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  • Children playing at the beach on a hot day in Oman, 2011
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  • In Mirashkani, a poor farmers village in Georgia.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • Trudy, (28) says that her children are her only joy in life. Because most of the men refuse to use condoms, women who sell themselves often get pregnant. Some of the women have up to ten children, often all from different fathers.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • For over 20 years northern Uganda was terrorized by a rebel group called the Lord Resistance Army (LRA). The rebels raided villages, killed, raped and mutilated the villagers and abducted young men and children to slave them as soldiers. Gulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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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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  • 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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  • Dakar, November 4, 2017. Kherou Ngor marches to the stadium in Ngor for a local fight, accompanied by some children of the village.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: Because water in Beirut is expensive, the cement for the houses of the camp in Shatila was mixed with salty sea water. As a result, the walls draw water from the ground and mould spreads everywhere, compromising the health of the refugees, especially the health of the children.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. The schoolyard is the only place in the camp that offers the children and young people some space to play. Pictures of Palestinian politicians and symbols of the Palestinian resistance movement are displayed on the walls of the schoolyard.
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • (2013) Alexia lives with four other women and their children, so that they are able to protect themselves from robbers and sexual assaults.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann visits Alexia at her home in Katutura. Alexia lives with four other women and their children, so that they are able to protect themselves from robbers and sexual assaults.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann looks at a photo which shows a group of under-age children who were misused by an expat from Europe. As a consequence, most of the girls have to deal with psychological problems, many of them got involved in prostitution and have infected themself with HIV.
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  • The spectators  go wild as a young wrestler defeats his opponent in a nightly competition on April 8, 2015 in the Ngor district in Dakar, Even small children attend the fights that often kick off until after midnight.
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  • (2008) Children are playing in front of Father Hermann´s shelter in Katutura. The house was bought by the roman catholic church, because some church members complained about the frequent visits of the prostitutes at the Bishops residence, where Father Hermann used to have his quarter before he moved to the church at Pioneers Park. The bishop solved the problem by offering Hermann to run a daycare shelter for the prostitutes in the township.
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  • (2008) Women and children at Father Hermann´s shelter.
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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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  • 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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  • Children are playing in the water in the early morning in a fishermens village in Mindanao, Philipines.
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  • Nairobi, August 02, 2019 - Reuben Kenyanya (51), a conductor, poses inside a Matatu at the Nairobi Railways Bus Station. Bus conductors are called Makangas in Kenya. The job is tough, he says. He works long hours and doesn't sleep much. There are also many clashes with corrupt police officers and rude passengers. Reuben works in an old, rundown bus on the line between the city centre and the slum of Kibera. Most people in Kibera can´t afford the flashy, tuned Matatus with fancy entertainment and Wifi on board. The Matatus feed many people, including the conductors, the owners and Sacco managers, but also police officers, cartels and city councils. And the national transport authorities also demand money for the routes. The Makangas earn as much as is left after deducting the payment of all these people. "We do this work mainly because of our children", he says with a serene look on his face.
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  • A clergyman teaches children the Quran at the mausoleum of Sokhna Mame Diarra Bousso, the mother of Amadou Bamba. Sokhna Mame Diarra Bousso (1833-1866) is worshipped as a saint. The annual pilgrimage to her mausoleum is the only pilgrimage dedicated to a woman in Senegal.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. Mohammed Ahmad Ahmad's children support each other in the difficult situation in the camp, the older sister takes care of the younger siblings.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: The very limited space and the narrow alleys  cannot keep the children of the camp from at least playing soccer together.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. Hanadi Khalid Ristawi, her 4 children and her father live in a 20 square meters sized room. When the family had to flee from the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria, the camps in Beirut were their closest option for shelter. Like most of the refugees from Syria the family wants to leave Shatila, because the living conditions there are harsh and the damp walls in the room pose a serious health risk.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. Children play on a rudimentary swing. There is no place for real playgrounds for kids in the narrowly built refugee camp.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. Children of Syrian refugees  playing in the streets of the refugee camp.
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • (2013) Dina gets some tap water at a sanitary installation near her shack. Namibia is is the most arid country south of the Sahara. Rainfall, the main supplier of water, is very scarce. The Namibian government tries to improve the situation of the poorest people in Katutura by constructing sanitary facilities even in the sqatter settlements. But the tap water is not for free, of course. Often, the women have difficulties to bring up the money for the water which they need for themselves and their children.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann visits Alexia (left, with pink shirt) at her home in babylon, a district of Katutura. Alexia lives with four other women and their children, that way, they are able to protect themselves better from robbers and sexual assaults.
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  • Agnes was forced by her father to have sex with him at the age of 14. Her mother did not want to hear that  truth and started to drink. Later her mother even started to sell Agnes for sex to buy alcohol. Today Agnes still has to sell herself to take care for her 3 children and to send her younger sister to school. She says that she will never forgive her mother for what she did to her.
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  • On two sides of a street in Dakar, groups are watching the wrestling match on television at the Senegalese Independence Day on April 4, 2015. The Senegalese people celebrate Independence Day traditionally with some major wrestling fights. Almost the entire population in Senegal, from small children to old women, follow the wrestling matches on TV or, if possible, at the stadium.
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  • The women and children from the Senegalese village Soune have assembled to watch the men fighting in a wrestling match on April 20, 2012. The wrestling matches in the country are delivered occasionally at village celebrations to entertain the audience.
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  • There are many barely dressed girls in the foyer of the karaoke bar, waiting to be booked as an escort to sing karaoke with, or more. Many parents sell their own children to the sex-industry because of the high poorness in Cambodia.
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  • (2013) For many years, Hermann distributed second hand cloths among the women at the shelter. "Proper cloths are very important to get a minimum of respect in this culture, so the women will always try to dress up as good as possible, even if they have nothing. I don´t want them to spend their money on clothes, when they have hungry children to feed at home." he says.
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  • (2008) Women and children rest at father Hermanns Daycare facility. They are tired, many of them walked for hours to get some food at the shelter.
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  • (2013) After their little sister passed away, Father Hermann encouraged Cecilia (right) and her sister Maria (left) to file a lawsuit against their mother who now is in jail, but they still have to sell themselves in order to take care of their children.
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  • (2008) Women and children at Father Hermann´s shelter.
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  • (2008) The women get some food and drinks at father Hermanns shelter. Many of them come there because they and their children have nothing to eat.
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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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  • Primary School near Muskat, Oman 2011.  Nowadays almost 90 percent of the children in Oman go to school, also girls.
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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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  • This is story is reported by 20 years old Nancy Auma: I was 17 years and was abducted by the LRA when I  was 6 months pregnant, That day, the LRA rebels failed to abduct other children and they blamed it on me that my pregnancy was their bad luck and that I should be killed. 3 rebels with knives and razor blades started cutting off my ears, my nose and my lips. I was beaten; they kicked my stomach and left me with a wrapped paper with my ears, nose and lips to take it to the government soldiers. I was taken to the hospital and got treated. But I lost my dignity, even the father of my child rejected me because I was so deformed. In 2008, staff of African Youth Initiative Network came to my home and told me they got support from UN Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) and they are assisting people who got injuries due to LRA crimes. They brought me to the hospital where I received lips reconstructions. That was the first time I saw something good happened to me.
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  • A sign warns of land mines in Gulu, Northern Uganda. ulu, a city in Northern Uganda, was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army. The Ugandan gouvernment built refugee camps as a protection for civilians and displaced them from the villages for years. Now that the conflict is over the gouvernment sends people back to their villages to rebuild their houses, so only old people and children remain in the camps.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: Mirvat Al Saadi  had to flee Syria without her husband. She lives alone with her three children. Men have tried to get into her apartment several times at night. That's why she electrifies the door of her apartment at night.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: For  Mohammed Ahmad Ahmad and his family the only connection to the world outside is a smartphone. He, his wife Nawal and his children live in the camp since 2013.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017.Mohammed Ahmad Ahmad plays with his children after returning from work. His family is his pride and joy.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: This Palestinian refugee, who has fled from Syria with his daughter and their children to Shatila, also eagerly hopes to leave the narrow and humid apartment and the camp soon.
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • Opaganda Center, center for disabled children, Windhoeck Namibia
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  • (2013) A bed where 4 children are sleeping together in one tiny room.
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  • Father Hermann’s shelter, November 22, 2013. Father Hermann examines an x-ray of a young boy at the daycare facility. The boy’s mother worries about the health-state of her son an asks for Hermann’s advice. Many women come to the shelter to be examined by Father Hermann when they or their children feel sick. If necessary, Father Hermann admits them to a doctor or to a hospital to claim an appropriate medical treatment, which would not be granted, if the women would go their on their own.
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  • Children play with huge soap bubbles which are blown up by a street artist at Lake Zurich´s promenade in Zürich City.
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  • Children play at the entrance of a souvenir- and sculpture shop near the royal palace.
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  • The Let’s Plus Café, offers along with live music and simple, but delicious food, a waterspout fountain, which brings mostly the children of Phnom Penhs’ vistors a lot of pleasure.
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  • (2008) Women and children at Father Hermann´s shelter.
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  • (2008) The women take their babies with them to the shelter to get some food for them or to have them examined by Father Hermann when they are sick. In an emergency father Hermann would take the children or women to the hospital for proper treatment.
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