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  • Bangldeshi workers break up a door of an abandoned mud building in  Al Hamra, Oman, 2011
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  • In Mirashkani, a poor farmers village in Georgia.
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  • In Mirashkani, a poor farmers village in Georgia.
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  • In Mirashkani, a poor farmers village in Georgia.
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  • Residents of Nairobi return home from work in the evening. Colourful competitiveness and the thrive for progress seem to part of the DNA of Nairobi‘s inhabitants. Techies and reformers are working on digitalising the fares for Matatus and on electrifying their engines. Perhaps soon electric-buses will be whizzing through Nairobi, making the colourful Matatus more eco-friendly in the future.
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  • Joshua and Virgilia are taking a break from their work. They both are tired, as both of them have been working non-stop for days to come of for the medical bill of their baby.
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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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  • In the early morning, a ferry brings people from the other side of the Tonle Sap, to the centre of Phnom Penh, to their working places.
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  • Jose Cortina is 80 years old and has been working at IMPA since 1947. During this time, he has seen four different military dictatorships. Cortina began his career as an administrative worker. <br />
Today he is a sales manager and responsible for contacts with customers.
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  • Young man working out at the Muttrah Bay in Muskat, Oman, 2011
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  • Trizah Mokua (28), called Stacey, poses in front of her Matatu, which is waiting for passengers at Nairobi Railways Bus Station. Stacey is one of only two Matatu drivers working at Nairobi‘s largest bus station. Her bus is not one of the fancy ones. Passengers on her route to the slum Kibera can‘t afford that. French footballers are painted on her Matatu, the paint is heavily scraped off. „Some of the drivers deliberately ram me,“ says Stacey. „They don‘t like independent women, they see me as a competitor.“
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  • Nairobi, July 29, 2019 - Dennis Muraguri (39) stands in his atelier in Nairobi. He describes himself as a multimedia artist, working in the fields of painting, graphics and sculpture, but he has a special passion for Matatus. He has become famous for his „Matatu Art“ in Kenya. In his colorful handmade prints, Dennis explores the Matatus and the urban culture of contemporary Nairobi.
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  • Dina was chased away from home by her stepfather when she was 18 and found shelter in a friends home who was surviving on sex work. In order to buy food, Dina started to do the same thing. She is a mother to one child but says that she already lost two. 5 years ago she started to suffer from mental problems. She has to take pills in order to be mentally stable.
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  • (2013) Alexia (28) became pregnant by her father at the age of thirteen. Her relatives chased her away from home. She survived by doing sex work for more than ten years. With Father Hermann´s help, Alexia now runs a little shop that allows her to make a living. "He gave me back my dignity" Alexia says about the priest.
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  • (2013) Scholastivca (35) was abused by her uncle at the age of 12. Later a man from Europe said that he wanted to marry her and invited her to Vienna. When she arrived there, he took her passport and forced her into sex work. After one year she escaped with the help of an Ethiopien woman.
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  • Ricardo Lugones (37) works at IMPA in Buenos Aires for 10 years. He used to work as a Pizza delivery guy, got often robbed during  work and therefore did not feel safe anymore. His father, a former IMPA worker, recommended him to work at IMPA.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. A boy sells consumer goods in one of the numerous shops in the Shatila. According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), most of the men in the camp work as labourers or run grocery stores, and women work as cleaners. 10 percent of Lebanon's population is comprised of Palestinian refugees, two-thirds of them live on less than $6 a day.
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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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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. Mohammed Ahmad Ahmad signs his report after work is done. Five times a week for two hours he collects the garbage in the dirty alleys and takes it to a garbage dump. For the work he receives the monthly equivalent of 50 USD.
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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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  • 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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  • Victor Rodriguez (29) (middle).Works at Impa for 10 years..Because he wants to work there.
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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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  • The Mixtape Matatu makes a „pit stop“ at a gas station in Rongai in order to to refuel and let passengers board the bus. It.drives back and forth on the Ongata Line, which connects the suburb Rongai with the Nairobi Railway Bus Station. Matatu owners compete to put the most exciting bus on the road, a rolling work of art. 100 Kenya shillings costs a ride with his bus „mixtape“, the equivalent of roughly 1 US Dollar, at peak times rhe fare might even rise to 150 shillings.
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  • Joshua alias Buz Lightyear takes a break from his work as a costumed character at New York´s Times Square.
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  • (2008) Women and children at Father Hermann´s shelter.
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  • Tibetans are frying Samosas at a cultural  festival in Manali, India, 2009
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  • A tibetan refugee family in their home in the so called Tibetan settlement in Manali, India, 2009
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  • Dagpo Shedrub Ling Monastery, India
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  • Dagpo Shedrub Ling Monastery, India
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  • While inspecting the work of the robotic pool cleaner, Victor’s thoughts start to wander.
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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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  • Joshua and Virgilia go back to work after their lunchbreak.
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  • A tibetan monk looks through the window of his room at the Dagpo Sherdrub Ling Monestary in India, while we see the reflection of the mountains of the Kullu Valley and some parts of the monastery in the window.
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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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  • Dagpo Shedrub Ling Monastery, India
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  • Tibetan novice monks are debating at the Dagpo Shedrub Ling Monastery in Kullu Valley, India
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  • Makangas of a Matatu, which is dedicated to the superhero Batman, advertise passengers in the roundabout of the Railway Bus Station. The main task of the Makangas, apart from collecting money, is to recruit passengers. The job is tough. The Makangas work long hours running around and don‘t sleep much. There are also many clashes with rude passangers and corrupt police officers who want to improve their salaries.
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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. Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. The view from one of the high buildings in Shatila on the city of Beirut. The refugees are allowed to leave the camp, but not to work or get property anywhere else.
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  • (2013) Dina was chased away from home by her stepfather when she was 18 and found shelter in a friends home who was surviving on sex work. In order to buy food, Dina started to do the same thing. She is a mother to one child but says that she already lost two. 5 years ago she started to suffer from mental problems. She has to take pills in order to be mentally stable.
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  • Father Hermann’s Apartment, Windhoek, November 23, 2013. Father Hermann gives shelter to a woman who knocked on the door of his apartment late at night, looking for help. When in adversity, the women often come to Father Hermann’s home at the Catholic Church in Pioneers Park, Windhoek. Due to the alarming extent of his work and serious health issues the priest has more and more difficulties to keep his apartment clean and tidy.
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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) 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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  • The superheroes often have to share the tips between each other. Many of them work together as a team.
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  • (2013) Dina was chased away from home by her stepfather when she was 18 and found shelter in a friends home who was surviving on sex work. In order to buy food, Dina started to do the same thing. She is a mother to one child but says that she already lost two. 5 years ago she started to suffer from mental problems. She has to take pills in order to be mentally stable.
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  • Some residents of Phnom Penh enjoy the work free Sunday evening in the park of the royal palace.
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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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  • (2013) A woman shows her HIV medication. many people who are HIV positive don´t take their medication because it makes them vomit if they don´t have enough food in their stomach.
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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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  • Lac Rose (also called Lac retba) is a a UNESCO World Heritage Site situated 40km from Dakar. The small lake has a salt content close to 40% and is famous for its red colored water, caused by salt-loving micro-organism called Dunaliella Salina. The salt sediments at the button of the lake, therefore there is a small salt collecting industry, where people are harvesting the salt by hand. The salt is exported mainly to different african countries.
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  • After work, Two women sit down in the kitchen at their farmhouse in Mirashkhani.
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  • Manali, India, 2009
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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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  • Boys are playing after school at a Tibetan primary school 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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  • An old women is preparing tea at the kitchen of her home at the Tibetan settlement in Manali, India, 2009
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  • Portrait of a monk on the roof of a Tibetan refugee camp in Manali, India, 2009
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  • A tibetan women (left) and an Indian women and her child (right) in Dharamsala, India, 2009
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  • Dharamsala, India, 2009
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  • Tibetan novice monks school class at the Dagpo Shedrub Ling Monastery in India
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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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  • 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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  • Dagpo Shedrub Ling Monastery, India
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  • Dagpo Shedrub Ling Monastery, India
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  • Dagpo Shedrub Ling Monastery, India
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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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  • Racha Fajjari works at her home in Erlenbach, Switzerland, September 2017
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  • A girl in Mirashkhani works at her parents farm after school.
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  • Nairobi, August 2, 2019. Collins Birage (25) is a Makanga, a conductor of a Matatu. He works in one of the hundreds of Matatus which are every day lining up while waiting for passangers in front of the Nairobi Railways Bus Station. Collins' goal is to get as many passengers as possible on his bus as quickly as possible. The more passengers the Makangas recruit, the more they earn. On average, a Makange earns about 2000 Kenyan Shillings a day, which is about 20 USD. The competition among the Matatus is enormous. 20000 - 40000 busses allegedly drive through Nairobi. Soon they will face even more competition. Currently a modern public transport system is being built in Nairobi. For the Matatu community this is only one more reason to become even more creative. They have already created a digital map of the Matatu lines and network with the mobile phone signals of the passengers, something that did not exist before. Now they think about digitalizing payment and electrifying the buses. Perhaps soon colorful and more eco-frendly Matatus will be whizzing through the Kenyan capital.
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  • Nozy Customs (28) is a graffiti artist who works at the Enlight Garage in Buru Buru Phase 1 District of Nairobi. He uses a stock library image as a reference for his graffiti artwork- The references were selected by John Kamau (44), the owner of the Matatu who sits down to supervise the process. Because the Matatus are so numerous, they must be decorated with eye-catching motifs to stand out from the crowd.
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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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