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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Home from Home in Cape Town, South Africa...At the home of Beaullah, the foster mother of 6 in Khayelitsha township, outside Cape Town in South Africa. The kids all come from the local community and live together with Beaullah as a family...Home from Home provide security for children who are either orphans or have been abandoned, neglected or abused . Many of the children have suffered severe abuse and more than half are HIV positive. Home from Home set up foster homes of no more than six children in local communities where there is a need and employ women to run the homes and become the registered foster mother of the children.
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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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  • 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 Home from Home in Cape Town, South Africa...Children in the back garden of Warren and Sally in Ocean View outside Cape Town...Home from Home provide security for children who are either orphans or have been abandoned, neglected or abused . Many of the children have suffered severe abuse and more than half are HIV positive. Home from Home set up foster homes of no more than six children in local communities where there is a need and employ women to run the homes and become the registered foster mother of the children.
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  • Children play at a water pump while they fetch water for the house. Most houses in the slums in Manila do not have running water or any sanitation. The Philippines.
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  • In Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp, home to 75.000 Palestinians. Mother Hannan with three of her 6 children. 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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  • Children play at a water pump while they fetch water for the house. Most houses in the slums in Manila do not have running water or any sanitation.
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  • Boys spending their afternoon with Alola. Children are usually not allowed to act on their own but here the boys can give their crocodiles any colour they like. The Alola Foundation provide pre-school play and learn sessions. Education in Timor-Leste is very basic with classes up to 80 children and teachers trained under an old fashined system with very little inter-action between teacher and pupils..Fundasaun Alola is a not for profit non government organization operating in Timor Leste to improve the lives of women and children. Founded in 2001 by the then First Lady, Ms Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the organization seeks to nurture women leaders and advocate for the rights of women.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Home from Home in Cape Town, South Africa...Nomasango Xabanisa who runs a home for severely disabled children. In the living room with her children...Home from Home provide security for children who are either orphans or have been abandoned, neglected or abused . Many of the children have suffered severe abuse and more than half are HIV positive. Home from Home set up foster homes of no more than six children in local communities where there is a need and employ women to run the homes and become the registered foster mother of the children.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting Home from Home in Cape Town, South Africa...Beaullah, one of Home from Home's foster mothers at home with her children...Home from Home provide security for children who are either orphans or have been abandoned, neglected or abused . Many of the children have suffered severe abuse and more than half are HIV positive. Home from Home set up foster homes of no more than six children in local communities where there is a need and employ women to run the homes and become the registered foster mother of the children.
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  • The Stars Foundation visiting the Kenya Society for the Blind.The Kenya Society for the Blind is a long standing charity which works to make blind people able to function in the community as a whole. They support children in schools and supply them with Braille writers, specialist teachers,glasses for visually impaired,counseling and other much needed tools. .Here one of the teachers interact through talk and touch with Steven, who is blind but goes to a regular school, Kalimani Primary School.
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From the series 'Portraits of 5.C - a class photo in a time of Corona anno 2020.'  The portraits were taken during the lock-down and were taken in the door of their homes at a safe distance and without entering the house. At the time of taking the portraits no-one knew what to expect and most of Denmark is still under special measures.<br />
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Their school is a good school with lots of social life and activities. Every year Year 5 put on a musical for the whole school and parents - this year the musical was based on the story of Robin Hood.<br />
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However, this year the performances were abruptly cut short when Statsminister Mette Frederiksen called for a lock-down of the country including the closure of all schools, and a ban on all larger gatherings because of the spreading Corona Virus. All of a sudden all the kids were asked to stay at home, in isolation, and the school was left lying empty and silent.<br />
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The kids have had to make sense out of this and create a daily life of their own, away from their friends. For weeks all teaching and homework has been done online, in living rooms, in kitchens or alone in their rooms. Every so often the kids of 5.C have met online with each other and their teachers but physically most of them haven’t met for almost 4 weeks. <br />
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The schools have now partly opened and the children of 5.C are now back in school. Rigorous hand washing is required and so is social distancing. Every class is divided into two class rooms to create enough distance and only one or two teachers can teach the class.
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From the series 'Portraits of 5.C - a class photo in a time of Corona anno 2020.'  The portraits were taken during the lock-down and were taken in the door of their homes at a safe distance and without entering the house. At the time of taking the portraits no-one knew what to expect and most of Denmark is still under special measures.<br />
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Their school is a good school with lots of social life and activities. Every year Year 5 put on a musical for the whole school and parents - this year the musical was based on the story of Robin Hood.<br />
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However, this year the performances were abruptly cut short when Statsminister Mette Frederiksen called for a lock-down of the country including the closure of all schools, and a ban on all larger gatherings because of the spreading Corona Virus. All of a sudden all the kids were asked to stay at home, in isolation, and the school was left lying empty and silent.<br />
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The kids have had to make sense out of this and create a daily life of their own, away from their friends. For weeks all teaching and homework has been done online, in living rooms, in kitchens or alone in their rooms. Every so often the kids of 5.C have met online with each other and their teachers but physically most of them haven’t met for almost 4 weeks. <br />
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The schools have now partly opened and the children of 5.C are now back in school. Rigorous hand washing is required and so is social distancing. Every class is divided into two class rooms to create enough distance and only one or two teachers can teach the class.
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  • Mothers and kids are heading off after a Mother Support Group session where breast feeding mothers and babies learned about food supplements. The food workshop was run by the local charity Alola, based in Dili, Timor Leste. Infant mortality rates are very high in Timor-Leste and one of the reasons for that is poor nutrition.
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  • Anti-Brexit march and rally 2nd of July in London, United Kingdom. 48 percent of voters wanted to stay n the EU and now feel disenfranchised and cheated on and many want a second referendum. A father and kids with anti Farage placards in Whitehall.
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  • Two women and two kids take a selfie using a selfie stick in Times Square at Christmas time with Christmas decorations in the back ground. 7 million people live on 1,104km square, making it Hong Kong the most vertical city in the world.
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  • Filiz has got tuberculosis and is in treatment at Homerton Hospital. She is the mother of two and both kids are tb positive and in treatment. She has to deliver a sputum sample for testing and the mask helps her cough up what is need.
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  • Robert Bolimo, 23, ( on the right )is a Nairobits graduate. He works as an intern at Jengo Web in down town Nairobi and he hopes to be able to stay on and  get a job at Jenga Web.  Robert came to Nairobi in 1992 and lives alone in Mukuru slum. His family live 450 km out of Nairobi, Robert is their only hope for a better life and financial security..Nairobits is a charity teaching kids from Nairobi's slums IT and train them to get work in the IT sector.Every year 1mill young people graduate and leave school and only 1/3 have any hope of getting a job. Nairobits aim to train more than 500 young people / year from the slums, some with only basic formal education, how to set up their own business or get a job in the growing IT sector in Kenya.
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  • Mothers and kids are heading off after a Mother Support Group session where breast feeding mothers with 4 months plus babies learn about food supplements. Food workshop Billum Hatu, hamlet of Madabenu. Aidiu district..Infant mortality rates are very high in Timor-Leste and one of the reasons for that is poor nutrition. Alola advocate breast feeding till at least two years old and teach women about nutritious supplements such as boiled and mashed rice w vegetables and eggs.  Fundasaun Alola is a not for profit non government organization operating in Timor Leste to improve the lives of women and children. Founded in 2001 by the then First Lady, Ms Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the organization seeks to nurture women leaders and advocate for the rights of women.
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  • Youths using computers in a workshop run by Nairobits. The workshop involves information various life skills such as love and relationships and sexual education. Nairobits is a charity teaching kids from Nairobi's slums It and train them to get work in the IT sector.Every year 1mill young people graduate and leave school and only 1/3 have any hope of getting a job. Nairobits aim to train more than 500 young people / year from the slums, some with only basic formal education, how to set up their own business or get a job in the growing IT sector in Kenya.
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  • Caroline Mbulwa, 24, outside her house with her mother and siblings. Caroline is a Nairobits graduate and now works a successful web designer. She is the sole provider of the family and with her income they have managed to buy a new home in a better part of the slums.  Nairobits is a charity teaching kids from Nairobi's slums It and train them to get work in the IT sector.Every year 1mill young people graduate and leave school and only 1/3 have any hope of getting a job. Nairobits aim to train more than 500 young people / year from the slums, some with only basic formal education, how to set up their own business or get a job in the growing IT sector in Kenya.
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  • Youths using computers in a workshop run by Nairobits. The workshop involves information various life skills such as love and relationships and sexual education. Nairobits is a charity teaching kids from Nairobi's slums It and train them to get work in the IT sector.Every year 1mill young people graduate and leave school and only 1/3 have any hope of getting a job. Nairobits aim to train more than 500 young people / year from the slums, some with only basic formal education, how to set up their own business or get a job in the growing IT sector in Kenya.
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  • Caroline Oloo, 21(on the left). Caroline is a Nairobits graduate and now works in a web design company as an instructional / user interface designer. She still lives in the slums with her family. Rukia Sebit is Project coordinator at Nairobits and former teacher of Caroline. Nairobits is a charity teaching kids from Nairobi's slums IT and train them to get work in the IT sector.Every year 1mill young people graduate and leave school and only 1/3 have any hope of getting a job. Nairobits aim to train more than 500 young people / year from the slums, some with only basic formal education, how to set up their own business or get a job in the growing IT sector in Kenya.
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  • Robert Bolimo, 23, ( on the right )is a Nairobits graduate. He works as an intern at Jengo Web in down town Nairobi and he hopes to be able to stay on and  get a job at Jenga Web. Here he is below the tower block where he works on the top floor.  Robert came to Nairobi in 1992 and live alone in Mukuru slum. His family live 450 km out of Nairobi, Robert is their only hope for a better life and financial security..Nairobits is a charity teaching kids from Nairobi's slums IT and train them to get work in the IT sector.Every year 1mill young people graduate and leave school and only 1/3 have any hope of getting a job. Nairobits aim to train more than 500 young people / year from the slums, some with only basic formal education, how to set up their own business or get a job in the growing IT sector in Kenya.
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  • Robert Bolimo, 23, ( on the right )is a Nairobits graduate. He works as an intern at Jengo Web in down town Nairobi and he hopes to be able to stay on and  get a job at Jenga Web. Here he is with Esra Muriithi, one of Jenga Web's 4 directors. Robert came to Nairobi in 1992 and live alone in Mukuru slum. His family live 450 km out of Nairobi, Robert is their only hope for a better life and finaciel security..Nairobits is a charity teaching kids from Nairobi's slums IT and train them to get work in the IT sector.Every year 1mill young people graduate and leave school and only 1/3 have any hope of getting a job. Nairobits aim to train more than 500 young people / year from the slums, some with only basic formal education, how to set up their own business or get a job in the growing IT sector in Kenya. security.
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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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  • 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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  • Mothers and kids are heading off after a Mother Support Group session where breast feeding mothers with 4 months plus babies learn about food supplements. Food workshop Billum Hatu, hamlet of Madabenu. Aidiu district..Infant mortality rates are very high in Timor-Leste and one of the reasons for that is poor nutrition. Alola advocate breast feeding till at least two years old and teach women about nutritious supplements such as boiled and mashed rice w vegetables and eggs.  Fundasaun Alola is a not for profit non government organization operating in Timor Leste to improve the lives of women and children. Founded in 2001 by the then First Lady, Ms Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the organization seeks to nurture women leaders and advocate for the rights of women.
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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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  • 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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  • Arianna, 16. (Not her real name). She loves being in the Laura Vicuna home because of the protection the sisters give her because she was at risk of being abused in the streets. She loves reading fairy tales and wants to become a doctor to help others in need. When she was making the mask she was thinking of herself and how she was feeling...Arianna lived for 10 years with her sister Anne and father in the streets in Bacood district of Manila. The two sisters lived in a small cart and their father slept on the floor underneath. He had left his wife and was taking of the kids by collecting and selling junk, - plastic, metal and wood. The girls did not start school till Anne was 8 and they had to share flip-flops and books, going to school in turn. The girls were taken in by the Laura Vicuna sisters after a teacher raised concerns about the girls being abused in the streets.
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  • Climate Camp by Kingsnorth 2008.Camp for Climate Action is a movement made up of a lose network of people and environmental groups, wanting to stop climate change.  Through the Climate Camp they highlight issues such as aviation emission and CO2 emissions from coal power plants.  The Camp for Climate Camp wants to create a forum for people to discuss, learn and to act on climate change and to put pressure on the UK government to change its policies on polloting industries to make them commit to much more green policies. .The Climate Camp at Kingsnorth is the third camp running, previous years were by Heathrow, London and Drax coal power plant in Yorkshire. ...Local kids from the village Hoo climbing the practice climbing fence at Climate Camp
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  • Caroline Oloo, 21(on the left). Caroline is a Nairobits graduate and now works in a web design company as an instructional / user interface designer. She still lives in the slums with her family. Rukia Sebit is Project coordinator at Nairobits and former teacher of Caroline. Nairobits is a charity teaching kids from Nairobi's slums IT and train them to get work in the IT sector.Every year 1mill young people graduate and leave school and only 1/3 have any hope of getting a job. Nairobits aim to train more than 500 young people / year from the slums, some with only basic formal education, how to set up their own business or get a job in the growing IT sector in Kenya.
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  • Young students in their final year at Nairobits. Nairobits is a charity teaching kids from Nairobi's slums IT and train them to get work in the IT sector.Every year 1mill young people graduate and leave school and only 1/3 have any hope of getting a job. Nairobits aim to train more than 500 young people / year from the slums, some with only basic formal education, how to set up their own business or get a job in the growing IT sector in Kenya.
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  • Anne, 14. (not her real name).Anne is really happy to live in the Laura Vicuna home because of the care and protection the sisters give her. She loves reading books and hopes to become an engineer one day. The mask is full of colours because she wants her life to be colourful. Anne lived for 10 years with her sister and father in the streets in Bacood district of Manila. The two sisters lived in a small cart and their father slept on the floor underneath. He had left his wife and was taking of the kids by collecting and selling junk, - plastic, metal and wood. The girls did not start school till Anne was 8 and they had to share flip-flops and books, going to school in turn. The girls were taken in by the Laura Vicuna sisters after a teacher raised concerns about the girls being abused in the streets.
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  • Dhaka, Bangladesh. .The Stars Foundation visiting CSID..Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID) is a charity working for intergrating disabled children into mainstream society. Selim, next to his father is 3 years old. He lost a foot in a train accident when he was 1 years old and lives in a shack by the rail way track in Tejgaon. He goes to a CSID pre-school and CSID gives medical vcare when needed. His father is a rickshaw driver who makes around £3/day after he has paid off his rickshaw. The mother has a vegetable selling business and they take care of the kids in shifts.
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  • Electronic waste export to Nigeria...Alaba International Market, one of the largest markets for electronic goods in West Africa.  New and old - and a lot of non-working electronic goods such as TVs and computers come in to the market via Lagos harbour from the US, Western Europe and China...Kids showing what can be found on the neaby dump, old printer circuit boards, old TV casings and lots of CRT glass...The shipment - TV-set originally delivered to municipality-run collecting point in UK for discarded electronic products - was tracked and monitored by Greenpeace using a combination of GPS (Global Positioning System using satellites), GSM (positioning using data from mobile networks to triangulate approximate positions) and an onboard radiofrequency transmitter (used for making triangulations in combination with handheld directional receivers used by team on ground) is placed inside the TV-set.  The TV arrived in Lagos in container no 4629416.
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  • Kids play in front of the new stand at Lord's which runs on renewable energy. Schoolchildren from All Souls Primary School in London join MP James Heappey and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Chief Executive Derek Brewer at Lord’s to launch The Climate Coalition’s #ShowtheLove campaign. The annual celebration of all that we love but could lose to climate change, from cricket pitches to woodlands, and the progress we are making towards a clean and secure future. The campaign encourages people to wear and share green hearts to demonstrate their support this Valentine's Day.
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  • Kids play in front of the new stand at Lord's which runs on renewable energy. Schoolchildren from All Souls Primary School in London join MP James Heappey and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Chief Executive Derek Brewer at Lord’s to launch The Climate Coalition’s #ShowtheLove campaign. The annual celebration of all that we love but could lose to climate change, from cricket pitches to woodlands, and the progress we are making towards a clean and secure future. The campaign encourages people to wear and share green hearts to demonstrate their support this Valentine's Day.
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  • Kids play in front of the new stand at Lord's which runs on renewable energy. Schoolchildren from All Souls Primary School in London join MP James Heappey and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Chief Executive Derek Brewer at Lord’s to launch The Climate Coalition’s #ShowtheLove campaign. The annual celebration of all that we love but could lose to climate change, from cricket pitches to woodlands, and the progress we are making towards a clean and secure future. The campaign encourages people to wear and share green hearts to demonstrate their support this Valentine's Day.
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  • Douaa teaches the kids English after they have returned from work. The class room also funtions as her bed room which she share with the rest of her family.<br />
Douaa is from Sayeda Zeinab City in Syria. She was a geology student but had to leave Zeinab City with her family when the war came to their town. She lives with her father and siblings in a disused school in the Bekaa Valley. Douaa was doing nothing till she decided to get all the children living in the school together and began teaching them Englsih and Maths. All the fighters in Syria are students, doctors, engineers etc so it will be up to the young refugees to rebuild Syria when they return and all the able bodied men have died in the war according to Douaa.
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  • Kids collecting water in the slums of Manila.
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  • Life in the slums by the  railway tracks in Tejgaon. Homes are build closely to the tracks leading in and out of one of Dhaka's main train stations and life is goes on as in any othr part of Dhaka in spite of the dangerous proximity to the live tracks and trains passing at regular intervals. School kid making their way home through the slums along the tracks.
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  • Dhaka, Bangladesh. .The Stars Foundation visiting CSID..Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID) is a charity working for intergrating disabled children into mainstream society. Ibrahim, disabled and former begger and street kid, now working for CSID as peer educator.
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