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  • A beduin girl living in the desert of Wahiba Sands. Oman, 2011
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  • Beduin girls milking goats in the desert of Wahiba sands, Oman, 2011
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  • Eine Gruppe von Frauen tanzt zu den Klängen von Trommeln bei einer traditionellen Zeremonie im Dorf Soune in Senegal in der Region der Stadt Thiés.
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  • Beduins living in the desert of Wahiba Sands. Oman, 2011
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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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  • A young girl waits for customers at Ausspannplatz in the city center of Windhoeck.
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  • (2013) Christina (17) talks about her life at Father Hermann´s daycare facility. As soon as she had her menstruation, her mother who was an alcoholic said that she was a big girl now and forced her to make money by selling herself. She dropped out of school at the age of thirteen, ran away from home and continued to sell herself to survive. She says that she is HIV positive and four months pregnant.
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  • Karaoke is, as in many Asian countries, very popular in Phnom Penh. Most karaoke bars offer their rooms for rent. Karaoke-girls, are not only waitresses but also available for other services.
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  • Beauty Contest in Menzi, a small village on the island of Mindanao in the  Philippines 2011
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  • Beauty Contest in Menzi, a small village on the island of Mindanao in the  Philippines 2011
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  • Beauty Contest in Menzi, a small village on the island of Mindanao in the  Philippines 2011
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  • Beauty Contest in Menzi, a small village on the island of Mindanao in the  Philippines 2011
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  • Beauty Contest in Menzi, a small village on the island of Mindanao in the  Philippines 2011
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  • Beauty Contest in Menzi, a small village on the island of Mindanao in the  Philippines 2011
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  • Beauty Contest in Menzi, a small village on the island of Mindanao in the  Philippines 2011
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  • This girl was left on her own while her parents where sent back to their village to rebuild their house. She fell sick, and although Gulu has one of the highest densitys of international NGOs in the world, she was complitety left alone until I reported the case to Victor Ochen, who went there to find the girl. Victor was able to make sure she was getting the medical treatment that saved this girls life.
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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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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, watershed management, farmer´s girl of Hagereselam poses in front of treated gully (3. year)
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  • April 20, 20212 – During a wrestling match in the village of Soune near Thies, a wrestler smiles at a girl in the audience. Senegalese wrestling is a popular sport that is played even in the smallest villages.
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  • A girl in Mirashkhani works at her parents farm after school.
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  • Portrait of a tibetan girl at her family´s home in the Tibetan settlement in Manali, India, 2009
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  • Anual Report (2017) for the Swiss Re Foundation about their Partnership with Ashoka in India, supporting the efforts of social entrepreneurs to fight malnutrition among pupils in India.
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  • A Cambodian girl chases pigeons in the park in front of the royal palace of Phnom Penh.
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  • A boy and a girl are getting ready for their dance performance at a Tibetan festival in Manali, India, 2009
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  • A tibetan girl in a school bus iat a tibetan school in Manali, India, 2009
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  • A girl reads a book at the library of the university of Tbilisi.
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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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  • Father Hermann’s shelter, November 21, 2013.  Outside the shelter some of the girls watch teit reflection in the weindscreens of Father Hermanns old Toyota.
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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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  • (2013) Father Hermann talks to two young girls who offer their services at Ausspannplatz in the center of Windhoeck.
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  • (2013) A couple of girls walk down the street  at Damara 6. They often stay together as a group. Sex workers in Katutura cannot count on the solidarity of their neighbors or relatives; they usually only get help from other girls who do the same work in order to survive.
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  • (2013) Now that he is old and physically weak, Father Hermann harbors major worries about not being able to find a successor yet. He fears that the women and girls will have to deal with their situations by themselves once again, as he will not be able to help them much longer.
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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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  • (2013) Cecilia, 23, is one of the girls for whom Father Hermann cares for several years already. She and her two sisters Maria and Irene were sold by their mother at the ages of 9, 10, and 11 years.
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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) 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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  • (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 goes for dinner at the mess hall of the church where he closby  lives in a small apartment.
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  • (2013)  Father Hermann fixes some sandwiches for a woman who seeks his help at his home at the church in Pioneers Park.
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  • Father Hermann talks to some street walkers in a casino bar at Ausspannplatz in the city center of Windhoeck.
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  • (2013) Some of the women are fixing the battery of Father Hermanns car in front of the shelter in Katutura.
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  • (2013) In company of a church community member, Father Hermann eats dinner at the mess hall of the church in Pioneers Park where he lives in a small apartment.
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  • (2013)  Father Hermann examines at a scan of his brain. He suffers from cerebral atrophy and diabetes. In the last two years, his strength has been fading, today he is hardly able to continue his work.
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  • (2013)  Father Hermann offers slices of bread and butter to a woman who seeks his help at his home at the church in Pioneers Park.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann arrives at Damara 6, a district in Katutura township. The people gather very quick around the car when he arrives, they say they recognize the sound of the engine of his car even before they see it.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann rests while he visits some of the women at their homes.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann talks to some women who bake bread dough in hot oil to sell at a nearby school at Damara 6. Years ago they were also working as sex workers, but they say they are now too old to get enough clients to survive.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann at the gate of the roman catholic church at pioneers park.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann walks to the homes of some of some women in Havanna, another district in Katutura, to see if they are ok.
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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) Several women are fighting for a cigarette. Fights among the women at the shelter are not unusual and  envy is a big problem. Therefore Father Hermann has to be very careful to distribute food and clothes at his shelter equitably.
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  • Because they are socially stigmatized, sex workers are frequently exposed to robbery and violence. Pamela shoes the spot where she was brutally raped by five men who tortured her with barb wire for several hours. She had been raped several time before.
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  • (2008) Winnie talks with Father Hermann about her sorrows.
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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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  • (2013) Hermann visits some of the women in Damara 6 at their homes.
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  • Damara 6, Katutura township (Windhoek), November 27, 2013. Father Hermann rests while some girls are doing their hair. It took a few years until the women started to trust the priest. But now many say that he is like a real father to them. He became part of the family, part of the people in the township.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann in the kitchen of his small two room appartment.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann, parks his car at his home in Pioneerspark. He often works from the early morning till late in the evening.
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  • (2013) Hanna (37) never knew her mother or her father, never went to school and grew up on the streets. She became a sex worker at the age of 16. A few years ago some Chinese men promised her a better life abroad and paid for this document. Father Hermann convinced her not to go.
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  • (2013) Amanda (33) tallks about her life at Father Hermann´s Shelter. Her parents passed away, so she grew up with her grandmother who could not afford to feed her and to pay for her schoolfees. Therfore she started to sell herself in clubs. She says that sex workers in Namibia are at very  high risk to get beaten up, thrown out of cars or even get killed by men who refuse to pay them for their services.
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  • (2013) At Father Hermann´s daycare facility, Miriam talks about her  hopes to find a job to support her brothers and sisters in order to live together with them as a familiy.
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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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  • (2013) Katutura is still growing. Every day hundreds of work seeking people move from the countryside to the squatter settlements in the Township of the Namibian capital.
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  • (2013)  Father Hermann counsels a woman who seeks his help at his home at the church in Pioneers Park.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann arrives at Damara 6, a district in Katutura township. The people gather very quick around the car when he arrives, they say they recognize the sound of the engine of his car even before they see it.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann visits some of the women who used to come to his shelter. Some are just happy to see him, others immediately ask him for some financial support.
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  • Father Hermann’s shelter, November, 2013.  A woman talkes to Father Hermann at his office to ask for some money to burry her baby that passed away. She shows Hermann the death certificate of the hospital to prove that her story is true.
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  • Dakar, April 9, 2015. Aissa (23), a waitress at the „Black and White” bar on the beach of Ngor, poses for a portrait with the newspaper „Sunu Lamb“, which daily publishes exclusively Senegalese wrestling matches. Many girls are and women in Senegal are watching wrestling matches on TV, especially those who are big fans of certain wrestlers.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann buys some food at a  supermarket in Windhoeck City.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann opens the shelter.
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  • (2013) Even statues at the shelter have to be locked with a chain to prevent it from being stolen. Many of the women who visit Father Hermanns shelter grew up on the street and can´t resist to steal whatever they could sell for a little money.
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  • November 2013, Father Hermann´s daycare is half-abandoned because the priest is weakened by age and diabetes and reaches his limits. Hermann says that he will have to close the daycare soon because there is no successor and his strength is quickly fading.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann at his office at the shelter in Katutura.
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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) Father Hermann walks down the street at the center of the city of Windhoeck.
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  • (2013) Almost everything in the daycare needs to be chained and locked up to prevent it from being stolen. Some of the women don´t only steal, they also sell the second hand clothes  or the milk powder they get from Hermann in order to make some money for a alcohol or drugs.
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  • (2013) Father Hermann visits a sick woman at her room in Damara 6.
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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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