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  • A training course at the TASO training center in Kampala. The TASO training function is ensuring that individual and service providers in different institutions with in and outside Uganda access HIV/AIDS training. Over the years TASO has trained individuals, communities and organizations through participative approaches and direct partnership with people living with HIV/AIDS. Today TASO has trained over 15, 000 individuals both locally and internationally since inception.
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  • An MDD Group is rehersing at the TASO Day Care Center in Kampala. The TASO MDD (Music, Dance and Drama) groups are composed of people living with HIV/AIDS who have decided to go public about their sero-status and freely share their experiences with others. They go to schools, markets and other communities to educate people through personal testimonies and HIV/AIDS message-laden music dance and drama.
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  • The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) was founded in 1987 by Noerine Kaleeba and a group of friends and colleagues some of whom were either directly infected with HIV or implicitly affected because their very close familial associates were infected. Today TASO cares for over 100,000 people annually through HIV counseling, medical care as well as social support.
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  • (2008) Whenever possible, Hermann ventured out into the townships to assist with problems or to get a sense of the conditions in which those he cares for were living. The priest talked to women and children on the street about the dangers of AIDS and other STDs. He encouraged them to get tested for AIDS and passed out condoms, even though the Catholic Church forbids it.
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  • (2008) Most women in the shelter are infected with AIDS or venereal diseases. Sick, weak and ostracized as whores, they have almost no chance of finding normal work. "We give them food once a week and a bible. This is just to keep their hopes alive." Klein-Hitpass says,
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  • Clients waiting at the indoor waiting-area of the TASO Service Center  in Kampala. Once clients are registered, all TASO services are free of charge. TASO runs 11 service centers spread in Uganda, with now 22 "mini-TASOs" and Community Based organisations in other parts of the country that are outside TASO's catchment area of 75Km from the nearest service center.
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  • (2008) At his daycare facility, Father Hermann hands out milk powder to prevent small children from contracting HIV by their mothers from breastfeeding. In 2008, when this photo was taken, sex workers who registered with Hermann received a ration of food and second-hand clothing once per week. The bookkeeping of Father Hermann was always meticuluous. He knew exactly who got what and when.
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  • (2008) This image shows the "kitchen" of Winnies home. Winnie has to share the six square meters sized shack with two other girls to be able to pay the rent.
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  • (2008) A portrait of Irène at the age of eleven. Two years later she became pregnant and ran away from home. Irène tried to abort the baby with illegal pills, lost consciousness, was raped by a young man, and passed away.
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  • (2008) Father Hermann poses with his old Toyota in front of the roman catholic church at Pioneers Park, where his home, a two room apartment, is located. He always has a big key chain with him, because he has to lock everything tp prevent it from getting stolen.
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  • (2008) "When it is dark enough the ladies are wanted by many people, but during the day in parliament they want to burn them out." says Father Hermann. He notes, prostitutes face an immediate mortal threat of HIV infection - something the government seems unwilling to confront.
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  • (2008) The bookkeeping of father Hermann is meticuluous. He knows exactly who got what and when from him. Every day of the week, about 300 of the registered women and girls are entitled to collect some food and cloth and to stay at the centre from morning to evening.
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  • In his tiny office, the priest advises women and girls. A recently conducted survey presents a gloomy picture: of 20 women and girls between the ages of 11 and 45 who registered with him one day, all were HIV positive. Sixteen of them sayed that they had been raped multiple times, the youngest at eight years old, with one 12-year-old having already been violated 10 times. All of those interviewed indicated they suffered from depression. Many say that they had attempted suicide more than once.
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  • (2008) A woman exits Father Hermanns car in Havanna, a district of Katutura. Sometimes Father Hermann drives  some women from the townships to his daycare or back. But most of them have to walk ten kilometers and more to get to his daycare.
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  • For single women, life in the rough ghettos around Katatura is very difficult, particularly for those with small children. Because there are few jobs, prostitution is often the only route to survival. Many become infected with diseases. Sick, weak and ostracized as whores, they have almost no chance of finding normal work and become trapped in a vicious circle.
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  • (2008) For single women, life in the rough ghettos is very difficult, particularly for those with small children. Because there are few jobs, prostitution is often the only route to survival. Many become infected with diseases. Sick, weak and ostracized as whores, they have almost no chance of finding normal work and become trapped in a vicious circle.
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  • (2008) Eunice at the age of 17. At that time, she was already a young mother.
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  • Sixteen-year-old Winnie stands in the entrance of the hut that she and two roommates have rented. Often, the girls are sought out and sexually assaulted by unknown men in the hut, particularly when they are drunk and defenseless. They can't protect themselves because the door has no hinge and no lock.
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  • (2008) Father Hermann Klein-Hitpass stood up for the weakest members of society in Namibia´s capital, Windhoek, for many decades. For the past 20 years his special focus has been on girls and women whose poverty forced them into sex work. Most of those women do not call him “Father” only because he is a priest – many say that he is like a real father to them.
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  • (2008) Father Hermann talks to a streetwalker who is looking for clients at the Ausspannplatz, a street-walkers patch in the city center of Windhoeck. This area is not safe for the women, especially not at nighttime. Sex workers can´t expect any protection from the police, because prostitution is illegal in Namibia. „When it‘s dark the ladies are wanted by many people, but during the day in parliament they want to burn them out.“ says Hermann in an interview with a local newspaper.
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  • Father Hermann holds a deeply depressed woman to comfort her. Two weeks previously she had lost her baby and been thrown out by her husband and left her to a life on the street.
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  • Many children around Gulu have become orphans due to the LRA murders or AIDS. This 15 year old girl girl is the oldest sister of 3 orphans and has to run the family alone now. She gets some support from TASO (the Aids support organisation), since her parents have died from AIDS.
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  • (2008) At his daycare Father Hermann tries to comfort a woman who suffers from severe depression after losing her child. Many sex workers suffer from depression and suicidal thoughts, especially when they are infected with AIDS or STDs. But many of these women are not victims only.  They are used to the rough life on the streets.Some try to take advantage of the priest´s kindness, a fact that Father Hermann is well aware of.
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  • A TASO worker hands out a check to the school principle to pay for the scool fees of the children of some of their clients who are not able to work because they suffer from AIDS.
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  • South Sudan, documentation of development aid projects by the Swiss NGO HEKS and SDC.
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  • Ferlo Desert Senegal, documentation of development aid projects by the Swiss NGO HEKS.
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  • The French architect Louis Chauchon built the central market in Phnom Penh, in Cambodian Phsar Thmey, in 1937. At the opening in 1937, Phsar Thmey counted as the biggest market hall of Asia. The market was renovated from 2001 to 2009 with the help of 4.3 billion dollars from French aid funds.
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  • South Sudan, documentation of development aid projects by the Swiss NGO HEKS and SDC.
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  • South Sudan, documentation of development aid projects by the Swiss NGO HEKS and SDC.
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  • South Sudan, documentation of development aid projects by the Swiss NGO HEKS and SDC.
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  • Ferlo Desert Senegal, documentation of development aid projects by the Swiss NGO HEKS.
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  • Ferlo Desert Senegal, documentation of development aid projects by the Swiss NGO HEKS.
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  • Ferlo Desert Senegal, documentation of development aid projects by the Swiss NGO HEKS.
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  • Ferlo Desert Senegal, documentation of development aid projects by the Swiss NGO HEKS.
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  • Ferlo Desert Senegal, documentation of development aid projects by the Swiss NGO HEKS.
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