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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...A young woman from Dixon's homestead is out milking the cows early morning. Dixon is a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. S.A.F.E is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...A young woman from Dixon's homestead is milking the cows early morning. Dixon is a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. S.A.F.E is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Sherssen,to the right, is greeting a friend. Its the end oof the day and the cattle and goat market day in Ilkerin is almost over. Sherssen is local and is a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. S.A.F.E is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...It is Wilson's wedding party and his village is full of visitors. Wilson is also a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. Here weddng guests are enjoying a performance by S.A.F.E about Female Genital circumcision. S.A.F.E.  is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate. There is no electricity other than a generator which runs two lights used for the show.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...It is Wilson's wedding party and his village is full of visitors. Wilson is also a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. Here weddng guests are enjoying a performance by S.A.F.E about Female Genital circumcision. S.A.F.E.  is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate. There is no electricity other than a generator which runs two lights used for the show.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...It is Wilson's wedding party and his village is full of visitors. Wilson is also a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. Here weddng guests are enjoying a performance by S.A.F.E about Female Genital circumcision. S.A.F.E.  is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate. There is no electricity other than a generator which runs two lights used for the show.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...It is Wilson's wedding party and his village is full of visitors. Wilson is also a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. Here weddng guests are enjoying a performance by S.A.F.E about Female Genital circumcision. S.A.F.E.  is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate. There is no electricity other than a generator which runs two lights used for the show.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...It is Wilson's wedding party and his village is full of visitors. Wilson is also a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. Here weddng guests are enjoying a performance by S.A.F.E about Female Genital circumcision. S.A.F.E.  is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate. There is no electricity other than a generator which runs two lights used for the show.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...A young woman from Dixon's homestead is milking the cows early morning. Dixon is a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. S.A.F.E is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate.
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  • Sherssen,to the right, is greeting a friend. Its the end oof the day and the cattle and goat market day in Ilkerin is almost over. It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Sherssen is local and is a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. S.A.F.E is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate.
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  • In Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp, home to 75.000 Palestinians. Girls wash their hands after having been hand painted. It is summer break in the UNWRA school and Naba'a runs Play and Learn sessions in the empty school for vulnerable children. They aim is to give them a safe space to express themselves with out fear of repression. Developmental Action Without Borders(Naba'a) work in Palestinian refugee camps across Lebanon to help children in the camps.  The camps are densely over-crowded and many of the children are 4th generation refugees living in Lebanon with no citizenship or rights and under immense pressure. Naba'a is a mix of Palestinians and Lebanese and aim to give children a sense of security and freedom to express their needs and rights.Naba'a operates in communities governed by a multitude of political parties and religious groups and Naba'a keeps a strict independed line from any affiliation with any groups.
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  • In Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp, home to 75.000 Palestinians. Mother Hannan with some of her 6 children in the alley outside her front door. They live in a two room flat, the father Ali sells watermellons in the street. Most of the children receive psychosocial help to relieve them from stress and Naba'a's psychologist Rouda Ismael has been visiting them for years. With her help 15 year old Muhammed can now walk and Doaa can now speak. Developmental Action Without Borders(Naba'a) work in Palestinian refugee camps across Lebanon to help children in the camps.  The camps are densely over-crowded and many of the children are 4th generation refugees living in Lebanon with no citizenship or rights and under immense pressure. Naba'a is a mix of Palestinians and Lebanese and aim to give children a sense of security and freedom to express their needs and rights.Naba'a operates in communities governed by a multitude of political parties and religious groups and Naba'a keeps a strict independed line from any affiliation with any groups.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...A young woman from Dixon's homestead is milking the cows early morning. Dixon is a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. S.A.F.E is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...The charity S.A.F.E which is mainly a thetra group is also working local partners in educating youngsters about HVI/AIDS and Female Genital Mutilation. FGM is a traditional rite of passage for girls into womanhood. FGM has many forms in Kenya, in the Loita Hills FGM involves that the girl's clitoris and inner and outer labia is cut of, an extremely painful and dangerous procedure with  liflong medical and psychological implications. Here a teacher is explaining about HIV/AIDS and how to protect oneself from being infected.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...The charity S.A.F.E which is mainly a thetra group is also working local partners in educating youngsters about HVI/AIDS and Female Genital Mutilation. FGM is a traditional rite of passage for girls into womanhood. FGM has many forms in Kenya, in the Loita Hills FGM involves that the girl's clitoris and inner and outer labia is cut of, an extremely painful and dangerous procedure with  liflong medical and psychological implications. Here a teacher is using a model of the female genitalia to explain the procedure to the young students, some of them who will soon be facing their own rite of passage.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...It is Wilson's wedding party and his village is full of visitors. Wilson is also a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. Here weddng guests are enjoying a performance by S.A.F.E about Female Genital circumcision. S.A.F.E.  is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate. There is no electricity other than a generator which runs two lights used for the show.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...It is Wilson's wedding party and his village is full of visitors. Wilson is also a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. Here weddng guests are enjoying a performance by S.A.F.E about Female Genital circumcision. S.A.F.E.  is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate. There is no electricity other than a generator which runs two lights used for the show.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...It is Wilson's wedding party and his village is full of visitors. Wilson is also a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. Here weddng guests are enjoying a performance by S.A.F.E about Female Genital circumcision. S.A.F.E.  is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate. There is no electricity other than a generator which runs two lights used for the show.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...It is Wilson's wedding party and his village is full of visitors. Wilson is also a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. Here weddng guests are enjoying a performance by S.A.F.E about Female Genital circumcision. S.A.F.E.  is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate. There is no electricity other than a generator which runs two lights used for the show.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...It is Wilson's wedding party and his village is full of visitors. Wilson is also a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. Here weddng guests are enjoying a performance by S.A.F.E about Female Genital circumcision. S.A.F.E.  is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate. There is no electricity other than a generator which runs two lights used for the show.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...A young woman from Dixon's homestead is out milking the cows early morning. Dixon is a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. S.A.F.E is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...A young woman from Dixon's homestead is milking the cows early morning. Dixon is a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. S.A.F.E is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Sherssen,to the right, is greeting a friend. Its the end oof the day and the cattle and goat market day in Ilkerin is almost over. Sherssen is local and is a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. S.A.F.E is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...The charity S.A.F.E which is mainly a thetra group is also working local partners in educating youngsters about HVI/AIDS and Female Genital Mutilation. FGM is a traditional rite of passage for girls into womanhood. FGM has many forms in Kenya, in the Loita Hills FGM involves that the girl's clitoris and inner and outer labia is cut of, an extremely painful and dangerous procedure with  liflong medical and psychological implications. Here a group of midwives, who also perform the FGM, discuss how best to change the trditional way of rites of passage for girls to a less bloody and less dangerous way. They have all been through the procedure and has performed many themselves and are keen to change the tradition.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...The charity S.A.F.E which is mainly a thetra group is also working local partners in educating youngsters about HVI/AIDS and Female Genital Mutilation. FGM is a traditional rite of passage for girls into womanhood. FGM has many forms in Kenya, in the Loita Hills FGM involves that the girl's clitoris and inner and outer labia is cut of, an extremely painful and dangerous procedure with  liflong medical and psychological implications. Here a teacher is explaining about HIV/AIDS and how to protect oneself from being infected.Here a teacher is using a model of the female genitalia to explain the procedure to the young students, some of whom will soon be facing their own rite of passage.
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  • Wilson's wedding day...It is Wilson's wedding party and his village is full of visitors. Wilson is also a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. Here weddng guests are enjoying a performance by S.A.F.E about Female Genital circumcision. S.A.F.E.  is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita, a brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate. There is no electricity other than a generator which runs the two lights used for the show...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive.
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  • Rabia is hands up a bowl of muddy water from a hole dug in the river bed. It's dry season in Afar region and water is hard to come by.  Rabia and her family are pastoralists and have come to water their goats. Action for Integrated Sustainable Development Association (AISDA) work in the AFAR region of Eastern Ethiopia, based in Delafagi.
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  • Bridjet Mbahiga with her children. She is mother of 4 and runs a subsistence plot of land to feed the kids yams, agash and rice. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues. EVA runs a programme in the community called Window of Hope where children once a week meet to find support with each other and to receive psycho-social help. Many of the children are from HIV effected families and live precarious lives.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Doofan Yende squeezes out a drop of blood from a child's finger to perform a HIV/Aids speed test. 120 children were tested in an afternoon, all of them proved negative. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Big brother, 16 year old Muhammed and his siblings Hussein and Rabia head off to rejoin with their mother and the heard of goats. They have been to drink water and water their goats from water in a hole dug into a dried up river bed. It's dry season in Afar and water is hard to come by. Both animals and humans suffer in the dry season and travel long distances to find water and grassing.  Action for Integrated Sustainable Development Association (AISDA) work in the AFAR region of Eastern Ethiopia, based in Delafagi. The Afars practise an old tradition of Female Genital Mutilation where the baby girls has her clitoris and labia cut away and her vagina sewn up. The day before her wedding day the girl is un-stiched ready for marriage. Its a brutal and barbaric tradition which AISDA is challenging with great effect, now more than a hundred girls in Dowe district have been saved from the knife and AISDA is now rolling out the scheme in Delafagi. Delafagi is where the oldest ever human remains have been found, the found is thought to be 4.5 mill years old. with their mother and the heard of goats. They have been to drink water and water their goats from water in a hole dug into a dried up river bed. It's dry season in Afar and water is hard to come by. Both animals and humans suffer in the dry season and travel long distances to find water and grassing.  Action for Integrated Sustainable Development Association (AISDA) work in the AFAR region of Eastern Ethiopia, based in Delafagi. The Afars practise an old tradition of Female Genital Mutilation where the baby girls has her clitoris and labia cut away and her vagina sewn up. The day before her wedding day the girl is un-stiched ready for marriage. Its a brutal and barbaric tradition which AISDA is challenging with great effect, now more than a hundred girls in Dowe district have been saved from the knife and AISDA is now rolling out the scheme in Delafagi. Delafagi is where the oldest ever human remains have been found, t
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  • In Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp, home to 75.000 Palestinians. Main street in Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp. Developmental Action Without Borders(Naba'a) work in Palestinian refugee camps across Lebanon to help children in the camps.  The camps are densely over-crowded and many of the children are 4th generation refugees living in Lebanon with no citizenship or rights and under immense pressure. Naba'a is a mix of Palestinians and Lebanese and aim to give children a sense of security and freedom to express their needs and rights.Naba'a operates in communities governed by a multitude of political parties and religious groups and Naba'a keeps a strict independed line from any affiliation with any groups.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...With very little traffic and no public transport coming across a potential lift is precious. The three men has been to the cattle market in Ilkering and are walking back home, a good 6 hour walk. The pick-up truck run by S.A.F.E is almost fully loaded and only the front man gets his much wanted lift.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...The charity S.A.F.E which is mainly a thetra group is also working local partners in educating youngsters about HVI/AIDS and Female Genital Mutilation. FGM is a traditional rite of passage for girls into womanhood. FGM has many forms in Kenya, in the Loita Hills FGM involves that the girl's clitoris and inner and outer labia is cut of, an extremely painful and dangerous procedure with  liflong medical and psychological implications. Here a group of midwives, who also perform the FGM, discuss how best to change the trditional way of rites of passage for girls to a less bloody and less dangerous way. They have all been through the procedure and has performed many themselves and are keen to change the tradition.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...The charity S.A.F.E which is mainly a thetra group is also working local partners in educating youngsters about HVI/AIDS and Female Genital Mutilation. FGM is a traditional rite of passage for girls into womanhood. FGM has many forms in Kenya, in the Loita Hills FGM involves that the girl's clitoris and inner and outer labia is cut of, an extremely painful and dangerous procedure with  liflong medical and psychological implications. Here a teacher is explaining about HIV/AIDS and how to protect oneself from being infected.Here a teacher is using a model of the female genitalia to explain the procedure to the young students, some of whom will soon be facing their own rite of passage.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Dixon is cooking his dinner, cows spare ribs. Meat is an important part of the Maasai's diet, as well as maze and milk. Dixon is a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. S.A.F.E is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...With very little traffic and no public transport coming across a potential lift is precious. The three men has been to the cattle market in Ilkering and are walking back home, a good 6 hour walk. The pick-up truck run by S.A.F.E is almost fully loaded and only the front man gets his much wanted lift.
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  • It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...With very little traffic and no public transport coming across a potential lift is precious. The three men has been to the cattle market in Ilkering and are walking back home, a good 6 hour walk. The pick-up truck run by S.A.F.E is almost fully loaded and only the front man gets his much wanted lift.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...The charity S.A.F.E which is mainly a thetra group is also working local partners in educating youngsters about HVI/AIDS and Female Genital Mutilation. FGM is a traditional rite of passage for girls into womanhood. FGM has many forms in Kenya, in the Loita Hills FGM involves that the girl's clitoris and inner and outer labia is cut of, an extremely painful and dangerous procedure with  liflong medical and psychological implications. Here a teacher is explaining about HIV/AIDS and how to protect oneself from being infected.
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  • A teacher uses a model of the female genitalia to explain the procedure of FGM to the young students, some of them who will soon be facing their own rite of passage. FGM is a traditional rite of passage for girls into womanhood. FGM has many forms in Kenya, in the Loita Hills FGM involves that the girl's clitoris and inner and outer labia is cut of, an extremely painful and dangerous procedure with  lifelong medical and psychological implications. <br />
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It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...The charity S.A.F.E which is a theater group also works with local partners in educating youngsters about HVI/AIDS and Female Genital Mutilation.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Dixon is cooking his dinner, cows spare ribs. Meat is an important part of the Maasai's diet, as well as maze and milk. Dixon is a member of the S.A.F.E theatre group. S.A.F.E is a charity which educates children and young people about life skills and how to protect themselves from HIV and other STIs through performance. They also do performances about Female Genital Mutilation, an old tradition amongst the Maasais in Loita and a very brutal and controversial custom which S.A.F.E is trying to eradicate.
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  • Put It To The People march for a Peoples Vote on 23rd March 2019 in London, United Kingdom. With less than one week until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance. An estimated one million protesters gathered to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal. A man dressed as the devil in front of a giant puppet of Michael Gove.
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  • Put It To The People march for a Peoples Vote on 23rd March 2019 in London, United Kingdom. With less than one week until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance. An estimated one million protesters gathered to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal. A man dressed as the devil in front of a giant puppet of Michael Gove.
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  • Young girls made up for the night. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues. EVA runs a programme in the community called Window of Hope where children once a week meet to find support with each other and to receive psycho-social help. Many of the children are from HIV effected families and live precarious lives.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Chinyere is talking to a 12 year old girls fromLagos. The girls called rather than texted to ask if she can get Aids from hugging someone.  The help line programme is called My Question my Answer(MY QandA) and young people can ask any questions related to sexual health or relationships. Most questions are dealt with via text which is a free service but calls can also be made if the questions raised are too complicated or severe. Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Young girls made up for the night. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues. EVA runs a programme in the community called Window of Hope where children once a week meet to find support with each other and to receive psycho-social help. Many of the children are from HIV effected families and live precarious lives.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • A girl is heading home in the dying light in rural Makurdi in Benue Sate, Nigeria.Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues. EVA runs a programme in the community called Window of Hope where children once a week meet to find support with each other and to receive psycho-social help. Many of the children are from HIV effected families and live precarious lives.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...A grand mother in traditional dress and jewelry with her years cut.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...A grand mother in traditional dress and jewelry with her years cut.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive.
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  • Wilson's wedding day...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years. The wedding is a big day for everybody with lots of dancing and celebration...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive.
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  • Put It To The People march for a Peoples Vote on 23rd March 2019 in London, United Kingdom. With less than one week until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance. An estimated one million protesters gathered to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal. A giant puppet of Teresa May outside Downing Street No 10.
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  • Put It To The People march for a Peoples Vote on 23rd March 2019 in London, United Kingdom. With less than one week until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance. An estimated one million protesters gathered to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal. A young couple kiss in Whitehall.
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  • Put It To The People march for a Peoples Vote on 23rd March 2019 in London, United Kingdom. With less than one week until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance. An estimated one million protesters gathered to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal. A giant puppet of Teresa May outside Downing Street No 10.
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  • Put It To The People march for a Peoples Vote on 23rd March 2019 in London, United Kingdom. With less than one week until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance. An estimated one million protesters gathered to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal. A young couple kiss in Whitehall.
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  • Put It To The People march for a Peoples Vote on 23rd March 2019 in London, United Kingdom. With less than one week until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance. An estimated one million protesters gathered to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal. A young couple kiss in Whitehall.
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  • Put It To The People march for a Peoples Vote on 23rd March 2019 in London, United Kingdom. With less than one week until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance. An estimated one million protesters gathered to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal. A man dressed as the devil in front of a giant puppet of Michael Gove.
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  • Chinelo is working on the support help line set up by EVA. The programme is called My Question my Answer(MY QandA) and young people can ask any questions related to sexual health or relationships. Most questions are dealt with via text which is a free service but calls can also be made if the questions raised are too complicated or severe. Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Young girls using their mobile phone in rural Makurdi in Benue state. My QandA is mobile phone text service run by EVA where young people can ask questions about sexual health anonymously. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Young girls using their mobile phone in rural Makurdi in Benue state. My QandA is mobile phone text service run by EVA where young people can ask questions about sexual health anonymously. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • As part of the HCT programme in rural Makurdi EVA staff hand out their flyer advocating their My QandA service. My QandA is mobile phone text service run by EVA where young people can ask questions about sexual health anonymously. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria. Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • As part of the HCT programme in rural Makurdi EVA staff hand out their flyer advocating their My QandA service. My QandA is mobile phone text service run by EVA where young people can ask questions about sexual health anonymously. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Carers of vulnerable children and EVA staff, Enock Nyakundi, a volunteer from Kenya work on a new constitution for the carer support group in rural Makurdi. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • The team and children after a HCT session in rural Makurdi. All 120 children turned out to be negative. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Volunteer Blessing test the children for HIV/Aids in a school in rural Makurdi as part of EVA's EVA Youth World HCT programme. 120 children were tested and non of them positive. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • A quick prick to the finger to draw blood to do a HIV speed test. EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • A small girl and her friends are queuing up to be HIV tested as part of EVA's EVA Youth World HCT session in rural Markurdi.  EVA provide HCT in three rural communities near Makurdi in Benue state. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Children are registered before having their HIV test. The children are all particular vulnerable, either single or double orphans or from families suffering fro terminal illnesses such as HIV. They come from the surrounding rural district near Makurdi. That day 120 children were tested, all negative. Benue state has got one of the highest HIV prevalence in Nigeria and EVA aim to target vulnerable children who would otherwise miss out of being tested for HIV and therefor not know their HIV statues.  Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria...Education As a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) in Nigeria.
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  • Big brother, 16 year old Muhammed and his siblings Hussein and Rabia head off to rejoin with their mother and the heard of goats. They have been to drink water and water their goats from water in a hole dug into a dried up river bed. It's dry season in Afar and water is hard to come by. Both animals and humans suffer in the dry season and travel long distances to find water and grassing.  Action for Integrated Sustainable Development Association (AISDA) work in the AFAR region of Eastern Ethiopia, based in Delafagi. The Afars practise an old tradition of Female Genital Mutilation where the baby girls has her clitoris and labia cut away and her vagina sewn up. The day before her wedding day the girl is un-stiched ready for marriage. Its a brutal and barbaric tradition which AISDA is challenging with great effect, now more than a hundred girls in Dowe district have been saved from the knife and AISDA is now rolling out the scheme in Delafagi. Delafagi is where the oldest ever human remains have been found, the found is thought to be 4.5 mill years old.
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  • Rabia is handing up a bowl of muddy water from below the river bed. It's dry season in Afar and water is hard to come by. Here a hole has been dug into the river bed to be able to find something to drink. Both animals and humans suffer in the dry season and travel long distances to find water and grassing.  Rabia and her family are pastoralists and have come to water their goats. Action for Integrated Sustainable Development Association (AISDA) work in the AFAR region of Eastern Ethiopia, based in Delafagi. The Afars practise an old tradition of Female Genital Mutilation where the baby girls has her clitoris and labia cut away and her vagina sewn up. The day before her wedding day the girl is un-stiched ready for marriage. Its a brutal and barbaric tradition which AISDA is challenging with great effect, now more than a hundred girls in Dowe district have been saved from the knife and AISDA is now rolling out the scheme in Delafagi. Delafagi is where the oldest ever human remains have been found, the found is thought to be 4.5 mill years old.
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  • Teenagers, both girls and boys learn the trade of hotel business. Many of the local teenagers dream of going to Manila or other big cities and vocational training provided by Laura Vicuña is important to fulfil this dream. Casa Maria Ausilitrice Laura Vicuña Women Development and Training Centre in Victorias City. Laura Vicuña is a non-profit charity working in Manila and in Bacolod in the state Negros Occidental in the Philippines.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Early moring in the Loita Hills. Two boys are bringing out their goats for pasturing.
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  • Maasai Maar in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border.A Maasai wedding party is underway. It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years.
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  • Disability Action Network (DAN) is based in Hargeisa in Somaliland and a charity working with disabled children and young people helping them to access health care and provide them with therapeutic rehabilitation. DAN supply and fit orthopaedic appliances and physiotherapy when needed. Somaliland is a very poor country and to many not living in the capital Hargeisa health care is very difficult to come by..DAN received the STARS Foundation Health Award in 2008 for outstanding work. A boy suffering from cerebral palsy is sitting with his mother at the DAN centre waiting to recieve physio. The boy is sitting in a chair and table contraption which helps him to sit up unaided.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting S.A.F.E in the Loita Hills near the Tanzanian border in Kenya...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive...Early moring in the Loita Hills. Two boys are bringing out their goats for pasturing.
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  • Wilson's wedding day....Women gathered around the fire in Wilson's house. It is Wilson's wedding party and his village and home is full of visitors. The Maasais houses have very few and little windows with no glass and the only light is from a fire. The fire makes the room hot and smokey and is the focus point of much talk and laughter...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive.
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  • Wilson's wedding day...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a competitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. They have their own boma near by and in between dances they go back to their huts to rest and to chat...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive.
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  • Wilson's wedding day...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a competitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive.
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  • Wilson's wedding day...Young men called Morans are competing in jumping as high and straight as possible, a copetitive dance called adumu, at Wilson's wedding. The Morans are you men almost ready for the coming of age ceremony held every 10-15 years. The wedding is a big day for everybody with lots of dancing and celebration...It is mainly Maasais who live in the Loita Hills up above the Serengeti plains. They live in small villages and communities called bomas and live mainly of raising and selling live stock such as cattle and goats. Its a very remote region in Kenya, hard to get to without a four wheel drive with very little infrastructure and up till 2010 no mobile phone network. The Maasais are well known though out Kenya and the world for their colorful clothing and their way of keeping their old traditions alive.
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  • Put It To The People march for a Peoples Vote on 23rd March 2019 in London, United Kingdom. With less than one week until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance. An estimated one million protesters gathered to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal.
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  • Put It To The People march for a Peoples Vote on 23rd March 2019 in London, United Kingdom. With less than one week until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance. An estimated one million protesters gathered to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal.
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  • Put It To The People march for a Peoples Vote on 23rd March 2019 in London, United Kingdom. With less than one week until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance. An estimated one million protesters gathered to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal. Placards left on display in Whitehall after the march.
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  • Put It To The People march for a Peoples Vote on 23rd March 2019 in London, United Kingdom. With less than one week until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance. An estimated one million protesters gathered to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal.
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  • Put It To The People march for a Peoples Vote on 23rd March 2019 in London, United Kingdom. With less than one week until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance. An estimated one million protesters gathered to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal. An spontaneous party in Trafalgar Square after the march.
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  • Put It To The People march for a Peoples Vote on 23rd March 2019 in London, United Kingdom. With less than one week until the UK is supposed to be leaving the European Union, the final result still hangs in the balance. An estimated one million protesters gathered to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal. Placards left on display in Whitehall after the march.
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