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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • 24 hour charity table tennis play at Brighton Table Tennis club. The event is to raise money for solar panels and is themed purple and in the name of the late artist Prince who donated money to solar panels. Photographed for the charity 10:10
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  • Food distribution in the Bacolod district of Manila. All the women have been to a workshop in the dangers of human trafficking first and now receive a basic food parcel with rice, dry soup, sweets and juice. Laura Vicuña is a non-profit charity working in Manila and in Bacolod in the state Negros Occidental in the Philippines.Bacolod district of Manila. All the women have been to a workshop in the dangers of human trafficking first and now receive a basic food parcel with rice, dry soup, sweets and juice. 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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  • Mike Tomes,NLAH manager, helps serving the hot meals. North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • Stevie is originally from Alaska but has lived in Hackney for thirty years. He usually misses the  NLAH lunch on Mondays because he is busy getting the new Big Issue at that time but always comes for dinner on Wednesday nights.North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • Roger, a volunter helps out serving the soup. North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • Mike Tomes. North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • Lucie Galand, head chef at NLAH. North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • North London Action for the Homeless cookes up a three course meal for a hundred homeless men and women in Stoke Newington, London. Every Monday luch time and Wednesday evening the charity serves up a hundred meals as well as a couple of hours of respite from the streets which in November are getting very cold and wet. All the food is donated and sourced locally and most of the staff are volunteers and have been with the charity for years.
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  • Students at the ALS after having finished school. The Alternative Learning System (ALS) Program - provides working children with an alternative to finish either elementary or secondary education without undertaking activities in the formal school system.  ALS students are provided with self-learning modules, which they go through at their own pace.  Their progress is monitored by program staff when they visit the CDRTC once a week..Casa Maria Ausilitrice Laura Vicuña Women Development and Training Centre in Victorias City, Negros Occidental. Laura Vicuña is a non-profit charity working in Manila and in Bacolod in the state Negros Occidental in the Philippines. in the state Negros Occidental in the Philippines.
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  • Students in class. The Alternative Learning System (ALS) Program - provides working children with an alternative to finish either elementary or secondary education without undertaking activities in the formal school system.  ALS students are provided with self-learning modules, which they go through at their own pace.  Their progress is monitored by program staff when they visit the CDRTC once a week..Casa Maria Ausilitrice Laura Vicuña Women Development and Training Centre in Victorias City, Negros Occidental. 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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  • Jenibell on her way to school. She had to take several years out of education to work in the sugar cane field and to assist her mother at home looking after her younger siblings but she is now back in school. She walks 1/2 through sugar cane fields and ride 10 min on a tricycle to get to school for 7.45am. She lives near Victorias City in the state Negros Occidental. Laura Vicuña is a non-profit charity working in Manila and in Bacolod in the state Negros Occidental in the Philippines.Bacolod in the state Negros Occidental in the Philippines.
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  • Jenibell on her way to school. She had to take several years out of education to work in the sugar cane field and to assist her mother at home looking after her younger siblings but she is now back in school. She walks 1/2 through sugar cane fields and ride 10 min on a tricycle to get to school for 7.45am. She lives near Victorias City in the state Negros Occidental. 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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  • Food distribution in the Bacolod district of Manila. All the women have been to a workshop in the dangers of human trafficking first and now receive a basic food parcel with rice, dry soup, sweets and juice. 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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  • Jessica, 16. (Not her real name)..When Jessica came to the home at the age of 12 she was in a coma for 4 days after having tried to take her own life. She had been sexually abused for many years and her grandfather was her father who then carried on abusing her. She had wanted to run away for years but she was afraid to leave her little brother and suicide seemed at the time to be her only way out. Her biggest worry now is the well-being of her brother and she finds it very difficult to come to terms with that she had to leave him. She now lives in The Laura Vicuña Centre in Cubao which houses 30 street girls who may be orphaned, neglected, abandoned, battered, morally endangered and sexually abused. 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 home and family of Julia R Rodrigues and her children Jeric, Helen, Noel, Rica and Nathalie in the slums of Manila.  Grandmother Teresi stands outside the glass-less window wit the kids. 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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  • Girls are enjoying their lunch packs distributed by Laura Vicuña. The food distribution is in connection with a pedicure workshop set up in the slums along side a film screening on human trafficking.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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  • Food distribution in connection with a pedicure workshop set up in the slums along side a film screening on human trafficking. There is very little work in the slums and many women do not have any vocational training so being able to set up a small shop in the streets providing pedicure is a great help to many women.  Because of poverty and lack of income children and young women are easy prey to human traffickers and the foundation aim to teach the dangers of trafficking by showing films in a mobile cinema. 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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  • An older girl helps a younger one doing her home work. It is Monday morning but due to heavy rains school has been cancelled. Laura Vicuña Foundation, Inc. provides a safe haven, a secure home for girls where they live together with sisters from the Don Bosco order. They get the love and care they never have received and counselling when needed from qualified psychotherapists. .The Laura Vicuña Centre in Cubao houses 30 street girls who may be orphaned, neglected, abandoned, battered, morally endangered and sexually abused.The girls are aged between 6 and 16 and all of them go to school in the local municipality.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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  • Students at the ALS after having finished school. The Alternative Learning System (ALS) Program - provides working children with an alternative to finish either elementary or secondary education without undertaking activities in the formal school system.  ALS students are provided with self-learning modules, which they go through at their own pace.  Their progress is monitored by program staff when they visit the CDRTC once a week..Casa Maria Ausilitrice Laura Vicuña Women Development and Training Centre in Victorias City, Negros Occidental. 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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  • Teenagers, both girls and boys learn the trade of tailoring. 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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  • Teenagers, both girls and boys learn the trade of accountancy. 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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  • 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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  • Jenibell in school, in history class. The teacher is Jonalyn M. Corral.  Jenibell had to take several years out of education to work in the sugar cane field and to assist her mother at home looking after her younger siblings but she is now back in school. She walks 1/2 through sugar cane fields and ride 10 min on a tricycle to get to school for 7.45am. She lives near Victorias City in the state Negros Occidental. Laura Vicuña is a non-profit charity working in Manila and in Bacolod in the state Negros Occidental in the Philippines.Bacolod in the state Negros Occidental in the Philippines.
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  • Jenibell in school, in history class. The teacher is Jonalyn M. Corral.  Jenibell had to take several years out of education to work in the sugar cane field and to assist her mother at home looking after her younger siblings but she is now back in school. She walks 1/2 through sugar cane fields and ride 10 min on a tricycle to get to school for 7.45am. She lives near Victorias City in the state Negros Occidental. 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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  • Two girls enjoy a juice provided for by Laura Vicuña. Food distribution in the Bacolod district of Manila. 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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  • A sisters who lives with the girls in the home chat and talk about laughter - who laughs how in the home - which the all laugh about. The Laura Vicuña Centre in Cubao houses 30 street girls who may be orphaned, neglected, abandoned, battered, morally endangered and sexually abused. 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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  • Women queue to receive food parcels in connection with a pedicure workshop set up in the slums along side a film screening on human trafficking. There is very little work in the slums and many women do not have any vocational training so being able to set up a small shop in the streets providing pedicure is a great help to many women.  Because of poverty and lack of income children and young women are easy prey to human traffickers and the foundation aim to teach the dangers of trafficking by showing films in a mobile cinema. 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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  • Kids are enjoying their lunch packs distributed by Laura Vicuña. The food distribution is in connection with a pedicure workshop set up in the slums along side a film screening on human trafficking.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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  • Women learn pedicure in a makeshift workshop set up by Laura Vicuña staff. There is very little work in the slums and many women do not have any vocational training so being able to set up a small shop in the streets providing pedicure is a great help to many women.  Because of poverty and lack of income children and young women are easy prey to human traffickers and the foundation aim to teach the dangers of trafficking by showing films in a mobile cinema.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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  • Girls at the Laura Vicuña residential centre in Querzon City, Manila. They have all been exposed to abuse and now live at the centre where they receive care and attention and counselling. They all wear masks made in art therapy to protect their identity.  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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  • Hawa and Sabira milk a goat to get milk for breakfast. The Afar diet is mainly milk with some rice or bread. All girls go through FGM in Afar, a practise the charity AISDA seeks to eradicate. Afar region, Ethiopia.
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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 appliaces 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. The physio room in the centre in Hargeisa.
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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. Here a little boy suffering from  cerebral palsy, is receiving physiotherapy, massage to his hands and arms.
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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. Here a mould made in plaster is ready to build a right arm prosthetic in the work shop at DAN.
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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 appliaces 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 specialist working for DAN is finishing off a leg prosthetic in their work shop in Hargeisa.
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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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  • Jessica, 16. (Not her real name).She likes being at the home for the protection it gives and for teaching her her rights. The sisters and counsellors have helped her get back her trust and confidence in herself and others. In her spare time she loves to read inspiring stories and she wants to become a social worker in order to express and share her own experiences with other children and what she has learned in spite of what happened to her. .."The rose on the mask symbolises my life; even though I have been through a lot of bad experiences I has managed to overcome them with the help of Laura Vicuna. The lips are red to signify that I say so many things even though not the things I really want to say. The blue signifies the negative thoughts I have in life but the sun signify the hope which came to my life."..When Jessica came to the home at the age of 12 she was in a coma for 4 days after having tried to take her own life. She had been sexually abused for many years and her grandfather was her father who then carried on abusing her. She had wanted to run away for years but she was afraid to leave her little brother and suicide seemed at the time to be her only way out. Her biggest worry now is the well-being of her brother and she finds it very difficult to come to terms with that she had to leave him. ..Laura Vicuña Foundation, Inc. provides a safe haven, a secure home for girls where they live together with sisters from the Don Bosco order. They get the love and care they never have received and counselling when needed from qualified psychotherapists. .The Laura Vicuña Centre in Cubao houses 30 street girls who may be orphaned, neglected, abandoned, battered, morally endangered and sexually abused.The girls are aged between 6 and 16 and all of them go to school in the local municipality.
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  • Shanon, 16. (Not her real name).She is happy to be in the home for the protection it gives and for the hope it has brought back to her. She loves reading and to dance, listening to music and play the guitar. She has choreographed many of the dance performances the girls do in the home to great applause by the audience. She wants to be  Video Jockey(VJ) to help the other children in the home. She wants to work in TV as a place to highlight the issues and lives the children go through..."The curly gold on the left side of the mask signifies all the positive things which have happened in my life. The mixed colours  all the confusion and problems which are happening in my life which at the moment are overpowering my life. I hope some day it will be different, that it will be the other way around. ..Laura Vicuña Foundation, Inc. provides a safe haven, a secure home for girls where they live together with sisters from the Don Bosco order. They get the love and care they never have received and counselling when needed from qualified psychotherapists. .The Laura Vicuña Centre in Cubao houses 30 street girls who may be orphaned, neglected, abandoned, battered, morally endangered and sexually abused.The girls are aged between 6 and 16 and all of them go to school in the local municipality.
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  • It is laundry day in the center. All the girls are responsible for washing their own clothes and the wash house is busy. Manila, Philippines. Laura Vicuña Foundation, Inc. provides a safe haven, a secure home for girls where they live together with the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco order. They get the love and care they never have received and psychosocial counseling when needed from qualified psychotherapists. <br />
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The Laura Vicuña Centre in Cubao houses 30 street girls, who may be orphaned, neglected, abandoned, battered, morally endangered and abused. The girls are aged between 6 and 16 and all of them go to school in the local school.
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  • Halima,Zahara,Mairam and Mumina, young unmarried girls who work for AISDA to build stone walls on the hillside above Delafagi. The stone wall project is to prevent precious top soil to be washed away when the rain does come and AISDA employ locals to build walls running across the hill side.  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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  • The pool in Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp, home to 75.000 Palestinians.  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.
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  • In Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp, home to 75.000 Palestinians. Boys play in the school yeard in the mroning heat. 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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  • Action on Elder Abuse. Images to be used by Action on Elder only in connection with their work.
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  • Action on Elder Abuse. Images to be used by Action on Elder only in connection with their work.
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  • Action on Elder Abuse. Images to be used by Action on Elder only in connection with their work.
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  • Action on Elder Abuse work shop and visit by elders seeing their key workers. Images to be used by Action on Elder only in connection with their work.
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  • Action on Elder Abuse work shop and visit by elders seeing their key workers. Images to be used by Action on Elder only in connection with their work.
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  • Action on Elder Abuse work shop and visit by elders seeing their key workers. Images to be used by Action on Elder only in connection with their work.
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  • Action on Elder Abuse work shop and visit by elders seeing their key workers. Images to be used by Action on Elder only in connection with their work.
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  • Action on Elder Abuse work shop and visit by elders seeing their key workers. Images to be used by Action on Elder only in connection with their work.
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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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  • Men are finishing off a deal, buying and selling camels in the Delafagi market. The market is on every Tuesday and people travel from far to sell their goods, to stock up and to socialise.  A strong camel costs 8,000.00 birr( $450.00) and is only bought or sold with the agreement of the entire clan. An AK47 machine gun costs 20,000.00  ($1,100.00) and is shared between the young men of the clan.  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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  • In Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp, home to 75.000 Palestinians. The pool 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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  • It is Tuesday and market day in Delafagi. People travel from far to sell their goods, to stock-up and to socialise. Hasna is 19 years old and part time health worker trained by AISDA. She spends the morning in the market to advocate stopping the FGM practise, a practice she as a young woman only knows too well the consequences of. She uses a megaphone and she does not mince her words, when she proclaims that 'salot', the Afar word for mutilation of the female genitals is bad and a wrong practice and must be stopped.  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.megaphone and she does not mince her words, when she proclaims that 'salot', the Afar word for mutilation of the female genitals is bad and a wrong practice and must be stopped.  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 fou
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  • Kids are having a late breakfast after having finished their morning chores. The Afar diet is mainly milk with some rice or bread. The rice and flour is import to the region so its not every day they can eat that.  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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  • All girls go through FGM in Afar, a practise AISDA seek to eradicate. Hawa and Sabira milk a goat to get milk for breakfast. The Afar diet is mainly milk with some rice or bread. The rice and flour is import to the region so its not every day they can eat that.  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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  • Asia's family outside their home, a bender made of wood and odd materials. The family move with the animals and travel long distances over the year, especially in the dry season when water and food is scarce.  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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  • Asia's family outside their home, a bender made of wood and odd materials. The family move with the animals and travel long distances over the year, especially in the dry season when water and food is scarce.  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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  • Asia and her brothers Hammed,Kamil and Ibrahim tend to their heard of goats. They live with their family in a small compound in the countryside outside Delafagi town.  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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  • Asia tend to her herd of goats. She lives with her family in a small compound in the countryside outside Delafagi town.  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 and Hassan climb up  from the dried up river bed and head off to rejoin with their mother and their herd of goats. It's dry season in Afar and water is hard to come by. 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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  • Hussein is heading back to his family and the goats with his brother Muhammed behind him. 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.  Hussein and his 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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  • Dad Muhammed, Hassan,Hussein,Muhammed,Abdo and Rabia have all come to drink. The mother Hawa is heading off with the goats in back ground. 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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  • The men and women all work on the FGM programme. The programme has been running for 3 months out of 12 and its time to evaluated the progress and discuss any issues. The TBA and health worker explains that because of the ongoing draught people move a lot to find food for their animals so its very difficult to find and engage with them on a regular basis. The pastoralist way of living is an ongoing problem for AISDA and the distances they have to travel are huge, mostly by foot.  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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  • AISDA District Level Conference on the FGM programme.The programme has been running for 3 months out of 12 and its time to evaluated the progress and discuss any issues. Health workers have come around the district to give their opinions and to exchange experiences.  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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  • Masresha Andage ED address the gathered health workers at the AISDA District Level Conference. The men and women all work on the FGM programme . The programme has been running for 3 months out of 12 and its time to evaluated the progress and discuss any issues.   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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  • Halima,Zahara,Mairam and Mumina, young unmarried girls who work for AISDA to build stone walls on the hillside above Delafagi. The stone wall project is to prevent precious top soil to be washed away when the rain does come and AISDA employ locals to build walls running across the hill side.  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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  • The stone wall project is to prevent precious top soil to be washed away when the rain does come and AISDA employ locals to build walls running across the hill side.  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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  • Halima,Zahara,Mairam and Mumina, young unmarried girls who work for AISDA to build stone walls on the hillside above Delafagi. The stone wall project is to prevent precious top soil to be washed away when the rain does come and AISDA employ locals to build walls running across the hill side.  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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  • At the end of the dry season the river outside Delafagi has almost dried up and its one of the only water sources left at this time of the year.  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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