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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A Beduin woman in the desert of Wahiba Sands. Oman, 2011
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  • Children playing at the beach on a hot day in Oman, 2011
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  • Fisherman at the beach in Ras al Hadd, Oman, 2011
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  • Turtle traces at the Ras al Hadd Turtle Beach Resort, Oman, 2011
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  • Fishermen at the beach in Ras al Hadd, Oman, 2011
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  • Woodship in the bay of Al Hadd, Oman 2011
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  • Fishermen catching tuna at the coast near Muskat, Oman, 2011
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  • A worker in Wadi Shab, Oman 2011
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  • A fishermens boat taking off into the sea at Yiti Beach, Oman, 2011
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  • Fishermen at the beach in Ras al Hadd, Oman, 2011
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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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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. Village technician Halle Selassie Hagos from Beleso constructs a water harvesting cistern at the home of Araya Hadish (63).
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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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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. Fortuna Razene (5) drinks water from the rainwater harvesting cistern of the Alem family.
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. Village technician Halle Selassie Hagos from Beleso constructs a water harvesting cistern at the home of Araya Hadish (63).
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. Village technician Halle Selassie Hagos from Beleso constructs a water harvesting cistern at the home of Araya Hadish (63).
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  • November 4, 2017. After performing a washing ritual with magic water, which contains torn pieces of paper with secret ciphers, Kherou Ngor spends a few hours on the roof of the house of his uncle before he goes to the tournament. There he waits and meditates while the laundry next to him dries in the wind. His uncle is a highly respected Marabout who claims that he can alter destiny by the using magic ciphers. He writes down the ciphers on paper. The paper with the ciphers is then torn and added to the water fort he washing ritual. Marabout is the word for a shaman, a witch doctor or a cleric in Senegal.
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  • November 4, 2017. A cousin of Kherou Ngor performs a washing ritual with magic water, which contains torn pieces of paper with secret ciphers, Kherou Ngor performs several rituals  on the roof of the house of his uncle before he goes to the tournament. His uncle is a highly respected Marabout who claims that he can alter destiny by the using magic ciphers. He writes down the ciphers on paper. The paper with the ciphers is then torn and added to the water fort he washing ritual. Marabout is the word for a shaman, a witch doctor or a cleric in Senegal.
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. Araya Hadish (63) waters his vegetable fields at the pond.
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  • November 4, 2017. After performing a washing ritual with magic water, which contains torn pieces of paper with secret ciphers, Kherou Ngor spends a few hours on the roof of the house of his uncle before he goes to the tournament. There he waits and meditates while the laundry next to him dries in the wind. His uncle is a highly respected Marabout who claims that he can alter destiny by the using magic ciphers.  He writes down the ciphers on paper. The paper with the ciphers is then torn and added to the water fort he washing ritual. Marabout is the word for a shaman, a witch doctor or a cleric in Senegal.
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, rain water harvesting, Adeda Woldeberhan (20), beneficiary of pond, with her son Kahsu (2)
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. Take´en Weldegebriel (38), preparing coffee. (traditional ethiopian coffee ceremony).
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. Take´en Weldegebriel (38) cooks vetch at her kitchen.
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. Take´en Weldegebriel (38)
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. , Bernan Alem (f, 22), prepare coffee in the early morning.
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, rain water harvesting, Mogos Kalayu (13), grade 7, and school director Berihu Hailu (29) pose in front of school pond.
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. Fortuna Razene (5) and Berket Alem (m, 2)
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. Take´en Weldegebriel (38) sifts barley.
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. Take´en Weldegebriel (38) sifts barley.
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. Take´en Weldegebriel (38) cooks vetch at her kitchen.
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. Araya Hadish (63) in front of his farmhouse with the rain harvesting cistern under construction.
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. Widower Araya Hadish (63) with his son Amami Araya (21), his daughter Abeba Araya (29), her son Capital Alem (4) and her baby boy. Negassi Alem 3 months).
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  • Beles Sunrise project BSP, water harvesting & irrigation. Portrait of Araya Hadish (63) with Maize.
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  • Outside the center of Gulu city, a man carries water to his home. Gulu was at the heart  of the conflict between the rebels and the ugandan army.
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  • A sheep strut across the beach of Yoff, while fishermen pull a boat out of the water in the background.
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  • On August 11. 2015, Kherou Ngor sacrifices cow's milk on the rocks of gor beach, after which he chose his wrestling name. Kherou Ngor means „Rock of Ngor“. He says that a powerful spirit lives in the water and in the rocks at this  beach, By pouring milk on the rocks and praying.Kherou asks for the ghost’s favour and support his next fight.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017. A maze of water and power lines runs through the streets of the refugee camp, which has grown continuously since 1949 and now accommodates well over 20000 refugees on an area of just under one square kilometre, without the necessary infrastructure ever being built.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: A tangle of water and power lines extends like a spider's web over the narrow alleys of the refugee camp.
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  • Shatila, Lebanon, April 2017: A boy runs through one of the camps streets with it´s tangled water pipes and electricity cables
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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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  • November 4, 2017. Before a tournamant Kherou Ngor’s cousin blows water over the wrestler´s head at the Cham, the shrine of the ancestors of Kherou Ngor’s family. They perform this ceremony in order to give Kherou Ngor the strenght and support of their anchestors for a fight
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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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  • On  August 11, 2015, Kherou Ngor pours cow milk over his head and body. He performs this ritual in the water at the shore of Ngor, Dakar, in order to obtain the spiritual support of a ghost who lives in the stones at the shore. Cow milk and magic potions are omnipresent in the wrestling arenas of Senegal, where vodoo and gris-gris rituals are a undisposable part of the show for the audience.
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  • Kherou Ngor's cousin performs a ritual for the wrestler at the Cham - a place of worship for the ancestors of the wrestler's family - on April 5, 2015. Clay pots filled with roots and water are said to contain the spirits of the ancestors. The ritual, which must be performed regularly, is intended to provide the wrestler with the support and strength of the ancestors during his matches.
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  • April 1, 2016. In Djilass, a small village in the district of Thiès, a Marabout performs a Gris-gris ritual by washing a chicken in the water in order to produce a magic potion.  All the wrestler use several magic potions which they poor over their bodies before the fights. The ones who win every fight are actually the Marabouts, which are always well paid for the talismans and magic potions by the fighters.
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  • April 1, 2016. In Djilass, a small village in the district of Thiès, a wrestler is washed with a magic potion which a Marabout prepared by washing a chicken in the water.
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