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  • Maimouna, 11, leaves the home of family friends in Man, western Côte d'Ivoire, the morning before being reunited with her family. She is carrying a plastic bag with her belongings. <br />
Maimouna had been separated from her family for three months, since the moment armed conflict broke out in her hometown, Duékoué, and she had to flee to Man. Save the Children facilitated the reunion with her parents and her return home.
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  • (From left to right) Moussa, 5, Maimouna, 11, and Awa, 3, pose for a photograph with their parents Maka, 33, and Toumari, 38, outside their family home in Duékoué, western Côte d'Ivoire.<br />
Maimouna had been separated from her family for three months, since the moment armed conflict broke out in her hometown, Duékoué, and she had to flee to Man. Save the Children facilitated the reunion with her parents and her return home.
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  • A Save the Children staff member (left) talks to Maimouna's father Toumari, 38, at the family's home in Duékoué, western Côte d'Ivoire.<br />
Maimouna had been separated from her family for three months, since the moment armed conflict broke out in her hometown, Duékoué, and she had to flee to Man. Save the Children facilitated the reunion with her parents and her return home.
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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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  • A returnee builds his new home in the outskirts of the town of Abyei.
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  • Maimouna, 11, poses for a photograph in Man, western Côte d'Ivoire, the morning before being reunited with her family. <br />
Maimouna had been separated from her family for three months, since the moment armed conflict broke out in her hometown, Duékoué, and she had to flee to Man. Save the Children facilitated the reunion with her parents and her return home.
    RO.CIV.2011.05.0204.jpg
  • 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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  • A returnee builds his new home in the outskirts of the town of Abyei.
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  • A returnee builds his new home in the outskirts of the town of Abyei.
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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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  • A family watches television at their home in Ocho de Mayo.
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  • A returnee builds his new home in the outskirts of the town of Abyei.
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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.
    RO.NER.2012.05.0064.jpg
  • 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.
    RO.NER.2012.05.0059.jpg
  • Karamatjon Yakubova, 73, poses for a photograph at her family compound in Bazar Korgon (Jalal-Abad province, Kyrgyzstan).
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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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  • Soon after sunrise, Iwan Setian, 24 (foreground), has just returned from fishing and looks on while his mother Umikalsum, 41, brings his catch from the boat to the family home. They live in Kubur Cina, a neighbordhood of Lewoleba, Nubatukan subdistrict, Lembata district, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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  • An employee draws details on a piece of stained glass using ink in the design studio of the Eztu Glass factory in Tangerang, near Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 2, 2015. Indonesia is the country with the world's largest Muslim population, of about 205 million people. Roughly 88% of Indonesia's population is Muslim, and the nation is home to about 13% of the world's Muslims.
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  • Employees apply chemical products to a stained glass window in the form of a church at the Eztu Glass factory in Tangerang, near Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 2, 2015. Indonesia is the country with the world's largest Muslim population, of about 205 million people. Roughly 88% of Indonesia's population is Muslim, and the nation is home to about 13% of the world's Muslims.
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  • Emma, 13, poses for a photograph. In December 2010, she fled post-election violence in her home village, in western Côte d'Ivoire. She has been separated from her family for more than four months. She is temporarily living with a host family in Danané until her parents are found.
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  • Soon after sunrise, Umikalsum, 41, brings his son's catch from the boat to the family home. She lives in Kubur Cina, a neighbordhood of Lewoleba, Nubatukan subdistrict, Lembata district, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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  • (From left to right) Fishermen Hirman, 40, and Kursia, 26, carry their catch home to produce processed fish in Lepek Loang, Belanting, Sambelia district, East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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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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  • An employee draws details on a piece of stained glass using ink in the design studio of the Eztu Glass factory in Tangerang, near Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 2, 2015. Indonesia is the country with the world's largest Muslim population, of about 205 million people. Roughly 88% of Indonesia's population is Muslim, and the nation is home to about 13% of the world's Muslims.
    RO.IDN.2015.07.02.0091.jpg
  • An employee wields a stained glass window of Jesus Christ at the Eztu Glass factory in Tangerang, near Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 2, 2015. Indonesia is the country with the world's largest Muslim population, of about 205 million people. Roughly 88% of Indonesia's population is Muslim, and the nation is home to about 13% of the world's Muslims.
    RO.IDN.2015.07.02.0036.jpg
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Siti Rofi'ah's step daughter, Nur San, 22, brings fish ashore from the boat of Jainudin One, who just returned home after fishing overnight. They live in Lewoleba, Nubatukan subdistrict, Lembata district, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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  • Siti Mastura, around 50 years of age, cooks 'abon ikan,' or fish floss, at her home in Lewoleba, Nubatukan subdistrict, Lembata district, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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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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  • Siti Mastura, around 50 years of age, cooks 'abon ikan,' or fish floss, at her home in Lewoleba, Nubatukan subdistrict, Lembata district, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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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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  • A man sits outside a home's front door in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, on December 25, 2014.
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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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  • 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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  • An employee draws details on a piece of stained glass using ink in the design studio of the Eztu Glass factory in Tangerang, near Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 2, 2015. Indonesia is the country with the world's largest Muslim population, of about 205 million people. Roughly 88% of Indonesia's population is Muslim, and the nation is home to about 13% of the world's Muslims.
    RO.IDN.2015.07.02.0098.jpg
  • An employee applies chemical products to a stained glass window in the form of a church at the Eztu Glass factory in Tangerang, near Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 2, 2015. Indonesia is the country with the world's largest Muslim population, of about 205 million people. Roughly 88% of Indonesia's population is Muslim, and the nation is home to about 13% of the world's Muslims.
    RO.IDN.2015.07.02.0064.jpg
  • Maimouna, 11, looks through the window of a car taking her to meet her family in Duékoué, western Côte d'Ivoire.<br />
Maimouna had been separated from her family for three months, since the moment armed conflict broke out in her hometown, Duékoué, and she had to flee to Man. Save the Children facilitated the reunion with her parents and her return home.
    RO.CIV.2011.05.0210.jpg
  • Emma, 13, poses for a photograph. In December 2010, she fled post-election violence in her home village, in western Côte d'Ivoire. She has been separated from her family for more than four months. She is temporarily living with a host family in Danané until her parents are found.
    RO.CIV.2011.05.0147.jpg
  • Milagros, 6, sits at the back of a wrecked pickup truck parked in front of her home.
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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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  • Siti Rofi'ah's son-in-law Jainudin One, 41, who just returned home after fishing overnight, carries his daughter Refa, 6, on his shoulders from his boat to the shore. They live in Lewoleba, Nubatukan subdistrict, Lembata district, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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  • Umi, 5, eats. Her father Alwin Nurdin has just returned home from fishing overnight. They live in Kubur Cina, a neighbordhood of Lewoleba, Nubatukan subdistrict, Lembata district, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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  • Umikalsum, 41 (left), sells fish outside the family home to vendors from the nearby fish market. Behind her is her husband Ode Umar, 51. They live in Kubur Cina, a neighbordhood of Lewoleba, Nubatukan subdistrict, Lembata district, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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  • Siti Rofi'ah, 45, poses for a photograph at her home in Lewoleba, Nubatukan subdistrict, Lembata district, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.
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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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  • Children from Elementary School 14 in Sungai Geringging go home after a day at school.
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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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  • Siti Rofi'ah's son-in-law Jainudin One, 41 (left), eats a snack in his boat with his daughters (from left to right) Kesha, 4; and Refa, 6. Jainudin just returned home after fishing overnight. He and his family live in Lewoleba, Nubatukan subdistrict, Lembata district, East Nusa Tenggara province, 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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  • An employee draws details on a piece of stained glass using ink in the design studio of the Eztu Glass factory in Tangerang, near Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 2, 2015. Indonesia is the country with the world's largest Muslim population, of about 205 million people. Roughly 88% of Indonesia's population is Muslim, and the nation is home to about 13% of the world's Muslims.
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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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  • Maimouna, 11, walks through the streets of Man, western Côte d'Ivoire, in the company of family friends and Save the Children staff, the morning before being reunited with her family. She is carrying a plastic bag with her belongings. <br />
Maimouna had been separated from her family for three months, since the moment armed conflict broke out in her hometown, Duékoué, and she had to flee to Man. Save the Children facilitated the reunion with her parents and her return home.
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  • 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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  • 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.
    RO.OXFAM.IDN.2013.03.1179.jpg
  • "If I was detained, I would not be able to go home. I would be worried about being sent back to my country and having to pay money. Or maybe they would send me to jail for a long time. I would be afraid of punishment."
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  • “In detention, I would miss my family, my friends, my home, my school, having food, TV, music,  dancing...”
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