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  • Residents chat at the neighborhood's community center. <br />
People from Ocho de Mayo point out with pride the progress made since the settlement was created in1998. From the beginning, there was a deliberate planning. The first settlers left space for a community center. Each new family was given a plot of land arranged along wide streets. Planners did not want narrow alleys between houses as in Brazilian favelas. A commission, with a delegate representing each block, made rules. Nearby settlements now use 8 de Mayo as a model.
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  • At the Jiménez family's home, a photograph hanging on the wall shows the past of the building, which used to host the community-run soup kitchen.<br />
In a place ignored by politicians, the community group has taken charge of services that should be provided by the government. Each morning, four people collect the trash with horse carts. The group also organizes training programs, health counseling and micro-enterprise initiatives. Most notably, a community-run soup kitchen feeds children and destitute families. The community center they run also serves as a social meeting point.
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  • Community leader Lorena Pastoriza drinks coffee and smokes a cigarette at her home in Ocho de Mayo. Lorena was 23 when she moved in, among the first settlers to arrive here on the 8th of May of 1998. They took land in what used to be an illegal dump. The area was heaped with garbage up to 20 feet high. Snakes and rats nested in dismantled cars and scrap piles. "For us, now, this is a paradise."
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  • Mónica ‘Cori’ Jiménez is a single mother with five children. "I grew up alone, in the streets," she said. "I never stole anything and I never took drugs." She survives on government assistance and the community soup kitchen. "If it didn’t exist, I don’t know what would have happened to my life and to the lives of my children." <br />
She used to be a 'cartonera' in downtown Buenos Aires for 15 years. She used to take her children out to beg until, in an argument, her older daughter convinced her that it was wrong. Cori combed trash at the municipal trash dump for three months, but she says she stopped because police beat her often and once shot her in the leg with a rubber bullet. After a childhood of mistreatment, Cori hopes life in 8 de Mayo will offer something better to her kids. <br />
"I am 30 and I already want to die," she told a visitor, slowly and deliberately, with her eyes fixed on the ground. "I want my children to be someone in life."
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  • Ariel Barrios (left) solves a puzzle with Facundo, 9 (center), and Alberto, 9. In the background is community leader Lorena Pastoriza.
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  • A calf grazes on the banks of the Citarum river in Majalaya district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. The stream is colored with toxic waste dumped by a nearby textile factory. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • Clockwise from left: Sahara Mahama, 40. Her daughter Mariama, 4. A bucket of millet at Sahara's home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)..Sahara Mahama has seven sons and a daughter. She lost four other children; one of them was only 14 days old. "I lost the youngest one during the rains, in the lean season. I didn't have enough to eat." .Eating has become increasingly harder through the years, recalls Sahara. "When I was a kid, we used to have three meals: in the morning, at noon, and in the evening.? However, one meal a day has now become the norm. "It's never guaranteed, but we try." .Sahara participates in CARE's cash-for-work project. With the money she receives, she buys cereal and gives her children two meals per day.
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  • Karamatjon Yakubova, 73, poses for a photograph at her family compound in Bazar Korgon (Jalal-Abad province, Kyrgyzstan).
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  • A man casts his fishing net in the Citarum river near Cikarees, Bale Endah district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • View of the Citarum river near Cikarees, Bale Endah district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. Bulldozers have dredged sludge and trash from the riverbed and piled it up on the banks. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • A woman washes clothes using water from a well in Majalaya district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. Since residents from this area can no longer use the water from the Citarum river, they must use underground water, which is often contaminated because of filtrations. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • Mr Asep, 48, actions a hand pump to fetch water from the well in Kampung Bolero, Dayeuhkolot district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. Since residents from this area can no longer use the water from the Citarum river, they must use underground water, which is often contaminated because of filtrations, or buy bottled water. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • A boy folds his net after fishing in the Citarum river near Cikarees, Bale Endah district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. <br />
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The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • A boy holds a net with his catch, mostly small catfish, on the banks of the Citarum river near Cikarees, Bale Endah district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • A small boat lies on sludge and trash by the Citarum river near Cienten, Dayeuhkolot district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • Detail of the polluted water on a rice paddy in Padamulya, Majalaya district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • Farmers till the soil of a rice paddy located next to a textile factory and the Citarum river in Sukamaju village, Majalaya district, Bandung regency, Indonesia.. .The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • Girls ride a bicycle across a small bridge over the polluted waters of one of the distributaries of the Citarum river in Padamulya, Majalaya district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • Ms Sriwi Diangsih, 33, bathes her two-month-old baby girl Rahmawati in Kampung Bolero, Dayeuhkolot district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. Since residents from this area can no longer use the water from the Citarum river, they must use underground water, which is often contaminated because of filtrations, or buy bottled water. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • A man and his son pick through trash and collect scrap metal by the Citarum river in Kampung Bolero, Dayeuhkolot district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. Sludge and trash dredged from the riverbed is now piled up on the riverbank. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • Karamatjon Yakubova, 73, talks to visitors at her family's home in Bazar Korgon (Jalal-Abad province, Kyrgyzstan), built by Save the Children with funding from UNHCR. One of her grandchildren looks in through the window.
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  • Construction workers pour concrete for the base foundation of a home supported by Save the Children in Kizil Kishtak (Osh, Kyrgyzstan) with Sulaiman Mountain on the background.
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  • Save the Children staff members distribute construction materials to people who lost their homes in the area of Kizil Kishtak (in Osh, Kyrgyzstan).
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  • Families and construction workers watch a track dump sand next to their compound, where they are building a new home, in the area of Kizil Kishtak (in Osh, Kyrgyzstan).
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  • Clockwise from left: Sakina Moudi (left), 30, and Halima Abdou, 25. Their children Kassoumou (right), 4, and Massaoudou, 10 months. Sakina takes sorghum out of a sack at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)..Halima Abdou has five children. Sakina Moudi has six children and suffered the loss of one..Last year they harvested 40kg of cereal. "It only lasted for five days," says Sakina. This year they didn't get any crops. .In the periods without food, their husband collects and sells wood to buy yam flour. Now their husband participates in CARE's cash-for-work project and continues to sell firewood to get additional income. "With this support, we get to eat abundantly," explains Halima. "We buy millet, sorghum, and corn." They serve their children two meals per day, one in the morning and one in the evening.
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  • Clockwise from left: Delou Ibrahim, 70. Her granddaughter Latifa, 8. Delou's hands hold sorrel leaves, used as a condiment, and grains of sorghum at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)<br />
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Delou Ibrahim has four children and suffered the loss of nine. She has about 40 grandchildren, 16 of which live with her. <br />
"I've seen several crises. The famine in 1984 was the hardest. Rains were very weak. The stems of millet came out but the spikes gave no grain - nothing," she recalls. "Two years ago at least there were people who harvested millet, but this year the crops have been worse because of the drought and the leaf miners." Delou's last crop was 30kg, which only provided food for about two days.<br />
Delou and her family receive cash from CARE. "I get to buy cereal to feed my family, particularly my grandchildren." They have two daily meals, porridge in the morning and sorghum paste in the evening.
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  • Boys chase each other and play with mud on the banks of the Citarum river near Cikarees, Bale Endah district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • A man and a boy examine their catch on the bank of the Citarum river near Cikarees, Bale Endah district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. The net contains soda cans, plastic bags and other types of waste. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • A boy holds a catfish on the banks of the Citarum river near Cikarees, Bale Endah district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • Detail of the darker color of toxic waste dumped by a textile factory into the Citarum river in Majalaya district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. People living across the factory explained the color of the waste changes frequently, ranging from light blue and green to dark brown and black, depending on the dye the factory is using.  ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • A boy picks through trash and collects scrap metal by the Citarum river in Kampung Bolero, Dayeuhkolot district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. Sludge and trash dredged from the riverbed is now piled up on the riverbank. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • Families pick through trash and collect scrap metal by the Citarum river in Kampung Bolero, Dayeuhkolot district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. Sludge and trash dredged from the riverbed is now piled up on the riverbank. <br />
<br />
The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • Matlubahan Umarjanova, 60, gives change to a customer at her shop in Osh (Kyrgyzstan). With equipment and materials provided by Save the Children, she reopened her business, a kiosk selling groceries and common household items.
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  • A woman fishes on the banks of the Citarum river near Cikarees, Bale Endah district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • View of the Citarum river running through Kampung Bolero, Dayeuhkolot district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. Sludge and trash dredged from the riverbed is now piled up on the riverbank. <br />
<br />
The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • Clockwise from left: Mariama Oumarou, 55. Her granddaughter Rakia, 4. A hand holds grains of corn in Mariama's home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)..Mariama Oumarou has ten children and three grandchildren. Through the years she has lost four children and two grandchildren. She participates in CARE's cash-for-work project. "Not only can we buy millet and sorghum now, but also corn and condiments."
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  • Clockwise from left: Maka Ali, 80. Her granddaughter Maria, 10. Maka's hands hold sorghum at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez/CARE)..Maka Ali has been a widow for twenty years. She has eight children and about twenty grandchildren. She has experienced the loss of six children, four of them at an early age. "I was alone taking care of them, so I cannot say their deaths weren't related to lack of food," Maka recalls..Nobody in her family can work, so she receives a cash transfer from CARE. "When I receive the payment, I buy sorghum and maize," Maka explains. "Before this support, I couldn't; I was eating leaves."
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  • Latifa, 8, poses for a photograph at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger.<br />
Her grandmother Delou Ibrahim, 70, has four children and suffered the loss of nine. She has about 40 grandchildren, 16 of which live with her. <br />
"I've seen several crises. The famine in 1984 was the hardest. Rains were very weak. The stems of millet came out but the spikes gave no grain - nothing," she recalls. "Two years ago at least there were people who harvested millet, but this year the crops have been worse because of the drought and the leaf miners." Delou's last crop was 30kg, which only provided food for about two days.<br />
Delou and her family receive cash from CARE. "I get to buy cereal to feed my family, particularly my grandchildren." They have two daily meals, porridge in the morning and sorghum paste in the evening.
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  • Delou Ibrahim, 70, poses for a photograph at her home in Saran Maradi, Niger. <br />
Delou Ibrahim has four children and suffered the loss of nine. She has about 40 grandchildren, 16 of which live with her. <br />
"I've seen several crises. The famine in 1984 was the hardest. Rains were very weak. The stems of millet came out but the spikes gave no grain - nothing," she recalls. "Two years ago at least there were people who harvested millet, but this year the crops have been worse because of the drought and the leaf miners." Delou's last crop was 30kg, which only provided food for about two days.<br />
Delou and her family receive cash from CARE. "I get to buy cereal to feed my family, particularly my grandchildren." They have two daily meals, porridge in the morning and sorghum paste in the evening.
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  • A textile factory dumps toxic waste into the Citarum river in Majalaya district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. People living across the factory explained the color of the waste changes frequently, ranging from light blue and green to dark brown and black, depending on the dye the factory is using.  ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • Boys wash their hands and feet in a puddle in Kampung Bolero, Dayeuhkolot district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. Sludge and trash dredged from the riverbed is now piled up on the riverbank. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
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  • Boys paddle a small boat in the Citarum river near Kampung Bolero, Dayeuhkolot district, Bandung regency, Indonesia. ..The Citarum river, which runs about 270 kilometers through the province of West Java, is considered to be among the world's dirtiest. Over the last twenty years, the river has been severely polluted by toxic industrial waste, trash and raw sewage. The Citarum is one of the main sources of freshwater for West Java and supplies about 80% of water for Indonesia's capital Jakarta.
    RO.IDN.2012.10.0119.jpg
  • Matlubahan Umarjanova (left), 60, and a relative leave her family's home in Osh (Kyrgyzstan). With equipment and materials provided by Save the Children, she reopened her business, a kiosk selling groceries and common household items.
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  • Verónica, 8 (left), hands some lemons to her aunt Mónica Jiménez.
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  • Siblings Jessica, 10 (left), and Pablo, 8, arm-wrestle at their home in Ocho de Mayo. They are part of a family of seven children.
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  • Susana Giménez, 34, has two kids from a former marriage and is expecting a third one from her partner, Carlos Tolosa. She works from home, assembling paper bags.<br />
In Ocho de Mayo, 80 percent of the residents earn a small income as 'cartoneros', collecting cardboard and plastics in the street, or doing odd jobs.
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  • Carlos Tolosa, a resident of Ocho de Mayo, worked in a metallurgic factory until 1989, when the company laid off some of its workers. "We are promised many things but never get anything, only the rich do."<br />
Informal settlements started to appear in the 1980s, coinciding with the end of full employment and the failure of the import substitution and industrialization model adopted by the Argentinean government
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  • Ocho de Mayo is crisscrossed overhead with electric wires tapping power from the few existing streetlights. The neighborhood lacks a reliable supply of electricity.
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  • Alberto, 9, plays with other children and looks through a hole in the wall of his home in Ocho de Mayo.
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  • The acronym SOS is painted on the broken windows of a private hospital in the area of Kizil Kishtak (in Osh, Kyrgyzstan) that was destroyed during the violence that broke out in the city in June 2010.
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  • A boy steps on a puddle as he runs under the rain through the streets of Ocho de Mayo.
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  • A family watches television at their home in Ocho de Mayo.
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  • A dead kitten lays on the mud, tangled on a piece of fabric. Ocho de Mayo lacks a reliable supply of water and electricity. Some residents have perforated a nearby water main. This water supply is highly contaminated, and some people suffer from dysentery, leukemia and other diseases related to malnutrition and environmental contamination.
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  • Noelia, 15, rests on her bed, next to toys, old photographs and a broken telephone. Noelia does not go to school.<br />
For most inhabitants of Ocho de Mayo, dignity is the main goal. Many who have had to live in the streets now focus their energies on providing a better life for their children. They all agree on the need of education to get jobs.
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  • General view of one of the main streets of Ocho de Mayo, an informal settlement in the district of General Saint Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in January 2006. The neighborhood is named after the date in which the first settlers moved in, on the 8th of May of 1998. <br />
Today, Ocho de Mayo is home to about 1,500 families, many of them young. Of the 5,000 residents, 3,000 are under 16. About 65 percent of the population is Paraguayan. The rest are from nearby towns or elsewhere in Argentina. This neighborhood does not look very different from the villas miseria —slums or shantytowns— that ring the Argentine capital.
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  • Víctor Morel (left) lays bricks for a new construction. In Ocho de Mayo, precarious houses with brick walls stand next to shacks of wood planks and asbestos.
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  • Milagros, 6, sits at the back of a wrecked pickup truck parked in front of her home.
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  • The street can be seen through the broken window of building in the area of Kizil Kishtak (in Osh, Kyrgyzstan) that was destroyed during the violence that broke out in the city in June 2010.
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  • Children play in a pool in the backyard of a house at Ocho de Mayo.
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  • Simón Areco (center) and his wife Mari Carmen Espinola (right) are Paraguayan and run a grocery shop in Ocho de Mayo.<br />
About 65 percent of the population of Ocho de Mayo is from Paraguay.
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  • Raúl Moyano (right) and his wife Lidia Barrios stand in front of their home in Ocho de Mayo.
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  • A man stands in front of a building in the area of Kizil Kishtak (in Osh, Kyrgyzstan) that was destroyed during the violence that broke out in the city in June 2010.
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  • Ariel Barrios (right) plays electric guitar while Facundo, 9, looks out of a window.
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  • A local tapper climbs a sugar palm tree to collect sap in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, on March 12, 2016. Planted around the perimeter of the Samboja Lestari rainforest is a belt of sugar palm trees, which serve both as a protective barrier against fires and as a source of income for local families. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Local staff members stand for a portrait at the Arsari Lestari conservation area in Penajam Paser Utara district, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, on March 12, 2016. The plan for the Arsari Lestari conservation area is to preserve the virgin rainforest while creating value for ICTI and local people in a production-protection system that reduces emissions. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Community leader Siti Rofi'ah, 45, walks down the beach near her home in Lewoleba, Nubatukan subdistrict, Lembata district, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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  • Community leader Suparjiyem, 49 (left), gets emotional while giving money and other items to Sumikem, 59 (center), a member of farmer's cooperative Menur, in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. Sumikem's husband Rajiman, 63 (right), had a stroke seven years ago.
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  • H. Parhan, 35, poses for a photograph by the beach in Lepek Loang, Belanting, Sambelia district, East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. He is a fisherman and a member of the local committee. The village's community action plan identified water erosion as a risk in this area and acknowledged it had washed away part of the local cemetery. Now a wall is being built to protect it. "In the graveyard are our relatives. I am really happy about the wall."
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  • (From left to right) Farmers Sipa, who estimates his age at 60, and Nipawarti, 40, pose for a photograph by their plots of land. In October 2012 a wildfire spread quickly near their plots, threatening to set several houses on fire. Along with other community members, they used branches to hit the flames and extinguish the fire. Their land is in Sembalun Lawang, Sembalun district, East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara province.
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