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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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  • Verónica, 8 (left), hands some lemons to her aunt Mónica Jiménez.
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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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  • Children dance, sing and clap to a song about peace. <br />
Save the Children set up tents to serve as temporary classrooms in the school grounds of the Catholic Mission displacement camp in Duékoué, western Côte d'Ivoire. In these spaces, Save the Children is providing education to children under five.
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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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  • 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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  • Suparjiyem, 49, cuts grass at a plot of land she rents near her home in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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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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  • A boy piles up color blocks to form a tower. <br />
Save the Children set up tents to serve as temporary classrooms in the school grounds of the Catholic Mission displacement camp in Duékoué, western Côte d'Ivoire. In these spaces, Save the Children is providing education to children under five.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
    RO.IDN.2012.10.0138.jpg
  • 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.
    RO.IDN.2012.10.0110.jpg
  • 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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  • Menur cooperative member Wagiyem, 51, digs up 'ganyong,' a tuber, from the garden in front of her house while her granddaughter Alifia, 5, looks on. They live in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • A rainbow appears in the sky as local residents check rice covered by a tarpaulin in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. On the foreground (left) is Suparjiyem's mother Jumiati, 69.
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  • Children dance, sing and clap to a song about peace. <br />
Save the Children set up tents to serve as temporary classrooms in the school grounds of the Catholic Mission displacement camp in Duékoué, western Côte d'Ivoire. In these spaces, Save the Children is providing education to children under five.
    RO.CIV.2011.05.0319.jpg
  • 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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  • A family watches television at their home in Ocho de Mayo.
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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.
    RO.IDN.2012.10.0081.jpg
  • 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.
    RO.IDN.2012.10.0088.jpg
  • 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.
    RO.IDN.2012.10.0018.jpg
  • 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 />
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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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  • 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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  • Farmer Kastomo, around 65 years of age, sows corn seeds in a field in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • Suparjiyem's husband Kaspi, 58, burns grass at a yard behind their home in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • Mucina, 50, sells fruits, vegetables, and other merchandise at the market in Mulo, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • Marto, 70 (right), and Sukiyo, 66 (left), sell conical hats to a customer at their market stand in Mulo, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • Talia, 70, sieves grains of rice at her home in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. Talia's daughter is a member of Menur, Suparjiyem's cooperative.
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  • Menur cooperative member Sarniati, 48 (right), arranges bundles of rice at her family home in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. Her daughter-in-law Andri Astuti, 30 (left), and her mother Talia, 70 (center), are spreading grains of rice to dry.
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  • Suparjiyem, 49, walks back home carrying a bundle of grass to feed her cattle. She lives in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • A local man unloads bundles of rice off a pickup truck in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. Rice is the most dominant crop and staple food in this area.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Milagros, 6, sits at the back of a wrecked pickup truck parked in front of her home.
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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 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.
    RO.IDN.2012.10.0074.jpg
  • 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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  • 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 />
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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 sells cigarettes and snacks on a street corner in Osh (Kyrgyzstan).
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  • Customers pick and pay for carrots at the market in Mulo, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • Suparjiyem's husband Kaspi, 58, loads rice bundles onto a pickup truck in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. Farmers are coming together to collectively harvest each other's rice.
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  • Suparjiyem, 49 (foreground), swats grasshoppers off a rice field in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. She and her fellow farmers are collectively harvesting each other's rice.
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  • Suparjiyem, 49, poses for a photograph at her home in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Samiyah, 45 (right), is a landless farmer who works for others as a daily laborer; she is not a member of the female farmers organization led by Suparjiyem. Sitting by the front door of her house, she shows the daily meal she will share with her son Reno, 12 (right): a plate of rice and a plate of noodles. In the image (left) is also her mother Wati, around 80 years of age. They live in the village of Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
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  • Suparjiyem's mother Jumiati, 69, walks around her home in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. Grains of rice are spread on the floor, left to dry.
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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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  • 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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  • Ariel Barrios (right) plays electric guitar while Facundo, 9, looks out of a window.
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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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  • 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.
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  • Detail of a fried grasshopper on the palm of a hand. Grasshoppers are considered a delicacy and regularly eaten in certain parts of Java, Indonesia.
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  • Trihandayani, 52, sieves grains of rice at Suparjiyem's parents' home in Wareng, Wonosari subdistrict, Gunung Kidul district, Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. She is one of Suparjiyem's in-laws and mother of four.
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  • Panelists speak during a knowledge exchange session on the landscape approach at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 11, 2016. From left to right are Frances Seymour, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development; Dharsono Hartono, ‎CEO of PT Rimba Makmur Utama; Emily Roynestad, Director of Business Development at Anthrotect; Sarah Price, Head of Projects and Development at the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC); and Kate Bottriell, Senior Programme Advisor at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Saah A. David, Jr (right), National REDD+ Project Coordinator at Liberia's Forestry Development Authority (FDA), presents during a session on the Africa Palm Oil Initiative at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 10, 2016. In these working sessions participants established the 2016-18 strategy for TFA 2020's initiatives in priority countries and regions. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Sarah Price, Head of Projects and Development at the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), presents during a knowledge exchange session on the landscape approach at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 11, 2016. Her presentation focused on how to scale up certification solutions throughout the landscape. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Saah A. David, Jr, National REDD+ Project Coordinator at Liberia's Forestry Development Authority (FDA), shares the experience of the Africa Palm Oil Initiative at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 11, 2016. His presentation was about the results and the outlook of the Africa Palm Oil Initiative, the first signature initiative of TFA 2020. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Emily Roynestad, Director of Business Development at Anthrotect, presents during a knowledge exchange session on the landscape approach at the General Assembly of the Tropical Forest Alliance 2020 in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 11, 2016. Her presentation focused on community-driven carbon offsetting at the Chocó-Darién Conservation Corridor in Colombia. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Visitors listen to a briefing at the Arsari Lestari conservation forest in Penajam Paser Utara district, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, on March 12, 2016. In the picture are (from left to right) Morten Rossé, Consultant at McKinsey & Company; Chris Dragisic, Foreign Affairs Officer and REDD+ Focal Point at the U.S. Department of State; Melissa Pinfield, Head of Section at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC); and Neil Scotland, Senior Forestry Adviser at the UK Department for International Development (DFID).<br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Neil Scotland, Senior Forestry Adviser at the UK Department for International Development (DFID), looks up the trunk of a 100-year-old Agathis tree (Agathis borneensis), the biggest in Indonesia, at the Arsari Lestari conservation forest in Penajam Paser Utara district, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, on March 12, 2016. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Visitors chat as they ride a speedboat near Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, on March 12, 2016. From left to right are Justin Adams, Global Managing Director for Lands at The Nature Conservancy; Robert Barker, Head of CSR and Sustainable Investment Client Solutions at BNP Paribas; Stephen Donofrio, Senior Advisor for Supply Change at Forest Trends Ecosystem Marketplace; and Fiona Wheatley, Sustainable Development Manager at Marks & Spencer. <br />
(Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez)
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  • Dr Sharon Chan, Head of China for AERAS, speaks about the development of a TB vaccine at the global summit on diabetes and tuberculosis in Bali, Indonesia, on November 3, 2015.<br />
The increasing interaction of TB and diabetes is projected to become a major public health issue. The summit gathered a hundred public health officials, leading researchers, civil society representatives and business and technology leaders, who committed to take action to stop this double threat. (Photo: Rodrigo Ordonez for The Union)
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  • Trader Mohammed Abdulrahman, from El Muglad (left), gives change to a customer at his hardware store in the market of Abyei. Recent developments in Abyei town are making people settle down. "No one was thinking of using these materials before."
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  • Trader Mohammed Abdulrahman, from El Muglad (left), gives change to a customer at his hardware store in the market of Abyei. Recent developments in Abyei town are making people settle down. "No one was thinking of using these materials before."
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  • Trader Mohammed Abdulrahman, from El Muglad (right), owns a hardware store in the market of Abyei. Recent developments in Abyei town are making people settle down. "No one was thinking of using these materials before."
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  • Trader Mohammed Abdulrahman, from El Muglad (right), examines a light bulb at his hardware store in the market of Abyei. Recent developments in Abyei town are making people settle down. "No one was thinking of using these materials before."
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  • Trader Mohammed Abdulrahman, from El Muglad (left), gives change to a customer at his hardware store in the market of Abyei. Recent developments in Abyei town are making people settle down. "No one was thinking of using these materials before."
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  • Trader Mohammed Abdulrahman, from El Muglad (right), sells a light bulb to a customer at his hardware store in the market of Abyei. Recent developments in Abyei town are making people settle down. "No one was thinking of using these materials before."
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