilombola community of Porto do Campo. The woman is selecting seafood for sale. That is one of the main subsistence activities of the community.
BRAZIL In the Morro Santa Teresa ‘favela’, or slum, in Rio de Janeiro, young people are taught how to produce nutritious vegetables in a community urban garden. ACT member Fundação Luterana de Diaconia supports productive projects in urban and rural areas in Brazil.
bottom: BRAZIL A community established by the landless movement, near Santo Amaro, Bahia, prepares soil for planting.
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Photo: Sian Curry/Christian Aid/ACT
Photo: Paulino Menezes/FLD/ACT
Photo: Koinonia/ACT
BRAZIL Projects with people who live by sorting rubbish in Porto Alegre, Brazil, are supported by ACT member Fundação Luterana de Diaconia, FLD.
top: BRAZIL Nete, 26, washes breakfast plates at dawn in the northern Amazon. Nete is one of 8,000 Quilombola people of Oriximiná. Her community now owns its own land, thanks to help from Christian Aid partners CPI and ARQMO. The Quilombola are descended from escaped slaves who fled to the forest. Their traditional way of life is under threat from cattle ranchers and illegal loggers. bottom: BRAZIL Four Quilombola communities, Campinho da Independência, Santa Rita do Bracuí and Alto da Serra and Marambaia, meet together to watch videos produced by ACT member Koinonia focusing on the life of the Quilombola communities.
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Photo:Heidi B. Bye/Norwegian Church Aid/ACT
BRAZIL Alex Paga is a former street kid from Rio de Janeiro who has learnt circus skills. He is part of the project “Se essa rua fosse minha” – “If this road was mine”. This Norwegian Church Aid project gives street children and youth schooling, activities and a roof over their heads.
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Photo: Thomas Lohnes/Bread for the World/ACT
PERU Women from Raquina, competing to represent their valley in football tournaments. When football came to Raquina in 1998, husbands were reluctant to let their wives play. Now almost the whole village plays football. ACT member Bread for the World supports projects with women in the area.
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Photo: SEan Hawkey/ACT
Photo: Elaine Peters/CLWR/ACT
Photo: W. Kroeker/CLWR/ACT
top: PERU Indigenous farmers are learning about sustainability and the value of native plants. These farmers in the Ancash region are receiving training through local partners of ACT member Canadian Lutheran World Relief.
BOLIVIA A farmer prepares a field for a new growing season in Potosi Department, Bolivia.
bottom: BOLIVIA Subsistence farmers survey their failed crop of quinoa in the Andean highlands near Eucaliptos. Lutheran World Relief and other ACT members provide support to farmers in the area and they responded to the crisis caused by the crop failure.
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Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
Photo: Sian Curry/Christian Aid/ACT
Photo: LWR/ACT
Honduras El Jicaro, Nandaime: Carlos Jose Mejia (43) demonstrates his first aid skills, checking an ‘unconscious casualty’ for injury. Carlos lives in an area prone to storms, floods and landslides, and as a member of his village ‘rescue brigade’, he has been trained in search and rescue and first aid techniques by Christian Aid partner Nochari. In the rainy season, people here often have to wade through the river to reach school, hospital or market. With his newfound understanding of river currents, Carlos now knows when it is safe or unsafe to attempt a crossing - knowledge that he has put into practice several times, and which he believes once saved his young sons from being swept away.
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top: El Salvador The 1999 election results being announced in San Salvador. ACT Alliance members supported processes to strengthen democratic processes and were official observers in the elections. bottom: BOLIVIA Tiburcio Acarapi Huanca learns how to vaccinate his chickens. ACT member Lutheran World Relief and Fundación Arado helped farmers introduce new crops and animals to reduce malnutrition in the area.
Photo: Paul Jeffrey
Guatemala Guatemalan women weaving and wearing their traditional huipiles on hand looms. ACT members and their partners run projects across the country with most of the indigenous groups in the country. Projects and policies need to consider cultural and linguistic issues in this country with more than 25 languages. ACT member the Lutheran World Federation has worked against racial descrimination and for human rights in Guatemala.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey
Guatemala Mam Maya people prepare terraces for planting using a terracing technique that conserves soil and prevents erosion on slopes. ACT members working in Guatemala promote sustainable agriculture.
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Photo: Thomas Lohnes/Bread for the World/ACT
Photo: Frank Schultze/Bread for the World/ACT
Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
top: Guatemala Zoila Cajal, 32 (left), is mum to twins Diego and Zoila. Next to her is midwife Thelma Maxlatz, 32, who delivered the babies five months ago. bottom: Costa Rica Christine Korcher, 19, spends her Saturday playing tug of war with boys from a slum in San Jose. Christina is a volunteer for Futbol por la Vida, an NGO that uses football to help poor children. Some 15 Futbol por la Vida volunteers started working with children in August 2008, with funding from ACT member Bread for the World.
Honduras Maria Sosa, expert horticulturalist, in a nursery for gourmet cocoa in the Cuenca del Merend贸n, near Choloma, Honduras. ACT member Comisi贸n de Acci贸n Menonita (CASM) has supported the replanting of an important watershed with mixed trees underplanted with gourmet cocoa. This project has won a national prize for protection of the environment. The gourmet cocoa from this work fetches good prices and is all sold even before the harvest, generating income for the communities involved.
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AFRICA Photo: Nils Carstensen/ACT
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DARFUR This woman ran a small shop in a thatched shelter in Um Seifa, about an hour’s drive south east of Nyala. She sold basic items such as matches, sugar, soap and tea to the hamlet’s 600-800 residents – a mix of locals and refugees.
Just two days after this photo was taken, the Sudanese airforce attacked the village with helicopters and allied militia on horses. All that was left was charred remains in the sand. Most residents escaped because they were tipped off.
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
DARFUR The height and weight of displaced children is carefully monitored at a nutrition and health center in Kubum sponsored by ACT-Caritas. Mothers with at-risk babies are given supplemental food.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Chey Mattner/ALWS/ACT
top: DARFUR Remnants of a burned village in West Darfur.
DARFUR Etung, 10 and Echun, 9, hold part of a cartridge of spent bullets, Gunyaro village.
bottom: DARFUR A woman in Dondona, an Arab village in South Darfur that has received families displaced by fighting between Arab communities. ACT-Caritas has provided villagers here with emergency supplies.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
DARFUR It takes a village. Residents of the Khamsadegaig camp for internally displaced families, look down a well they helped construct with assistance from ACT-Caritas, which supports families here with a variety of services, including potable water, sanitation, and income generating opportunities.
top: DARFUR A woman walks home in a camp for internally displaced people outside Um Labassa in Sudan’s Darfur region. bottom: DARFUR Prenatal care is an important part of the mission of a primary health care and nutrition center sponsored by ACT-Caritas in Um Labassa.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
DARFUR Pumping water at a well provided by ACT-Caritas in a camp for internally displaced people outside Um Labassa in Sudan’s Darfur region.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
DARFUR Displaced farmers can farm within sight of the camp where they live with hundreds of other families near Bilel. People displaced by the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan have taken refuge from the violence and are assisted by ACT-Caritas with a variety of emergency services, including seeds and agricultural tools.
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Photo: Jรถrg Bรถthling /Bread for the World/ACT
Photo: Hege Opseth/Norwegian Church Aid/ACT
DARFUR A Dinka tribeswoman irrigates her vegetable plot, close to her home. She lives in a village near Rumbek in South-Sudan. ACT member Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe runs two nearby health centres.
DARFUR Crowds waited for UN General Secretary Kofi Annan when he visited Labado.
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Photo: Greg Rødland Buick/Norwegian Church Aid/ACT
MALI A farmer breaks into dried soil. In Sahel, where unpredictable rainfall and drought makes life especially tough, climate changes and water shortages are provoking infighting among farmers. Some 80 per cent of farmland in Sahel has degraded because of climate change, cutting down trees and over-grazing, says the UN. ACT member Norwegian Church Aid supports a dispute resolution programme for these farmers.
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Photo: Greg Rødland Buick/Norwegian Church Aid/ACT
Photo: ICCO/ACT
Photo: Greg Rødland Buick/Norwegian Church Aid/ACT
top: MALI Fisherman Boukadali Nientao is learning to grow his own vegetables in Kouakouru thanks to ICCO partner GRAT (Groupe de Recherche et d’Applications Techniques).
above: MALI Boucar Amadou reads his schoolwork by the light from the solar panels provided by Norwegian Church Aid partner AMADE (Association Malienne pour le Developpement). bottom left: MALI Leinabou Abdoulaye works full time repairing and installing new solar panels with Norwegian Church Aid partner AMADE (Association Malienne pour le Developpement). She trained to be an engineer with three other women at the Barefoot College in India. Her salary comes from rental fees for solar panels.
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Photo: Christer Lænkholm /DanChurchAid/ACT
Photo:DanChurchAid/ACT
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO A DanChurchAid worker is learning how to examine the soil in front of him. Demining is meticulous work. You have to ensure there are no gaps between the lanes – or else you may miss a landmine.
top: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO “DangerLandmines” says this warning sign in kiSwahili. bottom: ANGOLA This worker is excavating a mine by hand. First he starts digging a little back from the mine. Then he digs horizontally inch by inch to reach the mine from its side.
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Photo: Peter Høvring/DanChurchAid/ACT
BURUNDI Walking home after a long day in the minefields. DanChurchAid-supported deminers have been clearing mines and unexploded ammunition on the hilltops south of the capital Bujumbura. Their day started with a two hour hike uphill. Refugees have been coming home from Tanzania and every square meter of arable land is needed. The deminers hand over the land to the community which passes it on to the refugees.
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Photo: Peter Høvring/DanChurchAid/ACT
Democratic Republic of Congo Women carry firewood and dinner ingredients home from former minefields in Nyunzu, Eastern Congo. Women grow crops on the fertile land, cleared by DanChurchAid deminers. These women look cheerful, perhaps thanks to peace and DCA’s efforts to teach them sustainable farming methods.
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Photo: Tarik Tinazay/Bread for the World/ACT
Photo: Tarik Tinazay/Bread for the World/ACT
Photo: Tarik Tinazay/Bread for the World/ACT
top: Democratic Republic of Congo Mapendo Esperance, 28 year old Congoleese woman from Sake willage, carrying water can in Buhimba IDP camp.
top: Democratic Republic of Congo Tegemea Masambo, 4, from Malehe village, peeps out from her barrack in Buhimba camp, on the outskirts of Goma. ACT members Bread for the World and Diakonie Katestrophenhilfe provide support in this camp.
bottom: Democratic Republic of Congo Refugee mother Ange Sifa, 20, holds her two-week-old baby, Naomi. Ange, from Sake, lives in the Mugunga camp, on the outskirts of Goma town.
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Photo: Christoph PĂźschner/Bread for the World/ACT
Democratic Republic of Congo A jungle fisherman guides his boat on Lake Tumba, to prevent the net from drifting. Life is precarious for the fisherman of Ntondo village. Lake Tumba is one of the Congo’s largest lakes but overfishing with nets has depleted stocks..
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Photo: Anna Muinonen/LWF-DWS/ACT
Photo: Peter Høvring/DanChurchAid/ACT
Photo: H. Nikolaisen/LWF/ACT
top: Democratic Republic of Congo A proud farmer has settled on a plot of land and is trying out new farming methods with help, seeds and tool from DanChurchAid.
Democratic Republic of Congo Children are enjoying their snack time at Wanyerukula Nutrition Center, near Kisangani, in Oriental Province. ACT member the Lutheran World Federation runs a health centre where it treats cases of malnutrition.
bottom: Democratic Republic of Congo Children at this school near Wanyerukula are proud owners of a garden where they can grow nutritious food.
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CAMEROON ACT member Bread for the World promotes the role of women in farming. This promotion gives rural women opportunities to generate their own income and have a bigger say in their villages.
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Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
Photo: Christoph Püschner/Brot für die Welt/ACT
top: KENYA Women queue for rations for malnourished children in the Ifo camp at Dadaab refugee camp near the Somali border. Dadaab is home to nearly 300,000 refugees mainly from Somalia and is managed by ACT member the Lutheran World Federation. bottom: CAMEROON A dress maker learns to read and write, under a project supported by ACT member Bread for the World. In the background is teacher Pierre Oumer, 32.
CAMEROON Most girls living in north Cameroon have never been to school or they leave early to be married off as child brides. These women are getting a second chance to graduate from school or become apprentice tailors under a scheme called Avenir Femmes. The scheme teaches up to 100 young women a year to read and write or start up as selfemployed tailors. Avenir Femmes was founded in 1995 from seven dedicated women in Maroua the major town in the very north of Cameroon. “We wanted to help girls not to marry so early”, explained Estelle Madanagole, teacher and founder of Avenir Femmes.
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Photo: M.Aronson/Church of Sweden/ACT
Photo: Kit Halding/DanChruchAid/ACT
ETHIOPIA Farmer Leva Mega has lost most of his cattle. The tough drought has killed nearly all the vegetation and several thousand cattle have died. ACT member the Church of Sweden provides emergency support.
top: ETHIOPIA Lemlem, 7, has started school through a development program in her village. The Lutheran World Federation runs the program, in Abaya in southern Ethiopia. bottom: ETHIOPIA An orphaned girl, 11, whose parents died of AIDS. Some 1.5 million Ethiopians live with HIV and AIDS. She is supported by Mekane Yesus Church.
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ETHIOPIA Shepherds move their emaciated cattle through an arid area of Ethiopia. Droughts and food shortages are long-term problems in this country. ACT member the Church of Sweden provides support for emergency relief and refugees.
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ETHIOPIA Women spread out coffee beans to dry after harvesting them.The Oromia Coffee Union produces organic coffee, certified with the Fairtrade label. ACT member Bread for the World provide technical support to producers across Ethiopia.
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Photo: M.Aronson/Church of Sweden/ACT
Photo: M.Aronson/Church of Sweden/ACT
top: ETHIOPIA Severe drought in Boran. Sake Goro heads into town to fetch water for seven households in the village. ACT member Church of Sweden works in this area.
ETHIOPIA Amad Sheikh Bayon collects water in El Toko. ACT member the Church of Sweden provides support to the population here.
bottom: ETHIOPIA Night school for the Ayadahisso clan. ACT member AngliCORD is involved in this work.
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Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
Photo: LWR
KENYA A woman in Dadaab refugee camp, home to nearly 300,000 refugees, mainly from Somalia, and said to be the largest refugee camp in the world. The camp is managed by ACT Alliance member the Lutheran World Federation.This woman is part of a team that makes fuel-saving stoves.
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top: KENYA A young Somali girl in the Hagadera refugee camp, at Dadaab. bottom: KENYA Women at Dagahaley, one of the camps at Dadaab near the Somali border.
Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
KENYA Men working in a grain store in Dadaab refugee camp. Working with other humanitarian agencies such as the World Food Programme, the Lutheran World Federation helps provide security, shelter, housing, education and health services in the camp. Resurgence of violence in Somalia is forcing more people to seek refuge in Kenya and there are many new arrivals at Dadaab every day. Dadaab, itself located in the Somali desert, has suffered repeated years of drought.
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Photo: Christof Krackhardt/Bread for the World/ACT
KENYA In the region of Mt Kenya East - the working area of Bread for the World partner Christian Community Services, support is given to the Kiametho Bee Keepers group specialising in honey and wax production. The scarcity of water is becoming a big problem. The photo shows someone at the only water source within a radius of 15 kilometers.
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Photo: Anette Os/Norwegian Church Aid/ACT
Photo: LWR/ACT
Photo: Frank Schultze/Bread for the World/ACT
top: GHANA Kuapa Kokoo is the world’s first farmerowned Fair Trade chocolate company. They are reinvesting into projects like wells and schools that benefit their communities. They are supported by ACT member Lutheran World Relief.
KENYA Pastoralist John Echwa holds a little donkey in his arms at a waterhole. John receives support in water mangement, farming and animal husbandry in a project by a Bread for the World partner in Isiolo. Increasing scarcity of water has brought serious problems for pastoralists and farmers in this area. Since 2006 there has been no rain and the land has dried up.
bottom: KENYA Grandmother Peris takes care of Martha and seven other orphanaged children in a project supported by ACT member Norwegian Church Aid.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/Presbyterian World Service & Development/ACT
Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
KENYA A woman dances as part of a party for the Soils, Foods and Healthy Communities project sponsored in Ekwaiweni by the Presbyterian World Service & Development, Canada.
top: KENYA Children cheering in a cultural project supported by The Lutheran World Federation in Dadaab refugee camp. bottom: KENYA Feet stop still for a moment as children watch a theatre production on conflict resolution run by Church World Service partners in Mathare slum in Nairobi.
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Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
Nairobi Kibera is the biggest slum in Africa with around a million inhabitants. Potable water and waste management are not government supported and are resolved by community based organisations (CBOs). Maji Na Ufanisi - an CGO supported by Christian Aid - works on water and sanitation in the Soweto and Laini Sapa districts of the slum, supporting the construction of potable water infrastructure and community latrines, which are then managed by the community.
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Photo: Hege Ospeth/Norwegian Church Aid/ACT
Photo: DCA/ACT
MALAWI Barefoot children wait in line with plates and bowls for their free meal at school. In the famine of 2002 this was the only food these children got.
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top: MALAWI A mother kisses her daughter at Ekwendeni. bottom: MALAWI The mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) is a standard method for identification of for severe acute malnutrition. A malnourished child’s arm circumference is measured at between 8 and 9cm.
Photo: PWSD/ACT
MALAWI Young mothers with their newborn babies at a maternity clinic in Ekwendeni. ACT member Presbyterian World Service & Development supports a programme with new mothers here to prevent transfer of HIV from mother to child.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/Presbyterian World Service & Development/ACT
MALAWI A young woman in Dundube, Kadambo sets up her insecticide-impregnated mosquito net provided by Presbyterian World Service & Development. ACT members work together with other agencies to provide mosquito nets and services to prevent and treat malaria. A global initiative to combat malaria has been established by ACT members.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/Presbyterian World Service & Development/ACT
MALAWI People living with HIV and AIDS do drama skits to amuse villagers and educate them about HIV and AIDS.
MALAWI A woman living with HIV and AIDS is taught and supported in flexibility exercises in a project supported by Presbyterian World Service & Development.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/Presbyterian World Service & Development/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/Presbyterian World Service & Development/ACT
MALAWI Children do fun activities at an orphanage in Ekwendeni. Many of them lost their parents to AIDS and its complications. The Livingstonia Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Central Africa supports the programme with help from ACT members. There are over 500,000 orphans in Malawi.
top: MALAWI Violet Kawelari, 74, works her farm in Zombwe. Over 80 per cent of country people in Malawi rely on subsistence farming. bottom: MALAWI McDonald Ndhlovu with two of his pigs in Zombwe, Northern Malawi.
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MALAWI A mother gets a blood test for HIV. Not enough food is produced in Malawi, so malnutrition is rife. Presbyterian World Service & Development is helping mothers to look after their babies and ensure they get enough to eat. The hospital has a Soils, Food and Healthy Communities programme to help local people grow more legumes and introduce them into their diet.
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LIBERIA Students in Buchanan are learning how to be peer mediators to help reduce conflict at school. The project is run by the Christian Health Association in Liberia (CHAL) and supported by Church of Sweden. Liberia is recovering from an appalling civil war that killed over 150,000 people. Neighbours committed atrocities against their neighbours and even their own family members and loved ones.
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Photo: Magnus Aronson/Church of Sweden
Photo: Magnus Aronson/Church of Sweden
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
top: LIBERIA A young student in Buchanan on a course about conflict resolution supported by ACT member the Church of Sweden.
MALAWI School class in Zombwe in northern Malawi. ACT member Presbyterian World Service & Developmen is involved in educational and development work in this area.
bottom: LIBERIA Boyea Flomo carries her little sibling, in the village Bomihill.
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Photo: SAF-FJKM/ACT
Photo: SAF/-FJKM/ACT:
MADAGASCAR A local pastor with ACT member Sampan’Asa Fampandrosoana/Fiangonan’i Jesosy Kristy eto Madagasikara (SAF/FJKM). The pastor helps with the distribution of food after cyclone Fame. This island in the Indian Ocean gets battered by cyclones every year - five in the past two years alone. After the Madagascar President was ousted in January 2009, international donors reduced aid to the island.
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top: MADAGASCAR Food distribution by ACT member SAF/FJKM after cyclone Fame. bottom: MADAGASCAR SAF/FJKM provided psychosocial counselling to Fame cyclone disaster victims, many of whom needed to be housed in tents.
Photo: Rachel Stevens/Christian Aid/ACT
MALI Miriam Sagara, 26, used to farm onions and tomatoes on a small plot of land that her husband gave her when she got married. But the lack of rainfall meant that she couldn’t grow enough food to feed her family. “I have no idea why the weather is changing” says Miriam, “all I know is that in the past we used to have much better crops”. Two years ago Miriam joined a project run by a Christian Aid supported programme which supports women to set up their own onion farming business. They secured the land from the government for Miriam and 62 other women, provided seeds and farming advice, and set up a link with another NGO to sell their dried onions to Europe. The business has literally been a lifeline for the women.
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Photo: Jonas Eriksson/LWF-DWS/ACT
MoZAMBIQUE Women work together in the fabrication of concrete cylinders for use in the construction of a water well, in a water and sanitation programme run by the Lutheran World Federation in Tete province. As well as support in the building, villagers are taught about its maintenance to help guarantee long-term benefit from the well.
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Photo: Chey Mattner/ALWS/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: PWSD/ACT
top: MALAWI Joyce Nkhoma and her family are growing soy beans. This crop - new to Malawi - is helping combat malnutrition. Local partner Soils, Food and Healthy Communities teaches farmers about intercropping and burying residues of legume crops as a natural fertiliser. The project started with a launch grant from Presbyterian World Service & Development.
above: MALAWI Farmer Icoo Mkandawire in Ekwendeni is growing peanuts, and knows that crops that are grown on the same land after the peanut crop benefit from the the nitrogen-fixing quality of the peanut plant. ACT member PWSD supports projects in the area. bottom left: SUDAN A woman signs with a fingerprint for delivery of relief goods delivered by ACT members.
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Photo: Frank Schulze/Bread for the World/ACT
UGANDA Charles Adapa was born blind in east Uganda. As a bright child he stayed on at school. And he won a Bread for the World scholarship to complete his university studies. He teaches at the ”Sure Prospect Institute” in Kitala, in Entebbe Province. The school takes blind and deaf children or those with learning difficulties. Although he doesn’t draw a salary, he gets free rent, food, soap and clothing. “My education was my elixir,” he says. “Now I can give back what I received.” In his spare time he translates school books into Braille.
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Photo: Jonas Eriksson/LWF-DWS/ACT
Photo: Sarah Filby/Christian Aid/ACT
Photo:Paul Jeffrey/Presbyterian World Service & Development/ACT
top: Zimbabwe Khala Ndlovu, 8, (pictured on near right) and Sithabile Moyo, 8, (just behind Khala) inside their class at Tshelanyemba Primary School in Matobo district, Matabeleland South region. Khala’s mother Pati works in a self-help market garden group supported by Christian Aid.
above: MALAWI Two girls walk to school along a rural road in Kanyemba. They carry hoes so they can work in family fields on their way home. bottom left: Mozambique Ivone, 24, with her son Armindo, 4. Ivone’s husband left her when she got sick. Lutheran World Federation activitists visited her twice a day in 2004 when she was at her worst and convinced her to get an HIV test, which proved positive. She feels much better now and runs her own small business. LWF pays for a food basket every three months.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/Presbyterian World Service & Development/ACT
Malawi Florence Shawa, a resident of the northern Malawi village of Thundira sweeps in front of her house.
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Photo: Chey Mattner/ALWS/ACT
Photo: L. Kletke/CLWR/ACT
SUDAN Pager Primary School, Twic East County, Jonglei State, South Sudan. Two boys stand in front of a sign marking the construction of a rural school with the support from ACT members Australian Lutheran World Service, and the Lutheran World Federation.
Mozambique Two boys in Kapasenni, Mozambique draw water from a community well. Canadian Lutheran World Relief partners with the Lutheran World Federation in Mozambique to help communities find a more sustainable future.
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Photo: Christian World Service/ACT
Photo: Sarah Filby/Christian Aid/ACT
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ZIMBABWE Lilian Moyo stands overjoyed at the door of the granary that she has been given the materials to build by Christian Aid partner ZimPro. She promotes conservation farming in the Hope Fountain community, two hours from Bulawayo.
top: ZIMBABWE Women in Zimbabwe celebrate the completion of a rainwater harvesting tank funded by ACT member Christian World Service. bottom: MALI A patient at the URENI centre for malnourished children in Bandiagara, Mali. The centre is supported by ACT member Christian Aid.
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Mozambique An MRDF partner in Mozambique provides training in drought-resistant sustainable agriculture to some of the country’s poorest people. It is also provides small loans for them to buy seeds, organic fertilisers and water pumps. They are able to use their land fully for the first time.
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Photo: ICCO/ACT
SOUTH AFRICA ICCO’s partner, the NOVA Institute in Pretoria, teaches people about combustion techniques for cooking and heating that consume less fuel and produce less emissions. This is advantageous for family economics and health especially in the poorest areas of the country.
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Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
GHANA ACT member organisations took an active role in the Civil Society Organisations’ Parallel conference on Aid Effectiveness, in Accra (above) as well as in the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in 2008 (below). The Accra High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, 2-4 September 2008, brought together over 800 representatives of multilateral and bilateral donors, developing country governments, and civil society organisations. The meeting reviewed the Paris Declaration, a roadmap to improving aid effectiveness signed by one hundred ministers, heads of agencies and other senior officials in March 2005.
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Photo: Christof Krackhardt/Bread for the World/ACT
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typhoons and hurricaines BANGLADESH Farmers live in fear of water and wash away salt with fields rice that destroy their le adapt to climate peop ng helpi are bers mem ACT their houses. ne-proof houses, cyclo build change. Local partners help villagers ens and other chick keep and grow salt-resistant strains of rice small animals. . .
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INDIA A group of young Indian women training as rural health workers and disaster preparedness organisers in their villages. The training programme was set up using funds provided as part of the tsunami relief programmes through ACT International. This group will attend some 100,000 people in the Chidambaram district, Tamil Nadu. There are more than twenty ACT members working in India.
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Photo: Albert Hubert/LWF/ACT
Photo: Albert Hubert/LWF/ACT
Photo: Joerg Boethling
above and below: INDIA A rural development project in Birbhum, West Bengal, where a women’s self help group work and produce food for their families in a collective vegetable garden. The women are planting papaya. The project is supported by ACT member the Lutheran World Federation.
INDIA Mrs Sandhya Orang is harvesting rice in the village of Sukna. She is a member of an adult education program run by the Lutheran World Federation in India. The LWF India supports projects for education of the rural population of the Dalit and Adivasi groups.
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Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
INDIA ACT member Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action, CASA, manage a disaster response team with members in various villages through Orissa. In this photo the CASA team demonstrate some of their rescue skills. Orissa is frequently affected by severe cyclones, the last one killed 50,000 people.
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Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
Photo: Laurie McGregor/Norwegian church Aid/ACT
Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
top: INDIA Women in Danatliki are demonstrating against climate change and lack of water. The women meet in groups to discuss local issues, which are relayed up to state and national government. ACT member CASA helps the women speak up.
above: INDIA Many Jharkhand tribals work in mines and quarries, like this woman, earning less than 50 cents a day. ACT member the Church of North India Synodical Board of Social Services (CNI-SBSS) supports tribal groups in the area to organise and stand together for their rights. bottom left: INDIA Supriya, a young girl from the Oraon tribe in Jharkand, India. ACT member CNI-SBSS provides support to tribal groups in Jharkhand province, particularly in building social movements and rights-based work.
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INDIA Bonita Noyok, health worker with ACT member Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action, CASA, washes the feet of a patient and teaches villagers the most effective technique for treating people with lymphatic filariasis - otherwise known as elephantiasis - endemic in the Orissa region.
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Photo: Albert Hubert/LWF/ACT
Photo: Peter Høvring/DCA/ACT
Photo: Sean Hawkey/ACT
above: INDIA Fishermen launch their boat, one of many replacements provided by ACT members for fishing boats lost in the tsunami. The boats have restored livelihoods to the fishermen.
INDIA This fisherman survived the tsunami while out fishing, by surfing the gigantic wave, but lost his boat in the process. ACT member United Evangelical Lutheran Church of India helped him recover his livelihood, and rebuild his house.
below: INDIA Fishermen with their catch in southern India.
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Photo: Christof Krackhardt/Bread for the World/ACT
Photo: Mike Bloem/CWS/ACT
Photo: Tobias/YTBI/ACT
above: Indonesia This child’s length is being measured, to make sure it is developing healthily and getting enough nutrition. It is part of a Church World Service scheme to ensure children on the island of Nias are getting well fed. bottom right: Indonesia School Based Disaster Risk Reduction is one activity that ACT member YTBI always focuses on. YTBI works with schools which are flood prone along the river in Jakarta. YTBI teaches students and teachers how to be prepared by learning about first aid. YTBI also teaches the students about reducing, recycling, and reusing the waste, in order to reduce the impact of global warming.
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top: BANGLADESH This woman is drying the rice – she is part of a scheme by voluntary group PRODIPAN. Prodipan helps the people in Khulna and Jessore districts in southwest Bangladesh to face the long-term effects of coastal water-logging.
Photo: Mike.Bloem/CWS/ACT
INDONESIA Fishermen setting out before dawn after the 2004 tsunami, Nias Indonesia.
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Photo: LWR/ACT
Indonesia Lutheran World Relief and local partner LKM is working with 110 women on peanut and chili cultivation in Nias, Indonesia. Pictured, a daughter of one of the women helps harvest the peanuts. The women also receive literacy and financial training, which helps them further improve their lives because they can manage the household income.
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Photo: LWR/ACT
Photo: Nugie/YTBI/ACT
top: Indonesia In July 2009, ACT member Lutheran World Relief distributed quilts to women whose families were displaced by rebel groups earlier in the year. Even in parts of the world where the climate is mild, it can get quite cold at night. LWR quilts provide warmth and protection for children and families. LWR’s quilts are gifts of love to suffering people, offering hope and stability where disaster and war prevail.
above: Indonesia After the earthquake in West Java in September 2009, many people lived in temporary camps. ACT member YTBI cheered up the women with a football tournament. bottom left: PHILIPPINES His thumb still blue from signing, this boy received a health kit during a distribution at LWR’s warehouse on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, where families were displaced by rebel groups earlier in the year. To keep distributions fair, children too young to sign their names use a thumbprint to acknowledge receipt of their kit. Health kits give refugees and internally displaced persons the tools they need to maintain hygiene while living in exile.
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Photo: Jorg Bothling/Bread for the World/ACT
Photo: Jens Aas-Hansen/Norwegian Church Aid/ACT
Photo: MDRF/ACT
BANGLADESH Women working on the sand island Manushmara Char, in the north. They are building plinths to raise their houses, to make them safer from flooding. ACT member Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service, RDRS, ran the project.
top: BANGLADESH Cyclone Sidr and high tides destroy villages in Southkhali in Bagerhat district. Bread for the World funds projects to help coastal people adapt to climate change and to protect their lives and livelihoods from cyclone damage. bottom: INDIA An MRDF partner in India is helping Dalit communities to make the most from their land; to grow crops and make a living.
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Photo: Rachel Stevens / Christian Aid/ACT
INDONESIA Before the tsunami, Dilimani, 52, was a farmer on the island of Nias. She had a one hectare paddy field and she kept five pigs and 15 piglets. But they all died in the tidal wave, Dilimani joined a women’s action group to keep chickens together and sell the eggs. ACT member Yayasan Tanggul Bencana Indonesia (YTBI) gave the 15 women a chicken each to share, and in November 2005 the group received 30 more chickens. “YTBI built a pen for us and vaccinated the chickens against disease,” says Dilimani.
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Photo: Nils Carstense/DCA/ACT
Myanmar (BURMA) A child from the Karen ethnic group living in a refugee camp. Many Karen people live in camps in the border area with Thailand. ACT members support relief work in the refugee camps.
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Photo: DancChurchAid/ACT
Photo: DanChurchAid/ACT
top: Myanmar (BURMA) A Burmese man helping in the reconstruction of damaged buildings after cyclone Nargis.
Myanmar (BURMA) Karen Refugees in a camp on the border with Thailand.
bottom: Myanmar (BURMA) In the wake of cyclone Nargis, the worst disaster in the recorded history of Myanmar (Burma), a woman takes relief supplies home on her tricycle.
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SRI LANKA This woman has started her own production of poultry with the assistance of ACT members. Her husband disappeared, so she is now supporting her large family all on her own.
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above and below: SRI LANKA Following the tsunami people in Sri Lanka slowly began getting back to normal. A woman sorts rice and a man casts a fishing net.
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Photo: Christian Aid/ACT
Photo: LWR/ACT
Afghanistan Karmeen Herawi, 15, begged her husband and her parents to let her attend the STARS women’s literacy course. Now she can read and write, and has new ambition: ‘After my education I would like to become either the head of the women’s shura in Chagcharan, or a parliamentarian. Not just because of the salary, but to help people – especially women – to know about their rights and how to protect them.’
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top: Afghanistan An educational project that ACT member ICCO supports for girls who have been prevented in the past from attending schools. bottom: INDIA Tamil Nadu, a Southern province in India was severely affected by the Southeast Asia Tsunami in 2004. The care shown by LWR and ACT relief operations brings a warm smile to this Dalit woman.
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Afghanistan Golbibi Kohsani, 20, a young mother of two, has received a loom from RAADA to enable her to make an income from her skill at weaving traditional Afghan rugs. She says: ‘It will take me about three months to finish the carpet because I have to take care of the babies. I hope to be able to sell it for about $60. I can make my carpets from my own wool which is good because it will mean I can keep more of the money for the household and spend less buying materials for the next carpet.’
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NEPAL Two vegetable-sellers who used to be bonded labourers (called Kmaiya) show off the pig they bought with their group’s savings. The women live in Layakpur - a settlement camp for such freed labourers, in Kailali district. They received training from Nepal’s Center for Environmental and Agricultural Policy Research, Extension and Development (CEAPRED), which helps the rural poor. ACT member the Lutheran World Federation sponsored the project.
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Photo: Finn Church Aid/ACT
Photo: LWF/ACT.
NEPAL ACT member FinnChurchAid provides support to long-term development programmes in Nepal, aimed at strengthening rural society. In this project children are able to study in their village.
NEPAL A kamaiya (bonded labourer) woman on the way to sell vegetables. ACT member the Lutheran World Federation works for the empowerment of kamaiya in this area of western Nepal.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Pakistan Two Afghan refugee women cross the border into Pakistan near Chaman. A number of ACT members are supporting communities in this area.
top: Pakistan An Afghan refugee family crosses the border into Pakistan at Chaman. bottom: Pakistan A girl displaced by Pakistan’s war against Taliban forces in the summer of 2009 takes shelter in a tent provided by ACT and Church World Service in Sheik Youssain Camp, Mardan, Pakistan. A key component of the ACT/CWS response included psycho-social work with children.
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Pakistan An Afghan refugee family crosses the border into Pakistan at Chaman.
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Pakistan An Afghan refugee girl waits on the bus at the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar. She is being relocated by the UN to a camp closer to the Afghan border..
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
top: PAKISTAN An ethnic Uzbek girl, a refugee from Afghanistan, in the Shamshatoo refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan.
PAKISTAN Afghan refugee children work long hours to help their families survive. Near Shamshatoo camp, this boy works in a brickyard.
bottom: PAKISTAN A refugee girl from Afghanistan who lives in Quetta, Pakistan.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
PAKISTAN Two Afghan refugee children work making a carpet inside their family’s tent in the Shamshatoo refugee camp outside Peshawar, Pakistan.
top: PAKISTAN A UN worker checks who gets on the buses taking Afghan refugees from the squalid camp at Jalozai to a new camp closer to the border with Afghanistan.. bottom: PAKISTAN Aid workers manoevre materials for building shelters off a truck.
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Pakistan Afghan girls, denied an education under the Taliban, study in a school for refugee children in Quetta, Pakistan.
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Pakistan Afghan refugee children at Jalozai, Pakistan, wait for their transfer to a new refugee camp on the border.
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
top: PAKISTAN An Afghan refugee in Quetta. Refugees are willing to work for less, thus driving down wage levels and fueling resentment among Pakistanis..
PAKISTAN An Afghan refugee woman, with her belongings on her head, awaits transfer from Jalozai refugee camp to a new camp near the Afghan border..
bottom: PAKISTAN An ethnic Hazara girl, a refugee from Afghanistan, who lives in Quetta, Pakistan..
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Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
PAKISTAN An Afghan refugee girl is examined by a physician from the Islamic Relief Society upon crossing the border at Chaman into Pakistan.
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top and bottom: PAKISTAN These ethnic Uzbek refugees from Afghanistan live in the Shamshatoo refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan.
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/ACT
PAKISTAN An Afghan girl waits on at the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar for relocation by the UN to a camp closer to the Afghan border.
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Photo: NCCP/ACT
Philippines Frequent typhoons and cyclones in the Philippines affect the poorest and most vulnerable people hardest. With the help of ACT member National Council of Churches in the Philippines people can begin to rebuild their lives quickly after disasters.
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Photo: NCCP/ACT
Photo: NCCP/ACT
Photo: NCCP/ACT
Philippines ACT member National Council of Churches in the Philippines provides emergency relief to people affected by a cyclone.
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Photo: Chris Herlinger/CWS/ACT
Photo: Christian World Service/ACT
Photo: NCCP/ACT
Philippines Mangroves have been annihilated in the Philippines with over two thirds of coverage lost to industrial development and commercial fish farming. For poor coastal communities, the mangroves are essential for protection against erosion and securing a sustainable fish stock. Without them, jobs are lost, nutrition declines and homes may disappear. Christian World Service is funding local mangrove restoration.
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top: INDIA a young girl who survived the tsunami on the coast of Tamil Nadu is supported by ACT member Church World Service. bottom: Philippines ACT member National Council of Churches of the Philippines attended flood victims.
Photo: Carsten Stormer/Bread for the World/ACT
Philippines Elizabeth Hermosade was once one of the ‘bat people’ – Manila’s urban poor who live under bridges. She now volunteers full-time for Zone One Tondo Organization (ZOTO) – which aims to turn the city’s shanties into empowered communities. About 10,000 people belong to Zoto, which runs health programs, and gives microloans to small businesses, and does leadership training for young people. ACT member Bread of the World supports the scheme.
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Photo: Naja Nielsen/DCA/ACT
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CENTRAL ASIA
Photo: Peter Kargaard/DCA/ACT
Kyrgystan ACT member DanChurchAid supports projects with children and elderly people in Kyrgyzstan.
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Photo: Didde Elnif/DCA/ACT
Photo: Peter Kargaard/DCA/ACT:
Photo: Didde Elnif/DCA/ACT
top: Kyrgystan Nina Mihailowna Museeva 83 years old. bottom: Kyrgystan A meal that is needed at the centre run by Centre for Protection of Children, CPC, in Bisjkek, a partner of DCA.
Kyrgystan Roza Sulaimanova has known since she was a child that she wanted to be a doctor. To day she is teaching children about health care at CPC.
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Photo: DanChurchAid/ACT
Photo: Naja Mammen Nielsen /DanChurchAid/ACT
Photo: Naja Mammen Nielsen /DanChurchAid/ACT
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top: Kyrgystan A workshop being run by DanChurchAid. bottom: Kyrgystan Participants in DanChurchAid’s programme for the elderly in Central Asia.
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Kyrgystan After the collapse of the Soviet Union the people of Kyrgystan has seen a drastic fall in their living standards. With assistance from members of the ACT Alliance they are coping and adapting to the new situation.
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Photo: Church of Sweden/ACT
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OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES One of three health clinics in Gaza financed in part by ACT member the Church of Sweden was destroyed in Israeli bombing. The clinic was totally destroyed including its equipment and medical supplies.
Photo: Sarah Malian/Christian Aid/ACT
Photo: Church of Sweden/ACT
Photo: Church of Sweden/ACT
above: OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES A classroom seen through a hole caused by Israeli bombing in 2009. below right: OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES This northern part of Gaza was the worst hit by Israeli bombings. Many people were forced to live in ruins. ACT members continue to work in the area.
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top: OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES Najat alLouh, 32 mother of eight, and other members of her family outside the remains of their home in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, destroyed by artillery and bulldozers during Israel’s offensive in 2009.
Photo: Svenska kyrkan
OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES At Ahli Arab Hospital free health care is provided for children. Dr. Elias Say examines Keenan, 6 months old. His mother Fahtna provides a calming hand. Gaza. ACT members support health care in Gaza.
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Photo: Karen Brown/LWF/ACT
OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES The services provided by ACT member the Lutheran World Federation and its partners are summarised here: a moment of happiness, safety, security, and gratitude on the face of a sick child.
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Photo: Church of Sweden/ACT
Photo: Church of Sweden/ACT
Photo: Church of Sweden/ACT
top: OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES ACT member the Church of Sweden support vocational training in Palestine, including this carpentry workshop. below: OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES Girls in Jabalia School in Gaza City are drawing and playing as part of a psychosocial support programme.
OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES As normal services such as water and electricity are interrupted in Gaza by Israel, many people are forced to store what water they can in water tanks.
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PACIFIC Photo: Thomas Lohnes/Bread for the World/ACT
Papua New Guinea About 40 per cent of people here live on less than US$1 a day. Most Papua New Guineans live in rural areas but many are moving to big towns where joblessesness and civil unrest are on the rise.
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Photo: Christoph P端schner/Bread for the World/ACT
Papua New Guinea Peace activist Sister Lorraine Garasu lives in Bougainville - a pacific island that had large reserves of copper. When the copper was mined local residents got nothing and war broke out in 1998. Sister Loraine founded an interchurch federation to promote peace and mediate between warring groups. She got Bread for the World to fund literacy classes for young people who missed schooling because of the war.She would like to see more women in positions of power and she prepares women to become village leaders.
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Photo: Thomas Lohnes/Bread for the Wrold/ACT
Photo: Thomas Lohnes/Bread for the World/ACT
Photo: Thomas Lohnes/Bread for the World/ACT
top: Papua New Guinea a woman harvests the plant sacko using a net.
Papua New Guinea A girl braids palm tree leaves for the roof of a traditional house. It is part of a sustainable development project funded by Bread for the World..
bottom: Papua New Guinea Children playing in Rabisap village in the mountains above tropical forest. Bread for the World funds 10 month courses on how to grow a more varied range of vegetables, build fish ponds and keep pigs. The village held a cultural exchange with German children too.
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EUROPE Photo: Peter Høvring
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Kosovo Ready for work. DanChurchAid has recruited local workers and trained them in the delicate work of de-mining. After clearing mines in his own country, Kosovo, this de-miner was transferred to clear mines in neighbouring Albania. He carries all equipment with him into the minefield and works concentrated for hours. He is very confident that each mine he finds saves a life or a limb.
Photo: Philanthropy/ACT
Photo: Peter Høvring/DanChurchAid/ACT
Photo: Armenia Round Table/ACT
KOSOVO Mohammad, a de-miner working for DanChurchAid/ACT said he was particularly impressed that this assistance was given to communities irrespective of religious beliefs. A Muslim himself, he said he felt valued by this Christian organisation. He was responsible for several minefields in the mountainous border area between Albania and Kosovo pictured here. DCA/ACT was tasked by the UN coordination unit to clear mines in the most dangerous areas. And this was done successfully.
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top: SERBIA ACT member Philanthropy’s woodcarving workshop at the Saint Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovia Spiritual Center in Kraljevo was established in 2001. The aim of the project is personal development and economic empowerment of socially vulnerable local population, Internally Displaced People and refugees. The centre provides skills training and income generation. bottom: ARMENIA Apiculture and honey production is promoted for income generation and fruit tree pollination by the Armenian Round Table, an ACT member.
Photo: Peter Høvring/DanChurchAid/ACT
KOSOVO Afrim Bordoniqi, a DanChurchAid demining task site leader is talking to the operations manager before sending the de-miners into the minefields bordering Albania and Kosovo. The security system has to be in place before the work can begin. Afrim is recruited from the community and trained. A former sports trainer and karate instructor in Kosovo, he now serves as an operations manager for DanChurchAid in battle field clearance in Southern Lebanon.
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Photo: Armenia Round Table/ACT
Photo: Rachel Stevens/Christian Aid/ACT
Photo: Norwegian Church Aid/ACT
UK Christian Aid supporters campaiging against climate change demonstrate outside Parliament in London. ACT member Christian Aid has been mobilising supporters to campaign on climate change and take positive action towards sustainability.
top: ARMENIA ACT member the Armenia Round Table runs workshops for young people in Yerevan, on community building and peace building. bottom: NORWAY Young money-collectors during the annual Lenten Campaign in Norwegian Church Aid.
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